David Byrne’s JUNE PLAYLIST!

Apple Music: Click Here Spotify: Click Here   what I’m listening to now. really. some new and current, some not quite so new, I have them on repeat -David Byrne   Listen to June's Playlist!

David usually adds more notes but frankly if he decides not to you trust him to come up with a playlist worth listening to it don’t you?

Lou Reed - Foot of Pride (Dylan 30th Tribute Concert) 1992

Lou Reed - "Foot Of Pride"

Bob Dylan Tribute Concert,  Madison Square Garden, NYC, 16 10 1992

Someone on Facebook was talking about Lou and his phases of listening to Dylan and he had been listening over and over to Foot Of Pride and ended up doing it live on Bob's 30th Anniversary Tribute of his songwriting . . . . . Lou seemed to love angry Dylan . . . . . 

Linda Ronstadt - Lenox Music Inn, Lenox, MA, USA 1972 | ALBUMS THAT SHOULD EXIST

Linda Ronstadt - Lenox Music Inn, Lenox, MA, 8-12-1972 

Paul says: Linda Ronstadt had a hit single ("Different Drum") in 1967 with the band the Stone Poneys, when she was 21 years old. In 1970, after starting her solo career, she had another small hit with "Long, Long Time." But otherwise, she struggled a little bit. She didn't really have a big hit until late 1974, when "You're No Good" reached Number One in the U.S. As a result, there aren't many bootlegs from the earliest years of her music career, and no official albums from that time. 

I'd never come across any bootleg concerts from her prior to 1973. So I was pleased to discover this one from 1972. It's a soundboard bootleg, and sounds great. Yet it's never been widely shared as far as I know, since I couldn't find it on SoulseekQT or popular trading sites. I got it from a streaming source, and had to convert it to audio and cut it up into mp3s. So if you're a fan of her music, this is a great find, with mostly different songs than when she hit it big a couple of years later.

By the time of this concert, Ronstadt had released three solo albums, with "Linda Ronstadt" released in January 1972 being the most recent one. Naturally, most of the songs are from those albums. But one song, "Mail Order Dog," was written and sung by one of the band members, Richard Bowden, and he also talked for about three minutes before it started.

Overall, this sounds excellent, but there were a few problems. The first minute of the first song, "I Fall to Pieces," was missing. I found another version of the same song from a 1973 bootleg, and I used that to fill in the missing section. But I have to admit I didn't do that good of a job with it. The versions were performed somewhat differently, and the sound quality difference is stark, so I'm sure the transition point will stick out for you. But I figure that's better than only half a song. 

It was a similar situation with the last two songs, "Rose City Chimes" and "Rescue Me." That's why all three have "[Edit]" in their titles. For "Rose City Chimes," I mostly just had to patch in some applause at the beginning and end of the song. For "Rescue Me," I had to do that as well. But I also had to patch in about the first minute as well. I took that from her 1972 album "Linda Ronstadt," since the version on that album actually was from a concert.

This album is 40 minutes long. 

01 I Fall to Pieces [Edit] (Linda Ronstadt)
02 Silver Threads and Golden Needles (Linda Ronstadt)
03 talk (Linda Ronstadt)
04 Rock Me on the Water (Linda Ronstadt)
05 Lightning Bar Blues (Linda Ronstadt)
06 Crazy Arms (Linda Ronstadt)
07 How Long (Linda Ronstadt)
08 talk (Linda Ronstadt)
09 talk by Richard Bowden (Linda Ronstadt)
10 Mail Order Dog (Linda Ronstadt)
11 Lovesick Blues (Linda Ronstadt)
12 Long, Long Time (Linda Ronstadt)
13 Break My Mind (Linda Ronstadt)
14 Rose City Chimes [Instrumental] [Edit] (Linda Ronstadt)
15 Rescue Me [Edit] (Linda Ronstadt) 

I didn’t come to Linda overnight and we didn’t see her so much (at ALL? - ED) in the UK (shamefully somehow) and it took me the longest time to really get into her .. . . . . that awesome soaring peerless voice and taste in songs choices to cover,  that I feel like I am making up for it now . . . . listen to this you limey Brits!

Linda Ronstadt - Look Out For My Love | jt1674

 

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Kevin Ayers [Dejà Vu] - Thank God For A Sense of Humour

Thank God For A Sense Of Humour

Kevin AyersDejà Vu

I mean it IS Sunday so . . . . 

 thank yourself! 😏

Judy Collins - A Maid Of Constant Sorrow (1961)

Judy Collins - A Maid Of Constant Sorrow (1961)

Judy Collins' debut LP shows her relying more on enthusiasm than subtlety in her singing, with a deeper, heavier style than anyone would be accustomed to from her. It's almost as though, lacking confidence, she tried too hard in various spots to make the songs (and her voice) sound profound and significant, and wasn't aware of what the strongest part of her range was. 

Occasionally, on "The Pickilie Bush" or "Wild Mountain Thyme" when she reaches for the high notes, listeners hear the future of Collins' sound, but much of what's here is more strident than listeners are accustomed to from her. Not that's it's bad -- she makes a good case for her renditions of those songs and Ewan MacColl’s/Peggy Seeger's "Tim Evans* (Go Down You Murderer)" within the context of their time. She is more relaxed on the sea shanties such as "Sailor's Life," and those tracks have a timelessness that is lacking in much of the rest. The whole album has value, however, both as an artifact of the early New York folk boom and the first effort of a major artist -- and "John Riley" could fit in on any career retrospective on Collins' work.

