Johnny Winter & Dr. John In Session Parts 1 & 2

Johnny Winter, live, 1970

Johnny Winter performing live in 1970.  Not sure what the tune is, and I don't think that's his regular Gibson Firebird he's had for so many years.  Can't tell.  This is a HOT track though.  Dig it!

Dumpstaphunk (feat. Victor Wooten) "Meanwhile" @ Summer Camp Music Festival 2013

Click the link for a crazy jam on "Meanwhile" by Dumpstaphunk, with guest, Victor Wooten on bass.  The groove on this is just plain sick, in a good way!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HNfOwi1iFCo

Camel - Coming Of Age concert

Open this link, to see the show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFmiT-7eoAk

More music from Camel.  This is the full length concert from their Coming of Age tour in 1997.  The band lineup is:

Andrew Latimer: guitar, flute, keyboards & vocals
Colin Bass: bass & vocals
Foss Patterson: keyboards
Dave Stewart: drums

The set list has 26 tracks

1. Opening Titles / Lunar Sea
2. Hymn To Her
3. Rhayader
4. Rhayader Goes To Town
5. Drafted
6. Docks
7. Beached
8. Spirit of the Water
9. Ice
10. Sasquatch
11. Fan interviews (bonus footage)
12. Mother Road
13. Needles
14. Rose Of Sharon
15. Irish Air
16. Harbours of Tears
17. Cobh
18. Send Home The States
19. Under The Moon
20. Watching The Bobbins
21. Eyes Of Ireland
22. Running From Paradise
23. End Of The Day
24. Coming Of Age
25. The Hour Candle
26. Closing Credits / Irish Air

Camel "Hymn To Her"

Here's a live performance by Camel of their song "Hymn To Her" recorded in 1979 on their album called "I Can See Your House From Here."

Skip's Spotify Sunday 5-26-13

Soft Machine "Facelift"

1. Slightly All The Time
2. Out-Bloody-Rageous
3. Moon In June
4. Mousetrap
5. Noisette
6. Backwards
7. Mousetrap
8. Hibou, Anemone & Bear
9. Facelift
10. Eamonn Andrews
11. Esther's Nose Job
12. Pigling Bland
13. I Should've Known
14. Esther's Nose Job (Reprise)

Soft Machine "Breda Reactor"

1. Eamonn Andrews
2. Mousetrap
3. Noisette
4. Backwards
5. Mousetrap (Reprise)
6. Hibou Anemone & Bear
7. Facelift
8. Moon In June
9. 12/8 Theme
10. Drum Link
11. Esther's Nose Job
12. Pigling Bland
13. Cymbalism
14. Out-Bloody-Rageous (Excerpts)
15. Esther's Nose Job (Reprise)
16. We Did It Again

J. Geils Band "J. Geils Band"

1. Wait
2. Ice Breaker [For The Big "M"]
3. Cruisin' For A Love [Live Album Version]
4. Hard Drivin' Man
5. Serves You Right To Suffer
6. Homework
7. First I Look At The Purse
8. What's Your Hurry?
9. On Borrowed Time
10. Pack Fair And Square
11. Sno-Cone

J. Geils Band "The Morning After"

1. Don't Need You No More
2. Whammer Jammer
3. So Sharp
4. The Usual Place
5. Gotta Have Your Love
6. Looking For A Love
7. Gonna Find Me A New Love
8. Cry One More Time
9. Floyd's Hotel
10. It Ain't What You Do [It's How You Do It]

J. Geils Band "Bloodshot"

1. [Ain't Nothin' But A] House Party
2. Make Up Your Mind
3. Back To Get Ya
4. Struttin' With My Baby
5. Don't Try To Hide It
6. Southside Shuffle
7. Hold Your Loving
8. Start All Over - Again (LP Version)
9. Give It To Me

J. Geils Band "Nightmares... And Other Tales From The Vinyl Jungle"

1. Detroit Breakdown
2. Givin' It All Up
3. Must of Got Lost
4. Look Me In The Eye
5. Nightmares
6. Stoop Down #39
7. I'll Be Coming Home
8. Funky Judge
9. Gettin' Out

J. Geils Band "Live: Blow Your Face Out"

1. Southside Shuffle - Live
2. Back To Get Ya - Live
3. Shoot Your Shot - Live
4. Musta Got Lost - Live
5. Where Did Our Love Go - Live
6. Truck Drivin' Man - Live
7. Love-itis - Live - LP Version
8. Looking For A Love
9. [Ain't Nothin' But A] House Party - Live
10. So Sharp - Live
11. Detroit Breakdown - Live
12. Chimes - Live
13. Sno Cone - Live
14. Wait - Live
15. Raise Your Hand - Live
16. Start All Over - Live
17. Give It To Me - Live

