The Band (feat.Richard Manuel)

Richard George Manuel (Stratford (Canada), 3 april 1943 – Winter Park (Florida), 4 maart 1986)

 On March 4th 1986, the Band's lead singer, pianist, and drummer Richard Manuel died in a motel room in Winter Park, Florida, while touring with the reunited Band. His emotional, soulful voice and his beautiful songwriting was essential to the success of the original group.

You Don,t Know Me

“I always felt very comfortable with Richard in The Band. I knew nobody else had a better singer. Richard’s policy was to hold up his glass and say, ‘spend it all!’ – which is a pretty good policy when you think about it.” – Levon Helm, 1997

                 The Shape I,m In

 "He brought a lot of powers and strengths to the group. He brought in gospel music from his church upbringing. Plus, he loved to play and just come up with new things. It was like having a force of nature in the band."
Rick Danko

               Tears of Rage

"Richard not only had the voice, he had this great rhythmic feel..."
Garth Hudson

Georgia On My Mind

 "I was madly in love with Richard... At the time, [1975] we had the same troubles. I felt insecure and he was clearly insecure, and yet he was so incredibly gifted....For me he [Richard] was the true light of the Band. The other guys were fantastic talents, of course, but there was something of the holy madman about Richard. He was raw. When he sang in that high falsetto the hair on my neck would stand on end. Not many people can do that."
Eric Clapton

                 King Harvest

 "Richard Manuel's is the first voice you hear on the first Band album Music from Big Pink. After a Robbie Robertson guitar intro that sounds as if it's being fed through Garth Hudson's Lowrey organ at its most distorted, his aching baritone launches into the first reproachful line of `Tears of Rage`. As it arches over `arms`, you can't help thinking of Ray Charles, the singer who more than any other shaped this unlikely white soul voice from Stratford, Ontario. And by the end of the first chorus you realize why, in an almost unspoken way, Manuel's fellow Band vocalists Levon Helm and Rick Danko always looked upon him as the group's `lead` singer."
Barney Hoskyns

Ry Cooder - No Hard Feelings

Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down is the fourteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ry Cooder. It released on August 30, 2011, by Nonesuch Records .
Following his 2008 album I, Flathead, Cooder pursued a more political direction with his songwriting, inspired by the late-2000s economic crisis and protest songs of the past. Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down was written and produced by Cooder, who recorded its songs at Drive-By Studios, Ocean Studios, and Wireland Studios in California. He played various instruments and worked with musicians such as Flaco Jiménez, Juliette Commagere, Robert Francis, and Jim Keltner.

                              No Hard Feelings (album Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down)

 In "No Hard Feelings", Cooder sings from the perspective of a lowly prospector who scolds businessmen for dealing with land exclusively in business terms.He dismisses the rich and elite as "ripples" in history and is willing to tolerate them provided that they avoid conflict.

 After completing his epic California Trilogy, with its stories of life in his home state in the 40s and 50s, Ry Cooder returns with a solo project that is as refreshing, brave and original as his early recordings in the 70s. This time round there are no elaborate narratives, but there is a common theme: these are songs of a broken, divided society and the gap between rich and poor, but with the anger matched against humour. He's a master at setting bleak or thoughtful lyrics against jaunty melodies. No Banker Left Behind is the story of bankers on a spree after they "robbed the nation blind", set to a romping, country-edged tune, while Christmas Time This Year places a horrific story of war casualties against a cheerful Mexican dance melody, with accordion from Flaco Jiménez. Cooder plays guitar, mandola, banjo, bass and keyboards, and constantly changes direction from the evocative portrait of a rich man and his maid in Dirty Chateau to the gospel-edged stomp of Lord Tell Me Why ("a white man ain't worth nothing in this land no more"), which is quickly followed by the witty blues of John Lee Hooker for President. He ends with No Hard Feelings, a finely sung ballad that first rewrites Woody Guthrie ("this land should have been our land") and ends in despair and resignation. Magnificent. - guardian.co.uk

Colosseum - Los Angeles (live)

