Ian McLagan & The Bump Band - Live At Lucky Lounge (Re-post)

Ian McLagan & The Bump Band - Live At Lucky Lounge - 2013

Ian McLagan, along with singer/guitarist Steve Marriott, bass player Ronnie Lane, and drummer Kenney Jones, was a member of the British pop/rock band the Small Faces, joining in November 1965, six months after the group's formation. Before then, he had been a member of Boz & the Boz People, among other groups. McLagan's first recorded work with the Small Faces was their third single, "Sha La La La Lee," which peaked in the U.K. Top Ten in March 1966. A teenybopper success at first, the band eventually gained greater critical standing by adopting a more psychedelic style. Over the next two years, they scored further Top Ten British hits with "Hey Girl," "All or Nothing" (which hit number one), "My Mind's Eye," "Itchycoo Park" (which introduced them to American listeners, hitting the U.S. Top 40), "Tin Soldier," and "Lazy Sunday," and among their albums, Small Faces reached the Top Ten and Ogden's Nut Gone Flake hit number one.

In March 1969, Marriott quit to form Humble Pie. Three months later, McLagan, Lane, and Jones combined with singer Rod Stewart and guitarist Ron Wood, formerly of the Jeff Beck Group, to form the Faces. This group developed a reputation for its freewheeling performances, but it was overshadowed by Stewart's solo career, which took off in the fall of 1971 with his hit "Maggie May." Nevertheless, the Faces also had considerable commercial success, reaching the U.K. Top Ten with the singles "Stay with Me," "Cindy Incidentally," and "Pool Hall Richard"/"I Wish It Would Rain," and the albums A Nod Is as Good as a Wink...to a Blind Horse, Ooh La La (which hit number one), and Coast to Coast: Overture and Beginners. But in 1975, Stewart quit, while Wood joined the Rolling Stones, and the Faces broke up.  

In the two decades since his arrival in Austin, ex-Faces/Small Faces linchpin and sideman-to-the-stars Ian McLagan has lived up to his status as local musical royalty, delivering consistently excellent new music and energetic live gigs with various incarnations of his crack combo the Bump Band. The veteran Brit singer/keyboardist's long-running happy-hour residency at the Lucky Lounge remains an ideal venue for his mix of boozy buoyancy and unfussy expertise, and this effortlessly amiable 14-song set spins a high-spirited document of the intimate living-room ambiance of those gigs. With effervescent rockers from McLagan's solo catalog augmented by enduring chestnuts by the Small Faces ("Get Yourself Together"), Faces ("Cindy Incidentally"), and ex-bandmate Ronnie Lane (uplifting set-closer "Kuschty Rye"), Live at the Lucky Lounge offers a joyous gem that underlines this Rock & Roll Hall of Famer's stature as a musical gift that keeps on giving.

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01. Get Yourself Together
02. Someone Special
03. Loverman
04. Date With an Angel
05. I'm Hot, You're Cool
06. So Lucky
07. Been a Long Time
08. Never Say Never
09. Cindy Incidentally
10. Your Secret
11. Trapped
12. Warm Rain
13. I Will Follow
14. Kuschty Rye 






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VA - Meet on the Ledge an Island Folk-Rock Anthology

VA - Meet on the Ledge an Island Folk-Rock Anthology - 2009

from recordcollectormag.com

For long-time Island fans the most fun way to celebrate this hugelytrumpeted anniversary would be reissuing the two budget-price samplers which introduced so many cash-strapped kids to the label in 1969. The wide range of musical strains presented was packed with avenues to explore, but You Can All Join In’s Side Two, Track One was Fairport Convention’s hauntingly anthemic Meet On The Ledge, heralding the label’s oncoming “quiet revolution” combining folk and electric rock forms, examined here over three CDs.

The astutely-picked selection swings quite naturally from the worthy traditionalism of The Albion Band into the late, great John Martyn revamping the same form with his treated electric guitar (one of seven beauties from the man). In between these sonic goalposts bubble a diverse gaggle including the mighty Traffic, intensely poignant Sandy Denny, wonderfully-whimsical Dr Strangely Strange, Richard & Linda Thompson, Cat Stevens, Nick Drake, Incredible String Band, Jethro Tull, Ronnie Lane and less-remembered names such as Jess Roden’s Bronco and The Sutherland Brothers. The worthy nose-pinching element may put some off but folk has always been either a multi-faceted or much-divided field, depending on personal standing, so it’s further tribute to Island that they covered all these bases and made it look quite natural.

