The Boz Scaggs Band - I,ll Be Long Gone

The Boz Scaggs band performs a gospel-tinged classic during one of the final five nights of shows leading up the closing of San Francisco's Fillmore West on July 4, 1971

   I,ll Be Long Gone

Boz Scaggs is the second studio album by American musician Boz Scaggs, released in 1969 by Atlantic Records. A stylistically diverse album, Boz Scaggs incorporates several genres, including Americana, blue-eyed soul, country, and rhythm and blues. The lyrics are about typical themes found in blues songs, such as love, regret, guilt, and loss. Scaggs recorded the album at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio with producer Jann Wenner, the co-founder of Rolling Stone magazine. The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section heavily contributed to the album, which included a young Duane Allman, before his rise to fame with the Allman Brothers Band. 

Boz Scaggs was mostly ignored by listeners and critics upon release, and only sold around 20,000 copies within its first few years. The critics that did review the album enjoyed it, and commended the musicianship between Scaggs and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section. Boz Scaggs continues to receive praise in retrospective reviews, with some critics calling it an underrated album from the 1960s. In 2012, Boz Scaggs was ranked at number 496 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

 https://arthurfromholland.blogspot.com/2018/01/boz-scaggs-lowdown-live-on-snl-1976.html

 https://arthurfromholland.blogspot.com/2012/10/boz-scaggs-loane-me-dime.html

 https://arthurfromholland.blogspot.com/2015/10/boz-scaggs-mixed-up-shook-up-girl-mink.html

 

Rory Gallagher - Messin' with the Kid

                                                              Madrid - March 7th 1975

                                                                    Messin' with the Kid

Rory, with in my opinion his best backing band. During this period I saw them perform in De Doelen in Rotterdam, a memorable concert!!

                   Gary McAvoy -bass

                   Lou Martin -keys(12 August 1949  - 17 August 2012) 

                  Rory -(Ballyshannon, 2 maart1948- Londen, 14 juni1995) 

                  Rod' de'Ath - drums  ( Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire, 18 juni 1950 - 1 augustus 2014)

Walter "Brownie" McGhee - (Don,t)Move to Kansas City

Walter "Brownie" McGhee (November 30, 1915, Knoxville, Tennessee - February 16, 1996, Oakland, California) was an American folk and blues singer and guitarist. He became known for his collaboration with harmonica player Sonny Terry.

 McGhee was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and was struck by polio as a child. As a result, he had problems walking. Even as a child he devoted a lot of time to music, singing in the Golden Voices Gospel Quartet. He also taught himself to play the guitar. When he was 22, he started traveling as a musician and met Blind Boy Fuller, whose guitar playing had a great influence on him (so much so that McGhee took over Fuller's name after Fuller's death in 1941, and as Blind Boy Fuller II by the life went). During that time, McGhee made several recordings, but greater success did not come until he went to New York in 1942, where he worked with Sonny Terry. Together they experienced great successes that would continue until the early 1970s. When interest in folk music revived in the 1960s, Terry and McGhee were featured guests at concerts and festivals.

         One of McGhee's last concert appearances was at the 1995 Chicago Blues Festival.

    He died of stomach cancer on February 16, 1996, in Oakland, California, at the age of 80

 
 

Van Morrison - "Redwood Tree"

 "Redwood Tree" is the sixth song on Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison's 1972 album, Saint Dominic's Preview, released in July 1972 by Warner Bros. It was later released in October as the second of three singles from the album and charted at number 98 on the US Billboard Hot 100.

 "Redwood Tree" ("Saint Dominic's Preview")

Van Morrison – vocals, rhythm guitar,,Jules Broussard – tenor saxophone,Bill Church – bass Gary Mallaber – drums,,Doug Messenger – guitar,,Janet Planet – backing vocals,Tom Salisbury – piano,,Ellen Schroer – backing vocals,Jack Schroer – alto and baritone saxophones,Mark Springer – backing vocals.

