BB King - All Over Again (feat.Eugene Carrier – keyboards)

                              Molde Jazz Festival,Idrettens Hus, Molde, Norway 23 July 1985

                 B.B. King - guitar, vocals, Leon Warren - guitar,James Bolden - trumpet
                 Edgar Synigal, Jr. - tenor saxophone ,   Eugene Carrier – keyboards                            
                 Russel Jackson - bass ,   Tony Coleman - drums

                               Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015),   R.I.P   
                                                                                                                                                                              

Bonnie Raitt- OLT Rivierenhof (Antwerpen) 25 Juli 2018

 OLT Rivierenhof in Antwerpen behoort al een aantal jaren tot een van mijn favorite   concertlokaties in Belgie.Een prachtig buitentheater met een uitstekende gevarieerde muziekprogrammering.Twee weken geleden zag ik hier nog Steve Earl en Southside Johnny,deze avond was het de beurt aan Bonnie Raitt.

                                           Everybody Crying Mercy (Mose Allison)

Het moet eind jaren 70,begin jaren 80 zijn geweest dat ik Bonnie Rait voor het eerst zag optreden in Paradiso,ook toen al een geweldig optreden.Tussendoor zag ik haar nog diverse keren optreden,o.a op het North Sea Jazz Festial en het HIBF in Grolloo

                                          Devil Got My Woman (Skip James)
 Met oudgedienden Ricky Fataar (Beach Boys, Crowded House) op de drums en bassist James “Hutch” Hutchinson (al 35 jaar bij Bonnie Raitt) staat er een ritmetandem op het podium om U tegen te zeggen. Voeg daar het gedegen snarenwerk van George Marinelli in samenspel met Raitt’s soepele (slide) gitaarspel én het veelzijdig klavierspel van Jon Cleary (tot in 2009 10 jaar in haar touring band en nu opnieuw van de partij) aan toe en er staat een band op het podium om van te watertanden.(Rootstime)

Het toch wel bijzonder dan Bonnie Raitt al die jaren nog steeds met dezeflde bandleden tourt,John Cleary op keyboard was deze avond de uitzondering.John verzorgde tevens haar voorprogramma.
 Deze tour was in het kader van haar laatste album " Dig In Deep".  Natuurlijk veel werk van dat album maar naturlijk kwamen ook haar klassiekers voorbij.Het werd een mooi feestje van soulvolle rootsmuziek,mede door haar kenmerkende slide-gitaarwerk ,en de interaktie met haar ervaren bandleden.

                                         Angel from Montgomery (John Prine)

 Ik kwam er deze avond achter dat we bijna leeftijdgenoten zijn,Bonnie is van 1949 ik van 1950,het is haar niet aan te zien.Ze heeft het naar haar zin op het podium ,nog steeds een vakvrouw,profesioneel bij elke gitaarlik.Bovendien een erg leuke interaktie met het dankbare publiek.

 

                                      I Can,t Make You Love Me

'Alleen al omdat ik de setlist heb gemaakt, wil nog niet zeggen dat hem zo speel,' vertelde ze.
Ik speel wat in me opkomt....

Tijdens het nummer van Mose Allison, Everybody's Crying Mercy, maakte ze nog een mooi statement met een subtiele nadruk op de regel: "Iedereen huilt vrede op aarde net zolang als we de oorlog winnen." Even krachtig was Angel From Montgomery,alleen solo op gitaar, herschreven ter ere van vrouwen,die soms gescheiden worden van hun kinderen ,en die die niet die kansen krijgen  die we als vanzelfsprekend beschouwen in de wereld.

     Love Sneaking Up On You

Swingende afsluiting van een muzikale topavond.Staande ovatie van het uitverkochte Rivierenhof.
Ik had samen met mijn vele muzikvrienden een heerlijke avond die ons nog lag zal bijblijven.

