George Harrison - All Things Must Pass - 1970 (2021 Super Deluxe)

George Harrison - All Things Must Pass - 1970 (2021 Super Deluxe)

Released in November 1970, just seven months after the group’s breakup was belatedly confirmed, it has become synonymous with the concept of suppressed brilliance. Since he first landed a composition on a Beatles album with “Don’t Bother Me” in 1963, Harrison had battled, largely unsuccessfully, to place his songs on the group’s records, eventually securing one per LP and finally one per vinyl side. Thus, he had a huge backlog of material, and his deep frustration at trying to break the John Lennon-Paul McCartney songwriting stranglehold was one of many factors in the group’s dissolution. Yet it’s also the reason why “All Things Must Pass” is such a masterpiece: He’d been working toward it for his entire career.

Disc 1 (Main Album)

01. I’d Have You Anytime

02. My Sweet Lord

03. Wah-Wah

04. Isn’t It A Pity (Version One)

05. What Is Life

06. If Not For You

07. Behind That Locked Door

08. Let It Down

09. Run Of The Mill

Disc 2 (Main Album)

01. Beware Of Darkness

02. Apple Scruffs

03. Ballad Of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)

04. Awaiting On You All

05. All Things Must Pass

06. I Dig Love

07. Art Of Dying

08. Isn’t It A Pity (Version Two)

09. Hear Me Lord

10. Out Of The Blue  

11. It’s Johnny’s Birthday  

12. Plug Me In  

13. I Remember Jeep  

14. Thanks For The Pepperoni  

Disc 3 (Day 1 Demos – Tuesday 26 May 1970)

01. All Things Must Pass (Take 1) 

02. Behind That Locked Door (Take 2)

03. I Live For You (Take 1)

04. Apple Scruffs (Take 1)

05. What Is Life (Take 3)

06. Awaiting On You All (Take 1) 

07. Isn’t It A Pity (Take 2)

08. I’d Have You Anytime (Take 1)

09. I Dig Love (Take 1)

10. Going Down To Golders Green (Take 1)

11. Dehra Dun (Take 2)

12. Om Hare Om (Gopala Krishna) (Take 1)

13. Ballad Of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) (Take 2)

14. My Sweet Lord (Take 1) 

15. Sour Milk Sea (Take 1)

Disc 4 (Day 2 Demos – Wednesday 27 May 1970)

01. Run Of The Mill (Take 1) 

02. Art Of Dying (Take 1)

03. Everybody/Nobody (Take 1)

04. Wah-Wah (Take 1)

05. Window Window (Take 1)

06. Beautiful Girl (Take 1)

07. Beware Of Darkness (Take 1)

08. Let It Down (Take 1)

09. Tell Me What Has Happened To You (Take 1)

10. Hear Me Lord (Take 1)

11. Nowhere To Go (Take 1)

12. Cosmic Empire (Take 1)

13. Mother Divine (Take 1)

14. I Don’t Want To Do It (Take 1)

15. If Not For You (Take 1)

Disc 5 (Session Outtakes and Jams)

01. Isn’t It A Pity (Take 14)

02. Wah-Wah (Take 1)

03. I’d Have You Anytime (Take 5)

04. Art Of Dying (Take 1)

05. Isn’t It A Pity (Take 27)

06. If Not For You (Take 2)

07. Wedding Bells (Are Breaking Up That Old Gang Of Mine) (Take 1)

08. What Is Life (Take 1)

09. Beware Of Darkness (Take 8)

10. Hear Me Lord (Take 5)

11. Let It Down (Take 1)

12. Run Of The Mill (Take 36)

13. Down To the River (Rocking Chair Jam) (Take 1)

14. Get Back (Take 1)

15. Almost 12 Bar Honky Tonk (Take 1)

16. It’s Johnny’s Birthday (Take 1)

17. Woman Don’t You Cry For Me (Take 5)

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IVAR AVENUE REUNION - Ivar Avenue Reunion

IVAR AVENUE REUNION - Ivar Avenue Reunion - 1970

A one-time project a kind of supergroup of Toronto. Album featuring Neil Merryweather, Charlie Musselwhite, Barry Goldberg and Lynn Carey was recorded at the "RCA Records", located on Ivar Avenue ( hence the name of the group ) , just a few hours. A great mix of blues and psychedelia Hardy with extraordinary vocals Lynn Carey.