J. Geils Band "Monkey Island"

1. Surrender
2. You're The Only One
3. I Do
4. Somebody
5. I'm Falling
6. Monkey Island
7. I'm Not Rough
8. So Good
9. Wreckage

J. Geils Band "Ladies Invited"

1. Did You No Wrong
2. I Can't Go On
3. Lay Your Good Thing Down
4. That's Why I'm Thinking Of You
5. No Doubt About It
6. The Lady Makes Demands
7. My Baby Don't Love Me
8. Diddyboppin'
9. Take A Chance [On Romance]
10. Chimes

J. Geils Band "Hotline"

1. Love-itis
2. Easy Way Out
3. Think It Over
4. Be Careful [What You Do]
5. Jealous Love
6. Mean Love
7. Orange Driver
8. Believe In Me
9. Fancy Footwork

Camel "Breathless"

1. Breathless
2. Echoes
3. Wing and a Prayer
4. Down On The Farm
5. Starlight Ride
6. Summer Lightning
7. You Make Me Smile
8. The Sleeper
9. Rainbow's End

Camel "I Can See Your House From Here"

1. Wait
2. Your Love Is Stranger Than Mine
3. Eye Of The Storm
4. Who We Are
5. Survival
6. Hymn To Her
7. Neon Magic
8. Remote Romance
9. Ice

Camel "The Snow Goose"

Disc 1

1. The Great Marsh
2. Rhayader
3. Rhayader Goes To Town
4. Sanctuary
5. Fritha
6. The Snow Goose
7. Friendship
8. Migration
9. Rhayader Alone
10. Flight of the Snow Goose
11. Preparation
12. Dunkirk
13. Epitaph
14. Fritha Alone
15. La Princesse Perdue
16. The Great Marsh (Reprise)
17. Flight of the Snow Goose
18. Rhayader
19. Rhayader Goes To Town
20. The Snow Goose/Freefall

Disc 2

"The Snow Goose" Live @ the BBC, London, 1975

1. Rhayader Goes To Town
2. Sanctuary
3. Migration
4. Rhayader Alone
5. Flight of the Snow Goose
6. Preparation
7. Dunkirk
8. Epitaph
9. La Princesse Perdue
10. The Great Marsh
11. Selections From The Snow Goose

Additional Tracks

12. The Great Marsh (Instrumental Reprise Version)
13. Rhayader Goes To Town - Live At The Marquee (Instrumental Version)
14. The Snow Goose/Freefall - Live At The Marquee (Instrumental Version)
15. Preparation - (Instrumental Album Version)
16. Dunkirk - (Instrumental Album Version)
17. Fritha Alone - (Instrumental Album Version)
18. La Princesse Perdue - (Instrumental Album Version)
19. The Great Marsh - (Reprise) (Instrumental Reprise Version)

Camel "Rain Dances"

1. First Light
2. Metrognome
3. Tell Me
4. Highways of the Sun
5. Unevensong
6. One Of These Days I'll Get An Early Night
7. Elke
8. Skylines
9. Rain Dances
10. Highways Of The Sun - Single Version
11. First Light - BBC "Sight & Sound" In Concert
12. Metrognome - BBC "Sight & Sound" In Concert
13. Unevensong - BBC "Sight & Sound" In Concert
14. Skylines - BBC "Sight & Sound" In Concert
15. Highways Of The Sun - BBC "Sight & Sound" In Concert
16. One Of These Days I'll Get An Early Night - BBC "Sight & Sound" In Concert

Camel "The Single Factor"

1. No Easy Answer
2. You Are The One
3. Heroes
4. Selva
5. Lullabye
6. Sasquatch
7. Manic
8. Camelogue
9. Today's Goodbye
10. A Heart's Desire
11. End Peace
12. You Are The One - Edited Version

Camel "Stationary Traveller"

1. Pressure Points
2. Refugee
3. Vopo's
4. Cloak & Dagger Man
5. Stationary Traveller
6. West Berlin
7. Fingertips
8. Missing
9. After Words
10. Long Goodbyes

Camel "Echoes"

Disc 1

1. Never Let Go
2. Freefall
3. Lady Fantasy
4. Rhayader
5. Rhayader Goes To Town
6. Song Within A Song
7. Air Born
8. Lunar Sea
9. Unevensong
10. Tell Me
11. Elke
12. Skylines

Disc 2

1. Breathless
2. Echoes
3. The Sleeper
4. Your Love Is Stranger Than Mine
5. Hymn To Her
6. Ice
7. Drafted
8. Lies
9. Sasquatch
10. You Are The One
11. Refugee
12. West Berlin
13. Mother Road
14. Whispers In The Rain

Camel "Moonmadness"

