maandag 20 december 2021

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Black Dog


                                                    WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden
                                                    "Raising Sand" Tour (June 10, 2008)


                                                                         Black Dog

 And what a band! Including T-Bone Burnett, the great inspirer of this project, roots country rocker Buddy Miller, drum phenomenon Jay Bellrose, string virtuoso Stuart Duncan, Dennis Crouch on double bass, all top musicians from the roots/country/americana genre.

                                                                            Dylan
 


 

zondag 19 december 2021

Alvin Lee (born Graham Alvin Barnes, 19 December 1944, Nottingham – 6 March 2013)

Original line-up 1988, Rick Lee-drums,Chick Churchill-organ,Leo Lyons-bass,Alvin Lee-guitar/harmonica/vocals

Ondanks de titel van het album Positive Vibrations (1974) ging Ten Years After in 1975 uit elkaar.
Geen slecht album maar je kan toch merken dat de spirit er een beetje uit is .Alvin Lee was ondertussen  ook   al met diverse soloprojecten bezig.Hij begon in 1978 de band Ten Years Later(niet bijster originele naam) met Mick Hawksworth op bas en Tom Compton op drums.In 1980 werd het The Alvin Lee Band.Mick Hawksworth was niet meer van de partij,de nieuwe bandleden waren Steve Gould en Micky Feat.

                  Slow Blues In C  (live at Barrie, Molson Park August 27, 1988 Barrie, Ontario ,Canada)

 In 1988 kwam de Ten Years After nog een keer bij elkaar in de originele bezetting .Er volgde  een serie reunie optredens ,o.a op het bluesfestival in Tegelen. Dit optreden heb ik helaas gemist ,maar deze beelden uit Canada laten zien dat de band  na 15 jaar nog niets aan kracht had ingeboet.



                 Classic intro/ I Can't Keep From Cryin' Sometimes (live at Barrie, Molson Park August 27, 1988 Barrie, Ontario ,Canada)


Ze brachten zelfs nog een nieuw allbum "About Time" maar in 1989 ging de band weer uit elkaar,deze keer definitief. Rick Lee probeerde in 2001 de band nog een keer bij elkaar te krijgen om het album "TYA Live at the Fillmore East 1970" te promoten maar broertje Alvin had daar geen zin meer in.
Onbegrijpelijk,maar het zal wel met te grote ego,s te maken hebben.Ik denk in dit geval het ego van Alvin  Lee



                                          Help Me (live at Barrie, Molson Park August 27, 1988 Barrie, Ontario ,Canada)



Ten Years After 40 jaar eerder:
http://arthurfromholland.blogspot.nl/2009/09/ten-years-after-live-30-maart-1968.html



zaterdag 18 december 2021

The Barefoot Movement - Baby Love/Touch The Sky (live at Merlefest)

 The Barefoot Movement is comprised of singer-songwriter and fiddler Noah Wall; mandolinist Tommy Norris; guitarist and singer Alex Conerly; and Katie Blomarz on upright bass. Together, they’ve created “the Barefoot sound” … lush harmonies, thoughtful instrumentation, and memorable melodies.

               Baby Love (Mothers Finest cover)

 The band officially formed in North Carolina in 2006, after front woman Noah Wall met mandolinist Tommy Norris in high school and discovered a convergence of aligned passions. That initial crackle of intensity never waned and instead became the force catalyzing the band through its various iterations. Today, the Barefoot Movement is comprised of Noah Wall—whose powerhouse vocals, songwriting, and fiddle playing serve as the backbone of the band—mandolinist Tommy Norris, and upright bassist Katie Blomarz rounding out their unique blend of charming, modern roots music.

Touch The Sky
 
The band navigated the pandemic by creating “The Barefoot Movement Variety Show,” a live stream featuring special guests, live and pre recorded material, and assorted other musical shenanigans and collaborations. Their energetic, joyous, and heartfelt live performances have garnered them fans nationwide and beyond, and earned them the 2014 IBMA Momentum Award for Band of the Year.

http://www.thebarefootmovementofficial.com/bio




 



donderdag 16 december 2021

Group 1850 - Mother No Head/Zero

Groep 1850 (also known as Group 1850) was a Dutch psychedelic rock band that was founded in 1964 in The Hague. The band, despite never achieving success outside the Netherlands, are now considered one of the most innovative acid rock bands from the era

                                                                   Mother No-Head
 

 They first used the name Klits, but were renamed Groep 1850 in 1966 when their debut single, "Misty Night" / "Look Around", appeared on the tiny Yep label. Though few copies were pressed, it established them as one of The Netherlands most original bands (alongside the Outsiders and Q65) and they soon signed to Philips. More singles ensued, in a highly psychedelic vein, including the "Mother No Head". 

