Otto Reutter – In 50 Jahres ist alles vorbei

Otto Reutter was born on April 24th in 1870 in a poor Catholic family in Gardelegen, Germany, as a son of the Ex-Ulan Andreas Pfützenreuter who was not at home, visited the Catholic primary school, absolved afterwards an education in and out of Gardelegen as a commercial assistant, ran away after finishing this and went to Berlin, earned money as a Charge at quite simple theaters, tried to be an actor and commedian at little theaters in Berlin.

His father took him away from Berlin and then he ended up being in Karlsruhe, where he joined a group of pub-singers and pub-commedians. In 1895 he dared to have his first performance as a “Salonhumorist”, first performance was probably in Bern in Switzerland. In 1896 he got hired for the first time in Berlin, he really convinced the audience with his talent to recite the funny-pointed verses with easy melodies in a kind of spoken song and to be ironically funny even with his appearance. Reutter rose up to a popular star since his first performance in the “Wintergarten-Variete” of the Central-Hotel in Berlin. In the following years Reutter was able to remain on the financial and artistic top of the German little-theater-artists with the help of his huge talent and his hard work.

In 1919 after 30 years of hard work and marked by personal blows Reutter was very tired and he wanted to retire with an account that recorded millions and go back to Gardelegen. Driven on by his own ambition and the need to earn money in insecure times because he was now husband Reutter created his „work of his old times“ from the year 1919 on and by doing this he suffered from indefatigable helplessness. This work consisted of Couplets that were on humor and melancholy, worldly wisdom and mild old-age cheekyness and these Couplets are still part of the German humor for higher demands. Ill and tired of life Reutter died on March 3rd in 1931 in Düsseldorf and was buried in Gardelegen.

Otto Reutter – In 50 Jahres ist alles vorbei (192 kbps)

VA – The Iron Muse (Topic, 1993)

This 1993 Topic release is an expanded reissue of the label’s original 1956 LP. “Iron Muse” was the first of its kind, a collection of folk music derived almost exclusively from the experiences of industrial workers in the north of England.

The folk tradition of rural and historical Great Britain was well known and documented. But to think that the specific hardships and experiences of the country’s industrial workers would be chronicled in a similar way — through heartfelt lyrics and playing — was at first a bit odd. It took the work of famous folklorist A.L. Lloyd to change that opinion. The work of miners, weavers, and the like had already become fertile ground for song. But Lloyd went inside blazing steel mills, onto hard iron railways, and into dank boiler rooms in search of the workers’ music and their voices.

What he found was Maureen Craik’s stark, a cappella rendering of the strike lament “Durham Lockout” and Louis Killen’s accented, fiddle-led (and still relevant) “Aw Wish Pay Friday Would Come.” The hardscrabble life of a miner was described with unflinching detail in “Blackleg Miners,” their frighteningly protracted existence recorded in the brief, powerful “Auchengeich Disaster”. Much of the material on “Iron Muse” drew melody from the traditional canon. However, the songs were cast in a darker hue by the soot and bad lighting of the industrial towns. The countryside’s music could be pastoral, but also very dark; the city folk seemed to dwell on the latter trait. Strikes, class warfare, worksite disasters, and the unending need (desire) for wages provided lyrical fodder for “Iron Muse”, but it was the humanity and emotions behind the daily grind that really drove the songs. The occasional reel (especially “Sandgate Girl’s Lament/Elsie Marley”) provided a respite as brief and wonderful as a Sunday night backroom dance, helping the album paint a vivid picture of life inside the industrial towns and add a new chapter to the history book of traditional folk music.

VA – The Iron Muse (Topic, 1993) (192 kbps, front & back cover inclueded)

VA – Steam Ballads (Broadside, 1977)

“Steam Balldads” was an album released on the Broadside label way back in 1977. This album features mostly 19th century railroad ballads and songs, performed by Harry Boardman, Jon Raven, Tony Rose and Kempion

Tracks:
01 – Harry Boardman – Navvy On The Line
02 – Jon Raven – The Bold Navvies
03 – Jon Raven – Paddy Works On The Railway
04 – Tony Rose – Opening Of The Newcastle & Shields Railway
05 – Harry Boardman – Johnny Greens Trip Fra Owdhum
06 – Kempion – Opening Of The Birmingham & Liverpool Railway
07 – Kempion – The Iron Horse
08 – Jon Raven – The Oxford & Hampton Railway
09 – Kempion – The Cockney’s Trip To Brummagem
10 – Tony Rose – The Wonderful Effects Of The Leicester Railway
11 – Jon Raven – Cosher Bailey
12 – Tony Rose – Moses Of The Mail
13 – Tony Rose – The Fireman’s Growl

