The Who - Join Together

 

The Who - Join Together - 1990

Join Together is a box set of live material released from The Who's 1989 25th Anniversary Tour. Several of the tracks were recorded at Radio City Music Hall, New York, and at Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, with the rest from various other concerts during the tour.

It was released in 1990 by Virgin Records in the UK and MCA Records in the US. The album was released in the US as a vinyl three LP set in March 1990, where it reached #180 in the US charts. It was also released on cassette tape, and later released on MCA as a two-CD set.

CD 1 - Tommy

01. Overture/It's a Boy
02. 1921
03. Amazing Journey
04. Sparks
05. Eyesight to the Blind (The Hawker)
06. Christmas
07. Cousin Kevin
08. The Acid Queen
09. Pinball Wizard
10. Do You Think It's Alright?
11. Fiddle About
12. There's a Doctor
13. Go to the Mirror!
14. Smash the Mirror
15. Tommy, Can You Hear Me?
16. I'm Free
17. Miracle Cure
18. Sally Simpson
19. Sensation
20. Tommy's Holiday Camp
21. We're Not Gonna Take It


CD 2

01. Eminence Front
02. Face the Face
03. Dig
04. I Can See for Miles
05. A Little Is Enough
06. 5:15
07. Love Reign O'er Me
08. Trick of the Light
09. Rough Boys
10. Join Together
11. You Better You Bet
12. Behind Blue Eyes
13. Won't Get Fooled Again
 
Roger Daltrey - Vocal
John Entwistle - Bass, Vocal
Pete Townshend -  Acoustic & Electric Guitars, Vocals

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Simon Phillips - Drums
John Bundrick - Piano, Keyboards
Jody Linscott - Percussion
Billy Nicholls, Cleveland Watkiss & Chyna - Backing Vocals
Steve 'Boltz' Bolton - Electric Guitar
Simon Clarke, Simon Gardner, Roddy Lorimer, Tim Saunders, Neil Sidwell - Brass


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Colin Cooper Project - From The Vaults

Colin Cooper Project  -  From The Vaults  - 2014

Until his death in 2008 from cancer, British singer and musician Colin Cooper had enjoyed a lengthy and rewarding career. Enamored of music from an early age, Cooper first taught himself harmonica before moving on to clarinet, saxophone, and guitar – multi-instrumental skills that would serve him well down the road. His first band of note was the early-1960s outfit Colin Cooper's Climax Jazz Band, but it was with the mid-60s mod band the Hipster Image, and its Alan Price-produced single "Can't Let Her Go" b/w "Make Her Mine," that Cooper got his first taste of fame.

The blues remained Cooper's first love, and he would push the band back towards its blues roots throughout the late 1980s and well into the new millennium, releasing albums like 1994's Blues From The Attic and 2003's Big Blues (The Songs of Willie Dixon) to great response. During this same period, Cooper showed his loyalty to the blues by recording a number of blues and roots-rock covers in his home studio, songs that he'd crafted to perfection with impromptu performances on his steel Dobro guitar at local pubs. Although they were never performed with commercial release in mind, the best of these homespun demos have been collected under the Colin Cooper Project banner and recently released on CD as From The Vaults.

From The Vaults kicks off with Taj Mahal's "Cake Walk Into Town," the song provided a spry, up-tempo performance, Cooper's jaunty vocals approximating Mahal's original funky drawl, his lively guitar-picking providing a sparse, but engaging framework for the song. Cooper's deep voice is perfectly suited to the material, and late-period Climax Blues Band guitarist Lester Hunt adds some elegant electric guitar as a fine counterpoint to Cooper's acoustic, Piedmont blues-flavored Dobro. A reading of Robert Johnson's "Rambling On My Mind" is closer in spirit to Eric Clapton's laidback cover than to the blues legend's Delta-dirty original, an upbeat arrangement replete with finger-picked strings and a walking rhythm capturing the restless spirit of Johnson's lyrical intent nonetheless.

01. Cake Walk into Town
02. Rambling on My Mind
03. Walkin' Blues
04. Sidewalk Hobo
05. Livin' with the Blues
06. Boeuf River Road
07. One Roomed Country Shack
08. It Hurts Me Too
09. I'm Not Downhearted But I'm Getting There
10. Key to the Highway
11. The Family
12. Making Whoopie
13. I Didn't Sleep a Wink Last Night
14. Twenty Four Hours

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Miles Kane - ITunes Festival London 2011

 

Miles Kane - ITunes Festival London 2011 - 2011

Born in 1986 in Merseyside, guitarist Miles Kane formed the Little Flames with childhood friends at the age of 18, but after Eva Petersen and Mat Gregory left the band due to creative differences, he, along with bassist Joe Edwards and drummer Greg Mighall, continued as a three-piece under the new name of the Rascals. In 2007, with Kane now on vocals, they released their debut album, Rascalize, and appeared in the British hooligan film Away Days, performing an Echo & the Bunnymen cover. 

After supporting Arctic Monkeys on their U.K. tour, Kane became friends with lead singer Alex Turner, and due to a mutual appreciation of Scott Walker, they decided to record an album together. The Last Shadow Puppets reached number one with their debut, The Age of the Understatement, scored a Top Ten single with the title track, and received a 2008 Mercury Music Prize nomination. After Turner returned to his day job, Kane decided to leave the Rascals and pursue a solo career. In 2010 he worked with Super Furry Animals' Gruff Rhys on material influenced by Serge Gainsbourg and John Lennon. His first single, "Inhaler," was released the same year. In 2011

01. Better Left Invisible
02. Telepathy
03. Come Closer
04. Rearrange
05. Colour Of The Trap


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Shawn Phillips - Shawn At The BBC

 

Shawn Phillips - Shawn At The BBC - 2009

from AMG

Three BBC sessions -- one from May 10, 1971, one from March 19, 1973, and the final one from October 8, 1974 -- are collected on this good-value 14-track, hour-length CD, in fine fidelity. Though not the fault of the artist, fans might be a little disappointed that this doesn't include anything in the way of otherwise unavailable songs. All of the tunes (all Shawn Phillips originals) come from his 1970-1974 studio albums, with the interesting exception of "Salty Tears," which was only available as a B-side to a 1974 single. By far the most interesting of these recordings are from the 1971 session, as all five of the songs are performed by Phillips solo with guitar (which is acoustic, with the exception of "Salty Tears," which is done on an electric one). Phillips did start out as a folk musician, and while these aren't exactly straight folk songs, the sparse arrangements serve as a reminder of that, though both his compositions and vocals here have a roving bite not associated with acoustic folk troubadours. 

The other two sessions use his bands of the time, and move much more into singer/songwriter rock with prominent keyboards (by Peter Robinson), getting much deeper into jazz-funk fusion on the 1974 cuts, which include John Gustafson on bass. Overall, this set doesn't offer major surprises for those familiar with Phillips' eclectic efforts of the era, which -- somewhat in the manner of John Martyn, though Martyn went to odder extremes -- had an appetite for genre-shifting within the singer/songwriter format that limits his appeal to a cult level. It is, however, a good-sounding souvenir of Phillips performing the material in looser, more live-sounding settings than he brought to his studio albums of the time, Phillips and some of the backup players contributing comments to the liner notes.

01. Hey Miss Lonely
02. Spring Wind
03. Salty Tears
04. Withered Roses
05. L’Ballad
06. Spaceman
07. Not Quite Nonsense
08. Anello
09. I Took a Walk
10. Dream Queen
11. See You/Planscape
12. 92 Years
13. Talking In the Garden/Furthermore
14. January 1st







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