Like Howlin' Wolf, Elmore James at his best was a perfect synthesis of early rock and roll and blues. James and his exceptionally tight band rocked, swung, and maintained a hard blues edge through the whole thing. Where some of James contemporaries became redundant and didn't always complete an album without a certain amount of filler, James leads his band through 12 tracks of all out rockers, blues shuffles, and ripping instrumentals that never seem to grow tiresome. The strength in James' work on "Sho' Nuff I Do," "Early in the Morning," "Hawaiin Boogie: Part 1 & 2" and "Make a Little Love" is that he can play that great slide riff over and over, and it never grows stale. Still, the collection is a bit brief but serves as a nice sampler of the many sides of James' music. All the elements of great rock and roll are present on this offering, and all happen to be the elements that made Elmore James so great, as well. ~ Matt Fink, All Music Guide
traxfromwax:1. Hawaiian Boogie Part 1 2. Quarter Past Nine 3. Sho Nuff I Do 4. Early In The Morning 5. One More Drink 6. Strange Kinda Feeling 7. Make My Dreams Come True 8. Late Hours At Midnight 9. Elmo's Shuffle 10. Can't Stop Lovin' 11. Make A Little Love 12. Hawaiian Boogie Part 2
These anthologies were released in the '70s on the French Musidisc label. They contain great titles by great bluesmen which were recorded in the '50s. Watch out for other volumes!
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Elmore James "The Resurrection Of Elmore James"
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http://www6.zippyshare.com/v/LqNOyZwy/file.html
THE BEACH BOYS - Wild Honey
Capitol Records (1967)
http://www41.zippyshare.com/v/bS3Wo2od/file.html
After the Smile sessions shut down, the Beach Boys became much more of a band than they had been in the mid-'60s. They began playing most of their own instruments on record for the first time since 1963, and Brian Wilson was no longer nearly as dominant a production mastermind. The problem was, as Wilson increasingly withdrew from a leadership role (and, subsequently, from the real world altogether), the Beach Boys were revealed as a group that, although capable of producing some fine and interesting music, were no longer innovators on the level of the Beatles and other figureheads. Wild Honey had a looser, funkier feel than any previous Beach Boys effort, at times approaching a kind of bleached-out white soul. The resulting music was often quite pleasant, for the great harmonies if nothing else, but the material and arrangements were quite simply thinner than they had been for a long time. The record does feature a nice Top 20 hit in "Darlin'" (even if it was a rewrite of a song that had been composed four years earlier, and recorded by Sharon Marie). The small hit single "Wild Honey," with its seductive theremin lines, was also a highlight, and "Here Comes the Night" (a group original, not the Them hit) also had a lot of appeal. But much of the rest was pleasing but inessential. -- Richie Unterberger (Allmusic)
Boy, I'm glad that I'm not a music critic. Or at least I'm glad I'm not Richie Unterberger. That guy doesn't like too much of anything. I'm just a guy that when I hear a song I either like it or I don't. I don't have to listen hard, I don't have to parse each note, and I don't have to intellectualize what is basically a question of taste or a "gut feel."
A few short weeks ago I shared The Beach Boys album from 1971, Surf's Up, calling it my favorite Beach Boys album. Well, Wild Honey used to be my favorite until Surf's Up was released. So, I guess you could say that this is my second favorite, although calling any Beach Boys album (just like the Beatles) my favorite usually is determined by which album I happen to be listening to at the time.
I bought this album upon its release and it has traveled with me no matter where I've lived, unlike the bulk of my collection which remained in my parents home until I settled down. I may be the only one in my circle of friends that has really liked this album, the others preferring the earlier Beach Boy "surf" sound.
Anyway, here it is, Wild Honey, an album I really can listen to at anytime, anywhere. -- JohnnyDiego
01 Wild Honey
02 Aren't You Glad
03 I Was Made To Love Her
04 Country Air
05 A Thing Or Two
06 Darlin'
07 I'd Love Just To See You
08 Here Comes The Night
09 Let The Wind Blow
10 How She Boogalooed It
11 Mama Says
Cleanly tagged
Artwork and info included
Many thanks RYP for this post. Used to have this album many moons ago, so it's great to have this oldie but goodie once again. Cheers, Cove.
"The Legend of Elmore James" hatte ich mir vor Jahren selbst mal zugelegt, aber dieses Album kenne ich noch nicht, muß ich mir gleich mal anhören. Vielen Dank dafür.