VA – Steam Ballads (1977, Broadside)
(192 kbps, front & back cover included)

VA – Steam Ballads (Broadside, 1977)

“Steam Balldads” was an album released on the Broadside label way back in 1977. This album features mostly 19th century railroad ballads and songs, performed by Harry Boardman, Jon Raven, Tony Rose and Kempion

Tracks:
01 – Harry Boardman – Navvy On The Line
02 – Jon Raven – The Bold Navvies
03 – Jon Raven – Paddy Works On The Railway
04 – Tony Rose – Opening Of The Newcastle & Shields Railway
05 – Harry Boardman – Johnny Greens Trip Fra Owdhum
06 – Kempion – Opening Of The Birmingham & Liverpool Railway
07 – Kempion – The Iron Horse
08 – Jon Raven – The Oxford & Hampton Railway
09 – Kempion – The Cockney’s Trip To Brummagem
10 – Tony Rose – The Wonderful Effects Of The Leicester Railway
11 – Jon Raven – Cosher Bailey
12 – Tony Rose – Moses Of The Mail
13 – Tony Rose – The Fireman’s Growl

VA – Steam Ballads (1977, Broadside)
(192 kbps, front & back cover included)

Umsonst & Draußen – Vlotho 1975 (Maulschnauz MOL 0001, vinyl rip)

“Umsonst und Draussen” can be literally translated to “for free and outdoor”. It was the starting point for uncounted festivals taking place in Germany furthermore provided with a self-organized, non-commercial and open-minded approach. Stylistically the 1970s were dominated by prog and prog-related bands, mainly offering a blend of jazz, psych and folk, which had a special experimental attitude. They questioned all conventions – today often categorized as krautrock. This represented those restless and rebellious times drawing from the former student uprisings and protests against the Vietnam War.

Surely inspired by the famous Woodstock festival the first ideas to offer music self-determined and free from any commercial goals came up around 1972 in the Herford/East Westphalia region and manifested in a one day event at Bünde. It is said that Norbert Hähnel (Der Wahre Heino) is responsible for the original label which is quite prominent nowadays.

Three years later (1975. 25th June) the first official “Umsonst und Draussen” festival took place at a stone quarry in Vlotho-Winterberg and developed to a German wide trademark during the following years. Up to now lots of festivals have been organized all over in Germany under this moniker trying to hold up the spirit of the past – based on donations and sponsoring.

It all began when HAMMERFEST, a young local blues rock band, searched for an easy way to offer their music to a wider audience. The idea to organize a (little) festival came up and they invited MISSUS BEASTLY and EMBRYO who already beared a quite famous name in the german alternative music scene.

A truck trailer was turned into a stage and surprisingly nearly 2.000 spectators came to this one day event. Other local matadors like JACK BONE GROUP (with Marlon Klein on drums) and JOHANNISLUST ORCHESTER contributed as well as ATZEN WEHMEYER, known as a former member of Missus Beastly.

In order to meet some costs a vinyl sampler was self-released (as for all following events until 1978 in the same way – today much sought-after items).

Umsonst & Draußen – Vlotho 1975 (vinyl rip)
(192 kbps)

Umsonst & Draußen – Vlotho 1975 (Maulschnauz MOL 0001, vinyl rip)

“Umsonst und Draussen” can be literally translated to “for free and outdoor”. It was the starting point for uncounted festivals taking place in Germany furthermore provided with a self-organized, non-commercial and open-minded approach. Stylistically the 1970s were dominated by prog and prog-related bands, mainly offering a blend of jazz, psych and folk, which had a special experimental attitude. They questioned all conventions – today often categorized as krautrock. This represented those restless and rebellious times drawing from the former student uprisings and protests against the Vietnam War.

Surely inspired by the famous Woodstock festival the first ideas to offer music self-determined and free from any commercial goals came up around 1972 in the Herford/East Westphalia region and manifested in a one day event at Bünde. It is said that Norbert Hähnel (Der Wahre Heino) is responsible for the original label which is quite prominent nowadays.

Three years later (1975. 25th June) the first official “Umsonst und Draussen” festival took place at a stone quarry in Vlotho-Winterberg and developed to a German wide trademark during the following years. Up to now lots of festivals have been organized all over in Germany under this moniker trying to hold up the spirit of the past – based on donations and sponsoring.

