Every once in a while I tend to post an old record from the
pop shelf. Today is such a day. Always fell for Ry Cooder’s
slide guitar sound. On this 1970 album he appeared with
another of my idols. Van Dyke Parks who does the piano
here, also arranged the one track I used to play a lot,
‘One Meat Ball’. Cooder’s life story and career are quite
extensive. He learned to play from age three,
read his Wiki page and know more ..

Eens in de zoveel tijd moet ik een plaat van de pop plank
halen om eens lekker terug in de tijd te gaan. Vandaag is
het zo’n dag. Ik ben altijd een liefhebber geweest van het
slide gitaar geluid van Ry Cooder. Op deze, zijn eerste’ plaat
uit 1970 verscheen hij met één van mijn andere idolen,
Van Dyke Parks. Hij speelt de piano op dit album en arrangeerde
het nummer ‘One Meat Ball’, welke ik veel heb gedraaid.
Cooder’s levens verhaal en carrière zijn veelomvattend.
Hij leerde al spelen op z’n derde, lees zijn Wiki
pagina en leer meer over de man ..

Wikipedia
Discogs

01 – Alimony
02 – France chance
02 – One meat ball
04 – Do re mi
05 – Old kentucky home
06 – How can a poor man stand such times and live ?
07 – Available space
08 – Pig meat
09 – Police dog blues
10 – Goin’ to brownsville
11 – Dark is the night

bonus tracks

12 – Down in mississippi
13 – Crazy ’bout an autobobile
14 – Smack dab in the middle

When I was a young boy I listened a lot to the music of
Todd Rundgren. Especially ‘A Wizard A True Star’ was one
of my favourite albums. Just 16 years old, it captured me
from the beginning. This is Todd’s first solo record after
stepping out of ‘Nazz’ where he began his career. I was
digitizing it for myself and thought, why not post it for
you to listen to as well. I’ll post ‘A Wizard A True Star’
some day later. For now listen to ‘Runt’ ..

Als jonge jongen luisterde ik een hoop naar de muziek
van Todd Rundgren. In het bijzonder ‘A Wizard A True Star’
was een favoriet. Slechts 16 jaar oud, was ik er enorm van
onder de indruk. Dit is Todd’s eerste solo album nadat hij
uit ‘Nazz’ stapte waar hij zijn carrière zo’n beetje in begon.
Ik was hem aan het digitaliseren en dacht, waarom niet
gelijk posten zodat jullie er ook naar kunnen luisteren.
‘A Wizard A True Star’ zal ik ook op een mooie dag nog
eens brengen. Voor nu, luister naar ‘Runt’ ..

Half Nelson 1971
Lost in the Stars, The Music of Kurt Weill 1985
Wikipedia
Discogs

01 – Broke down & busted
02 – Believe in me
03 – We gotta get you a woman
04 – Who’s that nam
05 – Once burned
06 – Devil’s bite
07 – I’m in the click
08 – There are no words
09 – Baby let’s swing
—- The last thing you said
—- Don’t tie my hands
10 – Birthday carol

Listening to Captain Beefheart in my car yesterday made me
record this album today. After a period of psychadelic and
experimental music, the captain returned to his own brand
of bluesrock. We had the groundbreaking ‘Trout Mask Replica’
and the more commercial ‘Unconditionally Guaranteed’ so far.
This record is more or less in the middle of those, both chrono-
logically as style-wise. I was still very young at this time in 1972
and learned about the captain way later. Always fascinated by
his typical vocal style and weirdness I became a fan half way
the seventies. Read Don Van Vliet’s bulky Wikipedia pages
to learn more about the man’s work and life ..

Nadat ik gisteren wat Captain Beefheart in de auto had geluis-
terd besloot ik vandaag weer eens iets van hem te posten. Na
een periode van psychedelische en experimentele muziek keerde
‘the captain’ terug naar zijn eigen bluesrock stijl in 1972. We
hadden tot dusver reeds het surrealistische ‘Trout Mask Replica’
en het meer commerciele ‘Unconditionally Guaranteed’. Deze LP
zat daar tussenin, zowel chronologisch als qua stijl. Ik was nog
erg jong ten tijde van deze plaat en leerde hem pas jaren later
kennen. Gefascineerd door zijn aparte manier van zingen en
vreemde melodieën werd ik een liefhebber rond de midden
jaren zeventig. Lees Don Van Vliet’s lijvige Wikipedia pagina
en ontdek meer over zijn werk, leven en persoonlijkheid ..

Trout Mask Replica 1970
Unconditionally Guaranteed 1974
Wikipedia, Nederlands
Wikipedia, English
Wikipedia, Clear Spot
Discogs

01 – Low yo yo stuff
02 – Nowadays a woman’s gotta hit a man
03 – Too much time
04 – Circumstances
05 – My head is my only house unless it rains
06 – Sun zoom spark
07 – Clear spot
08 – Crazy little thing
09 – Long neck bottles
10 – Her eyes are a blue million miles
11 – Big eyed beans from venus
12 – Golden birdies

Phil Manzanera was most known as Roxy Music’s lead guitarist.
To me his solo albums always were favourite. Being the son of
a Colombian mother and an English father he was born in London
but lived in various South American countries during his childhood.
With artists like Robert Wyatt, Brian Eno and Andy Mackay and many
others. He worked with Steve Winwood, David Gilmour, John Cale,
Godley & Creme, Nico and John Wetton to name a few ..

..read more at Wikipedia
Discogs

01 – Frontera
02 – Diamond head
03 – Big day
04 – The flex
05 – Same time next week
06 – Miss shapiro
07 – East of echo
08 – Lagrima
09 – Alma

Tim Buckley, jeff’s father, has been an idol since I first
laid my ears on his music late seventies. It all started
with Look at The Fool, his last album. Tim sadly died
after taking an overdose of heroin age 28, june 29th,
1975. He started as a folk singer but his style changed
to soul, jazz, psychadelica, avant-garde over the years.
One of the greatest voices ever in seventies pop music.

Look At The Fool 1974
Wikipedia
Discogs

01 – Dolphins
02 – Honey man
03 – Because of you
04 – Peanut man
05 – Martha
06 – Quicksand
07 – I know I’d recognize your face
08 – Stone in love
09 – Sefronia-after asklepiades
10 – Sefronia-the kong’s chain
11 – Sally go ’round the roses

click
click

Wonderful 1971 Atlantic recording with David Crosby.
Featuring Graham Nash, Neil Young, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzman,
David Frieberg, Henry Diltz, Paul Kantner, Michael Shrieve,
Ethan Crosby, Laura Allen, Jerry Garcia, Jack Casady, Jorma
Kaukonen, Grace Slick, Gregg Rolie, Joni Mitchell, Gary Burden,
Stephen Barneard, Robert Hammer, David Geffen, Ronald Stone,
Elliot Roberts and David Crosby himself.
A trip almost 50 years back in time.

01 – Music is love
02 – Cowboy movie
03 – Tamalpais high (at about 3)
04 – Laughing
05 – What are their names
06 – Traction in the rain
07 – Song with no words (tree with no leaves)
08 – Orleans
09 – I’d swear there was somebody here

01 – Nonalignment pact
02 – The modern dance
03 – Laughing
04 – Street waves
05 – Chinese radiation
06 – Life stinks
07 – Real world
08 – Over my head
09 – Sentimental journey
10 – Humor me