Yesterday I got a little confused with my comments and so I missed the second part of my Yesterdays Thoughts-post, but no problem - here it is:
Yesterday’s Thoughts - Let's Take A Ride (LP 2004, CD 2006)
The Yesterday's Thoughts are a band from Athens, Greece and this their 2nd album since Action Records have released their debut in 2002. Their first appearance though took place in 1999 with the "Girl You're Gonna Cry" EP again by Action Records. This album includes 15 crude and authentic garage punkers in the best Back From The Grave style and if you need a comparison to a new band I would pick the Worst from Canada! You will get plenty of fuzz and farfisa in here plus snotty, complaining and angry vocals! Listen to songs like "I Can't Take It" and "Ball And Chains" and you will certainly be blown away by the monstrous fuzz and cry your heart out with "What Can I Do"! Splendid! Also, there is Sky Saxon appearing in two songs: "If I Had Some Marijuana" (if...?!) and "Build Yourself An Aero Plane"! So, Let's Take A Ride With The Yesterday's Thoughts, Cavemen and Cavegurls!!!
(http://www.reocities.com/theecave/REVIEWS/31/ReviewsMarch2005.htm)
01 - Nightmare
02 - Wasting My Time
03 - Walking To Your Grave
04 - So Scary
05 - Land Beyond The Moon
06 - I Can't Take It
07 - If I Had Some Marijuana
08 - They Say
09 - Yesterday's Thoughts
10 - What Can I Do
11 - Love Me
12 - Ball And Chains
13 - Let's Take A Ride
14 - Someday You're Gonna Find
15 - Build Yourself An Aero Plane
Yesterday’s Thoughts - Let's Take A Ride (Sound Effect Records LP 2004, CD 2006) CD-Rip @320
http://www.mediafire.com/?lrzo2msud3ioq0m
My CD-Rip
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Yesterday's Thoughts - A Moment To Pray (Sound Effect Records 2009)
Yesterday's Thoughts third album ‘A Moment to Pray’ is here!
Screaming farfisa and soul arousing vocals powered by Dimitris Megedisidis, totally 60s sounding, brain melting stellar guitar performed by Spyros Megedisidis, plus the time bending, playful rhythm section of Lefteris Galanis on bass & Giorgos Vagiatlakis on drums. After being around for twelve years they decided to lock themselves in the comfort of their own studio along with Sound Effect Records vintage analogue recording gear for two years!
(http://lost-in-tyme.ucoz.com/blog/yesterday_s_thoughts_2009_a_moment_to_pray/2010-04-13-596)
Tracks :
01 - Why Can't You See 2:31
02 - Take A Walk 2:17
03 - One And Only 3:29
04 - Now You're Gone 2:12
05 - Thoughts 2:24
06 - Bad Love 2:32
07 - Fallin' 2:18
08 - Try To Understand 2:24
09 - In This Town 2:43
10 - Don't You Worry 2:19
11 - When 2:13
12 - Puppets 2:35
13 - I'm Loosing My Head 3:02
14 - Reborn 3:25
15 - I Don't Care About You 1:48
16 - Sorry Mama 2:37
17 - A Man Lost In The Wind 1:55
Notes :
Recorded and Mixed in their basement studio with an 8-Track analog recorder.
Limited Edition of 450 copies.
Yesterday's Thoughts - A Moment To Pray (Sound Effect Records 2009) @320
http://www.mediafire.com/?1pw8aa31vrabi2u
Originally shared by lost-in-tyme.ucoz.com
I bought an Elmore James album around 45 years ago that was all different versions of "Dust My Broom". It was sort of like a song swam on vinyl. I no longer have the record and I can't remember the label. Anyone ever heard of it?
Thanks for Elmore and Wild Honey!
Here's a double helping of The Ballads out of Oakland, CA. Worth the entry price just for the Northern Soul floor filler I Can't See Your Love (For The Tears In My Eyes).
You'll find parts 1 & 2 on The Gift of Love - the P-Vine reissue out of Japan with lots of bonus tracks, and then the band's only other album Confessing A Feeling.
The Gift Of Love:
http://www38.zippyshare.com/v/NL0laRkk/file.html
Confessing A Feeling:
http://www38.zippyshare.com/v/57kantMx/file.html
JohnnyD - Given the success of Dust My Broom, record producers kept pushing him to record variants and spin-offs of it. The record that you had was probably one of the Kent collections of his early recordings like the one posted here, where many of the songs fit the Dust My Broom mold. If you listen to the songs that don't, however, you quickly realize that Elmore James had quite a lot more going on than that.
This one has Make a Little Love, one of the most intense and compelling of the My Broom variants (IMO).
more Elmore James in the pipeline:
Elmore James "The Sky Is Crying" 1965
Elmore James "Something Inside Of Me" 1968
Elmore James "The Final Sessions" - New York, February 1963
Elmore James "Dust My Broom" 1993
Elmore James "The Complete Fire And Enjoy Recordings" 1969 - mono
Preslives --
Thanks. Its nice to know stuff like that.
