Tony (T.S.) McPhee's Blues Band LIVE Oxford Pennyfarthing 1983

Tony (T.S.) McPhee's Blues Band LIVE Oxford Pennyfarthing 1983

LIVE  

Oxford Pennyfarthing   

1983

Leader of the legendary British band 

The Groundhogs

McPhee was given the nickname "T.S." (standing for "Tough Shit")

 when he released a duet single with Champion Jack Dupree in the 60s!

Worth posting and remarkably good quality with what I assume is an audience recording and I post here because I think I missed this one locally despite working for the neighbouring MOMA in Oxford a matter of yards away from the ‘Penny’ (I saw Spirit there! - sort of well, Randy and what was left of the band, a trio as I recall) but in my cups must have missed this one!

RIP

March 23 1944  - June 6  2023

Thee Band (Maybe)

Tony McPhee : guitar, vocals

Mick Kirton : drums

? Alan Fish? or Phil ? : bass guitar

TRACKS

Disc #1

  1. Dead Air                    1:22

  2. Express Man                 2:50

  3. Don't Start Me Talkin'      3:26

  4. I'm Ready                   3:11

  5. I Want You To Love Me       4:39

  6. No More Doggin'             6:38

  7. Groundhog Blues             6:20

  8. Soldier                     4:50

  9. 3744 James Road             7:35

 10. Eccentric // Man            7:29

 11. Garden                      6:35

 12. Light My Light              6:17

 13. Born To Be With You         4:14

 14. Mistreated                  5:47

 15. audience                    1:27

Total Time : [72:41]

 - encore -

  1. Dead Air                    0:44

  2. Split II >                  7:20

  3. Cherry Red                 10:56

  4. Down At The Bottom          5:38

Tony McPhee at The Pennyfarthing Pub basement Oxford

Song of The Day : Precious Time : Maria McKee | O MY SOUL

O My Soul

Precious Time - Maria McKee (w/ The Jayhawks)

He’s just sittin’ on a corner, wastin’ time
He’s just sittin’ on a corner, wastin’ time
Wastin’ all his precious time, wastin’ all his time
Everyone, never wonderin’ why

Alice over at O My Soul does it again . . . . . this is bang on the money!

Love Maria (sister to the legendary Bryan MacLean - LOVE!)

CULTURE CLUB (Boy George) - Live at Schwuz, Berlin, Germany; December 6, 2018 - 2018 | Big O

 

CULTURE CLUB (Boy George) - BERLIN 2018 | Big O

BOY GEORGE & CULTURE CLUB

Berlin 2018

Live at Schwuz, Berlin, Germany; December 6, 2018. Very good audio (ripped from HDTV arte webstream).

Boy George is one of those figures from British music that I guess you either love or detest! I really started to appreciate the strength of his voice and creativity and indeed personality ( he is nobody’s fool and is erudite and sensitive as well as being highly informed and intelligent) somewhat later on and whilst a contemporary of The Sex Pistols and Siouxie and The Banshees the ubiquitous Karma Chamaeleon may have grated after a while so that only later when releasing tracks like Church of The Poisoned mind etc did I realise the ‘boy’ could really sing. This set from Big O from back 2018 show the band at their best. The vocals are mixed back a bit far for me and I don’t think you really get the full appreciation of what I am saying but the set whilst maybe being a tad drum heavy, is highly listenable and George is on top form. 

I LIKE him! Can you tell?

Track 01. Let’s Dance 4:47
Track 02. It’s A Miracle 4:26
Track 03. Let Somebody Love You 5:22
Track 04. Everything I Own 8:14
Track 05. Runaway Train 6:15
Track 06. Do You Really Want To Hurt Me 4:48
Track 07. God & Love 5:39
Track 08. Different Man 4:41
Track 09. Church Of The Poison Mind/I’m Your Man 6:08
Track 10. Karma Chamaeleon 4:18

Paul Simon - 2011-07-01 - London, UK (SBD) | SO MANY ROADS

Paul Simon - Live at THE ROUNDHOUSE  iTunes Festival London 2011 - So Many Roads

some great stuff around the blogosphere at the moment . . . . . . . . . 

Speedy says: 

201os - #1 - On April 8, 2011, Paul Simon released his 12th solo studi album, entitled So Beautiful or So What. The disc debuted at #4 on the billboard charts, selling almost 70,000 copies in its first week. The disc also received critical acclaim, with Allmusic giving it 4 ½ star review, while Robert Christgau gave it a grade of A. In addition, Rolling Stone ranked it #3 on its list of the 50 best albums of 2011. Simon went on tour from April to July in support of the album, then after a 2 month break, went back out on the road from October to December. This soundboard recording captures him in during the first leg of his tour, in London at the Itunes Festival on July 1, 2011, a dozen years ago today.

as you might imagine being a good soundboard this is great quality . . . . . . .love this and its on my playlist for the weekend! Otherwise I have no opinion about that, I have no opinion about me . . . . . . . . 

JACK KEROUAC on THE STEVE ALLEN SHOW with Steve Allen on piano 1959 |ZeroSounds

This is fun and right for a Sunday of contemplation somehow and the Zen beat readings of the famous session of live broadcasts that Kerouac undertook with Steve Allen on piano on his show  

Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen - Poetry for The Beat Generation - ZeroSounds

Bob Dylan REHEARSALS!