In contrast to other albums by Colosseum, The Grass Is Greener was released only in the United States and Canada, on the Dunhill label, distributed by ABC. It was conceived as a North American alternative to November 1969's Valentyne Suite, complete with a muted, blue-green variation of the aforementioned album's cover. It features four tracks recorded with then-new guitarist/vocalist Dave "Clem" Clempson in the winter of 1969 ("Jumping Off The Sun," "Lost Angeles," "Rope Ladder To The Moon," "Bolero"); three tracks from the 1969 Vertigo LP Valentyne Suite but with vocal and guitar parts provided by Clempson ("Butty's Blues," "The Machine Demands A Sacrifice," "The Grass Is Greener") instead of James Litherland; and one track, "Elegy," that appears to be the same as the original from Valentyne Suite, including Litherland's vocal. The record was remastered and released as a bonus disc in Sanctuary Records' 2003 deluxe CD edition of Valentyne Suite.

                  Los Angeles - bonustrack
John Hiseman - drums,Dick Hestall-Smith - soprano/tenor,woodwind.Dave"Clem"Clemson - guitar.
Tony Reeves - bass.Dave Greenslade - organ/piano/tuner percussion.

The Electric Flag - Wine/Over Lovin You

                                                             Live at Monterey 1967

                                                                 The Electric Flag:

 Mike Bloomfield -lead guitars, vocals ,Barry Goldberg- keyboards ,Harvey Brooks,Stenzie Hunter-saxophone,Buddy Miles- drums, vocals Nick Gravenites - rhythm guitars, vocals,Peter Strazza — saxophone,Marcus Doubleday — trumpet,MichaelFontana -keyboards.

    Cherry Wine

 The Electric Flag was an American blues rock soul group, led by guitarist Mike Bloomfield, keyboardist Barry Goldberg and drummer Buddy Miles, and featuring other musicians such as vocalist Nick Gravenites and bassist Harvey Brooks. Bloomfield formed the Electric Flag in 1967, following his stint with the Butterfield Blues Band. The band reached its peak with the 1968 release, A Long Time Comin', a fusion of rock, jazz, and R&B styles that charted well in the Billboard Pop Albums chart.(Wikipedia)



Over Lovin You

 "Mike Bloomfield, The Electric Flag, Monterey Pop 1967. When the Electric Flag began playing, the audience went wild. It was the Electric Flag’s first performance as a group, and the big band sound was brilliant against Mike’s Blues guitar. They were a sensation at Monterey Pop." -- Elaine Mayes

 It’s also worth noting that this was one of earliest performances of Bloomfield with his Sunburst 1959 Gibson Les Paul, which he had acquired only a few moths earlier, in the spring of 1967.

Erja Lyytinen - The Sky Is Crying

Erja Lyytinen (born July 7, 1976 in Kuopio, Finland) is a Finnish vocalist, guitarist and songwriter.

 "The Sky Is Crying" is a song that has become a blues standard. It was written and recorded by Elmore Jamesin 1959. Called "one of his most durable compositions", "The Sky Is Crying" became a R&B record chart hit and has been interpreted and recorded by numerous artists.

