|S| Bruce Springsteen... The Lost Nebraska Masters Part I

Recorded at Thrill Hill Recording, Colts Neck, New Jersey in January 1983.

|T| TV On The Radio - Killer Crane

... hey sunshine...

|N| Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Jambalya

When Jeff Hanna founded Nitty Gritty Dirt Band in the late sixties, he had little idea that he was just a few years away from changing the course of music history... Read full article here.

 

|C| Ry Cooder – Guitar Instrumental

Seems like nobody can bare the mystery around this tune. What is it called? Guitar Instrumental?! On what album is it on, when was it recorded...
How did I stumble upon it, even that I don't know.
But when the sun rests for the day and the evening falls, who cares about titles, albums and answers.

|C| Eric Clapton - Motherless Child

Get this one on tape.

|S| The Stone Foxes - I'm A King Bee

 "The Weekend is dead. Long live the Weekend." ... Just a response to a friends post. Killer version of this classic!

|B| Band of Horses - Neighbor

... as I get into the car, my friend starts hassling around with his IPod. We make it down to the bottom of the hill, around the curve and out towards the city. He tries to get the soundtrack for our ride going and some grumpy expressions arise through his beard... Still silence... Then... "THE WIND BLEW A PATH THROUGH THE FALLEN LEAVES" ... And you feel it, the sun is suddenly brighter, the air lighter and everything around us just flies and flows. The beard is now worn by a smile.


Sometimes you remember the moments when you heard a song for the first time. One of my favorite things to happen. Yesterday.

|P| Michel Polnareff - La Poupée Qui Fait Non

Some weeks ago a friend of mine showed me this audio blog Aquarium Drunkard. And alongside some very interesting musical treasures on there site, it made me reconnect with an almost forgotten tune that has been around my house since the days of making mixtapes, and probably before.

Read the article that inspired me to post this at http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2011/06/13/michel-polnareff-polnareffs-1971/

|P| Dottie Peoples - I Believe In You

This version of Bob Dylan's "I Believe In You" is from the award-winning documentary "Gotta Serve Somebody - The Gospel Songs of Bob Dylan". Among some other outstanding moments of this spiritual journey, this song, performed by gospel great Dottie Peoples, is the highlight of Dylan's crusade. It's gonna make you rattle n' shake, pray and clap even in your own cathedral.


Check out the trailer for "Gotta Serve Somebody".

|S| Spooky Tooth

Spooky Tooth  lays down their music with such a sincerity and soulfulness that it gives me goosebumps every time I put them on. When I found my dad's vinyl collection in an old closet in the back of my Uncle's garage this LP was probably my biggest finding. Among all the greats and the forgotten Spooky Tooth sticks out with their British roots-rock, stirred together with heavy blues stuff and a bit of outer-space... just good music.

These two takes are from their 1969 quintessential album Spooky Two.

|K| Kings of Leon and The Presets - Closer

Released on Kings of Leon's recent LP Come Around Sundown, this remix of their 2008 Closer is a real surprise and a half. Stripped down to the bare bones and underlined with ... well just listen!

|H| Hugo - 99 Problems... LIVE and in color

|W| The Whipsaws - Seven Long Years

"Collectively we’ve found a liberty that doesn’t constrain us to play just one style. If it sounds cool, we’re just going with it and taking chances." ... from www.thewhipsaws.com

|M| Mississippi Fred McDowell - This Little Light Of Mine

Farmer, Poet and Street Corner Minstrel - Mississippi Fred McDowell. Read about his night out in New York City ...

Blue Blue Blue |B| Blue Giant - Blue Sunshine

Well Well Well, shuffle your feet and do the walk.

|C| Ray Charles - The Right Time

It is 1958 at Newport Jazz Festival and this recording is capturing both the inexorably cathartic and effortlessly blasting natures of the era's Charles gig.

|E| The Easybeats - St. Louis

ACDC's Angus and Malcom Young's older brother and later producer with his killer 60's beat band The Easybeats.

 The Easybeats - St. Louis provided by Grooveshark

|F| The Faces - Richmond

Ronnie Lane takes the lead, Rod Stewart on Bass and Ronnie Wood with his guitar... The Faces.

|U| U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For performed with the Harlem Gospel Choir

I know... U2... but this is actually a killer version, the best version I ever heard of this song. The choir is amazing.

This guy is a Diamond |R| Terry Reid - Rich Kid Blues

Check out Terry Reid's biography, it is one heck of a tale. Jimmy Page asked him to join a group with him and John Paul Jones. Unfortunately Terry was stuck in a concert contract, so he told the two guys about this feller he saw at a gig in north England, his name Robert Plant.... This is Terry Reid's song Rich Kid Blues, this tune was fairly recently brought back to life by The Raconteurs.

Kick in overdrive... the song: |Y| Young Heart Attack - Take me back

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Fat sound, fat bones... |W| Leslie West - If I were a carpenter

Play via Grooveshark: Leslie West - If I were a carpenter

|J| Mick Jagger and Ry Cooder with Memo from Turner

|P| Paul Pena...

Thinking about you... |H| Humble Pie's You're So Good For Me

Put away the afternoon and let the sun rest for the day... |B| Black Mountain

One of the Dominos, solo. Great live performance. |W| Bobby Whitlock - Ivory Jailer

What about a little good morning shake-up... |L| Led Zeppelin

One of those killer B-Sides. Led Zeppelin's Hey Hey What Can I Do

Need a little bit o soul... |M| The Music Explosion

Beat!

|A| Kevin Ayers ... just sway away to this one... huu huuuu huuuuuu

"When Your Parents Go To Sleep", from the album Bananamour

Listen to some Island Music |D| Eric Donaldson

Play Eric Donaldson - Cherry Oh Baby

Through in a Nickel and Dime. Lets start out with |S| Spooky Tooth

What an amazing album, one of the all-time favorites. This selection is called "I've got enough heartaches". Feels like standing on a mountain top. Play...

Welcome to this Joint

 

The music shared and discussed here, has something amazing and eternal to it that makes it worth listening and experiencing. The songs we are talking about either were hidden away in a box for too long or didn’t stick around long enough, are performed par excellence or excellent par performance, sparkle and shine or just make you jump and jive.

Dig out the record boxes and lets hear it.