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Post by maarts on Apr 10, 2012 6:23:08 GMT -5
Current faves-
Radical Face- Family Tree- another great entrant in the Electric President-canon.
Isidore- Life Somewhere Else- aka Steve Kilbey of The Church teaming up with multi-instrumentalist Jeffrey Cain- prime soft-pop with slightly serrated psychedelic edges.
Lightships- aka one dude from Teenage Fanclub making a really nice autumnal pop record.
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Post by RocDoc on Apr 11, 2012 9:58:54 GMT -5
'slightly serrated psychedelic edges' sounds pretty interestin' to me...i'll search when i get a spare mo.
~
NP:
Robben Ford Trio -
Catalina's Bar & Grill,
Los Angeles,
29 March 2012
1. Lovin Cup
2. Unknown
3. Earthquake
4. Unknown
5. Moonchild
6. Cannonball Shuffle
7. Nothin to Nobody
8. There Will Be Another You
9. Who Do You Think You Are
10. Spoonful
11. Instrumental
12. Riley B King
13. Too Much
14. Unknown
15. Spoonful (Reprise)
16. Chevrolet
i for one, am amazed when something shows up just days after the performance on some of these blogs (usually at dime and the other torrent sites, which are WAY more involved than i can take) and i can hear the current state of a band i love, who i can't see for multiple varieties of reasons.
springsteen did a show at MSG two nights ago...and it's up already.
wow.
that said, robben ford's show here is incredible - my god, this guy can play, in ever-revolving styles too!
of course i knew this since i have seen him - 2nd billed to danny gatton one of those times...whoa THAT was sumthin'!
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Post by RocDoc on Apr 13, 2012 9:06:17 GMT -5
NP:
nice very melodic british metal which i somehow missed in the day.
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Post by RocDoc on Apr 13, 2012 9:09:35 GMT -5
oh and this is actually some rodrigo guy playing the solos to a maiden backing track...but i love his selections - the guy's got excellent taste.
AND apparently he can play.
i found this after maarts posted maiden's dave murray doing the star spangled banner over on FB.
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Post by RocDoc on Apr 14, 2012 15:03:50 GMT -5
NP:
Kansas -
"Beware the Masque",
1975 Tour Rehearsal -
SBD- (CD & Covers)
1. Song for America
2. Icarus - Borne on Wings of Steel
3. Down the Road
4. Lonely Wind
5. Child of Innocence
6. All the World
7. Mysteries and Mayhem
8. The Pinnacle
9. Bringing it Back
10. Can I Tell You
This "concert" has gone under several different names but my understanding is that despite the fact that Robbie talks as if there is an audience and you hear some (supposedly) taped in audience, it actually is a concert rehearsal for Masque. If anybody has better details, please post them.
I don't know and I don't really care, I just enjoy.
what a great band at this time!
i saw them 4-5 times, usually on the undercard (maybe once choosing to see them headline), but always an absolute killer band, talented-as-fuck working in a just sl off-kilter style for our group of rock and roll bozos, but they ALWAYS won us over.
i mean, come on a big fat guy in overalls was playing violin with a ROCK band?
say what?
confounding!!
i consider these guys as very important to my musical development.
and as overplayed as 'child of innocence' became, what a wonderful memory of it blowing us completely away when it first came out...those hatchetted-off chords in the choruses and bridge - oawrrrrgHHH!
and the mahavishnu start-stop blooz of 'down the road'?
these fuckers were great!
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Post by Ayinger on Apr 14, 2012 23:51:03 GMT -5
THAT'S the Kansas I'd rather remember!
