What song are you listening to right now? (Page 316 of 389)

Black Coffee...Humble Pie...

Just found this cool version today....R.I.P Steve you had the soul.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM2GZk-dAew

Ozzy - Bark At The Moon

Kyla Brox' album Throw Away Your Blues currently getting some rotation with me.....

Bob Marley - Forever Loving Jah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuAXl1LYY6o

LaVendore Rogue - A Night In The North

Hmm, thought there may have been a clever bit of spoonerism there, like Aerosmith’s Night In The Ruts, but never mind.

So, something of an unexpected treat for followers of the ‘Rogues and regulars at “Sedgefield Stadium” Blues Club a chance for a live album, and by “live”, I mean no overdubs or safety net. And as it turns out, a good marriage as there’s something old; couple of Hokie favourites, (Chocolate Cake & The Way It Goes… Sometimes); something new; couple of new Rogue’s songs (The Chemist & Hikikomori); something borrowed, (cover of Stone’s Get Off Of My Cloud) and something well Blues, Charley Patton’s O Death).

Unfortunately, on the night in question, (27th Jan; 2017) I couldn’t be there so to try and recreate the atmosphere, I’ve been sat with a bottle of Cepa Del Mar - Tempranillo- Grenacha; Asda’s finest…. and here we go. Dead Man’s Chest has a solid, Stonesy riff and really lifts with Jojo’s vocals but other than Cupsey’s drums, the rest of the backing seems thin, almost hesitant. The same can almost be said for Honey Murder, there’s something just not “together”. Whatever it was, things seem to get cooking in Chocolate Cake and Warren Lynn flexes that lovely vintage Hammond. From then on, the band really show their worth through O Death and The Way It Goes… Again though, something unravels through the slower A.S.A.D. I think the hook in The Chemist, “you get it right, you get it wrong, sometimes” sums it up. But wow, when they get it right, from The Chemist, through Hikikomori, Get Off Of My Cloud and Siesta Resistance,  they were really flying.

I don’t want to be too harsh, after all, the guys didn’t come to Sedgefield with the intention of recording an album but just to have a good time and to give the audience the same which they did from accounts which are belied by the very polite sounding applause. So, not the best live album in the world, unfortunately, but when it hangs together, one almighty showcase of Jojo’s Tom Waits’y vocal talents and very Ian Anderson Master of Ceremony skills: Joel’s guitar playing has the needle at the edge of the scale; Cupsey is so Charlie Watts tight on the skins you have to double-take. Warren on keys is a major talent, I just wish there’s been more interplay with Joel - Hikikomori for example sounded like it could have segued into Woman from Tokyo, but fizzled out into a U2 guitar run. That just leaves Rob, who as ever, has the job of stitching it all together, which he does with aplomb.

Hmm - and I’m out of vino…....

Guitar Slim "The Things That I Used to Do"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj33EGMbazY

( posted by Joe on his Inst   https://www.instagram.com/p/BV6VmNaHHFd … ebonamassa he is going to play in Havana at the end of th summer!!! )

Purple Haze - turned up pretty loud, yeah!

Tash Sultana playing Jungle live .. Young Aussie girl....  and I normally don't listen to the women...(sorry), but could listen to her play and sing all night !! Exceptional multitasking musician. If you can look up her playing blackbird  (not the beatles song)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBw08GbrR-g