Rising Sons- If The River Was Wiskey (Divin Duck Blues)

Rising Sons was a Los Angeles, California-based band found in 1964. The original lineup was Ry Cooder (vocals, six and 12-string guitar, mandolin, slide and bottleneck guitar, dobro), Taj Mahal (vocals, harmonica, guitar, piano), Gary Marker (bass), Jesse Lee Kincaid (vocals and guitar) and Ed Cassidy (drums). Cassidy left the band after he broke his hand and was replaced by Kevin Kelley.

  The group was signed to Columbia Records but their album was never issued. One single, "Candy Man"/"The Devil's Got My Woman", did surface, but the group disbanded in 1966. Mahal became a prominent blues/folk performer and Cooder made his name playing sessions and later recorded successfully under his own name. Cassidy founded the band Spirit and Kelley became a member of his cousin Chris Hillman's band the Byrds in 1968, and played on their seminal Sweetheart of the Rodeo album. Rising Sons' languid, bluesy/folksy sound anticipated future recordings by outfits like Moby Grape, Buffalo Springfield, the Grateful Dead, and the Byrds. The session became widely bootlegged and nearly three decades later were finally given an official release by Columbia Records.

Laurence Jones live at the Kwadendamme Bluesfestival (May 14th 2016)

                                   foto Arthur
Het was nog vroeg in de middag ,maar het muzikale niveau lag al hoog.Na The Dry River Band met gitaarvirtioos Dusty Ciggaar  was het de beurt aan Laurence Jones en zijn band.Zoekt eerstgenoemde band het in rock-a-billy,rock & roll,bij Laurence Jones meer melodieus gitaarwerk en een prima stem.Ik zag ze allebei al enkele malen eerder optreden,twee totaal verschillende gitaarstijlen.Is Dusty al een gevestigde naam, Laurence is de status van supertalent ondertussen ook wel ontgroeid.Twee prachtige optredens achter de rug en het festival was nog maar net begonnen!

                                               

Laurence Jones live at the Kwadendamme... door  morrisanddylan

  Zijn Young Artist of the Year-award bij de British Blues Awards in 2014 heeft hij al in de knip Hij heeft een platendeal bij het toplabel Ruf Records op en doet zo,n 180 shows per jaar. Zijn eerste album bij Ruf, Temptation uit 2014, werd opgenomen in de wereldberoemde Dockside Studio in Louisiana waar grootheden zoals B.B. King, James Cotton en Taj Mahal hem voor gingen. Zijn nieuwste album  werd geproduceert door Mike Vernon (Blue Horizon)Een belangrijke rol tijdens de live optredens is weggelegd voor bassist Roger Inniss



Laurence Jones live at the Kwadendamme... door  morrisanddylan

De eerste kennismaking met Laurence Jones was in bluesclub De Viersprong zon twee jaar geleden.
Een memorabel optreden.


Laurence Jones at De Viersprong
 http://arthurfromholland.blogspot.nl/2014/11/laurence-jones-de-viersprong-8-nov2014.html

HIBF Grolloo 2017
 https://arthurfromholland.blogspot.com/2017/06/laurence-jones-thunder-in-night.htmlhttps://arthurfromholland.blogspot.com/2017/06/laurence-jones-thunder-in-night.html

 HIBF Grolloo 2018
https://arthurfromholland.blogspot.com/2020/02/laurence-jones-featerwin-java-window-of.html

 Laurence Jones Website
 http://www.laurencejonesmusic.com/Home.html

Quicksilver Messenger Service - Mona

Quicksilver Messenger Service was een psychedelische muziekgroep, opgericht door Dino Valente (artiestennaam van Chet Powers). De andere leden waren John Cipollina, Jim Murray, David Freiberg, Greg Elmore en Gary Duncan.
Hoewel Quicksilver Messenger Service al snel in de problemen kwam door vermeend bezit van drugs begon de groep in 1965 aan een tour langs de westkust van de Verenigde Staten. In 1967 kwam hun eerste contact met de platenmaatschappij Capitol Records tot stand en werden de platen Quicksilver Messenger Service en Happy Trails uitgebracht. Murray en Duncan hadden de band toen al verlaten en Nicky Hopkins was toegetreden tot Quicksilver Messenger Service.


Mona ( Bo Diddly)
Gary Duncan (gitaar, zang)
John Cipollina (gitaar, zang)
David Freiberg (basgitaar, gitaar, keyboards, gitaar en zang)
Greg Elmore (drums, percussie en zang)
Dino Valenti (gitaar en zang)
Nicky Hopkins (keyboards)

Deze opname komt van een concert op het Sonoma State College in April 1970.
Niet in beeld is pianist Nicky Hopkins die later een vast bandlid zou worden.
Mooi tijdsbeeld van die vreemde ,maar mooie jaren 60/70.Een van de eerste ,,Jam,,bands samen met Bluesproject die later veel navolging zou krijgen met groepen als Grateful dead en Allman Brothers.