Disc 1

1. Aristillus - Instrumental Version
2. Song Within A Song
3. Chord Change - Instrumental Version
4. Spirit of the Water
5. Another Night
6. Air Born
7. Lunar Sea - Instrumental Studio Version
8. Another Night - Single Version
9. Spirit of the Water - Demo Version
10. Lunar Sea - Live At the Hammersmith Odeon

Disc 2

1. Song Within A Song - Live At The Hammersmith Odeon
2. Excerpt From The Snow Goose
3. Air Born - Live At The Hammersmith Odeon
4. Chord Change - Live At The Hammersmith Odeon
5. The White Rider - Live At The Hammersmith Odeon
6. Preparation/Dunkirk - Live At The Hammersmith Odeon
7. Another Night - Live At The Hammersmith Odeon
8. Lady Fantasy - Live At The Hammersmith Odeon










 

Grace Potter & The Nocturnals "The Lion, The Beast, The Beat"

Great song by Grace Potter and The Nocturnals called "The Lion, The Beast, The Beat".  Will check out more of the Nocturnals' music, soon.  Stay tuned.

Lee Roy Parnell (feat. Kevin McKendree on piano) "Milk Cow Blues"

Lee Roy Parnell does a stellar rendition of "Milk Cow Blues" on an episode of Austin City Limits from 1996.  He combines lyrics from the original performed by Robert Johnson, and written by Kokomo Arnold who wrote and performed the tune, with lyrics that were added later in country music renditions recorded by Bob Wills, and his brother, Johnny Lee Wills.  Johnny Lee Wills recorded it before Bob Wills did, incidentally.

Other artists have taken a shot at recording the tune, too.  Here's a history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_Cow_Blues_%28song%29

Dig this!

The Language of the Blues, "Bottleneck"

Wonderful article observing the significance of bottleneck guitar in the history of the blues.  Check it out.

http://www.americanbluesscene.com/2013/05/the-language-of-the-blues-bottleneck/

Legends Live At Montreux 1997

Very cool concept for a jazz fusion band, with plenty of blues thrown in for good measure.  This band is called Legends, and features Eric Clapton on guitar, David Sanborn on alto saxophone, Marcus Miller on bass, Joe Sample on keyboards (Rhodes, Wurlitzer, and Grand pianos), and Steve Gadd on drums.  Here's the set list.

1. Full House
2. Groovin'
3. Ruthie
4. Snakes
5. Going Down Slow (St. Louis Jimmy cover)
6. The Peeper
7. In Case You Hadn't Noticed
8. Third Degree (Eddie Boyd & Willie Dixon cover)
9. First Song/Tango Blues
10. Put It Where You Want It (Joe Sample/Crusaders cover)
11. Shreveport Stomp (Jelly Roll Morton cover)
12. In A Sentimental Mood (Duke Ellington cover)
13. Everyday I Have The Blues (Memphis Slim cover)

Buddy Miles "Them Changes" & "Dreams"

In 1971, Buddy Miles and his band played a gig for Playboy After Dark, and jammed on his hit tune "Them Changes" as well as a great, soul flavored cover of "Dreams" by The Allman Brothers.  Enjoy this.

Marcus Miller & Herbie Hancock @ North Sea Jazz Cruise 2010

Check out these performances.  Marcus Miller plays at the North Sea Jazz Festival in 2010 with jazz greats such as Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, Roy Hargrove, and James Carter.  Cool stuff.

In Memoriam: Ray Manzarek

The Doors' keyboardist, the legendary Ray Manzarek has passed away.  To celebrate his contribution to the band, here is a tune he had a part in composing called, "The End".  Rest In Peace, Ray Manzarek.

a couple of stories about the Allman Brothers

The release of a biopic about Gregg Allman has become official.

http://variety.com/2013/film/news/gregg-allman-biopic-set-1200483450/

"Duane Allman: The Complete 1981 Dickey Betts Interview"

http://jasobrecht.com/duane-allman-1981-dickey-betts-interview/

...And while we're on the subject, there's even more.  Check this out.

SKYDOG SERENADE

http://www.oxfordamerican.org/articles/2013/may/20/skydog-serenade/

Skip's Spotify Sunday 5-19-13

Brett Garsed "Big Sky"

1. Undoing
2. Trinity
3. Brothers
4. Drowning
5. Fu'd Fight
6. Breathe
7. Got The Horn
8. The Myth
9. Friend or Foe
10. Big Sky

Brett Garsed "Dark Matter"

1. Dark Matter
2. Android
3. If Only
4. Avoid The Void
5. James Bong (License To Chill)
6. Closure
7. Poison Dwarf
8. Be Here Now
9. Engima

Soft Machine "Third"

1. Facelift - Live
2. Slightly All The Time
3. Moon In June
4. Out-Bloody-Rageous

Soft Machine "Fourth"

