Willie Dixon – "The Quiet Knight" – Live Chicago, January 24, 1974

Willie Dixon’s life and work was virtually an embodiment of the progress of the blues, from an accidental creation of the descendants of freed slaves to a recognized and vital part of America’s musical heritage. That Dixon was one of the first professional blues songwriters to benefit in a serious, material way — and that he had to fight to do it — from his work also made him an important symbol of the injustice that still informs the music industry, even at the end of the 20th century. A producer, songwriter, bassist, and singer, he helped Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Little Walter, and others find their most commercially successful voices.

He probably wrote some of the most common known blues songs. To name a few, most of them included here: “Spoonfull”, “Little Red Rooster”, “Hoochie Coochie Man”, “Down in the Bottom”, “Back Door Man” & “Wang Dang Doodle”.

His songs have become standards for blues players of all stripes and generations and you could argue that bands like Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones wouldn’t have existed as they did if it wasn’t for the great big Chicago bass player. He is to blues what George Gershwin is to jazz.

Here´s a classic, exellent sounding Blues show of the great Willie Dixon with his Allstar Band, broadcasted by WXRT-FM Chicago & recorded by Bob Craig to reel.

Setlist:

01-Intro Boogie

02-Crazy ´bout my Baby

03-Rock Me

04-I don´t trust nobody(when it comes to my Girl)

05-29 Ways

06-Wang Dang Doodle

07-Hoochie Coochie Man

08-Little Red Rooster

09-I think I got the Blues

10-My Baby

11-Spoonfull

12-Closing Boogie

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Johnny Cash – The Sun Demos & Outtakes

Though Johnny Cash went from total unknown to Number 1 charting artist (“I Walk The Line”) during his time with Sun Records, it’s easy to forget that it all happened pretty quick and he was only with the label for two years, from 1955 to 1957, before he moved on to greener pastures at Columbia Records. The music that he made during this time, however, is truly timeless and in its grit and fatalism marked a new kind of country music with songs more than embracing sadness and loss, songs that turned a cold, brooding eye on the stark realities of life and love.
Before massive fame and excess and later producers got their hands on Cash’s songs and sound and tricked up the accompaniments and arrangements, for the most part it was just Johnny and the Tennessee Two, Luther Perkins on guitar and Marshall Grant on upright bass with added drums and maybe piano or pedal steel. This collection of demos and more polished and complete outtakes—which should be named “Some Sun Demos & Outtakes” because there are quite literally hundreds of hours of extant recordings from the time—is a priceless snapshot of a pivotal period in the history of popular music. Artwork is included.

Tracklist:

1. Wide Open Road (Cry, Cry, Cry)
2. Rock & Roll Ruby
3. You’re My Baby
4. Get Rhythm
5. I Walk The Line
6. Train Of Love
7. One More Ride
8. Folsom Prison Blues
9. Wide Open Road (Cry, Cry, Cry)
10. Goodnight Irene
11. My Treasure
12. I Love You Because
13. Leave That Junk
14. Country Boy
15. Come In Stranger
16. Oh Lonesome Me
17. You’re The Nearest Thing To Heaven
18. Don’t Make Me Go
19. Give My Love To Rose
20. The Ways Of A Woman In Love
21. Thanks A Lot
22. Fools Hall Of Fame
23. I Just Thought You’d Like To Know
24. I Forgot To Remember To Forget
25. Always Alone
26. The Story Of A Broken Heart

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Willie Dixon – "The Quiet Knight" – Live Chicago, January 24, 1974

Willie Dixon’s life and work was virtually an embodiment of the progress of the blues, from an accidental creation of the descendants of freed slaves to a recognized and vital part of America’s musical heritage. That Dixon was one of the first professional blues songwriters to benefit in a serious, material way — and that he had to fight to do it — from his work also made him an important symbol of the injustice that still informs the music industry, even at the end of the 20th century. A producer, songwriter, bassist, and singer, he helped Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Little Walter, and others find their most commercially successful voices.

He probably wrote some of the most common known blues songs. To name a few, most of them included here: “Spoonfull”, “Little Red Rooster”, “Hoochie Coochie Man”, “Down in the Bottom”, “Back Door Man” & “Wang Dang Doodle”.

His songs have become standards for blues players of all stripes and generations and you could argue that bands like Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones wouldn’t have existed as they did if it wasn’t for the great big Chicago bass player. He is to blues what George Gershwin is to jazz.

Here´s a classic, exellent sounding Blues show of the great Willie Dixon with his Allstar Band, broadcasted by WXRT-FM Chicago & recorded by Bob Craig to reel.