                                                                   Zero

 Their debut album, Agemo's Trip To Mother Earth, appeared in late 1968. In The Netherlands its sleeve had a 3-D image on the cover, and came with a pair of 3-D glasses. A UK release (also on Philips) did not help the band gain a footing outside the Netherlands, and Philips dropped them soon afterwards. Their next album, Paradise Now, appeared on the Dutch Discofoon label in 1969 and was only marginally less acid-influenced than its predecessor.(Wikipedia)

                                                                        Every,Every,Green

                                                 Peter Sjardin:Fluit,Orgel,Zang,Percussie 

                                                Daniel van Bergen:Gitaar,Piano

                                                 Beer Klaase:Drums

                                                 Ruud van Buuren: Bass

                               

Agemo's Trip To Mother Earth (first album)

                                           Paradise Now (second album)
 

 

dinsdag 14 december 2021

Van Morrison - Help Me/Be Bop a Lula

-                                                                     Rockpalast
                                                  Loreley, St. Goarshausen 09.July 1999

                                                                  Help Me/Be Bop a Lula

                                                                    Big hand for the band ! 

              Richie Bucley -Sax.Robin Asplan-Keys.AlecDankworth - Bass.Matt Holland-Trompet.

                         Ralph Salmins -Drums.Johnny Scott-Guitar,Geraint Watkind- organ

                                 Special guests: Candy Dulfer -sax.Fred Wesley-Trombone

                                Candy Dulfer Fred Wesley Matt Holland Fred Wesley


 

zondag 12 december 2021

Sam Cooke - Live at The Harlem Square Club,1963

 


The elegant Sam Cooke was one of the most successful crossover R&B stars of the Sixties. On this January night in 1963, performing for a black audience in a packed Miami club, he let his raw, soulful side break free ("don't fight it," he tells the audience, "we're gonna feel it"). Cooke's connection with the rapturous crowd is electric, the band swings like crazy and his versions of classics like "Having A Party" and "Bring It On Home To Me" rock as hard anything else going at the time. RCA Records found the results a too intense for his pop image, and shelved the performance — when they did release a live album it was 1964's comparatively toned down At the Copa. The album was finally released 20 years later to critical acclaim. Jon Dolan

  Feel it - Chain Gang - Cupid - Medley -(It,s Allright - For A  Sentimental Reason)- Twisting The Night Awaw

Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963 has generally been considered among the best live LPs ever released. In the year of its release (1985), it was ranked at number 11 on The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop critics poll, as well as being named number 7 on NME's albums of the year. Steve Leggett for AllMusic feels that "Not only is this one of the greatest live soul albums ever released, it also reveals a rougher, rawer, and more immediate side to Sam Cooke that his singles only hinted at, good as they were [...] the crucial key is and was always Cooke's vocals, and while he was a marvelously smooth, versatile, and urbane singer on his official pop recordings, here he explodes into one of the finest sets of raw secular gospel ever captured on tape. It is essential listening in any version."

Somebody Have Mercy - Bring It On Home To Me - Nothing Can Change This Love -Having A Party  

"Cooke was elegance personified, but he works this Florida club until it's hotter than hell, while sounding like he never breaks a sweat [...] when the crowd sings along with him, it's magic," said Rolling Stone.

The band: Clifton White – guitar,Cornell Dupree – guitar.Jimmy Lewis – bass guitar.Albert "June" Gardner – drums.George Stubbs – piano,King Curtis – saxophone,Tate Houston – saxophone                                           

                                                    Sam Cooke – vocals                

Sam Cooke, artiestennaam van Samuel Cook, (Clarksdale (Mississippi), 22 januari 1930 – Los Angeles (Californië), 11 december 1964)



 

vrijdag 10 december 2021

Ellen Shae - live at Porgy & Bess,Terneuzen(Holland)

                     Ik heb singer/songwriter Ellen Shae leren kennen tijdens de mooie themavonden van "Songs Of The Heart" in De Spot in Middelburg.Zong en speelde ze tijdens die avonden liedjes  van andere artiesten (o.a Bonnie Raitt) Dat ze met haar eigen songs goed uit de voeten kan had ze al bewezen met haar albums My Window,Clouds en nu haar laatse Caged Birds