 According to the very informative website..http://ivan.vanomatic.de/...Van only played that song live once

Boy and his dog
Went out looking for the rainbow
You know what did they learn
Since that very day

Walking by the river
And running like a blue streak
Through the fields of streams and meadows
Laughing all the way

Oh redwood tree
Please let us under
When we were young we used to go
Under the redwood tree

And it smells like rain
Maybe even thunder
Won't you keep us from all harm
Wonderful redwood tree

And a boy and his father
Went out, went out looking for the lost dog
You know what oh haven't they learned
Since they did that together
They did not bring him back
He already had departed
But look at everything they have learned
Since that, since that very day

Oh redwood tree
Please let us under
When we were young we used to go
Under the redwood tree

And it smells like rain
Maybe even thunder
Won't you keep us from all harm
Wonderful redwood tree

Ta da da da...
 

Do You Remember......The Everly Brothers

                                                                 The Everly Brothers, bestaande uit Isaac Donald ("Don") Everly (Brownie, Kentucky 1 februari 1937) en Philip ("Phil") Everly (Chicago, Illinois, 19 januari 1939), vormen een zangduo, dat het grootste succes had in de jaren vijftig. The Everly Brothers zijn behalve door rock-'n-roll beïnvloed door popmuziek en country. The Everly Brothers zijn vooral bekend geworden door hun mooi harmonieuze zangpartijen.En waarschijnlijk het begin van Arthur,s Musical Journey......

The Everly Brothers  - All I Have To Do Is Dream/Cathy,s Clown


The Story of The Everly Brothers (All Music)
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-everly-brothers-p4208/biography

Manassas

                               Happy Birthday Stephen Stills (Dallas (Texas), 3 januari 1945)
Stephen Stills, vocals & guitar (ex-CSNY, Buffalo Springfield)
Chris Hillman, vocals & guitar (ex-Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers)
Al Perkins, steel guitar & guitar (played with Gram Parsons, among others)
Paul Harris, keyboards
DallasTaylor, drums (played with CSNY, ex-Clear Light)
Joe Lala, percussion (ex-Blues Image)



 Hide is So Deep

The band actually formed during the recording sessions for Stephen Still's third solo album. Playing together went so well that they decided to perform as a group. When the album was finished, the group still had no name. During a small tour they stopped at a station in Manassas, a group photo was taken under the place name and the group. Manassas was born. The photo was used for the cover of their first album.



During the band's three-hour live performance, they opened with a rock set, then Stephen Stills with an acoustic set, then Hillman and Perkins with bluegrass, then a rock and country set with the entire band, and the closing was an acoustic set. I have a recording from the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam) myself, very beautiful.

 

It doesnt Matter

Manassas' toured all over the world, also visited the Netherlands several times (unfortunately missed) and in Paris Stephen Stills met the French singer/songwriter Veronique Sanson. A year later they married and their son Chris was born (later also a talented singer/songwriter). Stills and Joe Lala (and later Manassas member Kenny Passarelli) played on Veronique's album Le Maudit.


In addition to the extensive touring, time was also made available to record a second album. Partly due to the influence of drink and drugs, it was not as beautiful an album as their beautiful first. Much of the recorded material was not used (including a recording with Stevie Wonder on lead vocals). The recording for the first album was done by producers Ron Albert and Howard Albert, but they stopped recording the second album due to poor band performance halfway through. The album was completed in Colorado and Los Angeles. Down the Road was Ultimately not a bad album, but it did not reach the level of their first.



Another added bonus was the ever-present shadow of Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young. Atlantic Records considered Manassas more of a side project of StephenStills and did not do much to promote the two albums. In 1973, CSN&Y reunited to record a new album. Afterwards, Stephen returned to Colorado to continue. with Manassas, but it was no longer possible to get the band together in the old line-up. Dallas Taylor was addicted to heroin, Fuzzy Samuels was no longer interested. The band did two more small tours with bassist Kenny Passarelli, but it was the swan song of the band. Hillman became part of the Souther-Hillman-Furay Band and Stills went on the solo tour with Donnie Dacus of Veronique Sanson's band, veteran Russ Kunkel, and keyboardist Jerry Aiello.