1. Teeth
2. Kings And Queens
3. Fletcher's Blemish
4. Virtually Part 1
5.  Virtually Part 2
6. Virtually Part 3
7. Virtually Part 4

Soft Machine "Floating World Live"

1. The Floating World
2. Bundles
3. Land of the Bag Snake
4. Ealing Comedy
5. The Man Who Waved At Trains
6. Peff
7. North Point
8. Hazard Profile, Part One
9. J.S.M.
10. Riff III
11. Song of Aeolous
12. Endgame
13. Penny Hitch (Coda)

Soft Machine "Fifth"

1. All White
2. Drop
3. M C
4. As If
5. L B O
6. Pigling Bland
7. Bone
8. All White - Take Two

Soft Machine "Six"

1. Fanfare - Live
2. All White - Live
3. Between - Live
4. Riff - Live
5. 37 1/2 - Live
6. Gesolreut - Live
7. E.P.V. - Live
8. Lefty - Live
9. Stumble - Live
10. 5 From 13 - Live
11. Riff II - Live
12. The Soft Weed Factor
13. Stanley Stamps Gibbon Album [For B.O.]
14. Chloe And The Pirates
15. 1983

Soft Machine "Seven"

1. Nettle Bed
2. Carol Ann
3. Day's Eye
4. Bone Fire
5. Tarabos
6. D.I.S.
7. Snodland
8. Penny Hitch
9. Block
10. Down The Road
11. The German Lesson
12. The French Lesson

Soft Machine "Drop"

1. Neo Caliban Grides
2. All White
3. Slightly All The Time
4. Drop
5. M.C.
6. Out-Bloody-Rageous
7. As If
8. Dark Swing
9. Intropigling
10. Pigling Bland

Soft Machine "British Tour '75"

1. Bundles
2. Land of the Bag Snake
3. Out of Season
4. The Man Who Waved at Trains
5. JVH
6. The Floating World
7. Ban-Ban Caliban
8. Sideburn
9. Hazard Profile Part One
10. Hazard Profile Part Two
11. Hazard Profile Part Three
12. Hazard Profile Part Four
13. Hazard Profile Part Five
14. Song of Aeolus
15. Sign of Five

Soft Machine "Softs"

1. Aubade
2. The Tale of Taliesin
3. Ban-Ban Caliban
4. Song of Aeolus
5. Out of Season
6. Second Bundle
7. Kayoo
8. The Camden Tandem
9. Nexus
10. One Over The Eight (the track is not available in Spotify)
11. Etika

Soft Machine "Bundles"

1. Hazard Profile Part 1
2. Hazard Profile Part 2 (Toccatina)
3. Hazard Profile Part 3
4. Hazard Profile Part 4
5. Hazard Profile Part 5
6. Gone Sailing
7. Bundles
8. Land of the Bag Snake
9. The Man Who Waved At Trains'
10. Peff
11. Four Gongs Two Drums
12. The Floating World

Soft Machine "Alive And Well" (Recorded In Paris)

Disc 1

1. White Kite
2. Eos
3. Odds Bullets and Blades Part I
4. Odds Bullets and Blades Part II
5. Song of the Sunbird
6. Puffin'
7. Huffin'
8. Number Three
9. The Nodder
10. Surrounding Silence
11. Soft Space

Disc 2

1. K's Riff
2. The Nodder
3. Two Down
4. The Spraunce
5. Song of Aeolus
6. Sideburn
7. The Tale of Talesin
8. Organic Matter/Over The Eight - Previously Unreleased
9. Soft Space Part One - Edited Version
10. Soft Space Part Two - Disco Version

Soft Machine "Tales of Taliesin: An Anthology: 1975-'81"

Disc 1

1. Hazard Profile Part 1
2. Gone Sailing
3. Bundles
4. Land of the Bag Snake
5. The Floating World
6. The Tale of Talesin
7. Out of Season
8. Second Bundle
9. Nexus
10. One Over The Eight
11. Number Three
12. The Nodder

Disc 2

1. White Kite
2. Eos
3. Odd Bullets and Blades Part I
4. Odd Bullets and Blades Part II
5. Puffin'
6. Huffin'
7. K's Riff
8. Song of Aeolus
9. Soft Space

Soft Machine "Live In Europe, 1970"

1. Facelift (Live)
2. Moon In June (Live)
3. Out-Bloody-Rangeous (Edited) (Live)
4. Facelift (Live)
5. Fire Engine Passing With Bells Clanging (Live)
6. Pig (Live)
7. Orange Skin Food (Live)
8. A Door Opens And Closes (Live)
9. 10:30 Returns To The Bedroom (Live)
10. Pigling Bland (Live)
11. 10:30 Returns To The Bedroom (Reprise) (Live)

Soft Machine "Turns On Volume 1"

