Rob Walsh

Crackling & corruscating - some right humdingers on this week's Blowin.

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PLAYLIST

Sister Nancy – Bam Bam – Dub Store Records, download from Bandcamp

https://dubstorerecords.bandcamp.com/track/sister-nancy-bam-bam

Nas – Halftime – Greatest Hits CD – Sony - 1992

Sir Victor Uwaifo – Ebibi – Guitar-Boy Superstar 1970-1976 CD – SoundWay

Lloyd Charmers (Viceroys?) – Death A Come – Skinhead Revolt CD – Trojan – 1969

Roots Radics & Scientist – Time Passage – Dub Landing Vol 1 & 2 CD – Auralux – 1981

Television – Glory – Adventure CD – Elektra – 1978

Pere Ubu – Non-Alignment Pact – 1988

Prince Fari – Foggy Road – Black Man Land CD – Virgin Front Line – thanks to the Turbynes

Wailing Souls – Things & Time – Wailing Souls At Channel One CD – Pressure Sounds

Santana – Just In Time To See The Sun – Caravanserai CD – 1972

Gil Evans – Time Of The Barracudas – Individualism Of Gil Evans CD – Universal – 1964

Love – Maybe The People Would Be The Times Or Between Clark & Hillsdale – Forever Changes CD – Elektra – 1967

Duke Ellington – In A Sentimental Mood – Best Of The Complete Mid-Forties Recordings CD – RCA – 1945

Bukka White – Fixin' To Die Blues – Parchman Farm Blues CD – Blues Collection – 1940

Smog – Cold Blooded Old Times – Knock Knock CD - 1999

Soul Syndicate – Riot – Green Door 7”, produced by Keith Hudson

Rare beats and sonic treats - Blowin with Rob Walsh @ BCB 106.6fm, from Bradford - this week, extended tunes.

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PLAYLIST

Jimi Hendrix - Rainy Day, Dream Away - 1983....(A Merman I Should Turn to Be) - Moon, Turn the Tides....Gently Gently Away – Electric Ladyland CD – Polydor - 1968

- Side 3 of the original double LP, recorded at Hendrix's Electric Lady Studio in New York.

Archie Shepp – Girl From Ipanema – Fire Music CD – Impulse! – 1965

- don't lose your sense of humour..

Funkadelic – Maggot Brain / Chant: Think (It Ain't Illegal Yet)

– Live 7" single that came with the One Nation Under A Groove LP, Michael Hampton on guitar – Warners -1978

The Master Musicians of Jajouka led by Bachir Attar, with Material (Bill Laswell on bass) – The New And The Ancient - Apocalypse Live CD

- The Master Musicians of Jajouka are from the Rif Mountains of Morocco. Recorded live at Gent Jazz Festival, Belgium, in 2015.

https://billlaswell.bandcamp.com/album/apocalypse-live

Aphex Twin – Early Morning Clissold – Soundcloud

Stream or Download for free.

Blowin, with Rob Walsh @ BCB Radio

PLAYLIST

U Roy – Wake The Town – Tougher Than Tough: The Story Of Jamaican Music 4xCD - 1970

Elmore James – Talk To Me Baby – Dust My Broom CD – Blues Collection – 1963

Big Youth – Lightning Flash (Weak Heart Drop) + Moving Away – Dreadlocks Dread CD – Virgin – 1975

Tom Verlaine – Breakin' My Heart – Tom Verlaine CD - Elektra – 1979

Tom Verlaine – Sixteen Tulips – Fontana CD single – 1990

Talking Heads – Burning Down The House – Speaking In Tongues CD (downmixed) – Sire - 1983

Fela Kuti - Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am – Roforofo Fight CD – Knitting Factory – 1972

https://felakuti.bandcamp.com/album/50th-anniversary-roforofo-fight

The Triffids – Stolen Property – Born Sandy Devotional CD – Domino - 1986

Sun Ra – There Are Other Worlds (They Have Not Told You Of) – Lanquidity LP – Philly Jazz - 1978

Soul Syndicate – Riot – Green Door 7”, produced by Keith Hudson

Blowin @ BCB - stream or download

We play what we like, which is plenty..

