What are you listening to? 2021

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an evening with...
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Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue
Willis 'Gator Tail' Jackson - Mellow Blues
Dr. John - Zu Zu Man
Dream Syndicate - Out of the Grey

The Jackson album is loose jazz/funk jams released on the notoriously dodgy budget label Trip Records, featuring some noisy guitar allegedly by George Benson. It doesn't sound anything like him.

The Dr. John songs have also appeared on Trip, as well as a zillion other labels. Demos, outtakes, unfinished tracks overdubbed after the fact, and a couple not even sung by the Doctor, but by Ronnie Barron.

My first time hearing the bonus tracks that were added to Out of the Grey, including Alice Cooper's "Ballad of Dwight Fry."

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shit! class in 20 minutes!

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Non chronological compilation of 50s/60s black vocal group. I hadn't taken in 2 major factors in their history the Lieber and Stoller at the reins era and Ben E king being a central member before finding even greater solo fame.
But there area major stack of classic tunes here even if they are peppered with over familiar vaudeville tunes even if they do have somewhat interesting arrangements.
THis si a cheapo compi but sound seems to be at least decent.

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THis was more the bonus disc of demoes etc that came with teh 50th anniversary edition.
It starts with several acoustic takes on things that later have soem electric touches added. Some ethereal vocal stuff and stuff. Then gets into more electric stuff including a nice The Wall Song which I've loved since I first heard it done by the short lived David & the Dorks at the end of 1970 and a decent Cowboy Song which rocks but I like it a lot less since finding out what it is actually about.
Not heard the main lp yet but this seems to stand up ok on its own I mean at least as a repeated listening experience. Not sure if I would grab it on its own.

I've been having trouble with a 16 year old 3changer cd system where it keeps skipping discs and needs to be cleaned several times a week .
Which has meant that this disc hasn't turned up when it should
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a compilation of material from a few lps from the turn of the milennium by the Zimbabwean Chimurenga star.
I try to listen out for teh guitar of Daniel Shitose which is supposed to be very innovative and based on the instrumental styles of an instrument more traditional to the area. I keep hearing it disappearing into clouds of mbira though but what i do hear is pretty great.

sorry Jonah Sithole is the name of the guitarist. I was haviing trouble with windows flashing closed last night so wante dto post as fast as possible.
& he died just before this , his guitar style was based on the sound of the mbira.

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There are a few live sets by an Albion Band with Richard & Linda Thompson onboard. Though maybe that's more relevant to Battle Of The Field which I think is pretty necessary let alone essential.
No Roses is really nice and is one of the few places where Shirley Collins has electric backing. Shame she hates jazz. But wow tis great.
Do love that Britfolk stuff from the time anyway.

yes, i remember reading an interview where she dismissed pentangle due to the jazz element in their playing :-/

re: crosby... never heard the david & the dorks material, another perro avenue to check out. i remember downloading some if i could only remember my name session tracks from some website 20+ years ago, not heard it since so that reissue looks enticing!

Digging in to this new CD box of Roland Kayn's Tektra - sounds great so far, fuck vinyl.

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A Primary Industry Ultramarine

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Does anyone know anything more about this band?

they came from basingstoke and have a wikipedia entry
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this too:
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Chinaski, how is that Mowest comp? Curious if they were using Mowtown session players/producers. Similar vibe to the Motown stuff of that era?

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Heez - that Mowest compilation is really great. It's kinda ragged around the edges but you can't deny the songs and the product. Gordy's vision for the expansion west was pretty much a disaster I think but it was more circumstantial than anything to do with quality.

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need to hear more wishart ^anticredos is the only piece of his i'm familiar with

listening to a dodgy boot of the emergency crew & scorpio sessions (amongst other bits and pieces)

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1920s big band blues by early great. She hasa pretty fantastic voice.
Got this 2nd hand then saw that there was a double cd available in the shop on th emain street. May go back for that.
Do still love these early blues, got turned onto it by Nick Cave, The Gun Club and probably early Bob Dylan a little earlier. In the early to mid 80s.

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Irish folk artist who I've been aware of for decades but not really had anything by. Am surprised by how much of this does not seem to be directly Irish folk though and also by how much I like it all.
Like he is doing a number of things from other traditions and more recently written .
I got the edition that came with a dvd too, there's a red covered one that is just the 2cds.