The record-consuming public of the '70s was enthusiastic enough about jam sessions to have been offered all kinds of products such as this album, the contents of which beg the question of just what is a jam session, anyway? In this case, the liner notes hint at a casual get-together of various friends, with the cast of characters extending well beyond the confines of the four names listed under the album title. The music these individuals come up with is more like the type of song material rock artists put on a formal album. There is really not much jamming, other than a concluding group improvisation given the title of "Toe Jam," an unappetizing decision seeing how it is preceded by "Walkin' Shoes" and "Run, Run Children" before that. This hint of an obsession with sweaty feet is the only consistent thing about an album that is simply all over the place, depending on who is taking charge of any given song.

Charlie Musselwhite can do a shuffle blues, so he contributes that. Barry Goldberg is a familiar hand at jams, but also co-writes songs with vocalist Lynn Carey that require a flutist and French horn player to augment the group. In the former case, hiring one that plays out of tune is not something that benefits the song at all. On the plus side, certain types of grooves are nailed dead-on. The recording aggregation, who collectively pose on the back cover and for the most part do not look like people one would want to invite over for the evening, bite down solidly on an Otis Spann cover entitled "After While." It is the "Smokestack Lightning" groove, with the results actually an improvement over the sound of 

Musselwhite's own blues recordings. "Fast Train" is a good example of type of joyous but overlong rock-gospel tracks that were popular in the '70s, with solid vocalizing from Carey. The reunion occurred at RCA Studios on Ivar Avenue, thus the name “Ivar Avenue Reunion”.

A one-time project a kind of supergroup of Toronto. Album featuring Neil Merryweather, Charlie Musselwhite, Barry Goldberg and Lynn Carey was recorded at the "RCA Records", located on Ivar Avenue ( hence the name of the group ) , just a few hours. A great mix of blues and psychedelia Hardy with extraordinary vocals Lynn Carey.

The record-consuming public of the '70s was enthusiastic enough about jam sessions to have been offered all kinds of products such as this album, the contents of which beg the question of just what is a jam session, anyway? In this case, the liner notes hint at a casual get-together of various friends, with the cast of characters extending well beyond the confines of the four names listed under the album title. The music these individuals come up with is more like the type of song material rock artists put on a formal album. There is really not much jamming, other than a concluding group improvisation given the title of "Toe Jam," an unappetizing decision seeing how it is preceded by "Walkin' Shoes" and "Run, Run Children" before that. This hint of an obsession with sweaty feet is the only consistent thing about an album that is simply all over the place, depending on who is taking charge of any given song. Charlie Musselwhite can do a shuffle blues, so he contributes that. Barry Goldberg is a familiar hand at jams, but also co-writes songs with vocalist Lynn Carey that require a flutist and French horn player to augment the group. In the former case, hiring one that plays out of tune is not something that benefits the song at all. On the plus side, certain types of grooves are nailed dead-on. The recording aggregation, who collectively pose on the back cover and for the most part do not look like people one would want to invite over for the evening, bite down solidly on an Otis Spann cover entitled "After While." It is the "Smokestack Lightning" groove, with the results actually an improvement over the sound of Musselwhite's own blues recordings. "Fast Train" is a good example of type of joyous but overlong rock-gospel tracks that were popular in the '70s, with solid vocalizing from Carey. The reunion occurred at RCA Studios on Ivar Avenue, thus the name “Ivar Avenue Reunion”.

01. Ride Mama Ride

02. After While

03. Magic Fool

04. Fast Train

05. My Daddy Was A Jockey

06. Charlotte Brown

07. Run, Run Children

08. Walkin 'Shoes

09. Toe Jam

Barry Goldberg - Organ, Piano

Charlie Musselwhite - Harmonica, Vocals

John "Screamin JR " Richardson - Guitars

Lynn Carey - Vocals

Neil Merryweather - Bass

Robin Boers - Drums

Louise Di Tullio - Flute

Jim Decker - Horn

Sidney George - Clarinet

J. J. Velker - Eletric Piano, Organ

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Speedy Keen - You Know What I Mean (Re-Re-Post)

Speedy Keen - You Know What I Mean - 1975

from http://www.glorydazemusic.com

Ever heard of them eh? Well, Speedy Keen was not really a band but the stage name of one John Keen former lead vocalist of Thunderclap Newman. The Thunderclap's originally put together by The Who's Pete Townsend had one major hit with 'Something In The Air', a song that if you've been within earshot of a radio in the last thirty eight years, you must have heard at least once. An obligatory two month tour of the UK followed, but the band fell apart, understandably not able to match the success of the brilliant and timeless single. Following the split guitarist Jimmy McCulloch went on to Wings and keyboardist Andy Newman released an outstanding progressive album 'Rainbow' in 1971 disappearing soon after never to be heard from again. Not to be left out in the cold, Keen released his first solo album 'Previous Convictions' in 1973 to lukewarm reviews. Following up with 'Y'Know Wot I Mean' found Speedy supported by most of Back Street Crawler and an album that was originally written as a double LP, but eventually was whittled down on the advisement of Island Records.