                                                                     Open Road (album Caged Bird)

                                                                          met

                           Eline Duerinck-Joshua Dellaert-Marcos Della Rocha--Rich DePaolo

Ellen haalt haar inspiratie uit artiesten als o.a Tacy Chapman Bonnie Raitt enAoife O’Donovan.Ikzelf hoor toch ook een vleugje Joni Mitchell                                         


                                                         Polluted Air (album Caged Bird)

                                  

                                                                     Homesick (album Cage Bird)

                                                          Down Up In A Three (album Clouds)

                                                                   The Water


Helaas kon ik bij de presentatie  van haar laatste album in Porgy & Bess niet aanwezig zijn is,gelukkig er wel deze mooie registratie.Het moet een mooie avond geweest zijn..

                                                                https://ellenshae.com/
 

                                                                   Songs Of The Heart

https://arthurfromholland.blogspot.com/2017/03/ellen-shae-band-finest-lovin-man-bonnie.html

 


                                             

donderdag 9 december 2021

Cuby + Blizzards - Desolation (first album)

  Cuby + Blizzards, also known as Cuby & the Blizzards, were a Dutch blues group, founded in 1964 by vocalist Harry Muskee and guitarist Eelco Gelling.

 
                     Just For Fun                            

  During the 1960s, the band's mixture of sound, drawing upon a variety of genres which included blues and rock and roll, gave them a pioneering sound which was completely different from any other Dutch band in the same period                            

 
Things I Remember

The spelling of the name varies, with 'Cuby' also written as 'QB' and the ampersand (&) also written as 'and' or '+' and the 'and' sometimes left out. The spelling 'Cuby + Blizzards' was used on the first albums.

Harry Muskee - Vocals/Harmonica. Eelco Gelling  - Guitar .Willy Middel-Bass.Hans Waterman -drums

                            Hans Kinds -Rythm Guitar. Henk Hilbrandie - Piano

                                                 Cuby +Blizzards The Singles

           https://arthurfromholland.blogspot.com/2014/03/cuby-blizzards-singles-1965-1972.html

         

                                                          

Harry Muskee – vocals-bluesharp Eelco Gelling – solo-gitaar Willy Middel – bas-gitaar Hans Kinds – slag-gitaar Hans Waterman – drums Henk Hilbrandie – piano

Source: Blues Magazine - https://www.bluesmagazine.nl/cuby-blizzards-desolation/
Harry Muskee – vocals-bluesharp Eelco Gelling – solo-gitaar Willy Middel – bas-gitaar Hans Kinds – slag-gitaar Hans Waterman – drums Henk Hilbrandie – piano

Source: Blues Magazine - https://www.bluesmagazine.nl/cuby-blizzards-desolation/

woensdag 8 december 2021

John Winston Lennon (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980)



John Winston Lennon (Liverpool, 9 oktober 1940 – New York City, 8 december 1980)
Gisteren zou John 72 jaar zijn geworden,helaas het mocht niet zo zijn,
op 8 december 1980, om tien minuten voor elf in de avond werd Lennon voor zijn huis in het Dakota gebouw aan 72nd Street vermoord door die halve gare Mark David Chapman met een .38 Charter Arms-revolver.

Als eerbetoon aan John gaan we terug naar het begin van zijn carriere

The Beatles Coliseum Washingtom 11Febr. 1964


Het was een koude avond die elfde februari 1964 in Washington DC.
In het het plaatselijke Coliseum theater daarintegen was het bloedheet.
The Beatles gingen voor het eerst live optreden op Amerikaanse grond en de verwachtingen waren hoog gespannen.Het publiek werd eerst opgewarmd met groepen als The Carravels ,Tommy Roe en the Chiffons.


Roll Over Beethoven

The Beatles komen op en wat een fantastische chaos!Om iedereen van het optreden te laten genieten had men een draaibaar drumstel gecreeerd en moest tussen de nummers regelmatig de opstelling worden veranderd.De mannen worden er niet warm of koud van en hebben duidelijk plezier in het hele gebeuren.