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Post by RocDoc on Apr 16, 2012 10:38:19 GMT -5
they were a serious rock and roll machine back then - NOT playing some boneheaded boogie neither! not that there's any wrong with that (or foghat)....but when i listen to them now, they remind me of little feat mark II (not mark I, the funky lowell george version which i LOVED) in the way their arrangements both have these split second whipcracking turns with EVERYONE blowing their azzes off. ~ NP:  i grabbed this after i read a blurb describing these guys as blues-rock with a vv good guitarplayer - ok, this dave IS a very good player, but blues'rock' it's not, so there's just not much stretching out room for him to 'play'...i mean that's their vision and that's cool, but i've got to be in the mood for this sort of 'chicago blues'. some very nice in the pocket 16 bar solos, but this is more siegel-schwall than stevie ray, like a couple of the writeups led me to believe. NOW playing (just put it on):  the new one. whoa! for the title song at least! lofgren's impressed the shit out of me when i've seen him and this is right in line with that....i wonder if XRT's been playing this cos i sure don't recall hearing it yet.... |
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Post by RocDoc on Apr 18, 2012 13:19:06 GMT -5
a coupla minutes ago:  omiGOD! jittery, nervous funk that makes me feel like i just drank 3 cups of coffee -STRONG coffee> this band is fucking great. NP: Danny Gatton
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
May 28, 1991
CD-R1 - SB 5
Track List:
1. Funky Mama
2. Memphis, Tennessee
3. Blues Newburg
4. Elmira Street Boogie
5. Funhouse
6. Mustang Sally
7. Pretty Blue
8. Gold Rush
9. Boogie Woogie Boogie
10. Seven Come Eleven
Geetarz Comments: Lineage: CD-R (Trade, Unknown) > EAC v. 0.99 Prebeta 4 (Secure) > FLAC (8) > You !
One of my fave performances, a personal favorite and I hope you enjoy it as much as I have. We all talk about just enjoying "good music", but few people really live up to that ideal. People seem to like things that are easily categorized, and Danny's music could never be defined that way. Here in just this short set, we veer from country-tinged hard blues, Telecaster Madness, into a reworking of Chuck Berry's "Memphis, Tennessee". "Blues Newburg" is a blues, no doubt, but it's jazz tinged. The apltly titled "Elmira Street Boogie" owes much to 30s and 40s swing bands as it does to "jump blues" and rockabilly. "Funhouse" comes from a jazz direction but with pop sensibilities, and "Pretty Blue" is jazz - or is it blues - with a chicken fried coating.
Perhaps the best explaination here is offered by Danny himself in his introduction to "Gold Rush", to wit:
"Gold Rush ... look out, this is a weird tune coming up ... you never heard this before - of course, you probably never heard a lot of these before! Originally, this song was by Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys, and it went, originally, was like this, on banjo and fiddle [plays a bit]. You get the idea? I got the idea to mix this thing up with a little southern rock thing, then we jump over to Scotland for a little while, play the bagpipes. But there's also a little ... what the hell's the name of that song ... "Battle of 1814" or who cares what the name of it is ... I'll just play it and see if you can comprehend it, it's difficult enough for me!"
That pretty much sums it up, Danny was, to me, the ultimate "Melting Pot", you add all good music together and you get "Danny Gatton". Danny's music deserves a wider audience - share with a friend! As always, TRADE ONLY; NOT FOR $ALE ! Please direct your browser to www.dannygatton.com and support his family by buying the official releases. Enjoy! ~Geetarz, November 2009 www.geetarz.orgi remember him trying a similar explanation for one of his songs and we're like 'what in the FUCK is he talking about?' - and then he played it and THERE was everything, all the influences he'd just cited! |
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Post by RocDoc on Apr 19, 2012 13:07:12 GMT -5
a WEALTH of music last night and today (i'm C&ping what i wrote elsewhere):
beeswing, have you maybe seen the couple of thompson things which were recorded from this year's caribbean music cruise?
I've got good friends who went or i'd never known such a thing existed...they're naturally BIG richard thompson fans of course.
i chanced upon them when i stumbled onto sugarmegs 'latest additions' url (fr that RnR fetish-site, i think)and yeah, they're 40kbps wma files, quite lossy, but well recorded aud's of very well-mixed shows>
of course this means they were also seeded most likely at dime in a good format.
mmm, makes me wonder if any 'dimers' here are RT fans....:
with thompson playing a VERY nice ELECtric show.
goes expectedly psychedelic a few times as well...'hard on me' is wow!
...and then :
[QUOTE}Quote:
Richard Thompson
Stardust Theater,
Cayamo 2012 Music Cruise,
Norwegian Pearl Cruise Ship
February 9,2012
12:00 Midnight-1:15 AM (Midnight Show)
1-Talk
2-When The Spell Is Broken
3-Walking On A Wire
4-Valerie
5-Northern Winds
6-Talk
7-Johnny's Far Away
8-Persuasion
9-1952 Vincent Black Lightning
10-Sunset Song
11-Talk
12-So Ben Mi Ca Bon Tempo
13-Talk
14-Shenandoah
15-Legal Matter
16-I Misunderstood
17-I Feel So Good
Edirol R-09 W/ Internal Mikes @ 16/44.1 >
Orchestra 1St Row Center >
Cool Edit > Cd Wave Editor >
Traders Little Helper > Flac[/QUOTE]
good god THIS show is wonderful - we've had the acoustic vs electric RT discussion before, but this one recharges my enthusiasm for hearing 'the great one' alone with his guitar - but this here is a unique situation.