1. I Should've Known (Version 1)
2. We Know What You Mean (Version 1)
3. I'm So Low
4. Clarence In Wonderland (Version 1)
5. Hope For Happiness (Version 1)
6. I Should've Known (Version 2)
7. We Know What You Mean (Version 2)
8. She's Gone
9. Save Yourself
10. Lullaby Letter
11. I Should've Known (Version 3)
12. A Certain Kind
13. Clarence In Wonderland (Version 2)
14. We Know What You Mean (Version 3)
15. Hope For Happiness (Version 2)

Soft Machine "Turns On Volume 2"

1. Moon In June
2. I Should've Known
3. A Certain Kind
4. Save Yourself
5. Lullaby Letter
6. Organistics
7. Lullaby Letter/Priscilla/Lullaby Letter (Reprise)
8. We Did It Again
9. Why Are We Sleeping
10. Joy of a Toy
11. Hope For Happiness
12. Clarence In Wonderland
13. Moon In June (Reprise)
14. Esther's Nose Job

Soft Machine "Somewhere In Soho"

1. Slightly All The Time (Live)
2. Out-Bloody-Rageous (Live)
3. Eamonn Andrews (Live)
4. Mousetrap (Live)
5. Noisette (Live)
6. Backwards (Live)
7. Mousetrap [Reprise] (Live)
8. Hibou Anemone & Bear (Live)
9. Facelift (Live)
10. Moon In June (Live)
11. Esther's Nose Job (Live)
12. Pigling Bland (Live)
13. Cymbalism (Live)
14. Esther's Nose Job [Reprise] (Live)

Levon Helm Memorial Boulevard legislation set for committee vote

From the Poughkeepsie Journal newspaper.  A stretch of highway near Levon Helm's longtime home of Woodstock, New York, is getting closer to being renamed in his honor.

http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20130518/ENT/130518001/Levon-Helm-Memorial-Boulevard-legislation-set-committee-vote

Sad news about local Minnesota music promoter, Sue McLean

Rest In Peace, Sue McLean, a well known music promoter from Minnesota, who did much work promoting national acts that brought their tours to Minnesota, and the Twin Cities area.

http://www.bringmethenews.com/2013/05/17/sue-mclean-prolific-local-music-promoter-dies-at-63/

Here is another article about Sue McLean from the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/music/207959521.html

Flashback: Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson Sing 'Pancho And Lefty'

Says it all in the title.  This is a great tune that Willie Nelson originally did with Merle Haggard.  Here, he, and Bob Dylan, have a go at it.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/flashback-bob-dylan-and-willie-nelson-sing-pancho-and-lefty-20130515

John Mayer sits in with The Rolling Stones

As odd as that may sound, it happened.  Here is the story and video.  Mayer and The Stones, tackle a Muddy Waters number, called "Champagne And Reefer".

http://www.jambands.com/news/2013/05/16/john-mayer-sits-in-with-the-rolling-stones/

Manassas

Stephen Stills performing with his band Manassas in a rare TV performance, circa 1972.  The band lineup:

The core members of Manassas were:

Stephen Stills: vocals, keyboards & guitar (CSNY, ex-Buffalo Springfield)
Chris Hillman: vocals, mandolin & guitar (ex-Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers)
Al Perkins: steel guitar & guitar (ex-Gram Parsons and Flying Burrito Brothers)
Calvin "Fuzzy" Samuels: bass, backing vocals (ex-CSNY and John Sebastian)
Paul Harris: keyboards (played with John Sebastian during 1968-71)
Dallas Taylor: drums (ex-Clear Light, CSNY and John Sebastian)
Joe Lala: percussion, backing vocals (ex-Blues Image and Pacific Gas & Electric)

CKS Band

A new band has been formed, is on the horizon, and is working on their first record.  Check out the trio CKS, featuring Randy Ciarlante on drums and vocals, Bruce Katz on Hammond B3, and Scott Sharrard on guitar and vocals.  Check them out.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/311784223/cks-debut-album

Jeff Healey "Adrianna"

This is the first single from the late, great blues guitarist Jeff Healey.  "Adrianna" is the song title.  Great tune.  However, the video quality on this isn't the best.  The video can be seen via a link, here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2EFn8I4lAw

'Feeling Like the Old Me': Gregg Allman Hits The Road for A Welcome if Belated Tour

Gregg Allman is back on the road, touring, after his health concerns of the last few years.  Here's the full article.

http://cvindependent.com/index.php/en-US/music/previews/item/342-feeling-like-the-old-me-gregg-allman-hits-the-road-for-a-welcome-if-belated-tour

Eric Clapton "Blues Power"

Eric Clapton on his current tour, playing one of his classic, if lesser known numbers from his first solo album that came out in 1970.  Be warned.  You are about to be electrified with "Blues Power".