Het opstappen en toetreden van bandleden werd zo'n beetje het handelsmerk van de groep en hij viel uiteen. In 1975 en 1986 werden pogingen ondernomen om de groep nieuw leven in te blazen, maar echt succesvol waren die pogingen niet.

Quicksilver Messenger Service maakte vooral muziek die recht toe en recht aan was, als begeleiding van teksten die recht uit het hart kwamen. Bij optredens lag het accent veel op improvisatie en experimenten. Het bekendste werk van de groep is ongetwijfeld Happy Trails uit 1969, een elpee die in de muziekgeschiedenisboeken is terechtgekomen als "the finest live album ever recorded". Ruim de helft van deze plaat, zeven nummers, is gewijd aan een QMS-versie van de Bo Diddley-klassieker Who Do You Love? De gitaren van Cipollina en Duncan en het publiek van Bill Graham's Fillmore Auditorium proberen elkaar op deze legendarische opname te overtreffen met varianten op de typische Bo Diddley-riff.

Quicksilver Messenger Service
http://www.penncen.com/quicksilver/

Cream - Sunshine Of Your Love (Glen Cambell Goodtime Hour- 1968)

   The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour is an American network television music and comedy variety show hosted by singer Glen Campbell from January 1969 through June 1972 on CBS. He was offered the show after he hosted a 1968 summer replacement for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.

"Sunshine of Your Love" is a 1967 song by the British rock band Cream. With elements of hard rock, psychedelia, and pop, it is one of Cream's best-known and most popular songs. Cream bassist and vocalist Jack Bruce based it on a distinctive bass riff or repeated musical phrase he developed after attending a Jimi Hendrix concert. Guitarist Eric Clapton and lyricist Pete Brown later contributed to the song. Recording engineer Tom Dowd suggested the rhythm arrangement in which drummer Ginger Baker plays a distinctive tom-tom drum rhythm, although Baker has claimed it was his idea.

The song was included on Cream's second album Disraeli Gears in November 1967, which was a best seller. Atco Records, the group's American label, was initially unsure of the song's potential. After recommendations by other label-affiliated artists, it released an edited single version in January 1968 (or possibly December 1967).^[a] The song became Cream's first and highest charting American single and one of the most popular singles of 1968. In September 1968, it became a modest chart hit after being released in the UK.
Cream performed "Sunshine of Your Love" regularly in concert and several live recordings have been issued, including on the Royal Albert Hall London May 2-3-5-6, 2005 reunion album and video. Hendrix performed faster instrumental versions of the song, which he often dedicated to Cream. Several rock journals have placed the song on their greatest song lists, such as Rolling Stone, Q magazine, and VH1. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame included it on its list of the "500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll".(Wikipedia)

Van Morrison & Carl Perkins - Sittin on the top of the World.

 Carl Lee Perkins (April 9, 1932 – January 19, 1998) was an American singer-songwriter who recorded most notably at the Sun Studio, in Memphis, beginning in 1954. Amongst his best-known songs are "Blue Suede Shoes", "Matchbox" and "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby".

               Arranged by Van Morrison and Carl Perkins Recorded at The Wool Hall. Bath

'Good Rockin' Tonight' The Sun Records Legacy' is a musical celebration commemorating the 50th anniversary of Sun Records. This London-Sire Records release features new renditions of the Sun classics

Most of the artists on this tribute to Sam Phillips's legendary Memphis label have chosen to cover the rockabilly hits. It isn't until a genuine Sun rockabilly artist--the late Carl Perkins--makes an appearance, joining Van Morrison for Howlin' Wolf's "Sittin' on Top of the World," that things briefly get bluesy. Instead, Paul McCartney, Jeff Beck, Chrissie Hynde, Tom Petty, and Bryan Ferry all offer up loving, note-for-note recreations of early Elvis tunes, even if it was Jerry Lee Lewis, not Elvis, who recorded a cover of "Don't Be Cruel" (Ferry's tune) for Sun.
But Elton John and Mandy Barnett both do The Killer (Lewis) proud here, as Sheryl Crow later does for Charlie Rich, and Led Zep's Page & Plant do for Sonny Burgess. Especially marvelous is Bob Dylan's subtle and, at times, hilarious take on Warren Smith's "Red Cadillac and a Black Moustache." It's a career highlight and every bit as enchanting as Robert Gordon's '70s cover version. Like the label itself, there are more hits than misses here. --Bill Holdship