 

 

Setlist

1. Unintended Consequence of Love (Dig in Deep, 2016)
2. Need You Tonight (INXS cover) (Dig in Deep, 2016)
3. One Belief Away (Paul Brady cover) (Fundamental, 1998)
4. Everybody's Cryin' Mercy (Mose Allison cover) (Takin' My Time, 1973)
5. Have a Heart (Bonnie Hayes cover) (Nick of Time, 1989)
6. Devil Got My Woman (Skip James cover) (2001: Bonnie Raitt [in film Soul Of A Man]/Original Soundtrack Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: The Soul of a Man, 2003)
7. Nick of Time (Nick of Time, 1989)
8. Love Letter (Bonnie Hayes cover) (Nick of Time, 1989)
9. Something to Talk About (Shirley Eikhard cover) (Luck of the Draw, 1991)
10. Angel From Montgomery (John Prine cover) (Streetlights, 1974)
11. What You're Doin' to Me (Dig in Deep, 2016)
12. I Believe I'm in Love With You (The Fabulous Thunderbirds cover) (Road Tested, 1995)

Encore

13. I Can't Make You Love Me (Mike Reid cover) (Luck of the Draw, 1991)
14. Dimming of the Day (Richard & Linda Thompson cover) (Longing in Their Hearts, 1994)
15. You Got the Love (Rufus cover) / Love Sneakin' Up On You (Longing in Their Hearts, 1994)

review Rootstime:

https://www.rootstime.be/index.html?https://www.rootstime.be/LIVE/JULI%202018/BONNIE%20RAITT.html

Ry Cooder plays Bix Beiderbecke - Flashes/In a Mist/Davenport Blues

                              November 16, 1978  "Soundstage" Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

 Bix Beiderbecke ,of Davenport,Iowa,learned cornet from some of the earliest jazzrecords and firsthand from the first jazzplayers to come north from New Orleans .By the time of his death in 1931 at 29,he was a legend among his fellow musicians for his beautiful cornet music.But he was also interested in  concert piano and particularly in de impressionistic style that Gershwin later associated with.Davenport Blues,Flashes and In A Mist are represented here in a salon-jazz context that bring out the atmosphere of  Bix,s strange music (Ry Cooder)

     Flashes
 "Flashes" is a 1931 jazz composition for solo piano by cornetist Bix Beiderbecke. The song is the third work in a series of four compositions for piano composed by Bix Beiderbecke during his career.
 Bix Beiderbecke did not record the song himself but copyrighted the composition on April 18, 1931, along with "In the Dark", also a piano work, as "A Modern Composition for the Piano". Bill Challis assisted with the transcription for piano. "Flashes was recorded by jazz pianist Jess Stacy on November 15, 1935. Jazz trumpeter Bunny Berigan recorded the song in 1939 and released it as a 78 single on RCA Victor, 26121-A. In 2010, pianist Bryan Wright recorded the work on piano along with the three other piano compositions by Bix Beiderbecke, "In a Mist", "Candlelight", and "In the Dark".

 In A Mist

 "In a Mist" is a 1927 song composed by Bix Beiderbecke and released as a 78 single on Okeh as a piano solo. The song has become a jazz and pop standard.

"In a Mist" was recorded on September 9, 1927 in New York and released as Okeh 40916 and Vocalion 3150 backed with "Wringin' an' Twistin'" which was recorded with Frankie Trumbauer and Eddie Lang. Bix Beiderbecke played piano on the recording.
Bix Beiderbecke performed the composition on piano accompanied by Roy Bargy and Lennie Hayton at Carnegie Hall on October 7, 1928 at a jazz concert presented by Paul Whiteman.

 Davenport Blues

 Davenport Blues is a 1925 song composed and recorded by Bix Beiderbecke and released as a Gennett 78. The song has become a jazz and pop standard.

 "Davenport Blues" was recorded by Bix Beiderbecke and His Rhythm Jugglers on January 26, 1925, in Richmond, Indiana, and released as Gennett 5654 backed with "Toddlin' Blues" as the A side. The band consisted of Tommy Dorsey on trombone, Paul Madeira Mertz on piano, Don Murray on clarinet, Howdy Quicksell on banjo, Tom Gargano on drums, and Bix Beiderbecke on cornet. The title derives from the name of Bix Beiderbecke's hometown of Davenport, Iowa.