It all began when HAMMERFEST, a young local blues rock band, searched for an easy way to offer their music to a wider audience. The idea to organize a (little) festival came up and they invited MISSUS BEASTLY and EMBRYO who already beared a quite famous name in the german alternative music scene.

A truck trailer was turned into a stage and surprisingly nearly 2.000 spectators came to this one day event. Other local matadors like JACK BONE GROUP (with Marlon Klein on drums) and JOHANNISLUST ORCHESTER contributed as well as ATZEN WEHMEYER, known as a former member of Missus Beastly.

In order to meet some costs a vinyl sampler was self-released (as for all following events until 1978 in the same way – today much sought-after items).

Umsonst & Draußen – Vlotho 1975 (vinyl rip)
(192 kbps)

Neil Young – Danny By The River (Bootleg, Cincinnati, February, 25, 1970)

“Danny By The River” presents an almost complete soundboard from the first show on one of Neil Young’s early tours with Crazy Horse.

Recordings from this show have been released before on the two LP vinyl release “Winterlong”. The acoustic set has been released on “Acoustic Tokens” and “The Loner” (along with tracks from the January 21st, 1971 Boulder, Colorado tape). The electric set has been issued as “Electric Prayers”. This recording is listenable and considered one of the better tapes from this tour, but it is incomplete with only a fragment of “Don’t Let It Bring You Down” and “The Old Laughing Lady” missing from the first half.

This soundboard tape has been issued before on the two cdr set “Winterlong” on The Swingin’ Pig (TSP-CD-042-2) but the master reel-to-reel surfaced recently with much better sound. Seymour was the first to press it on to silver disc with “Danny By The River”. There are faint traces of hiss during the acoustic set and the emphasis is upon the middle frequencies with an overall dull and quality. The mix of the instruments is very good in the electric set with only a cut eighteen minutes into “Down By The River” eliminating some words of the final verse of the song. The sound quality is very good to almost excellent and, compared to the audience recordings circulating, offers the best sounding document.

Young played six shows with Crazy Horse in February 1969 at The Bitter End in New York, but Cincinnati is the first show on the first proper tour with his band as he explains before “Broken Arrow”, “This is the first of a series of concerts with Crazy Horse, mostly in the east. Only one west coast gig. Even though we live there we play here.” They played ten shows over a month and this is one of the longest with sixteen different songs performed over an acoustic solo set at the beginning and a full band electric set in the second half. “On The Way Home” opens the show and is followed by the Buffalo Springfield tune “Broken Arrow”, which Neil sings in a very shaky and out-of-tune voice. Before “Dance Dance Dance” he becomes very chatty and asks, “should I play one of those up temp ones for you? I don’t have many up-tempo ones. I live up tempo but play down tempo. This is a new song. It’s going to be on the next Crazy Horse album… It could have been a big hit by Tommy Roe” which ends abruptly after two verses with Neil saying “this is where the chicks start singing and I can’t do anymore”. Only a minute and a half of the new song “Don’t Let It Bring You Down”, making its stage debut, is played before segueing into “The Old Laughing Lady”. Whenever Young plays a solo acoustic set he brings warmth that add a lot. The electric set comprises is the bulk of the show. What warmth is lost is balanced by the intensity of the band playing together. “It Might Have Been” makes its live debut and is introduced as a song Young learned at a church dance and “kinda hokey”.

“Down By The River”, which reached thirty minutes in the Philadelphia show following this one, reaches a mere twenty in Cincinnati and is the only epic performed. It isn’t noted on the liner notes, but the post show talking is tracked separately. It is three and a half minutes of the audience calling for an encore and an announcer saying that the band are finished playing since they’ve gone past their contract.

Thanks to http://www.collectorsmusicreviews.com for informations.

1-1 On the Way Home
1-2 Broken Arrow
1-3 I Am a Child
1-4 Helpless
1-5 Dance Dance Dance
1-6 Sugar Mountain
1-7 Don’t Let It Bring You Down
1-8 The Old Laughing Lady
2-1 The Loner
2-2 Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
2-3 Winterlong
2-4 Come on Baby Let’s Go Downtown
2-5 Wonderin’
2-6 It Might Have Been
2-7 Down by the River
2-8 Cinnamon Girl
2-9 Outro

No link.