Detroit Cobras – Shout Bama Lama – Life Love And Leaving CD – Sympathy For The Record Industry Records - 2001

Nas (aka Nasir Jones) – Made You Look – Greatest Hits CD - 2002

Keith Hudson And Friends – The Hudson Affair 2 x CD - Trojan

- Keith Hudson & Horace Andy – Peter & Judas

- Keith Hudson & The Chuckles – Satan Side (aka Theme From Satan Side) https://dubstorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/satan-side-peter-judas

Iggy & The Stooges – Gimme Danger – Raw Power CD – Columbia – 1973

Faust - Just A Second (Starts Like That!)-Picnic On A Frozen River-Deuxieme Tableaux – Faust IV 2xCD – EMI - 1973

Fats Waller, His Rhythm & Orchestra – Jitterbug Waltz – Very Best Of CD – RCA / BMG - 1942

Toots & The Maytals – Time Tough – Essential Collection 2xCD 1974

Larry Marshall – Run Babylon – Studio One - 1972

Twinkle Bros – Never Get Burned + Version – Front Line white label 12" - 1980

Ry-Co Jazz – Cunvana – Rumba 'Round Africa: Congo/Latin Action From The 1960s CD – RetroAfric – 1961

Bill Frisell – My Buffalo Girl – Good Dog, Happy Man CD – Nonesuch - 1999

Big Brother & The Holding Company – Ball And Chain – Cheap Thrills CD – 1968

Aphex Twin – Early Morning Clissold – Soundcloud

In which I attempt to escape my blind spot for latin music, and later revert to the late 1960s.

With classic acoustic Miles, U Roy, Aphex, Tinariwen, the Fall and much more.

PLAYLIST

Ry-Co Jazz – Caramba Da Ma Vida – Rumba 'Round Africa: Congo/Latin Action From The 1960s CD – RetroAfric - 1961

Detroit Cobras – Hot Dog (Watch Me Eat) – Baby CD – Rough Trade – 2004

Aphex Twin – PCP2 – Soundcloud Downloads 2015

U Roy – Great Psalms – Beyond The Front Line CD – Virgin - 1975

Big Youth – Big Youth Special – Dreadlocks Dread CD – Virgin

Pere Ubu – Heaven – Datapanik In The Year Zero 12" single – Radar Records – 1978

The Fall – Blindness – Fall Heads Roll CD – Slogan – 2005

Jefferson Airplane – How Do You Feel – Surrealistic Pillow CD – RCA – 1967

Big Brother & The Holding Company – I Need A Man To Love – Cheap Thrills CD – 1968

The Sextet Of Orchestra USA – Bilbao Song (Alt Take) – Mack The Knife, and Other Berlin Theatre Songs Of Kurt Weill CD – 1966

Charles Mingus – Better Git It In Your Soul – Mingus Ah Um CD – 1959

Miles Davis – It Never Entered My Mind – Volumes 1 & 2 CD – Blue Note – 1954

Tinariwen – Le Chant Des Fauves – Radio Tisdas Sessions CD – 2000

Soul Syndicate – Riot – Green Door 7”, produced by Keith Hudson

Once upon a time.. there was a massive 12 x CD set of LIVE Neil Young tunes, called Perfect Echo -1967-2002, many from soundboards.

Then.. someone edited it down to a single CD of great tunes and called that ECHOES.

And that single CD is what you get here.

(Big shout out to the Perfect Echo compiler, whoever they were - see the full 12 x CD tracklisting here https://tinyurl.com/4e7297r5 )

