Otis Spann (Geb. 21Maart 1930 – Overleden 24April 1970) was een Amerikaanse blues muzikant.Velen beschouwen hem als een van de grootste na-oorlogse bluespianisten.
Live Newport Jazz 1960
Hij begon als solo artiest, maar vanaf 1952 tot 1968 maakte hij deel uit van de Muddy Waters Band.In die periode deed hij ook veel sessie werk met o.a Howlin Wolf en Bo Diddly Buddy Guy, Big Mama Thornton, Peter Green and Fleetwood Mac.(zie album van de week)
The Blues is Where It's At, Spann's 1966 album voor ABC-Bluesway,klinkt als een live opname maar is opgenomen in de studio.De opvolger was The Bottom of the Blues met Otis vrouw Lucille op vocals.
Harvest Moon: a daytime benefit concert on Saturday, September 14 at the Painted Turtle camp in Lake Hughes, CA (50 minutes from Getty Center). Audiences will take in performances by Father John Misty, Norah Jones, and Neil Young on a grassy hillside with unobstructed views of the performers, mountains, and a beautiful lake nestled near the Los Angeles National Forest.
Thanks to the taper!!
1. Sugar Mountain
2. I Am A Child
3. Comes A Time
4. Heart Of Gold
5. Old Man
6. Rainbow Of Colors
7. I Do
8. Eternity
9. Green Is Blue
10. Only Love Can Break Your Heart
11. Tell Me Why
12. War Of Man
13. New Mama
14. Harvest Moon (accompanied by Norah Jones and other performers)
15. The Losing End (accompanied by Norah Jones)
Reverend Gary Davis, also Blind Gary Davis (born Gary D. Davis, April 30, 1896 – May 5, 1972)
Davis was born in Laurens, South Carolina,
in the Piedmont region. Of the eight children his mother bore, he was
the only one who survived to adulthood. He became blind as an infant. He
recalled being poorly treated by his mother and that his father placed
him in the care of his paternal grandmother. Davis reported that when he
was 10 years old his father was killed in Birmingham, Alabama; he later said that he had been told that his father was shot by the Birmingham sheriff.
He sangs for the first time at Gray Court's Baptist church in South Carolina.
He took to the guitar and assumed a unique multivoice style produced solely with his thumb and index finger, playing gospel, ragtime, and blues tunes along with traditional and original tunes in four-part harmony.
"Death Don't Have No Mercy"
In the mid-1920s, Davis migrated to Durham, North Carolina, a major center of black culture at the time. There he taught Blind Boy Fuller and collaborated with a number of other artists in the Piedmont blues scene, including Bull City Red. In 1935, J. B. Long, a store manager with a reputation for supporting local artists, introduced Davis, Fuller, and Red to the American Record Company. The subsequent recording sessions (available on his Complete Early Recordings) marked the real beginning of Davis's career. During his time in Durham, he became a Christian. In 1933, Davis was ordained as a Baptistminister in Washington, North Carolina. Following his conversion and especially his ordination, Davis began to prefer inspirational gospel music.
In the 1940s, the blues scene in Durham began to decline, and Davis moved to New York.[2] In 1951, he recorded an oral history for the folklorist Elizabeth Lyttleton Harold (the wife of Alan Lomax). who transcribed their conversations in a typescript more than 300 pages long.
The folk revival of the 1960s invigorated Davis's career. He performed at the Newport Folk Festival. Peter, Paul and Mary recorded his version of "Samson and Delilah", also known as "If I Had My Way", a song by Blind Willie Johnson, which Davis had popularized. "Samson and Delilah" was also covered and credited to Davis by the Grateful Dead on the album Terrapin Station. The Dead also covered Davis' "Death Don't Have No Mercy". Eric Von Schmidt credited Davis with three-quarters of Schmidt's "Baby, Let Me Follow You Down", covered by Bob Dylan on his debut album for Columbia Records. The Blues Hall of Fame singer and harmonica player Darrell Mansfield has recorded several of Davis's songs.
Steely Dan is goed vertegenwoordigd in mijn verzameling maar vreemd genoeg nog niet veel op mijn blog ,Can't Buy a Thrill,Countdown to Ecstasy,Pretzel Logic,Katy Lied,The Royal Scam,Aja,Gaucho,Two Against Nature ,ik heb ze allemaal ,zowel op LP als op CD.Mooie ,tijdloze soms wat jazzachtige muziek met op elk album wel hoogtepunten als Do It Again,Hey Nineteen,Bodhisattva,Aja,Rikki Don't Lose That Number,Deacon Blue enz,enz..
Bodhisattva
De band toert nog steeds in verschillende samenstelllingen met als constante factor beide oprichters Donald Fagan en Walter Becker.In 1996 deden ze sinds lange tijd ook Nederland weer eens aan.Natuurlijk een ticket gekocht(veld Ahoy),ik zou vroeg wegrijden om een mooi plaatsje te bemachtigen toen mijn jongste zoon thuiskwam met..een gebroken pols!Dus inplaats van op weg naar Rotterdam zat ik in de spoedeisende hulp van het ziekenhuis in Goes.
