So, what have you been listening to lately?

[Dave W]

I've posted Albert playing Country Boy before, but this is a new one, uploaded two months ago. Ray Duke posted it on FB tonight.

[uwe]

             Comes with official endorsement!


https://justbackdated.blogspot.com/2022/05/in-praise-of-albert-lee.html



Lee's solo is at 01:55, Blackmore's at 05:08, Big Jim Sullivan's (the jazziest one) at 00:33:



PS: Ritchie remembers it wrong, Chas Hodges, not Roger Glover played bass on the sessions.

[Dave W]

Video not available.

[uwe]

Better?



It's the first song here that was featured in my initial posting, but Sullivan, Blackmore and Lee play in all songs and are easy to tell apart. Sullivan was Blackmore's guitar teacher.

Albert Lee also played on Jon Lord's Gemini Suite in 1971. Initially another Purple project with an orchestra and performed live a few times, Blackmore did not want to record it for posterity (likely not to confuse the growing Purple audience now used to the In Rock album's - released in 1970 - brand of heavy rock) so at his recommendation Albert Lee stepped in and Gemini Suite became a Jon Lord solo venture.

[uwe]

Now what the heck happened to Bonnie Tyler?! She looks like a professional dominatrix now - wizz a luffly Tshörmen äkzent - and who is this preacher guy singing with her?

[morrow]

I loved the version by Hurrah Torpedo.

[Dave W]

[Alanko]

A bit of history here:

[wellREDman]

This is cool! Reminds me of these guys here



which I first heard in Morocco and have since witnessed live in Brussels. They are Tuaregs from the Sahara region in Mali. Their name Tinariwen means desert in the Tuareg language.

Tuareg blues was a revelation to me when i first heard Cerys Mathews playing it on her radio 2 blues show. I grew up in the middle east so there are certain music motifs that hit me right in the childhood. to hear middle eastern playing combined with electric blues was a marriage made in heaven

[uwe]

Yup, it has a tribal-chanty, trancelike quality to it.

[Dave W]

Saw these guys play in San Marcos, Austin and San Antonio back in the day. They're still going strong.

[Dave W]

60-plus years later, his voice is still great.

[Ken]

Funny coincidence.  Today was sadly the closing party at the Coney Island Brewery.  My band has played there a few times and we go there pretty much every other Sat. after the New York Aquarium.  I'm on the volunteer dive team there.  So anyway, they had karaoke and some guy sang Runaround Sue, and very well.

[Basvarken]

Ever wondered what Back In Black would have sounded like if Bon Scott had sung it?

There's quite a few not so convincing versions you can find on YouTube. But this one is done a whole lot better and it actually sounds like Bon.

This version done by Henrik Eriksson was taken down off YouTube.
But the Vimeo link is still working





For me this is proof that AI results are just as good as the human input, and the processing of the result by humans afterwards.

[Dave W]

You should be able to see and hear this even if you're not on Facebook. Click on "Video on Facebook."

NOTE: The video here is a rare clip of Cream - Eric, Jack and Ginger - rehearsing TALES OF BRAVE ULYSSES at the Revolution Club in 1968. I've upscaled the original film and improved the color.