1. Come On Baby Let’s Go Downtown (New York 6.3.70) 4.05 Disc 1-1 tk 8

2. Like A Hurricane (Chicago 15.11.76) 11.18 Disc 1-2 tk 13

3. Don’t Be Denied (Dayton Ohio 18.9.83) 5.02 Disc 2-1 tk 6

4. Tonight’s The Night (Santa Cruz 7.2.84) 9.12 Disc 2-1 tk 9

5. Down By The River (Austin 25.9.84) 9.25 Disc 2-1 tk 12

6. Hippie Dream (Minneapolis 17.10.86) 5.13 Disc 2-2 tk 4

7. Forever Young (San Francisco w.Grateful Dead 3.12.91) 6.36 Disc 3-2 tk 2

8. All Along The Watchtower (Booker T & MGs Belgium 3.7.93) 6.51 Disc 3-2 tk 12

9. The Loner (Booker T & The MGs Terhout Belgium 3.7.93) 3.49 Disc 4-1 tk 1

10. Going Home (Booker T & the MGs, Eifel, Germany 18.5.02) 10.19 Disc 5-2 tk 4

11. Violent Side (Crazy Horse, Santa Cruz, 7.2.84) 6.03 Disc 6-1 tk 10

'Compilation of soundboard recordings 1967-2001. Some true soundboards, others FM, TV, ALD, or video-sourced recordings. Taken from CDRs or videos circulating in the trading community.'

'Each track checked out in Cool Edit, and may have had cleanup to remove clicks, hiss, etc. Volume set to have them at similar volumes. Most of banter between tracks removed to make room for more tracks.'

From September 2020. This sounded so good I reloaded it:

"Starting with the cajun version of a classic rock n roll tune with a hidden subtext on the civil rights Freedom Riders, the Berry original being based on the US folk tune Wabash Cannonball. (Just in case you're taking notes)

Also... Ranking Dread, mbalax, dub, World Domination and that enormous Nas track that repeatedly blows socks off.

And – prudes alert - this is the one where I accidentally say 'Tuff Dong'."

Johnnie Allan – Promised Land – Oval 7"

The Upsetters – Bury The Razor - Lee Perry: I Am The Upsetter 4xCD – Trojan

Observer & Soul Syndicate – Take A Dub

Ranking Dread – Shut Me Mouth – Greensleeves 12"

• 1982

• rec at Tuff Gong

• Family Man Barrett on bass

Eno – The Great Pretender – Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy CD – EG

Etoiles De Dakar – Dagotte – Once Upon A Time In Senegal 2xCD – Sterns

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band – Vampire Suite (1980 worktape/live) – Grow Fins 5xCD – Revenant

World Domination Enterprises – Asbestos Lead Asbestos - Karbon 7"

13th Floor Elevators – Baby Blue – All Time Highs CD – Music Collection

Sub Version - Free To Funk – Future Bass CD – Soul Jazz

2010

Mike Ink – Paroles (Original) – Warp 20 (Chosen) 2xCD – Warp

aka Wolfgang Voigt

Nas – Made You Look

Aphex Twin - Early Morning Clissold - 2015 Soundcloud

On the ledge, on the corner...

Blowin @ BCB Radio

Music you didn't know you liked.

Until now ..

PLAYLIST

James Brown – There Was A Time – Foundations Of Funk 1964-1969 2xCD – Polydor - 1967

Talking Heads – Once In A Lifetime – Remain In Light CD – 1980

ATV – Action Time Vision - 1978

Tyrone Davis – Turn Back The Hands Of Time – 1970

I Roy – Black Man Time – 1973

Wailing Souls – Things And Time – Wailing Souls At Channel One CD – Pressure Sounds - 1974

Sonny Sharrock – Once Upon A Time – Ask The Ages CD – Axiom 1991 https://modreloaded.bandcamp.com/album/ask-the-ages

Miles Davis – Time After Time – Decoy LP – Columbia – 1984

Lee Perry – The Return Of Sound System Scratch CD – Pressure Sounds https://pressuresounds.bandcamp.com/album/the-return-of-sound-system-scratch

• The Unforgettables – Time

• Leo Graham – Revelation Time

Crosby, Stills & Nash – Long Time Gone – Crosby Still & Nash CD – 1969

Al Green – Funny How Time Slips Away – Call Me CD – Hi – 1973

Rev. Edward Clayborn (The Guitar Evangelist) – This Time Another Year You May Be Gone – American Primitive Vol 1: Raw Pre-War Gospel (1926-1936) CD – Revenant

John Fahey – When The Springtime Comes Again - Death Chants, Breakdowns And Military Waltzes LP – Takoma - 1963

Nightmares On Wax – Les Nuits – Car Boot Soul CD - Warp

On the ledge, on the corner... Blowin @ BCB music you didn't know you liked. Until now ..