 Lyytinen started playing guitar at age fifteen and sang in a soul music group. Her influences include singers Aretha Franklin, Koko Taylor, and Bonnie Raitt. Lyytinen is a 1995 graduate of Kuopio Senior High of Music and Dance. She studied from 1995 to 1997 at the Kuopio Conservatory, 1997-1998 in Malmö Music Academy and 2003 in Copenhagen Rytmisk Konservatorium in Denmark, and has a Master of Music degree from Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.^[1]
Lyytinen's debut album was the 2002 release Attention!, released by Bluelight Records. Wildflower (2003) and It's A Blessing (2005) were also released by Bluelight Records. In 2005 she signed with the German label Ruf Records and Blues Caravan with Aynsley Lister and Ian Parker. She recorded her third solo album Dreamland Blues in 2006 at Oxford, Mississippi with David Kimbrough and Kinney Kimbrough, both sons of the Mississippi blues legend Junior Kimbrough.
After two years relentless touring, she returned with a gritty Grip of the Blues in 2008, mixing hard-edged blues with modern R&B. Her 2010 release Voracious Love featured contributions from Marco Hietala (Nightwish) on vocals and Apocalyptica's cellist Paavo Lötjönen. Ruf Records also release her first live DVD/CD on the label's prestige collection of live releases titled Songs From The Road, which has featured Luther Allison, Jeff Healey, Canned Heat, Joanne Shaw Taylor and Royal Southern Brotherhood amongst others. Forbidden Fruit was the last release by Erja Lyytinen on Ruf Records and it featured co-written songs by Alan Darby who has also written songs for Bonnie Tyler and Bonnie Raitt.
After her stint on Ruf Records, Erja Lyytinen founded together with her then-partner Davide Floreno, a label called Tuohi Records. Tuohi Records has been releasing all Erja's albums up to the present day. Tuohi Records' first release The Sky Is Crying in 2013 was a tribute to the late Elmore James, where Erja returned to her blues roots and paid homage to one of the great originators of the slide guitar. The 2015 Tuohi Records release Live In London captured Erja and her band at its peak condition at one of London' most historic (and still-running venues) 100 Club. In the summer of 2016 she ventured to London State of the Ark Studio to record her Stolen Hearts album with engineer and producer Chris Kimsey. Lyytinen has toured across Europe and has performed on all major blues/roots festivals. She has been the supporting act for Walter Trout, Carlos Santana, Southside Johnny, John Mayall and Wishbone Ash. Erja has also shared the stage and jammed with Carlos Santana, Joe Bonamassa and Sonny Landreth.

 http://www.erjalyytinen.com/

Ralph De Jongh - Somebody Will Know Someday

        Somebody Will Know Someday komt van het album Groeten uit Grolloo van Cuby & The Blizards(1967)Het is geschreven door Harry Muskee en Eelco Gelling. Ralph de Jongh zag ik regelmatig in het voorprogramma van C&B.


Somebody Will Know Someday
Een van de mooiste Cuby & The Blizzards nummers uitgevoerd door Ralph De Jongh

More Ralph De Jongh op Arthur,s Musical Journey
http://arthurfromholland.blogspot.com/2008/12/ralph-de-jongh.html

Ralph De Jongh Website
http://www.ralphdejongh.com/

Van Morrison - Street Choir (song) Live at The Lion Share 8 Augustus 1971

 His Band and the Street Choir (also referred to as Street Choir)^[1] is the fourth studio album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison. It was released on 15 November 1970 by Warner Bros. Records. Originally titled Virgo's Fool, Street Choir was renamed by Warner Bros. without Morrison's consent. Recording began in early 1970 with a demo session in a small church in Woodstock, New York. Morrison booked the A&R Studios on 46th Street in New York City in the second quarter of 1970 to produce two sessions of songs that were released on His Band and the Street Choir.

From the album Street Choir with John Platania - Guitar .Janet Planet,Ellen Schroer,Martha Velez - Vocals

 In the album closer, "Street Choir", Morrison repeats the questions, "Why did you let me down / And now that things are better off / Why do you come around". Because of these lyrics Heylin wrote that "such songs [as "Street Choir"] were spawned by an increasing awareness of just how badly ripped off he had been". Ken Brooks has said that the lyric "Move On Up" is another reference on the album to a Curtis Mayfield song. The track prominently features Keith Johnson's trumpet and Morrison's harmonica. Writer Brian Hinton described the lyrics as perversely bitter, while Jon Landau wrote that "Street Choir" was one of the "two or three finest songs" of Morrison's career because of its "musical and poetic energy"

Ernst Jansz - Ik was een hippie

         Ernst Jansz (Amsterdam, 24 mei 1948) is een Nederlandse muzikant (singer-songwriter) en oprichter van de Nederlandse band Doe Maar. Als schrijver heeft Jansz vijf boeken op zijn naam staan.                               