SUNDAY BOBNESS!

Rehearsals! 

Bob and George rehearses for The Concert for Bangladesh ‘If Not For You’

one of the greatest love songs ever written!

Found this on Facebook Bobby page!

“Don’t Fall Apart On Me Tonight”

Check out never-before-seen footage of Bob Dylan’s recording session for “Don’t Fall Apart On Me Tonight” at the Power Station in New York. 

Initially filmed by the Maysles Brothers in 1983, this newly restored video is being released in conjunction with ‘Springtime In New York’, the next installment in the Bootleg Series, out September 17. Also featured on the track are Mark Knopfler, Mick Taylor, Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare and Alan Clark.

So to save you visiting here’s this . . . the full beautiful version!

superb, can’t wait for the full thing released in Sept!

Sunday's Sounds :: Love - Gather Round [Love 5th Album ‘Out Here’] 1969 | GUESS I’M DUMB

• Track Name

  Gather Round

• Artist

  Love

Love - Gather Round (1969)

Sound-wise this song from Love’s 5th LP seems like a return to the folk-rock of their self-titled debut LP.  The lyrics are another story:

Gather ‘round people as fast as you can
I’m gonna tell another story ‘bout an animal called man
Well, he struts all around with his tailor made suits
But his mind is all filled up with bullshit 

Kim Fowley: Impossible But True - The Kim Fowley Story 2003 + Outrageous 1968 + Good Clean Fun 1968 + Animal God Of The Streets 1974 | URBANASPIRINES

 From the Sublime to the Ridiculous!?

Well Kostas does it yet again!

A profile of the legendary KIM FOWLEY!

If you thought you knew him (The Rivingtons’ Pappa Oooh Mow Mow to B.Bumble and The Stingers’ Nutrocker!) then I say Cat Stevens, Soft Machine, Paul Revere & The Raiders, The Pharaohs, Gene Vincent !!!! ???? Seriously!

If you download one thing today make it the biography volume and if that whet’s your appetite there is three more solo efforts to boot (sic!)

check it here . . . . . . . impossible but TRUE!

Extraordinary!

I still have the single of this and its down in the vaults somewhere in a damp cardboard box It got to no 1 you know! It’s TRUE! 1962?

Elizabeth ‘Libba’ Cotten - Shake Sugaree | ZEROSOUNDS

 ‘LIBBA' COTTEN

Elizabeth Cotten - Shake Sugaree | Zero Sounds

ZeroG says:

Elizabeth Cotten was a national treasure. She didn't begin recording until she was 66 years old (in 1958), but a simple song she had written when she was 11, "Freight Train," became a staple of the folk revival in the 1960s, and her frequent concerts and appearances on the folk circuit were legendary for their unassuming grace and wisdom, not to mention her unique guitar skills. 

Left-handed, Cotten played her guitars and banjos upside down and backward, and her picking style gave the bass strings a clear sound while working muted harmonics on the treble strings, all of which resulted in an idiosyncratic guitar style that, coupled with her frequent open tunings, gave her playing a special singularity. Her vocals were often fragile-sounding and shaky, but so full of a natural clarity and joy that it's hard to imagine her singing any other way, and what might have been a weakness only added to her ability to connect with audiences. 

This collection from Smithsonian Folkways is a revised reissue of her second LP, which originally appeared in 1965, with ten previously unreleased tracks added. The title cut, "Shake Sugaree," has had almost as long a life as "Freight Train," and has been covered by the likes of the Grateful Dead and Bob Dylan in concert. Cotten's version is sung in a lovely, seemingly effortless fashion by her great grandchild, Brenda Evans (then only 12 years old), with Cotten providing the guitar lines, and the song itself is a whimsical set of half-riddles intended as a lullaby. Many of these tracks are brief guitar instrumentals, what Mike Seeger calls "parlor ragtime" in his liner notes, and the pair of instrumental church pieces that close the disc, "Till We Meet Again" and "When the Train Comes Along," are particularly striking. Other highlights include "Untitled/Georgie Buck," which begins with an improvised bit of banjo-style guitar picking before morphing into "Georgie Buck," a well-known Appalachian banjo and fiddle tune. The goofy "Shoot That Buffalo," which Cotten plays on banjo, accelerates as it unwinds, and it is easy to imagine children being delighted by its kinetic energy and playful lyrics. The haunting banjo song "Reuben," here played on guitar in open D tuning, is another highlight. Libba Cotten's fans are loyal and enduring and will be delighted with this expanded edition of "Shake Sugaree". Listeners new to Cotten may want to start with her first Smithsonian Folkways album, "Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes", or even 1984's "Live!" (which earned Cotten a Grammy Award in 1985, when she was 90 years old), or better yet, pick up all three, making a sort of collected works. She's that special.   

This is lovely . . . the woman who wrote ‘Freight Train’ aged 11! I reckon a few more trad arr too!

Start The Day with a Classic! ‘Sing, Sing, Sing!’ 2021 KYOTO TACHIBANA SHS BAND

Start the Day as you mean to go on! 

Can’t beat a marching band hey?