01 Crazy Love

02 Almost Eighteen

03 Nightmare

04 Fighting In The Streets

05 Bad Boys

06 I Promise You

07 Someone To Love

08 My Love

09 The Profit Of Ecology

John "Speedy" Keen - Vocals, Acoustic & Electric Guitar, Drums, Piano, Organ, Mellotron

Butch Sanford - Lead Guitar

Terry Wilson - Bass

Tony Braunagel - Drums

Emanuel Rentzos, John Bundrick - Keyboards

Liza Strike - Backing Vocals

Peter Vanderpuije, George Lee, Eddie Quansah - Horns

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Linda Ronstadt - Simple Dreams

Linda Ronstadt - Simple Dreams - 1977 

By Wiikipedia

Simple Dreams is the eighth studio album by the American singer Linda Ronstadt, released in 1977 by Asylum Records. It includes several of her best-known songs, including her cover of the Rolling Stones song "Tumbling Dice" (featured in the film FM) and her version of the Roy Orbison song "Blue Bayou", which earned her a Grammy nomination for Record of the Year. The album also contains covers of the Buddy Holly song "It's So Easy!" (a top-5 hit) and the Warren Zevon songs "Poor Poor Pitiful Me" (another top-40 hit) and "Carmelita". The album was the best-selling studio album of her career, and at the time was the second best-selling album by a female artist (behind only Carole King's Tapestry). It was her first album since Don't Cry Now without long-time musical collaborator Andrew Gold, though it features several of the other Laurel Canyon-based session musicians who appeared on her prior albums, including guitarists Dan Dugmore and Waddy Wachtel, bassist Kenny Edwards, and producer and multi-instrumentalist Peter Asher.

01. It's So Easy (Buddy Holly)

02. Carmelita (Warren Zevon)

03. Simple Man, Simple Dream (J.D. Souther)

04. Sorrow Lives Here (Eric Kaz)

05. I Never Will Marry (Traditional)

06. Blue Bayou (Roy Orbison)

07. Poor Poor Pitiful Me (Warren Zevon)

08. Maybe I'm Right (Waddy Wachtel)

09. Tumbling Dice (Stones)

10. Old Paint (Trad.)

 

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Mark Stein - There's a Light

Mark Stein - There's a Light - 2021

Founding Vanilla Fudge lead singer and keyboardist Mark Stein recently released his first official solo album, There’s a Light.

Stein put the album together during the COVID-19 pandemic, mixing brand-new songs with older originals and a few covers, all featuring themes reflecting issues that the U.S. and the world have been facing during this volatile period in history.

Speaking about There’s a Light to ABC Audio, Stein notes that the album features “songs about love and patriotism and social issues that we’ve all been dealing with. Songs like ‘Racism’ and ‘All Lives Matter’ and ‘We Are One‘ and my cover of [The Temptations‘] ‘Ball of Confusion.’ It all holds together and has a message.”

Stein says the song that kickstarted the project was “We Are One,” a song about unity that he wrote in response to the divisiveness he noticed in the U.S. during the early days of the pandemic.

“I wrote that about six weeks after the initial pandemic, in April 2020,” he recalls. “I was compelled to write this song, and it started out like a ball of fire.”

Another song with a positive message on the album is “Let’s Pray for Peace,” and Mark recently released a music video for the tune to coincide with the holidays.

“During this Holiday Season, I hope this song helps to bring our volatile world a little closer together,” Stein says in a message. “Merry Christmas & A Happy Healthy New Year.”

Among the guest musicians featured on “There’s a Light” are longtime Utopia bassist Kasim Sulton, former Billy Joel drummer Liberty DeVitto and Vanilla Fudge’s bassist, Pete Bremy.

01. We Are One

02. Ball of Confusion

03. We Are Survivors

04. Lyin'

05. Racism

06. All Lives Matter

07. Let's Pray for Peace

08. People Got to be Free

09. Break it Down

10. America the Beautiful

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