                                              

Neerkant is de naam van het dorpje in de Brabantse Peel, waar Ernst Jansz en zijn muziekvrienden van CCC Inc. in 1970 een commune beginnen. Zeven jongens met gitaren en lang haar, hippies uit Amsterdam met hun vriendinnen, kinderen en huisdieren. Ze hopen met hun idealen de wereld te verbeteren. Na een paar jaar valt de commune echter uit elkaar en de bandleden verhuizen een voor een weer terug naar de Randstad. Alleen Jansz is tot op de dag van vandaag in de verbouwde boerderij in Neerkant blijven wonen. Zoals hij in zijn nieuwe single zingt een hippie is hij misschien nog steeds. ‘Ik herinner mij het huis, een boerderij in Brabant. Wij reizigers uit Holland, wij voelden ons er thuis. Zo kwamen wij er aan eind zestiger jaren, wat jongens met gitaren, voorgoed van huis gegaan.‘ Na CCC Inc. begint Ernst Jansz diverse bands: Slumberlandband (1975), Rumbones (1977) en vervolgens in 1978 Doe Maar, dat wegens teveel succes in 1984 wordt opgeheven. In 1976 toert Jansz voor het eerst met Boudewijn de Groot en in de jaren daarna zal hij nog regelmatig als begeleider, bandleider en producer met Boudewijn de Groot samenwerken. Ook met Bram Vermeulen gaat Jansz op tournee en ook voor hem produceert hij platen.

CCC inc.

• 1970 - To Our Grandchildren
• 1971 - Watching The Evening Sun
• 1973 - Castle In Spain
• 1975 - CCC Forever
• 1984 - Van Beusekom
• 1990 - Speed & Intensity
• 2000 - Jan
• 2007 - 1967-2007 Verzameld Werk. Door Ernst Jansz samengesteld.
• 2012 - Jack owned a house (CCC volume XIII 2012)

Slumberlandband

• 1975 - Slumberlandband

Doe Maar

Studioalbums

• 1979 - Doe Maar
• 1981 - Skunk
• 1982 - Doris Day & Andere Stukken
• 1983 - 4us
• 2000 - Klaar
• 2012 - Versies/De Limmen Tapes

Dub-album

• 1982 - Doe de Dub (Dub-versie van 'Doris Day & andere stukken')

Live-albums

• 1983 - Lijf aan Lijf
• 1995 - Het Afscheidsconcert (ook video)
• 2000 - Hees van Ahoy (ook dvd)
• 2012 - Doe Maar Symphonica in Rosso (ook dvd)

Verzameld werk

• 2012 - De doos van Doe Maar, samengesteld door Ernst Jansz.

De Gevestigde Orde

De Gevestigde Orde was een eenmalig project van Stichting Popmuziek Nederland waarbij Joost Belinfante, leden van Doe Maar (maar zonder Henny Vrienten) en Bram Vermeulen & de Toekomst een gelegenheidsformatie vormden.

• 1983 - De Gevestigde Orde (live-lp)

Rienne Va Plus

Ernst Jansz en Jan Hendriks vormden na het opheffen van Doe Maar een trio met zangeres Rieany (Rienne) Janssen.

• 1990 - Rienne Va Plus
• 1992 - Money Makes Millionaires

Producer

• 1984 - Drie Heren - Ik Zag Drie Heren...
• 1985 - Blue Murder - La La Love
• 1985 - Claw Boys Claw - Indian Wallpaper
• 1986 - Blue Murder - Talk Talk Talk
• 1986 - Blue Murder - Stalking The Deerpark
• 1991 - Bram Vermeulen - Vriend En Vijand
• 1994 - Bram Vermeulen - Achter Mijn Ogen
• 1995 - Bram Vermeulen - Tijd/Vrije Tijd
• 1997 - Bram Vermeulen - Polonaise
• 1997 - Boudewijn de Groot - Een hele tour: Gent
• 1998 - Bram Vermeulen - Allemaal
• 2004 - Boudewijn de Groot - Eiland In De Verte
• 2005 - Boudewijn de Groot - Een Avond in Brussel, cd/dvd
• 2007 - Boudewijn de Groot - Lage Landen Tour, cd/dvd

Bibliografie

• 1983 - Gideons Droom (roman) (Speciale uitgebreide heruitgave verscheen in november 2013)
• 1985 - De Overkant (roman) (Speciale uitgebreide heruitgave verscheen in 2009)
• 2006 - Molenbeekstraat (roman)
• 2010 - Dromen van Johanna (brieven aan een vriend - vertalingen teksten Bob Dylan)
• 2017 - De Neerkant, Kronieken 1970 - 1980 (roman)

