HARVEY MANDEL

"THE SNAKE"

The guys over at Floppy Boots Stomp have posted a blast from my past in the guitar legend Harvey Mandel's long out of print 'The Snake'

Harvey Mandel- The Snake - Floppy Boot Stomp

As SW notes: 

Self-taught guitarist Harvey "The Snake" Mandel is a musical innovator whose guitar style comes out of the electric Chicago blues of his youth. He helped to develop playing techniques such as two-handed fretboard tapping, and the use of sustained and controlled feedback during the mid-'60s. He has played with everyone from Charlie Musselwhite (who nicknamed him "the snake") and Canned Heat to Jimmy Witherspoon, Bob Dylan, John Mayall, and the Rolling Stones.

*Silent Way*
A really good record with a truly horrible cover.

Track List:

The Divining Rod
Pegasus
Lynda Love
Peruvian Flake
The Snake
Uno Ino
Ode To The Owl
Levitation
Bite The Electric Eel

Recorded at The Village Recorder, Winter of 1971 & 1972

Harvey Mandel on World Cafe NPR

Interview at Rock and Blues

Still unsure? Check out Peruvian Flake here
Unsure what his influences may have been . . . . . . . .

KATE RUSBY

Singy Songy Session #14 

 It's time for Singy Songy Session #14!! 🎉 And Happy Father's day!! 🍻🥂 this week, one of my dad's fave songs, an old song called 'THE FARMER'S TOAST' from my 2019 album Philosophers, Poets And Kings. Come join us at our little pub. 🥃🍷🍸🍹

SIR IAN HOLM

another favourite actor has passed away. . . . 

Sir Ian Holm’s daughter-in-law, the actress Samantha Morton, has led tributes to the “inspiring, funny, generous” actor following his death aged 88. The Walking Dead star, who is married to Sir Ian’s son Harry, shared a video of the veteran actor reciting Puck’s soliloquy from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Morton, 43, captioned the post: “The most inspiring, funny, generous, welcoming father-in-law I could have hoped for. Good night Ian.”

Fifth Element

Alien, Ash

Brazil, Mr Kurtzmann

The Time Bandits, Napoleon

Alien, publicity shot, Ash

Ian and then wife Penelope Wilton in The Borrowers [perhaps my favourite Pod] and Arrietty Rebecca Callard

Ratatouille

Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit and Lord of The Rings

Sir Ian Holm after receiving his knighthood (Sean Dempsey/PA)

- Columbia, MD 2008

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss 

- Columbia, MD 2008

Back From The Dead... 
Originally posted June 6, 2016

Previously only available through Zippyshare (not available through normal browsers Google Chrome, Safari or Firefox to name but three) still Silent Way over at Voodoo Wagon brothers have shared it through the uniformly excellent Workupload. Enjoy! I am . . . . . . . 

Voodoo Wagon says:

Robert Plant & Allison Krauss 
Merriweather Post Pavillion
Columbia, MD - June 13, 2008
AKA - Your Long Journey 
Soundboard or FM Source @192

*Accompanying Notes*
The Led Zeppelin camp must have been upset when Plant & Krauss’ 2007 album made such an impact at this year’s Grammys. That “tour” looks further and further out of reach. Well doubters need not look any further than here. The pair’s shows are a varied mix of old-fashioned folk music and dramatically updated Led Zeppelin mysticism. When Plant & Krauss scream the “bring it back, bring it back” repeatedly on Battle Of Evermore, you’re left wondering whether it’s Zeppelin or P&K you want to “bring back”.  For Robert Plant this pairing has been an astute career move, a reinvention that has worked while staying true to his English folk roots. Krauss hasn’t done badly either. From the usual critic’s acclaim she’s accustomed to, now she’s also got the popularity and album sales. All done without compromising on music quality. In this day and age, that’s truly exceptional. Aside from a TV broadcast of Austin City Limits, Plant and Krauss’ shows have never circulated in soundboard quality. This show is a rare exception. As far as we know, no lossless copy has circulated on the net. We can only guess that an official live album and DVD is in the works.  Meanwhile, this is a tasty appetizer.  And a sincere get well soon greeting to guitarist Buddy Miller, who suffered a heart attack on Feb 19. Miller is currently recovering from a triple bypass heart surgery.

Disc 1
Track 101. Rich Woman
Track 102. Leave My Woman Alone
Track 103. Black Dog
Track 104. Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us
Track 105. Through The Morning, Through The Night
Track 106. It’s So Long and Goodbye To You 
Track 107. Fortune Teller
Track 108. In The Mood/Matty Goves 
Track 109. Black Country Woman 
Track 110. Bon Temps Rouler
Track 111. Shut It Tight
Track 112. Trampled Rose
Track 113. Green Pastures 
Track 114. Down To The River To Pray 

Disc 2
Track 201. Killing The Blues 
Track 202. Nothing
Track 203. Battle Of Evermore
Track 204. Please Read The Letter 
Track 205. Gone, Gone, Gone [Done Moved On]
Track 206. “I had a phone call from Richard Cole….” 
Track 207. You Don’t Knock
Track 208. I’m A One Woman Man 
Track 209. Your Long Journey

