Bobby Charles - Tennessee Blues

Bobby Charles, artiestennaam van Robert Charles Guidry (Abbeville, Louisiana, 21 februari 1938 – Louisiana, 14 januari 2010), was een Amerikaans singer-songwriter. Charles groeide op in Louisiana, waar hij in contact kwam met de cajunmuziek. Later begaf hij zich meer op het pad van de rock- en bluesmuziek. Als tiener schreef hij het lied See You Later Alligator. Het nummer werd ingezongen door Bill Haley and His Comets en werd in 1956 een hit in de Verenigde Staten. In 1960 bracht Fats Domino een cover van zijn nummer Walking to New Orleans uit.

Bobby Charles' gelijknamige debuutalbum kwam uit in 1972. Op het album speelden onder meer vier leden van The Band, David Sanborn en Dr. John mee. Nummers als Small town talk en Grow too old werden later door diverse andere artiesten, zoals Paul Butterfield, Rick Danko en Yvonne Elliman op de plaat gezet.

Bob Dylan - Isis ( Clearwater 22 April 1976)

  This video is from a rejected TV special that was shot at the Starlight Ballroom of the Biltmore hotel in Clearwater, Florida on April 22, 1976 during Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Review tour.

 "Isis" is the second track on the Bob Dylan album Desire. It was written by Bob Dylan in collaboration with Jacques Levy.

 

• Bob Dylan (guitar & vocal)
• Scarlet Rivera (violin)
• T-bone J. Henry Burnette (guitar & piano)
• Steven Soles (guitar)
• Mick Ronson (guitar)
• Bobby Neuwirth (guitar & vocal)
• Roger McGuinn (guitar & vocal)
• David Mansfield (steel guitar, mandolin, violin & dobro)
• Rob Stoner (bass)
• Howie Wyeth (drums)
• Gary Burke (percussion)

"Isis"

I married Isis on the fifth day of May
But I could not hold on to her very long
So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away
For the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong.

I came to a high place of darkness and light
The dividing line ran through the center of town
I hitched up my pony to a post on the right
Went in to a laundry to wash my clothes down.

A man in the corner approached me for a match
I knew right away he was not ordinary
He said "Are you looking for something easy to catch ?"
I said "I got no money". He said "That ain't necessary".

We set out that night for the cold in the North
I gave him my blanket he gave me his word
I said "Where are we going ?" He said "We'd be back by the fourth"
I said "That's the best new that I've ever heard".

I was thinking about turquoise I was thinking about gold
I was thinking about diamonds and the world's biggest necklace
As we rode through the canyons through the devilish cold
I was thinking about Isis how she thought I was so reckless.

How she told me that one day we meet up again
And things would be different the next time we wed
If I only could hang on and just be her friend
I still can't remember all the best things she said.

We came to the pyramids all embedded in ice
He said "There's a body I'm trying to find
If I carry it out it'll bring a good prize"
It was then that I knew what he had on his mind.

The wind it was howling and the snow was outrageous
We chopped through the night and we chopped through the dawn
When he died I was hoping that it wasn't contagious
But I made up my mind that I had to go on.
I broke into the tomb but the casket was empty
There was no jewels no nothing I felt I'd been had
When I saw that my partner was just being friendly
When I took up his offer I must-a been mad.

I picked up his body and I dragged him inside
Threw him down in the hole and I put back the cover
I said a quick prayer and I felt satisfied
Then I rode back to find Isis just to tell her I love her.

She was there in the meadow where the creek used to rise
Blinded by sleep and in need of a bed
I came in from the East with the sun in my eyes
I cursed her one time then I rode on ahead.

She said "Where ya been ?" I said "No place special ?"
She said "You look different" I said "Well I guess"
She said "You been gone" I said "That's only natural"
She said "You gonna stay ?" I said "If you want me to, Yeah ".

Isis oh Isis you mystical child
What drives me to you is what drives me insane
I still can remember the way that you smiled
On the fifth day of May in the drizzling rain.

 

 

Happy Birthday Keith Richards (Dartford 18 Dec.1943)

Keith Richards - The Nearness Of You by Aart Van Hoften on Mixcloud

Santana - Abraxas (1970)

Abraxas is the second studio album by latin rock band Santana. Consolidating the interest generated by their first album, Santana (released in May 1969), and their highly acclaimed live performance at the Woodstock Festival in August 1969, the band followed-up with Abraxas in September 1970. The album's mix of rock, blues, jazz, salsa and other influences was very well received, showing a musical maturation from their first album and refining the band's early sound.

 

Incident at Neshabur (Tangelwood 18 Augustus 1970)

Carlos Santana - leadguitat/voals,Gregg Rolie - keyboards/vocals,David Brown  - bass,Michael Shrieve - drums,Jose ""Chepito"Areas - percussion/conga,s/timbales,Mike Carabello - percussion/conga,s

 

Black Magic Woman   (Peter Green )                       

 

Bonnie Dobson & Robert Plant - Morning Dew (Royal Festival Hall, London Tuesday December 3 2013 )

                                          Bonnie Dobson

 "Morning Dew", also known as "(Walk Me Out in the) Morning Dew", is a post-apocalyptic folk rock song written by Canadian folk singer Bonnie Dobson and made famous by the Grateful Dead.
The song is a dialogue between the last man and woman left alive following an apocalyptic catastrophe: Dobson has stated that the initial inspiration for "Morning Dew" was the film On the Beach which is focused on the survivors of virtual global annihilation by nuclear holocaust. The actual writing of the song occurred in 1961 while Dobson was staying with a friend in Los Angeles: Dobson would recall how the guests at her friend's apartment were speculating about a nuclear war's aftermath and "after everyone went to bed, I sat up and suddenly I just started writing this song [although] I had never written [a song] in my life".Dobson premiered "Morning Dew" in her set at the inaugural Mariposa Folk Festival that year with the song's first recorded version being on Dobson's At Folk City live album in 1962. Dobson would not record a studio version of the song until 1969, that being for her Bonnie Dobson album.(Wikipedia)