 Jazz is the seventh album by Ry Cooder, produced by Joseph Byrd and Ry Cooder and released on the Warner Bros. Records label.

 http://arthurfromholland.blogspot.com/2010/11/ry-cooder-soundstage-1978-music-of-jazz.html

Ry Cooder feat.The HamilTones - I Can,t Win

On a recent tour stop at The Playhouse in Danbury CT, legendary guitarist Ry Cooder took the stage with The Hamiltones. The song they performed is called "I Cant Win" from Cooder's eighth studio album Bop Til You Drop released in 1979

Jason Isbell - Tweeter and the Monkey Man (the Travelin Wilburys)

                                         with The Cabin Down Below Band

 The songwriting credit goes officially to all members of the band, but the song is published by Bob Dylan's Special Rider Music label, indicating that the main writer is Dylan, who is also the lead singer on the record. This is partially contradicted by George Harrison's account of the song in the 2007 documentary The True History of the Traveling Wilburys:

 "Tweeter and the Monkey Man" was really [written by] Tom Petty and Bob [Dylan]. Well, Jeff [Lynne] and I were there too, but we were just sitting there around in the kitchen, and he was for some reason talking about all this stuff that didn't make much sense to me, you know, it was that Americana kinda stuff and we got a tape cassette and put it on and then transcribed everything they were saying.^[2] Harrison also recalled that he and Lynne then contributed the chorus, beginning with the line "And the walls came down", based on an idea of Dylan's from the same tape(Wikipedia)

Trucks /Allman / Haynes - The Needle And The Damage Done

      Derek Trucks                               Gregg Allman                                   Warren Haynes

     The Needle And The Damage Done (Neil Young)

                                    Gregory LeNoir Allman (December 8, 1947 – May 27, 2017)

Ry Cooder - If Walls Could Talk

                            The Record Plant - Sausalito, California, July 7, 1974

    If Walls Could Talk written by Bobby Miller.From the album Paradise & Lunch

                                             Ry Cooder - guitar, vocals
                                             Russ Titleman - bass
                                             Jim Keltner - drums
                                             Milt Holland - percussion
                             Gene Mumford, Bobby King and Cliff Givens - vocals

Bob Dylan - "Hard Times Come Again No More"

                                                  
"Hard Times Come Again No More" (sometimes, "Hard Times") is an American parlor song written by Stephen Foster. It was published in New York by Firth, Pond & Co. in 1854 as Foster's Melodies No. 28. Well-known and popular in its day, both in America and Europe, the song asks the fortunate to consider the plight of the less fortunate and ends with one of Foster's favorite images: "a pale drooping maiden".
The first audio recording was a wax cylinder by the Edison Manufacturing Company (Edison Gold Moulded 9120) in 1905. It has been recorded and performed numerous times since. The song is Roud Folk Song Index #2659.
A satirical version about soldier's food was popular in the American Civil War, "Hard Tack Come Again No More".

    "Hard Times Come Again No More"(album "Good as I Been to You" )

Good as I Been to You is the 28th studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on November 3, 1992, by Columbia Records.
It is composed entirely of traditional folk songs and covers, and is Dylan's first entirely solo, acoustic album since Another Side of Bob Dylan in 1964. It is also his first collection not to feature any original compositions since Dylan in 1973.(Wikipedia)

Joe Bonamassa - Sloe Gin (HIBF - 9 Juni 2018)

     foto Arthur
Het slotakkoord van een heerlijk,twee dagen durend muziekfeest in Grolloo.Met een show van zo,n anderhalf uur zorgde Joe Bonamassa dat de tent volledig uit zijn dak ging.Een waardig einde van een prachtig fesival.

                Sloe Gin (encore)

Laurence Jones feat.Erwin Java - Window Of My Eyes (HIBF 9 Juni - 2018 )

     De derde editie van het HIBF weer zeer geslaagd.Was de dag 1, o.a met Jeff Beck en Walter Trout al erg mooi,de tweede dag klopte wat mij betreft muzikaal gezien alles. Tommy Castro ,Laurence Jones,Joanne Shaw Taylor .Joe Bonamassa,allemaal al meerdere keren in aktie en gezien ,en muzikanten die nog steeds beter worden.De enige nieuwe ondekking was Marcus King,ook erg goed die jongen komt er wel.Een bijzonder moment was het gastoptreden van Erwin Java bij de band van Laurence Jones.Een prachtig eerbetoon aan Harry Muskee met deze uitvoering van Window Of My Eyes ,en kippenvel bij de bluesliefhebbers met deze C&B klassieker.

     Window Of My Eyes ( Gelling/Muskee)

                                    Eelco Gelling                                   Harry Muskee