imagine, THIS was a cruise with a large group of musicians, RT being one among them, everyone's just walking to the pool to restaurants, and you're all just interacting and relaxing with various people you've seen and admired while performing...and now for a 10-12 day stretch, you're also 'just folks' enjoying holiday together.
and then they PLAY for you!
check the star-strucked-ness at the dock and this has GOT to be a wonderful experience, that is if you're the type of person who can find common ground to talk to someone like RT.
either way, this setting accomplishes in producing the MOST wonderful solo RT show i think i have ever heard.
it's like he's just playing for a bunch of friends...which IS what he normally tries for, but here it is SO genuine.
at least listen to that in this 40kbps wma even.
truth be told, i just DL the rundgren/ian hunter show taht edge put up in flac, nearly 1G-worth, and i swear that the quality of these 2 sugarmegs shows is easily at least as good as that. and they're each a 20M dl...
search 'richard+thompson+trio'
@
h**p://74.108.129.122/Default.aspx
and the acoustic show came up here among a slew of other interesting 'new arrivals":
h**p://74.108.129.122/latestadditions.aspx
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and right now i've got the BEST rock and roll band ever, playing a 'new' version of a recording so many people (me incl!) say is one the best live rawk recordings in history - going back to late 1973....
NOW playing, the suBLIME:
Lou Reed
Academy Of Music
1973.12.21
(version 2)
1. Intro-Sweet Jane [08:17]
2. How Do You Think It Feels (Previously Unreleased) [03:43]
3. Caroline Says I (Previously Unreleased) [03:55]
4. I’m Waiting for the Man (Previously Unreleased) [03:59]
5. Lady Day [03:43]
6. Heroin [12:52]
7. Vicious (Previously Unreleased) [05:57]
8. Satellite of Love (Previously Unreleased) [05:54]
9. Walk On the Wild Side (Previously Unreleased) [04:57]
10. Oh Jim (Previously Unreleased) [10:38]
11. Sad Song (Previously Unreleased) [07:29]
12. White Light White Heat [05:02]
13. Rock’n'Roll [10:07]
i'd always though other shows with the hunter-wagner juggerfucking NAUT from this tour were scarce - i've now found a french site where the guy's got SIXTEEN shows from 1973 - though the hunter-wagner band only came together later that year.
at one time i only had 'phantom RnR animal' from copenhagen which was cool but sound was so-so. hearing them develop the arrangements that are now so familiar from having heard the original RnR animal album 1000s of times, ooooh, how i love that!
....NOW, i've got an october set from the rainbow theater in london and a '5+' star rated one from newcastle i still haven't listened to yet...whew!
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Post by RocDoc on Apr 19, 2012 15:52:41 GMT -5
why didn't this thing post the long thing i tried to post, yet it's showing that i posted to this thread today at 12:28PM?
weirdness...
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Post by RocDoc on Apr 22, 2012 12:04:25 GMT -5
ok, i deleted 4 of the 5 of those posts....i have no idea wtf happened - they were NOT coming up on this thread, even though my other post attempts were coming up elsewhere.
oops, i guess.
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Post by RocDoc on Apr 25, 2012 16:31:10 GMT -5
NP:
T-Bone Burnett And Friends Concert
McCabes (Santa Monica, CA)
Dec 25, 1991
Concert Summary
(in order of appearance):
Harry Shearer - narrator
Mark O'Connor - violin
Edgar Meyer - double bass
T-Bone Burnett - guitar, vocals
Jerry Douglas - dobro
Sam Phillips - vocals
Leo Kottke - guitar
Michael Penn - guitar, vocals
Patrick Warren - chamberlain
Van Dyke Parks - piano, vocals
Stan Freberg - vocals, monologue
Bob Neuwirth - guitar, vocals
Jeff Bridges - guitar, vocals
Victoria Williams - guitar, vocals
Joe Henry- guitar, vocals
Booker T. Jones - guitar, piano, vocals
Billy Swan - vocals
T-Bone Burnett has been the man behind the curtain on so many memorable projects that it's difficult to know where to start. First gaining serious recognition as a key player on Bob Dylan's legendary Rolling Thunder Revue in 1975, followed by work with several of those same musicians in the under appreciated Alpha Band, Burnett has since come to personify a spiritually aware form of modern roots music through his own recordings. Burnett's low-key, often brilliant take on country/rock/folk emotionalism is also a key ingredient on albums by dozens of higher profile artists, as both producer and as a session musician. Many first discovered Burnett through his film work, notably the soundtrack for the Coen Brothers' 2001 film, O Brother, Where Art Thou, which he composed and produced. On March 7, 2010, Burnett scored an Academy Award for co-writing "Best Original Song," just one of his many contributions as musical director of the film Crazy Heart, which starred Burnett's friend, actor Jeff Bridges.