Setlist:

01-Intro Boogie

02-Crazy ´bout my Baby

03-Rock Me

04-I don´t trust nobody(when it comes to my Girl)

05-29 Ways

06-Wang Dang Doodle

07-Hoochie Coochie Man

08-Little Red Rooster

09-I think I got the Blues

10-My Baby

11-Spoonfull

12-Closing Boogie

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Johnny Cash – The Sun Demos & Outtakes

Though Johnny Cash went from total unknown to Number 1 charting artist (“I Walk The Line”) during his time with Sun Records, it’s easy to forget that it all happened pretty quick and he was only with the label for two years, from 1955 to 1957, before he moved on to greener pastures at Columbia Records. The music that he made during this time, however, is truly timeless and in its grit and fatalism marked a new kind of country music with songs more than embracing sadness and loss, songs that turned a cold, brooding eye on the stark realities of life and love.
Before massive fame and excess and later producers got their hands on Cash’s songs and sound and tricked up the accompaniments and arrangements, for the most part it was just Johnny and the Tennessee Two, Luther Perkins on guitar and Marshall Grant on upright bass with added drums and maybe piano or pedal steel. This collection of demos and more polished and complete outtakes—which should be named “Some Sun Demos & Outtakes” because there are quite literally hundreds of hours of extant recordings from the time—is a priceless snapshot of a pivotal period in the history of popular music. Artwork is included.

Tracklist:

1. Wide Open Road (Cry, Cry, Cry)
2. Rock & Roll Ruby
3. You’re My Baby
4. Get Rhythm
5. I Walk The Line
6. Train Of Love
7. One More Ride
8. Folsom Prison Blues
9. Wide Open Road (Cry, Cry, Cry)
10. Goodnight Irene
11. My Treasure
12. I Love You Because
13. Leave That Junk
14. Country Boy
15. Come In Stranger
16. Oh Lonesome Me
17. You’re The Nearest Thing To Heaven
18. Don’t Make Me Go
19. Give My Love To Rose
20. The Ways Of A Woman In Love
21. Thanks A Lot
22. Fools Hall Of Fame
23. I Just Thought You’d Like To Know
24. I Forgot To Remember To Forget
25. Always Alone
26. The Story Of A Broken Heart

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Mikey Dread – Evolutionary Rockers (1979)

Mikey Dread (real name Michael George Campbell) was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica on June 4th 1954.

Mikey Dread was a producer, broadcaster and an artist. He created an innovative Reggae style. In the late 70’s Dread got a job being an engineer for the JBC (Jamaican Broadcasting Corporation). Mikey would eventually get his own radio show that would be titled “Dread At the Controls”. His show focused on nothing but Reggae music at a time when people weren’t really playing that type of music in Jamaica. The show would become the most popular show on the JBC, but eventually Dread would quit (in protest) due to the conservative management of the JBC.

Around this time Dread was already well known in Jamaica as singer/producer (working with the likes of The Mighty Two and Lee Scratch Perry) and he started to record his own material too. He is also known for his work with King Tubby and Carl Patterson. The Clash would gain interest in Mikey Dread and he would produced the song “Bankrobber” for the band. The song was initially a Ska song, but Dread producing the song would make it more of a dub track. Dread would also tour with The Clash. He also did his own even more dub version of the song “Bankrobber”, it was titled “Rockers Galore…UK Tour”.

On March 15th, 2008 Mikey Dread passed away.

Here´s Mikey Dread´s debut album “Evolution Rockers” (released in the UK as “Dread At The Control”):

Mikey Dread – Evolutionary Rockers (1979)
(192 kbps, cover art incuded)

Mikey Dread – Evolutionary Rockers (1979)

Mikey Dread (real name Michael George Campbell) was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica on June 4th 1954.

Mikey Dread was a producer, broadcaster and an artist. He created an innovative Reggae style. In the late 70’s Dread got a job being an engineer for the JBC (Jamaican Broadcasting Corporation). Mikey would eventually get his own radio show that would be titled “Dread At the Controls”. His show focused on nothing but Reggae music at a time when people weren’t really playing that type of music in Jamaica. The show would become the most popular show on the JBC, but eventually Dread would quit (in protest) due to the conservative management of the JBC.

Around this time Dread was already well known in Jamaica as singer/producer (working with the likes of The Mighty Two and Lee Scratch Perry) and he started to record his own material too. He is also known for his work with King Tubby and Carl Patterson. The Clash would gain interest in Mikey Dread and he would produced the song “Bankrobber” for the band. The song was initially a Ska song, but Dread producing the song would make it more of a dub track. Dread would also tour with The Clash. He also did his own even more dub version of the song “Bankrobber”, it was titled “Rockers Galore…UK Tour”.

On March 15th, 2008 Mikey Dread passed away.

Here´s Mikey Dread´s debut album “Evolution Rockers” (released in the UK as “Dread At The Control”):

Mikey Dread – Evolutionary Rockers (1979)
(192 kbps, cover art incuded)

B. B. Seaton – Revolutionary Dub (1976)

B. B. Seaton is a singer with a soulful voice, a qualified musician, producer and one of the most prolific song writers in the history of Jamaican music. He had his first big hit in Jamaica when teaming up with Delano Stewart and Maurice Roberts to form “The Gaylads”.

