Standin' At The Crossroads

Τρίτη 5 Ιανουαρίου 2010

The Flying Bear Medicine Show - 1969 (Smash Rec.) by request

Flying Bear Medicine Show - 1969
This Lp was recorded at the College of Marin County near San Francisco, CA. The members of the Buddy Miles Express, Sir Douglas Quintet, Linn COunty, McCoys, Shades of Joy and Group Therapy decided to jam between members of the groups. This Lp has the highlight tracks of those jams.

Flying Bear Medicine Show

SRS 67125

Smash Records

Featruring top rock sollists from : Linn County, the Buddy Miles Express,

Sir Dougles Quintet, McCoys, Shades of Joy, and Group Therapy. Spontaneous jam

sessions recorded live at the traveling rock festival

he Flying Bear Medicine Show, a live jam from Spring '69 featuring various

members of The McCoys, Buddy Miles Express, Linn County, Shades of Joy, plus

Harvey Mandel and Eddie Hoh.

Apparently recorded one Sunday in Spring 1969 at

an outdoor gig at the "College of Marin" It was issued in 1969 on Fontana 6430

007. Four tracks, including one a drum duet between Buddy Miles and Eddie Hoh.

I also assume that the Martin Fierro of the Shades of Joy who turns up on a

couple of tracks on alto is the same one who was later in the Legion of Mary.

here

Δευτέρα 4 Ιανουαρίου 2010

The Corrs - Little Wing (Unplugged)

Πέμπτη 31 Δεκεμβρίου 2009

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Τετάρτη 30 Δεκεμβρίου 2009

Tim Hart, founder member of Steeleye Span, dies of lung cancer at 61

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (CP) – 1 hour ago

MADRID, Spain — Tim Hart, a founding member of the British folk-rock group Steeleye Span, has died of lung cancer, his daughter said Wednesday.

Hart, 61, died Dec. 24 in La Gomera in Spain's Canary Islands, where the Briton had lived since retiring from the music scene, Sally Hart told The Associated Press.

He had returned to La Gomera three weeks ago after spending a year in Britain receiving treatment,

she said.:

"In the last few days he became very weak, and had chest pains. His body had suffered greatly from the cancer treatment,"

Hart was a star of the 1960s folk scene in Britain, first gaining fame in a musical partnership with singer Maddy Prior in 1966. The duo recorded two albums of "Folk Songs of Olde England," with the versatile Hart backing their singing on guitar, mandolin, dulcimer, banjo and violin.

In 1971, Hart and Prior joined with Ashley Hutchings, who had left the Fairport Convention to form a new band. The new project, at Hart's suggestion, was named Steeleye Span after a character in a Lincolnshire folk song, "Horkstow Grange."

Hart left Steeleye Span in 1983, but appeared at a charity concert with the group in 1995. Last year, he appeared with Prior at a BBC concert in London.

Living on La Gomera, Hart developed his interest in photography. He called the island "my inexhaustible subject" and did his own pictures for his English language guide to the island, published in 2004.

"In what now feels like a previous life, I once spent 16 years as a member of the English folk-rock band Steeleye Span," Hart wrote on his Web site.

"As the Everly Brothers so rightly sang we did it for the stories we could tell. But after a few years of travelling too fast around the world I got myself a camera, a Pentax Spotmatic, in order to provide a more substantial, and accurate, archive of memories," he wrote.

Hart is survived by his wife Connie, and a daughter and son from a previous marriage. Funeral arrangements were not announced.

English Folk Music
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hart
http://www.timhartphotos.com/
still-dancing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steeleye_Span
http://www.answers.com/topic/steeleye-span

Tim Hart and Maddy Prior - Folk Songs of Old England, Vol.1 (1968)
Tim Hart and Maddy Prior "Folk Songs of Olde England Vol. 1" 1968
Tim Hart and Maddy Prior Folk Songs of Olde England Vol. 2" 1969
Maddy Prior & Tim Hart "Summer Solstice" 1971

Steeleye Span "BBC Sessions" 1970-1971
Steeleye Span "On BBC TV" 1975
Steeleye Span - Hark! The Village Wait
Steeleye Span discography d/l
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May God Rest His Soul!

Tim Hart & Maddy Prior: Heydays : The Solo Recordings 1968-1976

This compilations consists of all tracks from the three - now deleted - albums by Tim Hart and Maddy Prior, Folk Songs of Old England Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 and Summer Solstice. This double CD was originally to be titled Heyday (see right cover picture) but was renamed to Heydays on first delivery. All tracks have been remastered and the sound quality is much improved..
All tracks trad. arr. Tim Hart, Maddy Prior except
Tracks 1-13, 16 trad. arr. Tim Hart;
Track 23 John Conolly;
Track 34 Copper Family, Austin John Marshall;
Track 36 Ewan MacColl

MADDY PRIOR - vocals, 5-string banjo

TIM HART - vocals, guitar, fiddle, banjo

The songs on the 'FOLK SONGS OF OLDE ENGLAND Vol. 1 & 2' are either sung a-capella or accompanied with the minimum instrumentation - allowing the solo and duetted vocals to shine out unhindered, thus enabling astute listeners to make out every single lyric (and even to sing along if they know the words). The highlight from this collection must be Tim Hart's heart-rending 'The Dalesman's Litany' - the tale of a young Victorian farmer, evicted from his smallholding and forced to seek work in the hellish industrial centres of Northern England. These two albums were released before Tim and Maddy joined Steeleye Span, whereas 'SUMMER SOLSTICE' was recorded as a side project during Steeleye's run.

