Tom Waits - Silent Night.....Merry Christmas & Happy Newyear!!

.Arthur wishes all music friends, fellow bloggers a very happy holidays and a very happy and healthy and! music to 2026 Of course there is an appropriate music to this, but since I hate the traditional Christmas music, White Christmas, Rudolf, JingleBels, ea (brrrr) I chose the song below. Tom Waits at his best, with a bit of Christmas thought. ...


Medley: Silent Night;Christmas Card from A Hooker in Minneapolis
Tom Waits
December 5, 1978
Austin City Limits
Austin

Joni Mitchell (feat.Pat Metheny) - Amalia

Mitchell (from a 1996 interview with the Los Angeles Times): "I wrote the album while traveling cross-country by myself and there is this restless feeling throughout it... the sweet loneliness of solitary travel. In this song, I was thinking of Amelia Earhart and addressing it from one solo pilot to another, sort of reflecting on the cost of being a woman and having something you must do."

Amelia Earhart was a pioneering aviator who in 1932 became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

                              Joni Mitchell Wembley Arena London 24-4-1983

 https://arthurfromholland.blogspot.com/2013/07/joni-mitchell-wembley-arena-london-24-4.html

The Allman Brothers - "Into The Mystic"

                                                      Orpheum Theatre Boston 12-3-2011

                                           Beautiful performance of one of my favorite VM songs                                 

 "Into the Mystic" is a song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and featured on his 1970 album Moondance. It was also included on Morrison's 1974 live album, It's Too Late to Stop Now. 

 

Curtis Mayfield - Inner City Blues / Ain't No Sunshine (1972)

                                                                     BeatClub1972

                              Curtis Lee Mayfield (June 3, 1942 – December 26, 1999)

Tyrone McCullen: kit Joseph 'Lucky' Scott: bass Henry Gibson: percussion Craig McCullen: gtr

 https://arthurfromholland.blogspot.com/2014/08/curtis-mayfield-superfy-live-at-hofstra.html

 https://arthurfromholland.blogspot.com/2012/12/cutis-mayfield-gotta-have-peace1972.html

 

Willy Deville- Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain/This Is the Way You Make a Broke heart

                                                                 Beckendorrf 2000
 

Willy DeVille, pseudoniem van William Paul Borsey (Stamford (Connecticut), 25 augustus 1950 – New York, 6 augustus 2009), was een Amerikaans zanger en liedjesschrijver. Hij maakte aanvankelijk naam als leadzanger van de band Mink DeVille en scoorde met deze band in 1977/1978 de internationale hit Spanish stroll en in 1984 de hit Each word's a beat of my heart.

. Eric "Rick" Von Schmidt - The Folk Blues of Eric Von Schmidt

 

.                                          Dick Farina -Blind Boy Grunt (Dylan)- Eric Von Schidt

 Eric "Rick" Von Schmidt (May 28, 1931 -- February 2, 2007) was an American singer-songwriter and Grammy Award recipient. He was associated with the folk/blues revival of the 1960s and a key part of the East Coast folk music scene that included Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Richard & Mimi Farina, among many others.

 Eric von Schmidt, guitar and vocals, with Geoff Muldaur, guitar; Robert L. Jones, guitar and vocals; and Fritz Richmond, washtub bass.

A1 Crow Jane 0:00 A2 Gulf Coast Blues 1:48 A3 Brave Wolfe 6:16 A4 Junco Partner 10:23 A5 De Kalb Blues 12:53 A6 Lolita 15:26 B1 Champagne Don't Hurt Me. Baby 19:09 B2 Buffalo Skinners 22:10 B3 Jack O' Diamonds 26:15 B4 He Was A Friend Of Mine 27:46 B5 Cocoa Beach Blues 30:03 B6 Down On Me 32:32 B7 Titanic 35:19

 

 Eric was also a talented painter, and it was this that became the center of his creative life. Bob Dylan absorbed much of Eric's encyclopedic knowledge of American folk, country and blues, and one of Eric's LPs is in the cover photograph of Bob's 'Bringing It All Back Home' album. Dylan once wrote of Eric von Schmidt, "For here is a man who can sing the bird off the wire and the rubber off the tire. He can separate the men from the boys and the note from the noise. The bridle from the saddle and the cow from the cattle. He can play the tune of the moon. The why of the sky and the commotion from the ocean. Yes he can."