PLAYLIST

Ohio Players – FOPP – Greatest Hits CD – Spectrum - 1975

Led Zeppelin – Good Times Bad Times – Led Zeppelin CD – 1968

Burning Spear – Creation Rebel + Version – Studio One 7" – 1972

Yabby You & King Tubbys – Big Youth Fights Against Capitalism – Yabby You: Jesus Dread 1972-1977 3xCD – Blood & Fire

Errol Brown – Dubba Black - Orthodox Dub CD – Dub Store – 1978 / 2016 - https://dubstorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/errol-brown-orthodox-dub

Miles Davis – On The Corner (edit) – Complete On The Corner Sessions 6xCD – Columbia - 1972

Minutemen – The Glory Of Man – Double Nickels On The Dime 2xLP – SST Records – 1984

Wire – Sand In My Joints – Chairs Missing CD – Harvest - 1978

Ry-Co Jazz – Maria mi Amor – African Cavalcade: The Glory Days Of African Music CD – RetroAfric – 196-something

Fairport Convention – Meet On The Ledge – What We Did On Our Holidays CD – Island - 1969

John Fahey – Dance Of The Inhabitants Of The Palace Of King Philip XIV – Death Chants, Breakdowns And Military Waltzes LP – Takoma - 1963

Pigmeat Terry – Black Sheep Blues – American Primitive Vol II: Pre-War Revenants (1897-1939) 2xCD – Revenant – 1935

Dean McPhee – The Sediment Of Creation – Astral Gold CD - 2024

Aphex Twin – Early Morning Clissold – Soundcloud

Miles left jazz critics in the dust when his band started using electric instruments in 1969 - mainly keyboards, bass and guitar.

Firstly with the In A Silent Way album, closely followed by Bitches Brew and Tribute To Jack Johnson.

These albums and subsequent others featured the soaring playing of Yorkshire guitarist John McLaughlin, which is why we're here..

McLaughlin's career started when he went to London in the late 1950s to look for playing opportunities, starting off with a trad jazz outfit. Along the way he played with Clapton, Graham Bond and Ginger Baker, but eventually it became a hand-to-mouth existence and he had to take on sessions with pop singers - Tom Jones, Englebert Humperdinck, Petula Clark etc. He found this very unsatisfying musically and gave up, discouraged, returning to Doncaster to stay with his mum.

Then, during a short period playing free jazz in Germany, he heard from his friend, bassist Dave Holland, who had recently been summoned to play with Miles Davis in New York. Holland said that Miles' drummer, Tony Williams, was starting his own band and wanted John to join.

So, early in 1969 McLaughlin ended up in New York playing with Tony Williams' band Lifetime, and was then quickly poached to play on Miles Davis sessions, an astonishing experience for a European jazz player.

On the first day with Miles, they recorded In A Silent Way. McLaughlin was so nervous he was drenched with sweat, and had to ask Miles what to play. Miles told him, “Play it like you don’t know how to play the guitar.”

Miles gave John his head after that and the tracks on this compilation are chock-full of searing and exhilarating guitar work. As Miles says at some point here, "That's some raunchy shit John!" More details on the tracklisting below.

I haven't included tunes from In A Silent Way, my gateway to Miles' electric years (and still one of my top albums) - as that's best experienced as a separate album.

1. Maiysha - 5.07 (edit) 7 Oct 1974 - Get Up With It 2xCD

2. Duran take 4 - 5.39 17 March 1970 - Complete Jack Johnson Sessions 5xCD

3. On The Corner early take - 5.15 1 June 1972 - Complete On The Corner Sessions 6xCD

4. Duran take 6 - 11.27 17 March 1970 - Complete Jack Johnson Sessions 5xCD

5. Double Image – 5.52 28 Jan 1970 – Bitches Brew 4CD (Holland, Cobham, DeJohnette, Corea, Zawinul. Maupin, Shorter, John McLaughlin, Moreira)

6. Go Ahead John Part Two A - 7.02 3 March 1970 - Complete Jack Johnson Sessions 5xCD

7. Agharta excerpt – 5.09 1 Feb 1975, Osaka Festival Hall, afternoon(McLaughlin isn't on this session, but you can hear his legacy)

8. Medley: Gemini / Double Image 5.51 6 February 1970 - Live Evil 2xLP

9. On The Corner (edit) - 8.38 1 June 1972 - On The Corner CD