"Morning Dew" was not published until 1964 when Jac Holzman of Elektra Records contacted Dobson with an offer to sign her as a songwriter as Elektra artist Fred Neil had heard "Morning Dew" and wished to record it. The first studio recording of "Morning Dew" appeared on the 1964 album Tear Down The Walls by Fred Neil and Vince Martin. It was this version which introduced the song to Tim Rose who in 1966 recorded "Morning Dew" for his self-titled debut album after soliciting permission to revise the song with a resultant co-writing credit. Dobson agreed without having any intended revision specified and was subsequently much discomforted to learn that the sole lyrical revision in Rose's version was that the original line "Take me for a walk in the morning dew" became "Walk me out in the morning dew", a change already apparent in Fred Neil's recording of the song. As of the February 1967 release of the Tim Rose single version of "Morning Dew" the standard songwriting credit for the song has been Bonnie Dobson and Tim Rose: Dobson, who in 1998 averred she'd never met Rose (d. 2002), has stated that she's received 75% songwriting royalty as she retains sole writing credit for the song's music.

                                 Robert Plant

Steve Ray Vaughan - Life Without You

                                Stevie Ray Vaughan - The Orpheum Theater on Beale Street
                                Memphis, Tennessee August, 1986

Steve Ray Vaughan - Life Without You from Aart van Hoften on Vimeo.
  "Life Without You" was a song Stevie wrote after the untimely death of his great friend and mentor Charley Wirz. the song shows his love for Charley and how much he truly missed him. The White Stratocaster Vaughan played that was fitted with Danelectro Lipstick Tube Pickups was made by Wirz with the help of Stevie's Guitar Tech Rene Martinez.

John Lennon (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980)

John Lennon wordt over de hele wereld herdacht. Het is vandaag 34 jaar geleden dat de muzikant in New York werd vermoord. Zijn moordenaar, Mark David Chapman, zit nog altijd vast.



Op het laatste album van Bob Dylan (Tempest) een prachtig eerbetoon aan zijn vriend John Lennon

 http://arthurfromholland.blogspot.nl/2012/09/bob-dylan-roll-onjohn.html
 (made by Arthur)
JOHN LENNON R.I.P.

Grateful Dead - Not Fade Away (with Brandford Marsalis,Bruce Hornsby e.o)

Dec 31, 1990

Oakland Coliseum Arena (Oakland, CA)

  Grateful Dead - Not Fade Away, Partytime!!(Oakland Coliseum Arena 31 Dec 1990 (Oakland) from Aart van Hoften on Vimeo.

Not Fade Away is een nummer dat geschreven is in 1957 en op naam staat van Charles Hardin en Norman Petty. Charles Hardin was Buddy Holly; diens echte naam was Charles Hardin Holley. Buddy Holly was ook degene die het nummer voor het eerst opnam.

Bob Pearce - Members Only (De Amer)

Beetje rondstruinend in het het archief kom je soms verrassend leuke opnames tegen.Een mooie aanleiding het item "De Amer presenteert.."weer eens op te pikken. Deze keer met Bob Pearce,een mij onbekende bluesman uit de omgeving van Southampton.Mooi nummer ,zeker door de inbreng van een ook onbekende tweede gitarist(wie?)

                  Bob Pearce - Members Only

Ik had al veel mooie verhalen gehoord over Cafe de Amer Een bruin cafe in Amen (Drenthe) waar prachtige concerten werden gegeven.Het is vanuit Zeeland wat ver rijden anders was ik er vast wel eens op bezoek geweest.Het was dan ook een grote verrassing dat mijn muzikale vriend Gerrit uit het hoge noorden mij een DVD doorstuurde met hoogtepunten van diverse concerten die daar gegeven zijn.Het zijn prachtige opnames en het lijkt me leuk om regelmatig er wat van te publiceren.

Bob Dylan - Blind Willie McTell ( WEMBLEY ARENA LONDON, UK OCTOBER 5, 1997)

                                Bob Dylan - Guitars,Vocal       
                                Bucky Baxter - Steel Guitar       
                                David Kemper - Drums       
                                Larry Campbell - Guitars       
                                Tony Garnier - bass   

                       (Thanks to the tapers)

"Blind Willie McTell" is a song by Bob Dylan, titled after the blues singer Blind Willie McTell. It was recorded in 1983 but left off Dylan's album Infidels and officially released in 1991 on the The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991. The melody is loosely based on "St. James Infirmary Blues". For the song, Dylan, seated at the piano and accompanied by Mark Knopfler on the twelve-string acoustic guitar, sings a series of plaintive verses depicting allegorical scenes which reflect on the history of American music and slavery. Each verse ends with the same refrain: "Nobody can sing the blues like Blind Willie McTell".(WikiPedia)

 Blind Willie McTell (born William Samuel McTier; May 5, 1898 – August 19, 1959) was a Piedmont and ragtime blues singer and guitarist. He played with a fluid, syncopated fingerstyle guitar technique, common among many exponents of Piedmont blues, although, unlike his contemporaries, he came to use twelve-string guitars exclusively. McTell was also an adept slide guitarist, unusual among ragtime bluesmen. His vocal style, a smooth and often laid-back tenor, differed greatly from many of the harsher voice types employed by Delta bluesmen, such as Charley Patton. McTell embodied a variety of musical styles, including blues, ragtime, religious music and hokum.(Wikipedia)