Eddie"Cleanhead" Vinson - Montreux July 1, 1974

Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson (born Edward L. Vinson Jr., December 18, 1917 – July 2, 1988) was an American jump blues, jazz, bebop and R&B alto saxophonist and blues shouter.^[1] He was nicknamed Cleanhead after an incident in which his hair was accidentally destroyed by lye contained in a hair straightening product



Just A Dream (0:00) Home Boy (4:00) Laura (8:07) Hold It Right There (11:18) Person To Person (20:23)

 Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson (as, voc), Hal Singer (ts), Jay McShann (p), Jo Wright (g), Jerome Rimson (b), Peter Van Hooke (dr)

Thanks to crownpropeller:
 http://crownpropeller.wordpress.com


Vinson was born in Houston, Texas. He was a member of the horn section in Milton Larkin's orchestra, which he joined in the late 1930s. At various times, he sat next to Arnett Cobb, Illinois Jacquet, and Tom Archia, while other members of the band included Cedric Haywood and Wild Bill Davis. After exiting Larkin's employment in 1941, Vinson picked up a few vocal tricks while on tour with bluesman Big Bill Broonzy. He then moved to New York and joined the Cootie Williams Orchestra from 1942 to 1945, recording such tunes as "Cherry Red". Vinson struck out on his own in 1945, forming his own large band, signing with Mercury Records, and enjoying a double-sided hit in 1947 with his R&B chart-topper "Old Maid Boogie", and the song that would prove to be his signature number, "Kidney Stew Blues".^[3]
Vinson's jazz leanings were probably heightened during 1952-1953, when his band included a young John Coltrane. In the late 1960s, touring in a strict jazz capacity with Jay McShann, Vinson's career took an upswing. In the early 1960s Vinson moved to Los Angeles and began working with the Johnny Otis Revue. A 1970 appearance at the Monterey Jazz Festival with Otis spurred a bit of a comeback for Vinson. Throughout the 1970s he worked high-profile blues and jazz sessions for Count Basie, Otis, Roomful of Blues, Arnett Cobb, and Buddy Tate. He also composed steadily, including "Tune Up" and "Four", both of which have been incorrectly attributed to Miles Davis.^[4] The aforementioned single-sourced claim is contradicted by the many times Miles Davis has been credited as composer on numerous recordings.
Vinson recorded extensively during his fifty-odd year career and performed regularly in Europe and the U.S. He died in 1988, from a heart attack while undergoing chemotherapy,^[5] in Los Angeles, California.(Wikipedia)

 Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson (born Edward L. Vinson Jr., December 18, 1917 - July 2, 1988)

Van Morrison -A Change Is Gonna Come

         `                       The Theater At Madison Square Garden  NYC, NY January 18, 1998

                          Georgie Fame, Geoff Dunn, Matt Holland, Ronnie Johnson, Nicky Scott,
                                            Pee Wee Ellis, Liam Bradley, Brian Kennedy

"A Change Is Gonna Come" is a song by American recording artist Sam Cooke. It initially appeared on Cooke's album Ain't That Good News, released March 1, 1964 by RCA Victor; a slightly edited version of the recording was released as a single on December 22, 1964. Produced by Hugo & Luigi and arranged and conducted by René Hall, the song was the B-side to "Shake".
The song was inspired by various personal events in Cooke's life, most prominently an event in which he and his entourage were turned away from a whites-only motel in Louisiana. Cooke felt compelled to write a song that spoke to his struggle and of those around him, and that pertained to the Civil Rights Movement and African Americans. The song contains the refrain, "It's been a long time coming, but I know a change is gonna come."
Though only a modest hit for Cooke in comparison with his previous singles, "A Change Is Gonna Come" is widely considered Cooke's best composition and has been voted among the best songs ever released by various publications. In 2007, the song was selected for preservation in the Library of Congress, with the National Recording Registry deeming the song "culturally, historically, or aesthetically important.