 


Beautiful registration of Manassas' performance in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. The band, with Stephen Stills in top form, plays a mix of Country, Rock and Bluesgrass, both electric and acoustic. There is not much "live" material from Manassas, so that's why is this almost three-hour set, collected on two CDs

Peter Kempe & Sjef Hermans - Banker,s Blues (Big Bill Broonzy)

                                     Foto:Tanja Hoogerheide

Nice collaboration between Peter Kempe (The Juke Joints) and Sjef Hermans (Champagne Charlie/Sunshine Cleaners) It took place during one of the monthly "Songs Of The Heart" evenings in Middelburg (Netherlands)

   Filmed by:Nico van Rooyen

The song became famous in the performance of Rory Gallagher. It is on his third album "Blueprint"

 

Booker T & The MG,s

We gaan het jaar 2024 swingend in met BookerT & THe MG,s.De beentjes van de vloer!!Hopenlijk een mooi muzikaal jaar , de eerste concerten om naar uit te kijken zijn al bekend Ik ga weer proberen een verslagje te maken van de diverse evenementen,en de muziek die ik interessant en leuk vind op mijn blog te plaatsen.De kop is eraf...........

BOOKER T & The MG's ... "Bibelot - London (England)  Green Onions - Booker Loo.

  Booker T Jones : organ Steve Cropper : guitar Donald "Duck" Dunn : bass Al Jackson : drums

 Booker T. & the M.G.'s is een instrumentale soulband, vooral populair in de zestiger en zeventiger jaren. De leden werkten als sessiemuzikanten voor Stax Records en de band wordt vaak in het subgenre Memphis soul geplaatst. Ze zijn tussen 1963 en 1968 op meer dan 500 albums te horen van Stax Records, waaronder albums van Otis Redding, Eddie Floyd, Johnnie Taylor, Rufus Thomas en Carla Thomas. Tevens waren ze de eerste band die leden van verschillende rassen had. Ze zijn waarschijnlijk het bekendst door hun wereldhit Green Onions.

A look back at my musical adventures of 2023...

The year 2023 was a beautiful and fascinating concert year. Many well-known artists but also new discoveries. Large halls, small stages. Large festivals, very small ones. Jazz, Blues Americana, Singers/songwriters, everything passed by. Furthermore with a friend Bob Dylan presentation. Very fun and a new experience. I summarized all this with sometimes mediocre photos in a random order. Nothing on the program for next year, the ticket drawer is still empty.Curious about what that will bring....
 

I summarized all this with sometimes mediocre photos in a random order. Nothing on the program for next year, the ticket drawer is still empty.Curious about what that will bring....

Neil Young - War Of Man

                                                           Chicago Center Stage 1992

                                            Man Of War (album Harvest Moon)

War of Man is a song by Neil Young. He released it in 1992 as a single and on his album Harvest moon. The single reached number 7 on Billboard's rock music genre chart.

 The little creatures run in from the cold
Back to the nest just like the days of old
There in the safety of a mother's arms
The warmth of ages, far away from harm again

[Verse 2]
Ears ringing from the battle fire
The tired warrior aims a little higher
The black falcon or the little sparrow
The healing light or the flash of the barrel

[Chorus]
No one wins
It's a war of man
No one wins
It's a war of man

[Verse 3]
Silver mane flying in the wind
Down through the planets, on the run again
No one knows where they're running to
But every kind is coming two by two

[Verse 4]
Out on the delta where the hoofbeats pound
The daddy's running on the frozen ground
Can't smell the poison as it follows him
Can't see the gas and machines, it's a war of man