From Me To You



Het concert duurde ongeveer een uur en was mischien wel een van hun meest memorabele optredens.Tickets varieerden van $2 tot $4,


I Saw Him Standing There

Beatles Set List
Washington, D.C.
February 1964

Roll Over Beethoven
From Me to You
I Saw Her Standing There
This Boy
All My Loving
I Wanna Be Your Man
Please Please Me
Till There Was You
She Loves You
I Want to Hold Your Hand
Twist and Shout
Long Tall Sally


This Boy

Dtt schreef de bekende muziekrececent Richie Unterberger:
“…[H]ere are the early Beatles at their on-stage best. They’re more visibly delighted, indeed almost overwhelmed, by the crowd’s enthusiasm here than at any time before or since. Despite the seeming overnight success of their invasion of America, it had in reality been a long hard climb to the top, taking about seven years of diligent work and numerous excruciating setbacks, and also a year or so where they’d made virtually no inroads into the U.S. market despite their mushrooming British superstardom. This was the payoff, and though the group would get fed up with touring before screaming teenagers within a couple of years, at the Washington Coliseum they were if anything having an even greater time than their admirers….”


Matig beelden ,slecht geluid maar toch een van de mooiste concert films uit mijn verzameling!!!!!

The Beatles Nowhere Man
http://arthurfromholland.blogspot.com/2008/07/beatles-bravo-blitz-tournee.html

The Beatles Come To Town (Manchester 1963)
http://arthurfromholland.blogspot.com/2009/03/beatles-come-to-townmanchester-1963.html

The Beatles Japan 1966
http://arthurfromholland.blogspot.com/2008/02/beatles-japan-1969-1.html


John Lennon (R.I.P.)

dinsdag 7 december 2021

Tom Waits at Teatro Ariston, San Remo, Italy (1986-11-22)


Tom Waits, geboren als Thomas Alan Waits (Pomona (Californië), 7 december 1949) is een Amerikaans zanger, componist, schrijver en acteur. Zijn stem kan omschreven worden als een lage, rauwe, bijna grommende stem, en soms hees fluisterend.

Prachtig optreden van Tom Waits tijden het San Remo festival van 1986.
In het mooie Teatro Ariston speelde hij ,alleen begeleid door bassist Greg Cohen een selectie uit zijn reptoire.Hier een paar van mijn persoonlijke favorieten..


Downtown Train

"Downtown Train" komt van het album Rain Dogs uit 1985.

Rod Stewart nam een cover versie en bereikte hiermee een 3e plaats in the Billboard Hot 100,nummer 1 in Canada en de top 10 in the UK Singles Chart 1990.
Ook artiesten als Mary Chapin Carpenter,Patty Smyth Everything But the Girl en Bob Seger coverden het nummer


Jersey Girl

Waits schreef dit nummer samen met zijn toekomstige vrouw Kathleen Brennan,die in New Jersey gewoond had.

Waits vertelde in een interview uit 1980 "I never thought I would catch myself saying 'sha la la' in a song ... This is my first experiment with 'sha la la.'"



On the Nickel (Korte versie)Hieronder de complete tekst

.....It says sticks and stones can break my bones but I always will be true And when your mama's dead and gone, I'll sing this lullaby just for you What becomes of all the little boys who never comb their hair They're lined up all around the block on the nickel over there And if you chew tobacco and wish upon a star You'll find out where the scarecrows sit, now they just look like punch lines between the cars And I know a place where a royal flush can never beat a pair And even Thomas Jefferson is on the nickel over there So ring around the rosy, sleepin' in the rain You're always late for supper man you let me down again I thought I heard a mockingbird, Roosevelt knows where. I'm whistling past the graveyard, and they're on the nickel over there So what becomes of all the little boys who run away from home The world keeps gettin' bigger once you get out on your own But you never know how rich you are, you haven't got a prayer It's heads you win and tails they lose, You're on the nickel and you're over there...


(Looking For)Heart of Saturday Night

Komt van het gelijknamige album ,misschien wel een van zijn mooiste..

Tom Waits Official Website
http://www.tomwaits.com/

Bruce Springsteen - Jersey Girl(made by Arthur)
http://arthurfromholland.blogspot.com/2010/09/bruce-springsteen-jersey-girl.html


Tom Waits-Silent Night;Christmas Card from A Hooker in Minneapolis
http://arthurfromholland.blogspot.com/2010/12/tom-waits-silent-night.html

Tom Wait & The Kronos String Quartet
http://arthurfromholland.blogspot.com/2010/12/tom-waits-silentnight.html

Tom Waits Bridge School Benefit(1999) Complete set
http://arthurfromholland.blogspot.com/2008/10/tom-waitslive-at-bridgeschool-benefit.html