Masa Takagi "Take a Ten" (1974)

 

Full Album Friday this week, is taken from a playlist posted to YouTube, and pointed out to me, by a high school buddy who also happens to be a guitar player and music afficionado.  This is Masa Takagi, a Japanese singer/songwriter and her 1974 record "Take a Ten" and this record is filled with songs that are really a part of the country rock genre and the cannon of American music.  So, there's country and western, rock, pop, and rhythm & blues influence in a lot of this record.  The musicians on this record are also top-notch session players.  Plus, the producers and arrangers for this record really did it right.  It has stood the test of time for half a century, so you know the music is good.  Nice to finally introduce it to people, who like me, have only just recently heard of it.

https://www.discogs.com/master/1219796-%E9%AB%98%E6%9C%A8%E9%BA%BB%E6%97%A9-%E9%AB%98%E6%9C%A8%E9%BA%BB%E6%97%A9

The track listing is:

1. My City

2. Mardi Gras

3. Why

4. Love Clock

5. After The Rain

6. Goodbyes at Sunset

7. Colors of the Wind

8. Living The Lonely Life

9. Beat Seven

10. Song of Spring

11. My Shiny Bicycle

12. Surigarasu (demo)

13. Greeting Card (early demo, late 1974, early 1975)

14. (Fushigi na Kibun) Mysterious Mood (demo, 1974/'75)

15. Song of Spring (English version)

16. Too Many Memories (live, '74)

Steppenwolf "Magic Carpet Ride"

 

American rock and roll band Steppenwolf, named after the title of a Herman Hesse novel, with one of their biggest hit songs, "Magic Carpet Ride", recorded and released in 1969, with bandleader John Kay on guitar and lead vocals, Michael Monarch on lead guitar and backing vocals, the late, great Rushton Moreve on bass, Jerry Edmonton on drums, and the late, great Goldy McJohn on Hammond organ and vocals.  It is McJohn who plays the epic Hammond solo.  Check out "Magic Carpet Ride".  

🥬 Lettuce - "Lettsanity" feat. Cory Wong - Blue Note Napa Summer Sessions (8.24.24)

 

🥬 Lettuce - "Lettsanity" feat. Cory Wong - Blue Note Napa Summer Sessions (8.24.24) All Things Lettuce: https://ffm.bio/lettuce * * * 🥬 Follow / Listen to Lettuce: Bio Link: https://ffm.bio/lettuce Website: https://www.lettucefunk.com/ Store: https://merchandise.lettucefunk.com/ Tour Dates: https://www.lettucefunk.com/tour Instagram:   / lettucefunk   Facebook:   / lettucefunk   Twitter:   / lettucefunk   TikTok:   / lettucefunk   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1fZXj... Apple Music:   / lettuce   YouTube:    / lettucefunk   Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/artists/B001... YouTube Music:    / lettuce - topic   Soundcloud:   / lettucefunk   Bandcamp: https://lettuce.bandcamp.com/ Tidal: https://tidal.com/browse/artist/3918323 Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/us/artist/398787 Pandora: https://www.pandora.com/artist/lettuc...

🥬 Lettuce - “Vámonos” Live at Santa Barbara Bowl - Santa Barbara, CA (7.21.24)

 

🥬 Lettuce - “Vámonos” Live at Santa Barbara Bowl - Santa Barbara, CA (7.21.24) From the album ‘Unify’ Stream/Download ‘Unify’: https://orcd.co/lettuceunify All Things Lettuce: https://ffm.bio/lettuce * * * 🥬 Follow / Listen to Lettuce: Bio Link: https://ffm.bio/lettuce Website: https://www.lettucefunk.com/ Store: https://merchandise.lettucefunk.com/ Tour Dates: https://www.lettucefunk.com/tour Instagram:   / lettucefunk   Facebook:   / lettucefunk   Twitter:   / lettucefunk   TikTok:   / lettucefunk   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1fZXj... Apple Music:   / lettuce   YouTube:    / lettucefunk   Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/artists/B001... YouTube Music:    / lettuce - topic   Soundcloud:   / lettucefunk   Bandcamp: https://lettuce.bandcamp.com/ Tidal: https://tidal.com/browse/artist/3918323 Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/us/artist/398787 Pandora: https://www.pandora.com/artist/lettuc... * * *

Dianne Reeves & Russell Malone "Embraceable You"

 

Continuing to remember and celebrate the life and music of jazz guitar legend Russell Malone.  Here he is, in a duo with jazz singer Dianne Reeves and they are performing the jazz standard "Embraceable You" written by George and Ira Gershwin.  

Raphael Wressnig & Soul Gift

 

This week's Sunday Special is yet another version, with his trio, Soul Gift, of Hammond B3 organ maestro Raphael Wressnig and his signature tune, "Born to Roam".  

Raphael Wressnig - Hammond B-3 organ, vocals

Enrico Crivellaro - guitar

Eric Cisbani - drums

"Born to Roam" written by Raphael Wressnig

Recorded in Padova, Italy

Special thanks to Radio Music Hall Padova

Videos and FOH: Enrico Santacatarina

For more info visit: https://www.raphaelwressnig.com

©2024 All rights reserved.

"Oh yes, Raphael plays a dynamic brand of B-3, his passion commensurate with his technique and his creative intelligence. He's a high-voltage dynamo but also a musician of surprising delicacy and self-reflection. Call him one of the finest blues/funk/jazz B-3 operators anywhere." 

(DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE)

"It’s 2021 most purely enjoyable blues listening experience”  (LIVING BLUES)

“It’s a true organ trio effort smeared in fat and grease - no fakery. Uncommonly adept at the art of nailing down funk rhythms, this international threesome infuses groove music with elements of jazz, blues, R&B, soul and gospel as if they’d found the Holy Grail to be the early-1970s, cross-genre funk of Jimmy McGriff. Suggestive of McGriff, but with a modern approach, Wressnig changes the tones and drawbar setting throughout a song and deals from a deck of Jimmy Smith-inspired R&B lines, hooks and licks. The fortyish Graz resident displays tremendous spirit and keen musical intellect as he accentuates the natural beauty of the Hammond”

(DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE)

Robin Trower - Too Rolling Stoned 2024 In Concert [Official]

 

Taken from 2024's In Concert with Robin Trower - released 14th September 2024. Too Rolling Stoned is a Robin Trower classic from 1974's 'Bridge of Sighs'. Stream the full concert of classic songs: https://www.robintrower.com/robin-tro... "Robin is playing in high gear. His guitar work is truly like no other. An iconic guitarist that plays with so much heart and passion. Mind blowing good!" PressMaven