Folk Songs of Old England Vol. 1 1968

Folk Songs of Old England Vol. 2 1968

Summer Solstice is a 1971 album by Maddy Prior and Tim Hart.

The album was recorded after the duo had joined Steeleye Span. The songs are mostly pastoral, with subtle understated instrumental accompaniment. Also issued on CD in 1991 on the Shanachie label. Original cover shown, catalogue number: Crest 12.

Track listing

1.False Knight On The Road (3:03)

2.Bring Us In Good Ale (3:51)

3.Of All The Birds (0:53)

4.I Live Not Where I Love (4:25)

5.The Ploughboy and The Cockney (3:40)

6.Westron Wynde (0:27)

7.Sorry The Day I Was Married (1:29)

8.Dancing At Whitsun (3:40)

9.Fly Up My Cock (1:45)

10.Cannily Cannily (2:25)

11.Adam Catched Eve (0:25)

12.Three Drunken Maidens (2:14)

13.Serving Girls Holiday (3:41)
14. I Was A Young Man
15 .Betsy Bell
16.Famous Flower Of Serving Men

Slightly more produced than its predecessors, 'SUMMER SOLSTICE' is still as traditional as a hobby horse on the village green. Highlight? Again a Tim Heart rendition, 'Dancing At Whitsun' - surely one of the saddest songs ever written (the saddest being 'The Band Played Waltzing Matilda' by June Tabor - but that's another story). This lament to the losses of young Englishmen cut down in the Great War - leaving a whole generation of young women to grow up as 'spinsters' - is sung by a Tim Hart on the verge of tears and a string arrangement by Robert Kirby (Nick Drake, Vashti Bunyan, etc.) to rival that of Nick's 'River Man'. A highly emotive and achingly beautiful song.

It's not all sorrow and laments though, there are many jolly songs in this collection - some familiar, some unique to these sets - and all performed brilliantly and understated by two of the luminaries of the English trad/folk scene.

Personnel

Maddy Prior – vocals

Tim Hart – vocals, guitar, appalachian dulcimer, harmonium, psaltery, tabor

Andy Irvine – mandolin

John Ryan – string bass

Gerry Conway – percussion, bells

Pat Donaldson – electric bass

Robert Kirby – string arrangement on "Dancing At Whitsun"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hart

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maddy_Prior
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steeleye_Span

enjoy ! part1 & part2

Δευτέρα 28 Δεκεμβρίου 2009

ALEX ORIENTAL EXPERIENCE - TALES OF PURPLE SALLY' (with Can - German Kraut 1972)

Eastern Influenced Directions By
Alex Oriental Experience

biography

Ther guitarist Alex (aka Alex Oriental Experience) is considered to be one of the pionnering figures in East meets West 70s fusion. His original folk-ish rock integrates funkadelic-ethno grooves and spacy tendencies. His first release (Alex, 1973)is a must have for krautrock collectors. His later works feature more mainstream ingredients next to blues-fuzzy based rockin guitars.(progarchives)

This CD contains a set of songs from different early LP`s, like E.G.

the complete first LP with the title "Alex" from the year 1973 and

the Cologne cult volumes of "Can". Plus two songs from their second

LP "That`s The Deal", as well as a few selections from the double LP

"Studio Tapes 1976-78", and the LP "Sazou".

The song "Dadaloglu" was a 1970 hit in Turkey for about seven months

and received first place with National Hit Parade for that year. The

music is a mixture of ethnic garmoni (accordion), hard hitting brass,

and beautiful acoustic guitars.

(pnf)

a weird version of Turkish rock, filtered through the German scene of the early 70s! The albums were recorded with help from Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit of Can, who possibly play on the records too -- and they're a weird mix of some of the Arabesk rock of the Turkish scene of the time with headier German prog elements -- a very hypnotic, compelling blend -- and one that's made even more appealing by the English lyrics on many tunes. The guitar is often a bit fuzzy, the rhythms somewhat romping, and instrumentation also includes some key use of baglama -- a three-stringed guitar that further enforces the Turkish influence in the music. (.dustygroove)

Alex Oriental Experience – at Last.fm

CAN

- Holger Czukay

- Jaki Liebezeit

- Michael Karoli

- Gerd Dudek

- Alex Wiska

- Cem Karaca

- Huseyn Sultan Oglu

- Seyhan Karabey

- Unol Buyukgonenc

Alexander "Alex" Wiska (saz, vocals), Horst Stachelhaus (bass), Manfred "Manni" von Bohr (drums, percussion), Kurt Billker (drums), Rich Schwab (bass), Ufo Walter (bass), Marc zur Oven (drums), Xaver "Fischfinger" Fischer (keyboards), Fritz Randow (drums), Rosko Gee (bass), Matthias Keul (keyboards)