Aya
Dat alles had tot gevolg dat ik pas om 7 uur kon rijden(aanvang concert 8 uur)en om half 9 op de plaats van bestemming was.De band was natuurlijk al lang begonnen,mijn mooie plaats kon ik wel vergeten,het geluid was halverwege het veld beroerd.Gelukkig was de band zo vriendelijk een korte pauze te nemen en kon ik me nog een mooi plekje voor het podium veroveren.Mijn meest favoriete nummers waren bewaard voor het tweede gedeelte en had ik toch nog een mooie avond.En met die pols van Jesper is het,getuige zijn gitaarspel, gelukkig ook allemaal goed gekomen.
Hey Nineteen
De Band:Donald Fagen - Keyboards and Vocals,Walter Becker - Guitar,Keith Carlock - Drums,Jon Herington - Guitar,Carolyn Leonhart-Escoffery - Backing Vocals,Michael Leonhart - Trumpet,Cindy Mizelle - Backing Vocals,Jim Pugh - Trombone,Roger Rosenberg - Baritone Sax,Freddie Washington - Bass,Walt Weiskopf - Sax,Jeff Young - Keyboards and Backing Vocals
Deacon Blue
Verizon Wireless Amphitheater Charlotte, North Carolina USA
Wanneer kwam Van in beeld,dat moet in 1964/65 geweest zijn.Alle beatbandjes hadden Gloria op het repetoire staan en allemaal meezingen G-L-O-R-I-A .Het nummer was van Them ,dat aparte bandje met die zanger met die speciale stem ,de mooie eerste LP.Het was de tijd van de Stones en Beatles maar dit was net iets anders.Daarna Astral Weeks ,Van Morrison solo ,dat was even wennen,totaal anders dan de toenmalige popmuziek,maar o zo mooi ,tot op de dag van vandaag toe.Er zouden nog vele mooie albums volgen ,de een nog mooier dan de andere.Ook de ,,mindere ,,bevatten altijd wel een paar pareltjes.En dan zijn concerten,vele bijgewoont ,de mooiste waren in de ,,kleinere,,zalen als De Doelen ,en Vredenburg.De eerste moet in De Doelen geweest zijn ,de laatste in Peer ,afgelopen zomer.Zeker niet zijn beste concert maar ik had het toch niet willen missen.
Natuurlijk is onze vriend niet altijd het vrolijkste jongetje van de klas,is niet altijd even vriendelijk(understatement?)maar dat is absoluut niet van invloed op zijn muziek,en daar gaat het tenslotte om.Dus Van ,nog vele jaren en blijven doen waar je goed in bent, mooie muziek maken!!!! en en je humeur? dat nemen we op de koop toe.
In The Afternoon/Acient Highway/Get On Up
Live at the Mountain Winery Saratoga,California 31-08-2004,
Jawel,op Van,s 59ste verjaardag,Let op Martin Winning(sax)na zijn ruzie met een vlieg zie je zijn voorpret,hij gaat Happy Birthday in zijn solo verwerken,het publiek pikt het op en zingt Van toe,mooi spontaan optreden.
The Morris Brothers
were a popular fraternal duo during the late '30s best known for their
song "Let Me Be Your Salty Dog," which later became the bluegrass
standard "Salty Dog Blues." Zeke and Wiley Morris were born three years apart in Old Fort, NC. Their eldest brother, George, was the first to get into music, working with J.E. Mainer and his brother Wade. Mainer's fiddler, John Love, tried to convince George to join the band, but Love instead ended up with 17-year-old Zeke, who remained with the Mainers for three years and participated in the band's first recording session for Bluebird in 1935.(AllMusic)
Old Smokey
Wade Mainer and Zeke soon left to form their own group, adding fiddler Homer Sherrill. They continued recording for Bluebird and also worked at a Raleigh radio station. After Mainer left, Morris, Sherrill, and the rest of the group stayed together to appear on a Danville station. By 1938, Wiley Morris had joined them, and Wiley, Zeke, and Homer recorded several singles for Bluebird, changing their name to The Morris Brothers a few months later for a nine-song session that included the first version of "Salty Dog Blues." The Brothers continued appearing on local radio stations, occasionally joined by George.(AllMusic)
Conversation
During their career, The Morris Brothers
usually worked as a duo and didn't always have a backing band;
sometimes they even led separate groups. The two split up in Knoxville
in the early '40s; Wiley joined the Dixie Pardners, while Zeke joined a band at Johnson City radio. The Morris Brothers
recorded together for the last time in 1945 for RCA Victor. Among the
songs was a new version of their signature tune, plus "Tragic Romance"
and "Somebody Loves You Darling."(AllMusic)
Salty Dog
They went into semi-retirement, eventually moving to Black Mountain, NC,
and opening an auto body shop. They did perform infrequently through
the '60s and '70s at various festivals and in 1972 recorded an album
featuring the fiddle playing of Homer Sherrill.(AllMusic)
Flint Hill Special
They also joined Earl Scruggs and appeared on a PBS-TV special on which they recorded yet another version of "Salty Dog Blues." In 1985, The Morris Brothers appeared at a Charlotte radio old-timers reunion for their final performance. Five years later, Wiley died; Zeke remained at his body shop and expressed no further interest in performing.(AllMusic)
Door onvoorziene omstandigheden moest ik deze editie van Swing Wespelaar aan me voorbij laten gaan.Gelukkig verschijnen er op de sociale media tegenwoordig voldoende filmpjes en foto,s die me laten zien wat ik allemaal gemist heb.Zo ook deze band waar ik vooraf goede berichten had gehoord.