Lineup:
Robert Plant - vocals
Alison Krauss - vocals, fiddle
T Bone Burnett - vocals, guitar
Buddy Miller - guitar
Stuart Duncan - fiddle, mandolin, guitar, banjo

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss Columbia 2008 - Voodoo Wagon

EMILY BARKER 

NEWS

Emily says (on her Facebook page)

Join me at 6:30pm BST today for Big Issue North#bigbuskathome fundraiser! ⠀⠀Then later in the evening (around 7:30pm) for The Betsey Trotwood  #welovethebetsey crowdfunder with Music Venue Trust. ⠀Sending love to all and hope you can tune in to one or both.⠀Emily ⠀x⠀⠀#livestream #fundraiser #bigissuenorth#betseytrootwood

RICHARD THOMPSON NEWS

This news just in from Richard's Facebook 

COMING SOON!

Bloody Noses, my new 6 track EP will be available on July 3rd. This will be digital download only, available from Bandcamp:

This is an all-acoustic EP recorded at home during lockdown. All instruments played by me, some harmony vocals by Zara Phillips. Mixed by Simon Tassano.

I will also be doing a Facebook Live launch party on July 5th, when I will play the whole record, and maybe a few other things.

Hope you like it!

Stay well,

RT

BOB DYLAN

"ROUGH AND ROWDY WAYS"

Well I got my copy of the new Bob Dylan album today and am currently about half way through when I saw the review from Aquarium Drunkard's Jerry David DeCicca. It's worth a read and check it out here (link below). It is possibly one of the most unique and rarefied album reviews ever. . . . . it is, well, as odd as the singer musician who wrote it and his own work is linked onto Bandcamp but it is surreal to say the least (sorry Jerry!)

"I’m on my fourth listen, sitting on my porch, sipping Heaven’s Door Straight Rye. I have a house rule that while you’re drinking it, you can only talk about Bob. But no one ever visits, and now they can’t even visit if they wanted to, and I’m the only person that lives here that drinks the brown juice, so the rule really only applies to me"

Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways - Aquarium Drunkard review, DeCicca

The album is of course extraordinary Bob's 39th in his 79th year with a reference or even stolen title from Jimmie 'The Singing Brakeman' Rodgers' song, lets agree borrowed, and for those who listened to the first tantalising taste via the 17 minute long single 'Murder Most Foul' which revisit Bob's singular view on JFK and his death. Jerry starts by stating he had forgotten the two men were friends and I didn't know this, nor did I readily accept they spoke late at night on the phone (sic?) but that it tantalised is a given and much discussion ensued which of course was the not of he sunken and impromptu release. That the new album for over ten years should be very much lyrically driven is undoubtedly a given but musically it is odd too. There is a tendency to feel that the music is almost an afterthought from the lyrical content and visions of the band going through the motions of chord structure with next to no alterations in structure, no chorus several verses and bridge here. Some even have a kind of hymnal structure (Mother of Muses) and they are almost interchangeable (almost). It's almost music for poet monologues. It is broken down but for example 'Black Rider' sounds like another visit to 'Murder Most Foul' then there is a break with a more uptempo shuffle of Goodbye Jimmy Reed with its biblical references and visions of the Muslims walking by . . . . what ARE these songs about? 'I can't sing a song I don't understand . . . . I can't play the record the needle got stuck. . . . . I need you like my head needs a noose . . . . God speed

Another debate starts here . . . . 'twas ever thus!

My Rough And Rowdy Ways

Jimmie Rodgers

For years and years I've rambled drank my wines and gambled
But one day I thought I'd settle down
I met a perfect lady she said she'd be my baby
We built a cottage in the old hometown
But somehow I can't forget my good old rambling days
The railroad trains are calling me away
I may be rough I may be wild I may be tough and countrified
But I can't give up my good old rough and rowdy ways
Sometimes I meet a bounder who knew me when I was a rounder
He grabs my hand and says boy have a drink
We'd go down to the poolroom get in the gang and then soon
The daylight comes before I'd had a wink
But somehow I can't forget my good old rambling days

JOHN PRINE

'CRAZY AS A LOON'

Tribute . . . . . . the missing piece and my favourite cover





John really dug Kurt and vice versa and Vile was one of the last people to play with him onstage. John supported loads of young(er) stars and had an extraordinary amount open concerts for him . . . he started it back in the day when a guest spot at 'The Point' concert in Dublin (1989) where he introduced the then largely unknown and only on his second album 'Pontiac', one Lyle Lovett . . . . . .! 

       here: Kurt Vile⁠, Pat McLaughlin (who co-wrote 'Crazy. . .' ), John Paul White [The Civil Wars],⁠ Jim James⁠ [My Morning Jacket] & and harmony vocals from Courtney Marie Andrews [Solo and Jimmy Eat World]

And more from the wonderful Folk On Foot Frontroom Festival II with headliners (if there was such a thing) Richard Thompson and Zara Phillips singing his 'I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight'
CLASSIC!

How cool is this Kathryn performing her Redesdale Hornpipe at the end of her garden where she has that eponymous river run!
Another highlight from the Folk On Foot Front Room Festival