Tracklist:

A1 A Maid Of Constant Sorrow 2:35

A2 The Prickilie Bush 3:25

A3 Wild Mountain Thyme 2:30

A4 Tim Evans 2:51

A5 Sailor's Life 2:41

A6 Bold Fenian Men 2:44

B1 Wars Of Germany 3:10

B2 O Daddy Be Gay 2:34

B3 I Know Where I'm Going 1:50

B4 John Riley 3:30

B5 Pretty Saro3 :03

B6 The Rising Of The Moon 4:07

*Evans was wrongfully convicted and hung for of the murder of his wife and baby who actually perished at the hands of British serial killer John Christie

Trump Addresses Elon Musk's Alleged Drug Use After Bombshell New York Times Report

 NEWS FROM ACROSS THE POND

BREAKING!

"Mr. Musk’s drug consumption went well beyond occasional use. He told people he was taking so much ketamine that it was affecting his bladder, a known effect of chronic use. 

He took Ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms. And he traveled with a daily medication box that held about 20 pills, including ones with the markings of the stimulant Adderall, Ambien and other drugs (sic) according to a photo of the box and people who have seen it"

 

THE GUARDIAN- Musk and the pesky New York Times article about his drug use!

it’s all going down the pan in Trump Towers hey?

Birthdays : Happy 78th birthday to Ronnie Wood, born in Hillingdon, Middlesex on this day in 1947. How can it be now? | Route / Don’s Tunes

the scallywag hisself!

“We were in Chicago,” he remembers. “I got a call from Bill Wyman and he said, ‘Woody, come to my room, I’ve got some people you might like to meet.’ So I walked in and there’s Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf and Junior Wells.” Wood recites the names like a prayer.

“So I’m just sitting there soaking up the atmosphere. It was mind-blowing. Muddy always put the emphasis on Rolling Stones. And he called Mick ‘Micky Jaguar’.” Wood throws back his head and laughs. Little Richard, he says, would call him up whenever he was in London. “He’d say, ‘Hey, come and play with me.’ I loved that. I thought that was the greatest honour.”

Then there was Chuck Berry. “I was looking at some photographs recently that made me realise we were actually living together for a bit, somewhere, I can’t remember where it was; we were just on this silly adventure. My mind erased all that time together.” He laughs. “I think I was up in the clouds too much.”

Interview: Mick Brown / The Telegraph

Photo: Gentileza.

Don's Tunes

How Can It Be?

Ron Wood

Before he was a Rolling Stone, a Face, or a member of the Jeff Beck Group, Ronnie flew the nest aged just 17, with his first band, the Birds. Here is his 2015 version of their killer track, 'How Can It Be?’

Route

Birthdays JEFF COTTON

Jeff Cotton on the right of the photo with Mark Boston at the back in the middle and John French directly in front of him wearing a hat. The guy on the left hand side is Jeff Parker and the guy at the bottom of the photo (in front of John) is Don Giesen.

Left to right: Don Giesen, Mark Boston, Jeff Parker and Jeff Cotton with John French seated in the foreground.

Left to right: Jeff Parker, Jeff Cotton, Mark Boston behind the tree at the back, John French in the hat and Don Giesen.

Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band

Jeff Cotton - Does It Work For You

why yes Jeff it does . . . . 

Song/Vid of The Day Emily Barker

 Em says:

This is Timon, my 14 year old nephew who made the stop motion animation for 'Believe it all for you' using his mum's Oppo android phone, a lead pencil, an eraser, some sand, and some paper.

It's a song I wrote with Boo Hewerdine and I recorded it during the 'Fragile as humans' recording sessions with producer, Luke Potashnick at The Wool Hall in Beckington, UK.

You can hear the summer rain in the background of this track.

'Fragile as humans' just turned one.

Hope you enjoy the song, the animation, the extended edition of the album with the two additional tracks.

https://www.emilybarker.com/believe/

Emily

check this . . . .

Emily continues 

Over zoom giving online songwriting a go for the first time, Boo Hewerdine told me about a cult called ‘John Frum’ who live on the Melanesian island of Tanna. Multiple theories exist about how the cult came to be, but one is that a man called John (from America) landed a plane on the island and the Indigenous people believed he was a god. The locals made symbolic planes of straw and built runways to welcome and worship their deity.

At the same time, I was reading a book by Jonathan Haidt called ‘The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Religion and Politics’. He writes… “Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into ideological teams that fight each other as though the fate of the world depended on our side winning each battle. It blinds us to the fact that each team is composed of good people who have something important to say.”

It was also around this time, that a beautiful friend of mine told me he had “not got much time left living on this earth”. He grew up in the church and was just now coming back to it as he reckoned with death.

So, I was thinking about religion, spirituality, beliefs – and as with many songs on ‘Fragile as Humans’, I was thinking about compassion.

At The Wool Hall studio, just as we were about to record the song, it started to rain; a heavy summer rain. We threw open the studio doors and put up a mic. The bass line from Tim Harries and the electric guitar through a Leslie amp from Luke brought a playfulness to the recording, a bit of light which was just right.

From the extended version of the album Fragile as Humans - out now: https://emilybarker.com/fragile