Skip's Spotify Sunday 5-12-13

Justin Morell "Quartet" (feat. Russell Ferrante, Jimmy Johnson, & Peter Erskine)

1. Spaceshots
2. Hi Noon
3. Alena
4. Canyon Song
5. Clerks
6. Knot Tubey
7. Steph's Tune
8. Forknot
9. Mostly
10. Tripod

The Zawinul Syndicate "The Immigrants"

1. March of the Lost Children
2. Criollo
3. Shadow And Light
4. King Hip
5. No Mercy For Me (Mercy, Mercy, Mercy)
6. The Devil Never Sleeps
7. You Understand
8. From Venice To Vienna

The Zawinul Syndicate "Lost Tribes"

1. Patriots
2. South Africa
3. Lost Tribes
4. Rua Paula Freitas
5. Victims of the Groove
6. Night Clock
7. Afternoon
8. San Sebastian
9. In A While, In A While
10. Changes

Tom Scott & The L.A. Express "Tom Cat"

1. Rock Island Rocket
2. Tom Cat
3. Day Way
4. Keep On Doin' It
5. Love Poem
6. Good Evening Mr. And Mrs. America & All The Ships
7. Backfence Cattin'
8. Mondo
9. Refried

Tom Scott & The L.A. Express "Smokin' Section"

1. Smokin' Section
2. I'll Still Be Lovin' You (feat. Phil Perry: vocals)
3. Cruisin' Bayou
4. Lonely One
5. Ode To Billy Joe (Bobbie Gentry cover) (feat. Patti Smyth: vocals)
6. If I Could Cry
7. A Short Visit
8. Just Takin' A Walk
9. Lost Again
10. The Beat Is On
11. TCB in "E"

J.J. Cale "Roll On"

1. Who Knew
2. Former Me
3. Where The Sun Don't Shine
4. Down To Memphis
5. Strange Days
6. Cherry Street
7. Fonda-Lina
8. Leaving In The Morning
9. Oh Mary
10. Old Friend
11. Roll On
12. Bring Down The Curtain

J.J. Cale "Rewind": The Unreleased Recordings

1. Guess I Lose
2. Waymore's Blues
3. Rollin'
4. Golden Ring
5. My Cricket
6. Since You Said Goodbye
7. Seven Day Woman
8. Bluebird
9. My Baby And Me
10. Lawdy Mama
11. Blue Sunday
12. Out of Style
13. Ooh La La
14. All Mama's Children

J.J. Cale & Eric Clapton "The Road To Escondido" *This album was blogged in 2011

1. Danger
2. Heads In Georgia
3. Missing Person
4. When This War Is Over
5. Sporting Life Blues
6. Dead End Road
7. It's Easy
8. Hard To Thrill
9. Any Way The Wind Blows
10. Three Little Girls
11. Don't Cry Sister
12. Last Will And Testament
13. Who Am I Telling You?
14. Ride The River

J.J. Cale "To Tulsa And Back"

1. My Gal
2. Chains of Love
3. New Lover
4. One Step
5. Stone River
6. The Problem
7. Homeless
8. Fancy Dancer
9. Rio
10. These Blues
11. Motormouth
12. Blues For Mama
13. Another Song

J.J. Cale "Live"

1. After Midnight - Live
2. Old Man - Live
3. Call Me The Breeze - Live
4. Sensitive Kind - Live
5. Cocaine - Live
6. Money Talks - Live
7. Riverboat Song - Live
8. Living Here Too - Live
9. Mama Don't - Live
10. People Lie - Live
11. Humdinger - Live
12. Thirteen Days - Live
13. Magnolia - Live
14. Ride Me High - Live

J.J. Cale "Guitar Man"

1. Death In The Wilderness
2. It's Hard To Tell
3. Days Go By
4. Low Down
5. This Town
6. Guitar Man
7. If I Had A Rocket
8. Perfect Woman
9. Old Blue
10. Doctor Told Me
11. Miss Ol' St. Louie
12. Nobody Knows

J.J. Cale "Closer To You"

1. Long Way Home
2. Sho Biz Blues
3. Slower Baby
4. Devil's Nurse
5. Like You Used To
6. Borrowed Time
7. Rose In The Garden
8. Brown Dirt
9. Hard Love
10. Ain't Love Funny
11. Closer To You
12. Steve's Song

J.J. Cale "Grasshopper"

1. City Girls
2. Devil In Disguise
3. One Step Ahead of The Blues
4. You Keep Me Hangin' On
5. Downtown L.A.
6. Can't Live Here
7. Grasshopper
8. Drifter's Wife
9. Don't Wait
10. A Thing Going On
11. Nobody But You
12. Mississippi River
13. Does Your Mama Like To Reggae
14. Dr. Jive