 

 

Cuby & The Blizzards Live Grollo 2005 (Repost/Update)

 Van links naar rechts Erwin Java,Hans Lafaille,Helmig van de Vecht,Harry Muskee,Herman Deinum

Mijn muziekvrienden (Gerrit en Ane) stuurden mij deze mooie film van C+B tijdens een 2 metersessie in Grollo in 2005. Prachtige beelden van de huidige
CUBY & THE BLIZZARDS.




Five Long Years (Eddy Boyd)
Helmig van de Vecht (Keyboards)Erwin Java(gitaar)Herman Deinum (Bas)Hans Lafaille(Drums)
Harry Muskee(zang)



Window of my eyes
De single "Window of my eyes" komt van de lp ,,Thrippin thru a midnight Blues,,. Het stond tien weken in de Nederlandse Top 40 met als hoogste notering de tiende plaats. "Window of my eyes" zou het meest succesvolle nummer van Cuby and the Blizzards worden, vertegenwoordigd in alle muziekoverzichten van de laatste 40 jaar. Harry Muskee vindt het nog steeds z’n mooiste nummer. Uit liefdesverdriet ontstaan in de boerderij in Grollo, met een monumentale gitaarsolo van Eelco Gelling op z’n Gibson Les Paul.


Appleknockers Flophouse
Titletrack van het gelijknamige album.

Van links naar Rechts: Jaap van Eyck,Harry Muskee,Eelco Gelling, Dick Beekman,Herman Brood.Dit is mijn favoriete C+B bezetting.Vele malen in deze samenstelling zien spelen ,toen Herman en later Eelco de band verlieten was het wat mij betreft wel een beetje over.Natuurlijk bleven we Harry en zijn maten wel volgen ,maar de chemie was er niet meer.
Tot zo,n jaar of vijftien geleden,een feesttent op de markt in Middelburg.C+B traden er op,en wat een concert!Een zeer strakke band,een geweldige gitarist Erwin, en zangwer Harry in topvorm ,het was er weer helemaal!

Van Morrison & The Blizzards
http://home.wxs.nl/~dbron/morrison.htm

Cuby & The Blizzards in De Amer
http://arthurfromholland.blogspot.com/2009/10/de-amer-present-cuby-blizzards.html

Cuby & The Blizzards Live in Bilzen
http://arthurfromholland.blogspot.com/2009/05/cuby-bilzzards-live-bilzen-1968.html

Nederbeat met o.a Cuby & The Blizzards
http://arthurfromholland.blogspot.com/2008/10/nederbeat.html

Gillian Welch and David Rawlings - "Empty Trainload of Sky"

                          Gillian Welch – gitaar, zang David Rawlings – gitaar, zang Paul Kowert – bas 

               

Ernst Jansz - Spaanse Laarzen (Boots of Spanish Leather)

   Bob Dylan in Dutch. Beautiful interpretation of one of my favorite Bob Dylan songs by Ernst Jansz

"Boots of Spanish Leather" is a ballad written and performed by Bob Dylan, recorded in New York City on August 7, 1963, and released in 1964 on his album The Times They Are a-Changin'.

 Ernst Gideon Jansz (Amsterdam, 24 mei 1948) is een Nederlandse muzikant. Hij werd vooral bekend als oprichter, toetsenist en zanger van Doe Maar, maar was ook betrokken bij de bands CCC Inc. en Slumberlandband en speelde in de begeleidingsband van Boudewijn de Groot. Als singer-songwriter bracht hij een aantal soloalbums uit. Naast zijn muziekloopbaan schreef Jansz vier romans en bracht hij een boek uit met vertalingen van teksten van Bob Dylan.
 

Ik was een Hippie 

 https://arthurfromholland.blogspot.com/2019/02/ernst-jansz-ik-was-eeen-hippie.html

Chris Cain & Band - Sweet Sixteen (16 Maart 2017)

BluesClub  De Viersprong no longer exists, but I saw many beautiful performances there, and Chris Cain's performance was certainly one of the highlights.                                                    

                                                                film by Arthur

Chris Cain is a multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter who has released his 16th album, Good Intentions Gone Bad, on Alligator Records. He has been nominated for several Blues Music Awards and praised by critics and peers for his original and passionate blues and jazz style.