Een week later zag ik de band op het Culemborg Bluesfestival ,en er was geen woord teveel gezegd.
Ook hier een geweldig optreden,covers met verassende arragementen en prima eigen nummers.Band met toekomst!
Our Fire Still Burns On
De band: Dave Warmerdam-keys/vocals.Janne Timmer-vocals.Sonny Ray-guitar.
Lars Hoogland-bass.Rick van der Voort -drums.
In Culemborg een prachtige set op een sfeervol en bomvol marktplein.Een mix van jazz .blues en een beetje fusion.Mijn gedachten gingen,mede door de zang en het gitaarwerk ook uit naar een vroege Big Brother & The Holding Compagnie .Ik kijk uit naar het volgende optreden........
Bob Weir - Guitar, Vocals | Dave Garland - Keyboards, Saxophone, Vocals |
Billy Cobham - Drums, Vocals | Bobby Cochran - Guitar,Vocals | Alphonso
Johnson - Bass, Vocals
Easy To Slip (Lowell George)
Bobby and the Midnites was a rock group led by Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead. The band was Weir's main side project
during the first half of the 1980s. They released two albums, but were
better known for their live concerts than for their work in the
recording studio. With a rhythm section that included jazz veterans Billy Cobham and, for a time, Alphonso Johnson, Bobby and the Midnites played rock music that was influenced by jazz-rock fusion.
Man Smart
In 1978, Bob Weir had led a side project called the Bob Weir Band that
played a number of concerts. Besides Weir himself, two members of the
Bob Weir Band were in Bobby and the Midnites. One was guitarist and singer Bobby Cochran (Eddie Cochran's nephew), formerly of Steppenwolf. The other was keyboardist and singer Brent Mydland, who in the interim had joined the Grateful Dead. Matthew Kelly was another "Midnite" who had already played in a band with Weir — Kingfish, which Kelly and Dave Torbert had founded in 1973, and which Weir had played in full-time from 1974 to 1976. Kelly played guitar, harmonica, and congas. Tim Bogert, who had previously been in Vanilla Fudge and Beck, Bogert & Appice, was recruited to play bass guitar. The Midnites' drummer was Billy Cobham, a highly regarded jazz and fusion musician who had played with Miles Davis and the Mahavishnu Orchestra, among others.
Salt Lake City
The first Bobby and the Midnites concert was at the Golden Bear, in Huntington Beach, California,
on June 30, 1980. The band played a number of live dates from mid-1980
to early 1981. Then Alphonso Johnson replaced Bogert on bass. Johnson
had been in Weather Report,
and had played with Cobham in the CBS All-Stars. This slightly revised
configuration of Bobby and the Midnites recorded the band's self-titled
first album.
The Midnites did not play live again until the following year. Brent Mydland and Matthew Kelly had left the lineup, and Dave Garland had joined. Garland sang and played keyboards and saxophone.
Starting in January 1982, this group toured extensively when the
Grateful Dead were not on the road. A 60-minute concert video of this
Midnites lineup was released on VHS in 1991.
Bombs Away
On November 27, 1982, Bobby and the Midnites performed in Montego Bay at the Jamaica World Music Festival. They were one of many acts, including the Grateful Dead, the Clash, the B-52's, the English Beat, Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers, Toots & the Maytals, Peter Tosh, and Aretha Franklin. The Midnites' set occurred after midnight of November 26, in the early hours of November 27[citation needed].
They played songs such as "Man Smart, Woman Smarter", "Heaven Help The
Fool", "Thunder and Lighting", and "Book of Rules". Billy Cobham was
given an introduction by the festival MC, and took an extended drum solo
leading into "Josephine".
Book Of Rules( The Heptones)
In March 1983, the band had its final change of personnel, when Kenny Gradney, formerly of Little Feat,
replaced Johnson on bass. The band continued touring, playing many
live dates, and in 1984 released a second studio album. The last Bobby
and the Midnites concert was at the Rio, in Valley Stream, New York, on September 30, 1984.
After Bobby and the Midnites, Bob Weir's next non-Grateful Dead
musical appearances were with Kingfish, sitting in on a number of
concerts in 1984 and again in 1986. Weir also played several solo acoustic shows in 1985
Bobby and The Midnites - Full Concert
Recorded Live: 11/1/1980 - Paste Magazine Offices (Decatur, GA)
Following are the lineups for Bobby and the Midnites' live performances.