J.J. Cale "Shades"

1. Carry On
2. Deep Dark Dungeon
3. Wish I Had Not Said That
4. Pack My Jack
5. If You Leave Her
6. Mama Don't (Doc Watson cover)
7. Runaround
8. What Do You Expect
9. Love Has Been Gone
10. Cloudy Day

J.J. Cale "5"

1. Thirteen Days
2. Boilin' Pot
3. I'll Make Love To You Anytime
4. Don't Cry Sister
5. Too Much For Me
6. Sensitive Kind
7. Friday
8. Lou-Easy-Ann
9. Let's Go To Tahiti
10. Out of Style
11. Fate of A Fool
12. Mona

J.J. Cale "Troubadour"

1. Hey Baby
2. Travelin' Light
3. You Got Something
4. Ride Me High
5. Hold On
6. Cocaine
7. I'm A Gypsy Man
8. The Woman That Got Away
9. Super Blue
10. Let Me Do It To You
11. Cherry
12. You Got Me On So Bad

J.J. Cale "Naturally"

1. Call Me The Breeze
2. Call The Doctor
3. Don't Go To Strangers
4. Woman I Love
5. Magnolia
6. Clyde
7. Crazy Mama
8. Nowhere To Run
9. After Midnight
10. River Runs Deep
11. Bringing It Back
12. Crying Eyes

SMV - Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller, & Victor Wooten

Check out this performance by three modern jazz bass greats.  SMV, featuring Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller, and Victor Wooten.  This show is based on a record the three of them did entitled "Thunder".  Will put that one someplace in the Spotify Sunday listing in the near future. Notice that some of the tunes with more intriguing arrangements, have Clarke playing his upright bass, and Marcus Miller doubles on bass clarinet. 

Lee Ritenour & Dave Grusin Live at Java Jazz Festival 2013

Check out this performance by Lee Ritenour and Dave Grusin at the Java Jazz Festival in Jakarta, Indonesia that took place this year.  This is good.  Melvin Davis is on bass, and Sonny Emory on drums, are the rhythm section.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUt_pnutRtI

More about Joe Zawinul

Here's an interview with Joe Zawinul, as well as Weather Report's drummer, Peter Erskine, about what Zawinul brought not only to Weather Report as a band, but also, to music as a whole.

http://weatherreportmusic.com/the-swirl?popup-minty=642481431

Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi "Walkin' Blues"

Another Robert Johnson tribute.  Here's Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi's rendition of RJ's, "Walkin' Blues".  Click the link, and you'll see it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iju6SyoXUzM

The Marshall Tucker Band "King of The Delta Blues"

Here is a song written in tribute to Robert Johnson on what would be his 102nd birthday.  A modern iteration of the Marshall Tucker Band recorded this song for an album from 2004 that was blogged here, called "Beyond The Horizon".  Lead singer Chris Hicks, has also played this tune with his own band, the Chris Hicks Band.  Happy Birthday, Robert Johnson.  Rest In Peace.

Joe Zawinul & Wayne Shorter duet

A moving duet on "In A Silent Way" featuring Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter, shortly before Zawinul's passing in 2007.  These two were very significant in jazz with their own careers (Wayne Shorter, still is), and in working together for a long time, between being in Miles Davis' band in the late '60s and early '70s, and from there, going on to form Weather Report in 1970, and being constant collaborators in that band throughout it's 16 year history, between 1970 and 1986.  Rest In Peace, Joe Zawinul.

More George Jones tributes

Here are more tributes to George Jones, including a story about his funeral, that yours truly did indeed watch the TV broadcast of.  It was a moving tribute, to a great artist.  George Jones was a country music icon.  But, like many in the genre, he had widespread appeal around the world in numerous musical circles.  Once again, Rest In Peace, "Possum".

"Keith Richards: "George Jones Was 'Pure American Music' "
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/keith-richards-george-jones-was-pure-american-music-20130502

...And

"Friends Pay Tribute To George Jones At Funeral"
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-207_162-57582503/music-city-remembers-country-legend-george-jones/

Skip's Spotify Sunday 5-5-13

Gary Burton "Like Minds" (feat. Chick Corea, Pat Metheny, Roy Haynes, and Dave Holland)

Gary Burton: vibraphone
Chick Corea: piano
Pat Metheny: guitar
Roy Haynes: drums
Dave Holland: bass

1. Question And Answer
2. Elucidation
3. Windows
4. Futures
5. Like Minds
6. Country Roads
7. Tears of Rain
8. Soon
9. For A Thousand Years
10. Straight Up And Down
11. Country Roads (bonus track)

The Bad Plus "Motel"