Here is
Robert Johnson - The Complete Recordings Disc 1
http://www24.zippyshare.com/v/vmK3dMLa/file.html
Robert Johnson - The Complete Recordings Disc 2
http://www23.zippyshare.com/v/ynAXVsNK/file.html
(Roots & Blues Box Set)
The Jack Kerouac Collection (Rhino)
Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen - Poetry For The Beat Generation
http://www103.zippyshare.com/v/17T90UNM/file.html
Jack Kerouac Featuring Al Cohn & Zoot Sims - Blues And Haikus
http://www106.zippyshare.com/v/ZW4ZOsUv/file.html
Jack Kerouac - Readings By Jack Kerouac On The Beat Generation
http://www41.zippyshare.com/v/qHI5t8U0/file.html
Again thank you folks for all you do to ensure that my ears don't get bored.
Oh yeah, one more thing, looking for anything by Thee Gravemen.
As always, thanks in advance.
anyone have athens georgia inside out they can post thanks
Here's Freak Folk one in mega
https://mega.nz/#!tgFmBabD!wZS5eQkvwaUdra0AM8H6MusazhD1X0P99FxJuRsDTyo
I found out that with Wetransfer it may have looked in the download folder that it hadnt downloaded but as long as the sixe of the icon was the size of the music fold it should unzip[well it did for me]
Today's offerings typify why TZ is such a fount of diversity. Within that big tent called "pop music," how much further apart could you get than Elmo versus The Beach Boy? Whether one loves either, neither or both is unimportant here where there is much audio nutrition to be found. Then you have the added bonus of Johnny D taking exception to AMG's cognoscenti while offering Wild Honey's impact on his own life …truly, Mr. Diego, there's no accounting for personal tastes. Thanks to all who make TZ happen!
Here's a few bits and bobs I came across yeaterday[my links]
two wounded birds - two wounded birds (uk lo-fi surf rock.2012) + cover.zip
http://www98.zippyshare.com/v/0lJXVZqf/file.html
Maureen & The Mercury 5 - 2015 - The Keepin Kind.zip
http://www98.zippyshare.com/v/xOtJ37qK/file.html
Maureen & The Mercury 5 - 2013 - What's It Gonna Take[Jump Swing Rockabilly].zip
http://www98.zippyshare.com/v/ULyakM6p/file.html
@Dick - thanks for the Kerouac!
@pubbi
thanks for other stuff from yesterday thoughs
and
@Johnny Diego for Beach Boys
These were requested. Not my rips so many thanks and huge respect to the original rippers/uploaders whoever they may be.
Ork Records. New York, New York [320]
Prix - Historix (1975-1976) (2016) [320]
Available for a week.
https://we.tl/Hgr4GnGLRq
Gaius said:
@Johnny Diego
Johnny, you are right. We are going to share that kind of music we like or eventually once liked. We are no real critics.
But you and I, we are old enough to see, what had happened. And Ritchie Unterberger was right. The last big hit of the Beach Boys was (to my opinion) 'Do it again'. That song was published at the end of the 60's And after that, things changed dramatically. To those (very) young people who connect with music a little bit more than a dance floor and girls Psychedelic and ProgRock offers a whole new direction of developing and experiencing music. And this kind of music was strongly connected to new bands and artists. Some of them have had their roots in the 60's (like Floyd, Bowie, Traffic, Bad Co. and Page) but had developed and grown, some other like Genesis, Yes were new.
And I think in America too, there was a changing of the guard. The personnel disastrous Byrds had lost way too much substance (without Crosby, without Clark, without Parsons) and CSN&Y came instead. The Allmans appeared on the scene and The BOSS made his first steps on stage leaving the likes of Steppenwolf, Dylan in a way too, Iron Butterfly, the Beach Boys and also most of the Hippie Flower Power Bands of your home region behind.
Music had changed dramatically at the beginning of the 70's, people (listeners) too and the question was, who can go the new speed, who can deliver the new sound and who can't.
As I mentioned sometimes before: It was a time without Internet, without blogs, without personal communication round the world (as we do in the very moment). But the sort of media communication had changed from regional to national to worldwide. And the sheer number of publications had increased too. Without Internet I was able to get together off about 500 Blues Records from black American artists. It was a problem, but one you could solve. These included, I had more than 1.000 LP's from American artists at the end of the 70's.
So I do think, that things (and the Times they are...) changed at the beginning of the 70's (not only for me from pubescent to adolescent and grown-up) concerning music. Maybe it's nowhere quite obvious as in Germany. The term "Krautrock" is absolutely connected to the 70's. Not more than a handful of survivors of the 60's had reached the next decade. And an explosion of new bands started their career in 71 or 72 which are overwhelming publishing dates in my collection.