All of which makes this nearly three-hour 1991 radio Christmas special featuring T-Bone Burnett & Friends so utterly compelling. Compiled from a series of five performances that Burnett directed at the intimate back room (capacity 150) at McCabe's Guitar Shop in Santa Monica in November of 1991, these recordings not only present a fascinating roster of guests, but also capture the man himself at a pivotal time in his life and career. A newlywed, Burnett had married Sam Phillips earlier in the year. He hadn't released an album under his own name for some time, but production work had been keeping him plenty busy, producing albums for Elvis Costello, Maria Mulduar, Roy Orbison, Leo Kottke, Los Lobos, Joe Henry, Bruce Cockburn, and of course Sam Phillips, to name a few. At the time, he was also working up material for his next solo album, 1992's critically acclaimed Criminal Under My Own Hat.
Skinny and towering at 6' 4" without his usual headgear, Burnett would never pull off Santa Claus, but these Christmas at McCabe's recordings accomplish something more difficult by proving entertaining and engaging all year round. For every popular holiday song, there are several broken-hearted reveries, and even on some of the most recognized Christmas-themed songs, there's a dark undertow, sometimes achieved by inspired instrumentation alone or in the case of Sam Phillips and Victoria Williams, through utterly unique vocal deliveries.
Narrated by comic actor Harry Shearer the program begins by showcasing two of Burnett's accompanists, fiddle player Mark O'Connor and double bassist Edgar Meyer, who set the scene with the engaging instrumental, "Lime Rock." This serves as an opening to Burnett's initial set, which also adds Jerry Douglas on dobro. Introduced as the Nashville Cats, these are extraordinarily gifted musicians that bring out the best in everything they touch, beginning with a lovely reading of "River Of Love," a song that figured prominently on Burnett and Phillips' earliest work together. This is followed by a superb rendition of "The Long Time Now" (which would surface on Criminal Under My Own Hat the following year) and the unusual "House Of Mirrors" from his 1980 solo debut, Truth Decay.
Appropriately enough, Burnett's first guest is Sam Phillips and this is a particularly interesting sequence, capturing Phillips transition out of Christian music (she had recorded several Christian-rock albums under her birth name Leslie Phillips) into secular music, where her style and songwriting would fully blossom. Phillips, with Burnett accompanying her on guitar, opens with "Flame," a key song from The Indescribable Wow, which Burnett had produced. A humorous monologue precedes the first Christmas-themed song of the program, "It Came Upon A Midnight Clear." This is a remarkable performance, spooky yet strangely tranquilizing, thanks to Phillips unique minor-key delivery.
Next up is acoustic guitarist extraordinaire, Leo Kottke, whose Live At My Father's Place album Burnett produced. Two dazzling instrumentals from that album open this set, "Wiliam Powell" and "Theme from the Rick and Robert Report." However, it is Kottke's closer that is one of the ultimate highlight of this program, as he performs a gorgeous version of "Little Martha," perhaps the most beautiful composition ever written by Duane Allman.
Burnett next introduces singer-songwriter Michael Penn, another artist he had recently worked with. Penn is accompanied by Patrick Warren, who adds chamberlain (a keyboard instrument similar to a mellotron that adds string-section-like elements) on "Coal," followed by a haunting rendition of "Oh Come All Ye Faithful."
At this point, Burnett returns, first with a moving version of Bruce Cockburn's "Cry of a Tiny Babe." Essentially a modern times retelling of the Christmas nativity scene, this is a heartfelt and touching performance. Another advance preview from Criminal Under My Own Hat follows in the form of "Every Little Thing," a collaboration written with Bob Neuwirth, who also makes an appearance later in the program.
Following an impressive double bass solo piece by Nashville Cat Edgar Meyer, Burnett brings out composer, pianist, and lyricist Van Dyke Parks, who performs an engaging version of "Wings of a Dove" on acoustic piano. This song would be further embellished on one of Parks' collaborations with Brian Wilson, Orange Crate Art, but also shines brightly in stripped down form.