Ethan Iverson: piano
Reid Anderson: bass
David King: drums

1. Knowing Me Knowing You (Abba cover)
2. Blue Moon (Marcels cover) (Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart)
3. 1972 Bronze Medalist
4. The Breakout
5. Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana cover)
6. Labyrinth
7. Scurry
8. Love Is The Answer

The Bad Plus "These Are The Vistas"

1. Big Eater
2. Keep The Bugs Off Your Glass and The Bears Off Your Ass
3. Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana cover)
4. Everywhere You Turn
5. 1972 Bronze Medalist
6. Guilty
7. Boo-Wah
8. Flim (Richard D. James cover) *Richard D. James is a British electronic music musician.
9. Heart of Glass (Blondie cover)
10. Silence Is The Question

The Bad Plus "Give"

1. 1979 Semi-Finalist
2. Cheney Pinata
3. Street Woman (Ornette Coleman cover)
4. And Here We Test Our Powers of Observation
5. Frog And Toad
6. Velouria (Charles "Black Francis" Thompson cover) *Thompson is the lead singer from a band called The Pixies.
7. Layin' A Strip For The Higher-Self State Line
8. Do Your Sums/Die Like A Dog/Play For Home (medley)
9. Dirty Blonde
10. Neptune (The Planet)
11. Iron Man (Black Sabbath cover)

The Bad Plus "Suspicious Activity?"

1. Prehensile Dream
2. Anthem For The Earnest
3. Let Our Garden Grow
4. The Empire Strikes Backwards
5. Knows The Difference
6. Lost of Love
7. Rhinoceros Is My Profession
8. O.G. (Original Gentleman)
9. (Theme From) Chariots of Fire (Vangelis cover)
10. Forces

The Bad Plus "Blunt Object, Live In Tokyo"

1. We Are The Champions (Queen cover)
2. And Here We Test Our Powers of Observation
3. Guilty
4. Do Your Sums/Die Like A Dog/Play For Home (medley)
5. Heart of Glass (Blondie cover)
6. Flim
7. Silence Is The Question
8. My Funny Valentine - Excerpt (Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart cover, from the 1937 musical "Babes In Arms") *Doesn't sound ANYTHING like the real version.  Kind of humorous.

The Bad Plus "For All I Care"

1. Lithium (Nirvana cover)
2. Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd cover)
3. Fem (Etude No. 8) (Gyorgy Lieti cover: Lieti is a contemporary classical music composer)
4. Radio Cure (Wilco cover)
5. Long Distance Runaround (Yes cover)
6. Semi-Simple Variations (Milton Babbitt cover) *Babbitt was a music theorist, composer, and teacher
7. How Deep Is Your Love (The Bee Gees cover)
8. Barracuda (Heart cover)
9. Lock, Stock & Teardrops (Roger Miller cover)
10. Variation d'Appollon (Igor Stravinsky classical composition cover)
11. Feeling Yourself Disintegrate (The Flaming Lips, cover)
12. Semi-Simple Variations (Milton Babbitt gover), alternate version

The Bad Plus "Never Stop"

1. The Radio Tower Has A Beating Heart
2. Never Stop
3. You Are
4. My Friend Metatron
5. People Like You
6. Beryl Loves To Dance
7. Snowball
8. 2 Pm
9. Bill Hickman At Home
10. Super America

The Bad Plus "Made Possible"

1. Pound For Pound
2. Seven Minute Mind
3. Re-Elect That
4. Wolf Out
5. Sing For A Silver Dollar
6. For My Eyes Only
7. I Want To Feel Good Pt. 2
8. In Stitches
9. Victoria









 

The Ringers "Kaleidoscope Carousel"

Here is Jimmy Herring with his other band called The Ringers, (highlighted here a number of weeks ago before yours truly saw him play with Widespread Panic), playing "Kaleidoscope Carousel" from his latest solo record called "Subject To Change Without Notice" that was featured in a Spotify Sunday post weeks ago, too.  Three guitar slingers are in, The Ringers.  Jimmy Herring, Wayne Krantz, and Michael Landau.  The rhythm section is Etienne Mbappe on bass, and Keith Carlock (from Steely Dan), on drums.  This is a good one.

Joe Zawinul interview

An interview with the legendary keyboardist for Weather Report, Joe Zawinul, who also played with Miles Davis in the late '60s and early '70s.  The article itself is titled "Black Market on the Black Market: Joe Zawinul on influence, improvisation, and inspiration".  The article is sourced directly from Weather Report's website.  Here's the link.

http://weatherreportmusic.com/blog/2013/05/02/black-market-on-the-black-market-joe-on-influence-improvisation-and-inspiration/

Assembly OK's naming Route 375 for Helm

A stretch of road in Woodstock, New York, where Levon Helm lived, on Route 375, will become, Levon Helm Memorial Highway.  Here's the story.

http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20130501%2FNEWS%2F305010324%2F-1%2FNEWS