So Thea Gilmore's Newsletter shared this . . . .
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Friday, February 28, 2025
Thea Gilmore - These Quiet Friends | NEW ALBUM, NEW SONG - The KILLING MOON
Thursday, February 27, 2025
Van Morrison - The Bottom Line - New York 1978 | Floppy Boot Stomp
Van Morrison - The Bottom Line - New York 1978
Ray Davies - BBC Sessions Volume 4: Proms in the Park Hyde Park London UK 2017
Ray Davies - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: Proms in the Park, Hyde Park, London, Britain, 9-9-2017
In fact, I think he realized his vocal troubles, because this was his last concert. Prior to this, he hadn't given any concerts since 2015, and only a few then. After this, according to setlist.fm, he only played one song in public in 2018, and that's it. Given that it's now 2025 as I write this, the voice and body only gets more worn out with time. So, if nothing else, this concert has historic importance as Davies' last concert. (If that turns out to be true, I think it's fitting that the last song he played was "Days.")
However, Davies must have realized his voice was weakening, because he smartly compensated for that by being backed with female vocalists, and also a full choir on some songs. That certainly helps.
2017 was a significant year, because Davies put out the studio album "Americana," his first new studio album in about ten years. He would put out another in 2018 ("Our Country - Americana, Part 2"). Only two songs were performed from the new album, "Message from the Road" and "A Place in Your Heart." That's quite significant, because it seems those are the only two times he ever sang them in public.
The sound quality is excellent, despite the fact that it's unreleased. Davies' voice was low in the mix. Perhaps that was intentional, due to the problems mentioned above. But I still felt the urge to fix the mix, so I boosted him somewhat, using the UVR5 audio editing program.
This album is 38 minutes long.
01 You Really Got Me Intro [Instrumental]
02 Victoria
03 talk
04 Dedicated Follower of Fashion
05 talk
06 Dead End Street
07 talk
08 You Really Got Me
09 talk
10 Message from the Road
11 A Place in Your Heart
12 talk
13 Sunny Afternoon
14 talk
15 All Day and All of the Night
16 talk
17 Waterloo Sunset
18 talk19 Days
Birthdays | Steve Harley (Cockney Rebel - Come Up and See Me!)
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Neil Young - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: In Concert Glastonbury Festival UK 2009 | Albums That Should Exist
Neil Young - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-26-2009
This was the first and still only time that Young has performed at Glastonbury. However, as I write this in February 2025, it has been reported that Young is scheduled to be one of the headliners in the summer of 2025. (There were news reports that he canceled due to a dispute with the BBC, but then later reports that he undid the cancellation.) So let's hope that later in 2025 there will be a "Volume 4" in this series.
This 2009 concert was not performed with his band Crazy Horse. However, you'd be excused if you thought otherwise, because this was very much in the same rocking mode as his Crazy Horse stuff. Instead, his band was just called his "Electric Band."
This is also a long, complete concert, nearly two hours long. Only some of his songs were broadcast on BBC TV or radio, less than an hour's worth. But somehow the full version was made public with excellent sound quality, so I'm posting all I can.
A couple of months prior to this concert, Young released his latest studio album, "Fork in the Road." He didn't promote it much in this concert, however, performing a grand total of one song from that album, "Get Behind the Wheel." Instead, he did classics from all phases of his long music career, plus a cover of "A Day in the Life" by the Beatles as the final encore.
This album is an hour and 46 minutes long.
01 Hey Hey, My My [Into the Black] (Neil Young)
02 Mansion on the Hill (Neil Young)
03 talk (Neil Young)
04 Are You Ready for the Country (Neil Young)
05 Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (Neil Young)
06 talk (Neil Young)
07 Spirit Road (Neil Young)
08 talk (Neil Young)
09 Words (Neil Young)
10 Cinnamon Girl (Neil Young)
11 Mother Earth [Natural Anthem] (Neil Young)
12 The Needle and the Damage Done (Neil Young)
13 talk (Neil Young)
14 Comes a Time (Neil Young)
15 Unknown Legend (Neil Young)
16 Heart of Gold (Neil Young)
17 Down by the River (Neil Young)
18 Get Behind the Wheel (Neil Young)
19 Rockin' in the Free World (Neil Young)
20 talk (Neil Young)
21 A Day in the Life (Neil Young)
Everly Brothers sing Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Woman
Again someone posted a clip of the Everly’s covering The Stones on Flickennabok and I was amazed and hadn’t heard this ( and seeing them have fun with it) but please post the hole thing or not at all!