 

Tracklist:

Tribal Dub

Riot In Soweto

March Back To Africa

Havana (Fidel’s) Dub

Forward To The Battle Dub

Revolutionary Dub

Emporor’s Theme

Nationalist Dub

Dread In Johannesburg

Liberation Dub

B. B. Seaton – Revolutionary Dub (1976)

(192 kbps, cover art included)

Lin Jaldati – Jiddische Lieder – Live, Köln, 3. Juli 1987

This is a concert recording from 1987, July 3, in Cologne, West Germany. Lin Jaldati performs both traditional and composed Yiddish songs, accompanied by her husband Eberhard Rebling on piano and by their daughters Kathinka Rebling on violin and Jalda Rebling, vocals.

Lin Jaldati was sent to concentration camps when the Nazis occupied Holland. She didn’t speak Yiddish, but learned Yiddish songs from her fellow prisoners. Jaldati survived Auschwitz; being a communist, she came to East Germany to help establish a socialist German state. She married Eberhard Rebling, a German communist who later became a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, and started to perform Yiddish songs for a German audience with Rebling accompanying her on piano.

Later they were joined by their daughters Katinka and Jalda. Lin Jaldati dedicated her art and her life to communist East Germany. This didn’t prevent her from being banned from performing in the late sixties; the hysteria had gone so far that even performing Yiddish songs was interpreted as a pro-Israel statement. For a long time Lin Jaldati, who was highly accepted by what later became the East German Yiddish and klezmer scene, was the only Yiddish performer in East Germany.

Lin Jaldati – Jiddische Lieder – Live, Köln, 3. Juli 1987
(192 kbps, front & back cover included)

Ranking Trevor & Friends – Roots Of All Roots (Micron, 1979)

Ranking Trevor has been largely ignored by the archivists, a peculiar oversight, as the DJ was a major force in the sound systems on both sides of the Atlantic during the roots age. Most of his recordings remain infuriatingly out of print, and his singles and albums, now with hefty price tags attached, are much sought after by collectors. Born Trevor Grant in Jamaica on January 20, 1960, the toaster to be fell under U-Roy’s spell in childhood. He never completely shook the Originator’s influence, but no matter, for Ranking Trevor had an equally sharp sense of timing and relaxed delivery that never went out of fashion in this period. Eager for success, Grant was barely into his teens when he began professionally DJing, honing his skills at the Socialist Roots Sound System. He was all of 15 when Jo Jo Hookim took him into the studio for the first time, where he cut 1975’s “Natty a Roots Man.” Over the next few years Trevor recorded a steady stream of singles for Hookim, all backed by the Revolutionaries, with his popularity increasing proportionally.

By 1977, the teen star was shaking up the British reggae chart as well, with “Cave Man Skank,” “Three Piece Chicken & Chips” (a humorous riposte to Trinity’s “Three Piece Suit”), and “Anti-Lulu” all hitting the Top Ten. “Pure & Clean” and “Rub a Dub Style” followed them up the chart in 1978. By then, the DJ had signed a deal with Virgin’s Frontline imprint, the resulting “In Fine Style” album, which arrived that same year, proving wildly popular. Beyond hits like “Rub a Dub Style” and “Masculine Gender,” it also included splendid versions of “Satta Massa Ganna” and “Queen Majesty.” Meanwhile, back in Jamaica, Hookim also unleashed the “Three Piece Chicken & Chips” split set, which set Trevor head to head with Trinity himself. The former won that round, as Hookim stuffed it with Trevor’s latest hits – the title track, “Lulu,” “Love Yu Sister,” and, best of all, “Answer Me Question,” a retort to Lone Ranger’s “Question.”

In 1979, Trevor linked up with singing producer Linval Thompson, resulting in the following year’s “Repatriation Time”, a set again recorded at Channel One and backed by the Revolutionaries. The following year, Prince Jammy remixed a clutch of Thompson, Wayne Jarrett, and Trevor recordings for the simmering “Train to Zion Dub” set. For Repatriation, Trevor took on a new moniker, Ranking Superstar, which explains why producer Sugar Minott titled the DJ’s excellent next set Presenting Ranking Trevor. Both Minott and Thompson were featured alongside the DJ on the “Roots of All Roots” set released by Micron later in the decade.

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Ranking Trevor & Friends – Roots Of All Roots (Micron, 1979)

(192 kbps, front cover included)

B. B. Seaton – Gun Court Dub

“Gun Court Dub” is the first of a series of three wonderful “Gun Court”-dub albums produced by B. B. Seaton

The great producer was backed on this albums by The Revolutionaries, The Conscious Minds and by Skin, Flesh & Bones.

Tracklist:
Gun Court
Babylon Out Former
No Escape
Dread Rehabilitation
Sweet Callie
Sam Sharp Rebellion
Folly Folly
Forward To Mount Zion
Beat Down Sentence
Dub Of Justice
House Of Jah Dread
Tribute To Selassie
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B. B. Seaton – Gun Court Dub (1975)
(192 kbps, front cover included)