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Now got the actual lp on not the bonus disc. & loving it as much as i did when i discovered it in the late 80s. Not sure if this was something i got turned onto when looking for other things like Gris Gris as I did around teh same time with Eugene Macdaniels Headless Horsemen Of teh Apocalypse. I musthave been aware of Crosby as a Byrd already. Probably read Timeless Flight already or atleast its initial much shorter incarnation. I know I read his memoir while hitching around the UK in th e late 80s.
& do love all of this PERRO stuff or at least what I've heard. Especially the solo Airplane lps.
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is an image that is in the booklet too. Headstock face appears to be Michael Shrieve

need to hear more wishart ^anticredos is the only piece of his i'm familiar with

Red Bird is ridiculously good!

holy modal rounders 1 & 2, hurley's folkways lp +
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while prepping x-mas food

Sanjay Subrahmanyan - Vani Mahal Dec 2014 (Live)

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The first solo lp by ex-Byrd and contemporary CSNY member David Crosby. I realised thsi week taht it was a slightly altered version of teh lp since the final track jhere I Swear There Was Somebody Here originally appeared in a 1 minute 19second version which I used to punctuate mixtapes I was making when i first got the vinyl version in the late 80s and is now a full 8 minu8te odd track. Not sure why they didn't include both since the track is so short and this version while being nice has an inherently different feeling with the long wordless instrumental added. I dunno.
I am really enjoying the lp as I did at the time i got it first. Though I think the time i first got it I may have been experiencing the tracks isolated in mixtapes i listened to as I hitched teh UK. I think I very rarely listened to the first 2 tracks on side A which I have done since putting this on the 3 changer. So MUsic iS Love is hippies being hippies, Cowboy Movie is hippies bing racist and specifically about a bandmembers girlfriend. Tamalpais High at About 3am is sublime noodling tunefulness and so on.
I like teh structure of Cowboy Movie and the use of instrumentation way more tahn I like what the song is about. Would like to hear other lyrics, not that these are particularly bad just that this is all a dig at Rita Coolidge who I think was seeing Grahm Nash at the time and just shows off rather dodgy settler colonial mentality that would be better avoided. Great rhythm and guitar though.
Tamalpais HIgh has been a track I've loved since i first heard it, laughing was a song I played heavily when i first had a radio show I used to play it into Astronomy by Thin White Rope. It is apparently about the phoniness of the Beatles' indian experience.
What Are tehir Names has Neil Young playing off Jerry Garcia which I think I would have liked to hear more of. Odd taht drummer is Michael Shrieve not a GD member since bassist is Phil Lesh and one might have expected a bit of David and the Dorks in the studio.
I do enjoy the lp and wonder if there are bands that cite it as a central influence.

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Jazz singer's 1973 lp recorded in japan with a couple of Japanese players and 3 of Miles Davis' then band and some direction from Miles himself.
Abbey Lincoln had been a singer who emerged in the late 50s and then married Max Roach who she sang with on a few lps, notably Freedom Now Suite. The pair had split up by this point and Abbey had gone through a low point from which she was helped by Miriam Makeba. She had wound up booked to record in Japan and didn't like the drummer she had been set up with so asked if she could borrow Al Foster from Miles Davis and thereby wound up with both Dave Liebman and Mtume coming along for the session. I wonder how things would have sounded if one of Miles' guitarists at the time had come along but this does sound pretty great.
I just bought a copy of thsi for my brother for Xmas so stuck this on my 3 changer for teh week.
I'm still having trouble with the disc recognition on the player so still havingto clean it regularly. May have a look at the advice i was given alst week once whatver this cold/flu/whatever it is thing wears off.

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Irish folk singer's compilation cd which I would seriously recommend. I think it is not just diddley-oi music if taht would be teh assumption that one would have from associations with teh singer. This is the 2nd disc of teh set and i haven't watched the dvd that came as disc 3.
It starts with a track that really reminds me of Viv Stanshall's Men opening Umbrellas Ahead the combination of singing in a low register with teh musical backing which isns't really African based but has a certain slinkiness that has asi8milar feeling to that lp. he also goes into some material I would associate more with English folk . Great anyway.
I think I need to look more into his work both lps tracks here are from and other stuff. Also solo material by other members of Planxty.

i like pretty much everything i've heard that andy irvine has been involved with, but not really checked out the christy moore side of things though i believe it was one of his solo albums that provided the impetus for planxty forming in the first place

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not listened to this in years: lee hazlewood's funk lp!

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The Mermen- We Could See It in the Distance

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