Interjecting some political humor into the proceedings, Burnett brings up satirist Stan Freberg, who delivers a few thoughts on the election and then backed by a piped in recording of the Billy May Orchestra, sings a humor-filled marching song that laments the difficulty of finding a "Halfway Decent Democratic Candidate." What is most remarkable about Freberg's sequence is just how relevant it still is nearly two decades later!
Joining in next is Bob Neuwirth, who invokes the spirit of Ramblin' Jack Elliott in his traveling song, "Eye On The Road," before Burnett and the Nashville Cats perform three more numbers together, beginning with an exquisite instrumental version of "Silent Night" led by the mournful violin of Mark O'Connor. Then Burnett treats listeners to two additional numbers that would surface the following year on Criminal Under My Own Hat. First is the hopeful Burnett/Neuwirth/Elvis Costello collaboration "Its Not Too Late," followed by the anxiety-ridden "The Long Time Now," also written with Neuwirth.
The next sequence, although brief, is particularly interesting. Here Burnett brings up actor Jeff Bridges, nearly two decades before their great success working together on the film Crazy Heart. Bridges delivers a thoroughly delightful low-key reading of the Broadway musical number turned jazz standard, "On The Sunny Side of the Street."
The artist who dives deepest into the Christmas spirit is the Louisiana-born Victoria Williams, who Burnett introduces as "The Swamp Fairy." Williams, after humorously commenting on the scarcity of Christmas songs on the program, provides two in a style uniquely her own, beginning with "The Christmas Song," (which most people know not by title, but by its opening line, "Chesnuts roasting on an open fire") and closing with "Oh Holy Night."
At this point in time, Joe Henry was still a roots-rock and country traditionalist, just becoming known for the vivid imagery and the insightful character studies contained in his songs. Here are excellent examples of both, first with "Short Man's Room," which would become the title track of Henry's next album, followed by "Johnny the Conqueror," from the Burnett produced Shuffletown album a year prior.
Before Burnett and his Nashville Cats close out the program, they have one more delightful surprise in store in the form of Stax great (and organist icon) Booker T. Jones. This little set is fantastic and quite surprising as Booker T. opens with the Otis Redding classic that he had a huge part of, "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay," (not on organ, but as lead vocalist and acoustic guitar player!). It's a beautiful heartfelt performance before Jones switches over to piano to sing the deeply spiritual, "Sweet Little Jesus Boy."
To close the show, Burnett, along with O'Connor, Meyer, and Douglas first perform a haunting arrangement of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" before inviting Bill Swan up on stage. Swan contributes vocal harmonies to a pair of songs that serve to encapsulate the entire night remarkably well, first with the broken-hearted "No Love At All" followed by its diametrical opposite in a way, the far more hopeful "The Power of Love."
To end the program, Burnett leads the audience through a somber and reflective "Silent Night," a perfect close to one of the most original and thoughtfully produced Christmas programs ever.
EVERY performer transcends...
*cough*JoeHenry*cough*
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Post by Ayinger on Apr 25, 2012 17:02:36 GMT -5
Yeah, saw the mention of Mr. Henry....the only stuff I'm lacking of his is this early material and I think I tried looking into <i>Short Man's Room</i> but it wasn't in print.
I'd like to hear Douglas on "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"...
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Post by RocDoc on Apr 25, 2012 18:48:29 GMT -5
all 3 of the nashville cats (o'connor, douglas, meyer) doing silent night is ridiculously swoonworthy - and kottke doing little martha?!
FULL swoon - fuckin' unreal the touch he shows.
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Post by RocDoc on Apr 26, 2012 0:04:09 GMT -5
h**p://onehalfhillbillyonehalfpunk.blogspot.com/2011/12/joe-henry-short-mans-room-1992.html
Joe Henry - Short Man's Room (1992)
1 Good Fortune
2 Reckless Child
3 Stations
4 Short Man's Room
5 King's Highway
6 The Diving Bell
7 Last One Out
8 Sault Sainte Marie
9 A Friend To You
10 Best To Believe
11 One Shoe On
Stooopendous country rock album with beautiful acoustic arrangements and flow. Joe's backing band, The Jayhawks. very nice
Posted by 1x1head at 6:42 AM
Labels: 90's, Joe Henry, The Jayhawks
h**p://www.mediafire.com/?y6lsooo5ad8bodh
96Mb file - prob a vv nice bitrate, likely 320...
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