And in the end, Johnny, you wouldn't have cited Unterberger if you weren't the opinion that Richie was right in a certain way.
Here's some still working link for Bonnie Raitt and 'Sweet Forgiveness, 1977):
https://yadi.sk/d/_DGaHdQgRJYg5
Pubbi ~ Thanx for the Yesterday's Thoughts turn-on! Sky Saxon actually sounded more composed & professional & soulful, on those 2 tracks, than he did for many years, before or since...
Luis, Iwika and Monty, thanks for all the NZ music. I thought I knew all the 60's & 70's NZ bands worth knowing, but you have shown me otherwise.
Gaius said:
@Dick
was looking for Thee Gravemen: Here is the s/t CD and two singles:
https://darkmp3.ru/slushat-thee-gravemen.html
Help yourself.
like Jodsworth I want to thank Dick for Jack Kerouac
Koukouleika
@JohnnyDiego: Thank you for the Beach Boys, and your memories. The first of their vinyl that I bought was the double-pressing of Friends / Smiley Smile... and in the early 90s, managed to have Al Jardine autograph after a concert - quite the treat for my young daughter, too, whom I'd brought along. They're good guys, too easily kicked around these days.
Re Elmore James: I have some of his work - including his 1960 release on Crown, "Blues After Hours - Elmore James and the Broom Dusters"; there's even a "Dust My Blues" on the disk. It looks like Crown (out of Culver City CA) was tied in with P-Vine Records... so that may be a lead for you. (Preslives's suggestion of Kent might be more spot-on, though.)
Cheers!
@Dick: Thanks for the Robert Johnson; cheers!
The Hard-Drive Drain Continues...
Jazz/Swing Overflow, Load Four:
- Bill Haid's Cubs - Paramount Hot-Dance, 1928, @320 (except one)
- Billy Hays, 1929, @128
- Billy James - Dime-Store Hot-Dance, 1927-29, @115-120
- Bing Crosby (1926-56), VBR
- Bix Beiderbecke (1924-31), most @320
- Black Birds of Paradise - Complete Recorded Works, 1927, VBR
- Blue Steele, 1927-30, @192-320
- Bob Haring, 1926-31, @128-192
- Bob Howard - Complete Recorded Works, 1932-38, @128+
- Boswell Sisters (1930-56), most @320
- Branford Marsalis (1984-2006), @128+ (sorry!)
- Carl Fenton, 1923-27, VBR
- Carl Kress (1934-41), @320
- Casa Loma Orchestra, 1929-32, @ 320 (except one)
- Cass Hagan - Hot-Dance Recordings, 1927-28, @272-282
- Cellar Boys, 1930, most @128
- Charles Pierce, 1927-28, most @320
Seven-day link:
https://we.tl/U8ofvZvKDi
Cheers!
Thank you Soultime59 for the share
Thank you for the Jack Kerouac.
I ask again. Do you intend to post all 12 LPs in these "Archives" series? Thanks.
If you point on me, I say again:
more Elmore James in the pipeline:
Elmore James "The Sky Is Crying" 1965
Elmore James "Something Inside Of Me" 1968
Elmore James "The Final Sessions" - New York, February 1963
Elmore James "Dust My Broom" 1993
Elmore James "The Complete Fire And Enjoy Recordings" 1969 - mono
I don't intend to post all 12 LPs in these "Archives" series!
Is it OK if I post all 10 other blues "Archives" series or have they been posted already?
Searnav,
it's okay!
OK, coming soon, volumes 1 to 12 except vols 1 & 10.
Thank you Aging Child for your hard drive dumps. Please keep them coming. I promise they will have a good home with me.
Aging Child, those old jazz posts are a trip.
I'll put the Boswells up against the Andrews anyday, the Boswell sisters are from New Orleans and had some of the greatest jazz players of the day playing on their records. The Andrews Sisters just come off as a pop group.
@Pudge and Bear: you're most welcome - with my ongoing wish that all of it were at the highest-possible bitrate.
Whatever the bitrate, the earliest Jazz/Jass recordings are the most fascinating - when do you hear a banjo in a skilled jazz combo today? The same's true of early bluegrass, the other way 'round: oboes in a bluegrass outfit?! Well, why not?
On the early Swing side - I agree re the Boswells. The Andrews had tight harmony... but something's always seemed both missing and overpolished. I hadn't thought about the Boswells' musicians; I think you've identified it.
Cheers, TZers!
@Dick: Thanks again for the Robert Johnson; could you doublecheck the second disk? Something's 'way off with most of the tracks... they're _teeny_.
Cheers!
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