CD 1
01. John Martyn - Cocaine
02. Fairport Convention - She Moves Through The Fair
03. Traffic - Withering Tree
04. John Martyn - Seven Black Roses
05. Fairport Convention - A Sailor's Life
06. John & Beverley Martyn - The Ocean
07. Dr. Strangely Strange - Strangely Strange But Oddly Normal
08. Jethro Tull - Living In The Past
09. Fairport Convention - Matty Groves
10. Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die
11. Fotheringay - Banks Of The Nile
12. Nick Drake     One Of These Things First
13. Fairport Convention - Sir Patrick Spens

CD 2
01. Fairport Convention - Dirty Linen
02. Cat Stevens - On The Road To Find Out
03. Sandy Denny - Late November
04. Mike Heron - Flowers Of The Forest
05. Amazing Blondel - Spring Season
06. Bronco - Time Slips Away
07. Claire Hamill - The Man Who Cannot See Tomorrow's Sunshine
08. Amazing Blondel - Siege Of Yaddlethorpe
09. The Incredible String Band - Dear Old Battlefield
10. Robin Williamson - Dark Eyed Lady
11. Richard Thompson - Poor Ditching Boy
12. Morris On - The Nutting Girl
13. Sandy Denny - Bushes And Briars
14. The Incredible String Band - Black Jack David
15. Sutherland Brothers - Sailing
16. John Martyn - Over The Hill
17. Nick Drake - Things Behind The Sun
18. Ashley Hutchings & Chums - Haste To The Wedding/The Triumph/Off She Goes

CD 3
01. The Albion Band - Hanged I Shall Be
02. John Martyn -  Eibhli Ghail Chiuin Ni Chearbhail
03. Richard & Linda Thompson - Withered & Died
04. John Martyn - Spencer The Rover
05. Bryn Haworth - Darlin' Cory
06. Richard & Linda Thompson - The Sun Never Shines On The Poor
07. Ronnie Lane & Slim Chance - Stone
08. Richard & Linda Thompson - Dimming Of The Day/Dargai
09. Ashley Hutchings & Chums - Upton Upon Severn Stick Dance
10. Richard Thompson - Calvary Cross
11. Sandy Denny - I'm A Dreamer
12. John Martyn - May You Never
13. Fairport Convention - Meet On The Ledge

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Richard Ashcroft - Keys To The World

 

Richard Ashcroft - Keys To The World - 2006

from Wikipedia

Keys to the World is the third studio album by English singer-songwriter Richard Ashcroft. It was released 23 January 2006, reaching number 2 in the UK Albums Chart (see 2006 in British music). Ashcroft worked on the album at State of the Ark studios and Julian Kershaw wrote string arrangements for some of the songs later recorded by London Metropolitan Orchestra. Strings are featured on 8 songs on the album which also features electric viola on some tracks – played by Bruce White. The engineer/producer was Chris Potter.

 01. Why Not Nothing?
02. Music Is Power
03. Break The Night With Colour
04. Words Just Get In The Way
05. Keys To The World
06. Sweet Brother Malcolm
07. Cry Til The Morning
08. Why Do Lovers?
09. Simple Song
10. World Keeps Turning




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The See See - Late Morning Light

The See See - Late Morning Light - 2011

from soundsxp.com

Stood at a See See gig, an acquaintance commented “they’re a country-rock Oasis”. I’m not sure whether that was praise or damnation but you can just about see-see the point (on ‘Deceiver Retriever’ especially): they’ve combined the familiar tropes of the past - country, folk and psychedelia, in their case - with an acute pop sensibility to create something that constantly echoes classic sounds but also has a catchy contemporary buzz. To give you an idea, readers of Uncut will rush out to buy copies while NME readers won’t mind illegally downloading it.

The band know their stuff, with a history including the Soledad Brothers, Waxwings, The Eighteenth Day of May and solo work (Pete Greenwood’s psych-folk stuff is truly awesome) and there are guest slots from Olivia Tremor Control’s Bill Doss and Hush Arbors’ Keith Wood. So expect to hear dreamy Elephant 6-ish psychedelic pop (‘Powers of Ten’), jangly Byrds-isms (‘Mary Soul’) and harmonious Big Star pop (‘That’s My Sign’), as well as some stunning trippy diversions as Pete Greenwood (presumably) leads them down woozy sideroads (the way ‘Mary Soul’ dissolves into a psych-folk supernova is especially mindfucking). But essentially it’s a pop record, from the gorgeous melodies of ‘And I Wonder’ to the staggering West Coast-meets-Merseybeat ‘Half A Man and a Horse’s Head’. Their four previous singles were all cracking (and they’re all here, but are not necessarily the best songs) but that was just a teaser for the full-length. Maybe they won’t play Knebworth, and I know for a fact they’re not City fans, but music this good – with its full spread of mythic sound but as catchy as fuck - deserves and should get the widest hearing.

01. Mary Soul
02. Tomorrow Come Today
03. Deceiver Retriever
04. Little Tease
05. Keep Your Head
06. It's True
07. Powers Of Ten
08. Half A Man And A Horses Head
09. And I Wonder
10. Late Morning Light
11. Clap Your Hands & Shake A Chain
12. That's My Sign

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