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Post by Pickers Ditch on Jun 2, 2024 18:58:12 GMT
This is wonderful. Warren Zevon's 'Play It All Night Long' - David Lindley & G.E. Smith. .....and from the same show, David Lindley's song 'Rag Bag' Shine On Michael both songs and performers are absolutely priceless. Thanks for posting - genius stuff!
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Post by archtopeddy on Jun 3, 2024 5:07:11 GMT
On an old school slide kick. Here are two..
Casey Bill Weldon - Can't You Remember (1936) .
And Tampa Red - Moanin' Heart Blues (1930)
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Post by chromatic on Jun 3, 2024 9:38:15 GMT
Somehow I've never come across this amazing player before
Cheers
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Post by Malc on Jun 3, 2024 19:11:45 GMT
And now for something completely different..... I like this - great band and Aziza's voice is beautiful. Shine On Michael
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Post by Michael Messer on Jun 6, 2024 14:43:43 GMT
I didn't know this existed until a few minutes ago. One of my favourite songs written by Bob Marley, performed here by Johnny Cash & Joe Strummer. I am not sure song is suited to them, or to anyone that is not descended from slavery, but here it is.
Shine On Michael
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Post by ken1953clark on Jun 7, 2024 7:54:29 GMT
I saw him years ago in a side room at The Mean Fiddler. A stunning set up close and personal, maybe the best gig I’ve ever been too
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Post by Michael Messer on Jun 7, 2024 8:30:17 GMT
I saw him years ago in a side room at The Mean Fiddler. A stunning set up close and personal, maybe the best gig I’ve ever been too I was also at that show. It was around '85/86. I was supposed to be opening for John, but that changed at the last minute. It was a truly superb performance, as are all John's shows. The first time I saw John Hammond play was in 1965 at the Winter Gardens Theatre in Margate and blew this nine year old boy's socks right off his feet! He played most of the material from his first Vanguard album and of course the song he had a hit with at the time, "Live The Life I Love...." I have seen John play a few times and on a few occasions spent time with him. He is a gentle, polite and humble soul. A lovely person to be around. Shine On Michael
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Post by slide496 on Jun 14, 2024 21:31:05 GMT
Hi all.
Just to add this recent short film...
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Post by Michael Messer on Jun 15, 2024 8:20:34 GMT
Hi all. Just to add this recent short film... Harriet, Thanks for posting this film. Tony McPhee was a great artist and a lovely person. Tony is so important in the history of British blues. As well as all the accolades he receives for Groundhogs, John Lee Hooker etc... , Tony was one of the first acoustic blues players here and among others he opened that door for Jo Ann and Dave Kelly. Tony was always very complimentary about my playing and when possible would always find a way to catch a performance. We only ever played together once, a long time ago. We did a show which was Tony, Dave Kelly and me, and it was a lot of fun. I am in touch with Joanna (Tony's partner) and I hope to be playing at an event in honour of Tony McPhee sometime this year. Released in 1971 this was big and got the Groundhogs a top ten album. I was 15 and loved it! Shine On Michael
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Post by bdeivert on Jun 19, 2024 14:57:08 GMT
I first heard Gus Cannon's recordings when living in Den Haag, Holland in 1975 next to a banjo player that loved his stuff and played me Cannon's recordings and showed me banjo stuff. I was amazed with the slide playing on banjo and really dig his style. Blind Blake is playing steady backup guitar on this one too. Rather idiosyncratic arrangement to learn but cool. I am working on a lot of blues and jug band songs using DADGAD tuning and it works really well. I have a couple of cuts on some of my albums with DADGAD doing blues tunes.
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Post by archtopeddy on Jun 19, 2024 18:21:42 GMT
MM's posting of David Lindley and GE Smith reminded me of this vid with Mr. Dave and Jackson Browne poking fun at Ry Cooder. "Every guitar I've ever owned, I still have -- somewhere." RIP Mr. Dave.
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Post by Malc on Jun 20, 2024 18:40:15 GMT
I remember as a 15 year old rushing home from work to catch the 5 O clock club to see Alexis Korner. Got to see him once in Portsmouth.
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Post by Pickers Ditch on Jun 20, 2024 19:18:08 GMT
Me too!
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Post by archtopeddy on Jun 21, 2024 3:11:46 GMT
In 1967, I wasn't just an ocean away from many of you, I was two oceans away living as a kid in Japan. Folks knew the Troggs for Wild Thing, and I knew that too, but it was the other songs on the troglodyte cave LP that grabbed me. And here they are playing "live" one of their great songs, From Home, with a Burns Jazz bass, a thin-line Gretsch Streamliner, 60's mod dress, haircuts and a full-blown bad ass attitude. Some of you living in the U.K. may remember them as a band down the street or a few towns away, I remember them as a magic sound from a spinning black disc that gave up the ghost every time I played it. But those ghosts sit in my mind now, tribally banging away -- From Home, From Home Girl.
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Post by slide496 on Jun 21, 2024 16:19:09 GMT
Spotify recommended this Smithsonian recording of live performance the Georgia Sea Island Singers along with other players,among them a duet with Fred Mcdowell and Mable Hillery...
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