Umsonst & Draußen Festival – Vlotho 1976 (Vinyl rip, 1976 – Maulschnauz MOL 0002

Some experiences with logistical problems led on to the idea to form a cooperation named ‘Musikerinitiative Ostwestfalen-Lippe’. Another intention was to claim for public funds which should help to finance future events.

The next festival one year later (3/4 July) took place around a football ground and saw a similar line-up featuring Marlon Klein playing with his new REAL AX BAND and Atzen Wehmeyer who had formed EINHORN in the meanwhile. MUNJU, SKYLINE and the folk band SPARIFANKAL especially known for using lyrics with bavarian dialect, enlarged the festival’s stylistical bandwith.

With 15.000 spectators in total ‘Umsonst und Draussen Vlotho’ was on the way to become the biggest alternative underground festival in Germany.

Umsonst & Draußen Festival – Vlotho 1976 (vinyl rip)
(192 kbps, front cover included)

Neil Young – Danny By The River (Bootleg, Cincinnati, February, 25, 1970)

“Danny By The River” presents an almost complete soundboard from the first show on one of Neil Young’s early tours with Crazy Horse.

Recordings from this show have been released before on the two LP vinyl release “Winterlong”. The acoustic set has been released on “Acoustic Tokens” and “The Loner” (along with tracks from the January 21st, 1971 Boulder, Colorado tape). The electric set has been issued as “Electric Prayers”. This recording is listenable and considered one of the better tapes from this tour, but it is incomplete with only a fragment of “Don’t Let It Bring You Down” and “The Old Laughing Lady” missing from the first half.

This soundboard tape has been issued before on the two cdr set “Winterlong” on The Swingin’ Pig (TSP-CD-042-2) but the master reel-to-reel surfaced recently with much better sound. Seymour was the first to press it on to silver disc with “Danny By The River”. There are faint traces of hiss during the acoustic set and the emphasis is upon the middle frequencies with an overall dull and quality. The mix of the instruments is very good in the electric set with only a cut eighteen minutes into “Down By The River” eliminating some words of the final verse of the song. The sound quality is very good to almost excellent and, compared to the audience recordings circulating, offers the best sounding document.

Young played six shows with Crazy Horse in February 1969 at The Bitter End in New York, but Cincinnati is the first show on the first proper tour with his band as he explains before “Broken Arrow”, “This is the first of a series of concerts with Crazy Horse, mostly in the east. Only one west coast gig. Even though we live there we play here.” They played ten shows over a month and this is one of the longest with sixteen different songs performed over an acoustic solo set at the beginning and a full band electric set in the second half. “On The Way Home” opens the show and is followed by the Buffalo Springfield tune “Broken Arrow”, which Neil sings in a very shaky and out-of-tune voice. Before “Dance Dance Dance” he becomes very chatty and asks, “should I play one of those up temp ones for you? I don’t have many up-tempo ones. I live up tempo but play down tempo. This is a new song. It’s going to be on the next Crazy Horse album… It could have been a big hit by Tommy Roe” which ends abruptly after two verses with Neil saying “this is where the chicks start singing and I can’t do anymore”. Only a minute and a half of the new song “Don’t Let It Bring You Down”, making its stage debut, is played before segueing into “The Old Laughing Lady”. Whenever Young plays a solo acoustic set he brings warmth that add a lot. The electric set comprises is the bulk of the show. What warmth is lost is balanced by the intensity of the band playing together. “It Might Have Been” makes its live debut and is introduced as a song Young learned at a church dance and “kinda hokey”.

“Down By The River”, which reached thirty minutes in the Philadelphia show following this one, reaches a mere twenty in Cincinnati and is the only epic performed. It isn’t noted on the liner notes, but the post show talking is tracked separately. It is three and a half minutes of the audience calling for an encore and an announcer saying that the band are finished playing since they’ve gone past their contract.

Thanks to http://www.collectorsmusicreviews.com for informations.

1-1 On the Way Home
1-2 Broken Arrow
1-3 I Am a Child
1-4 Helpless
1-5 Dance Dance Dance
1-6 Sugar Mountain
1-7 Don’t Let It Bring You Down
1-8 The Old Laughing Lady
2-1 The Loner
2-2 Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
2-3 Winterlong
2-4 Come on Baby Let’s Go Downtown
2-5 Wonderin’
2-6 It Might Have Been
2-7 Down by the River
2-8 Cinnamon Girl
2-9 Outro

No link.

Umsonst & Draußen Festival – Vlotho 1976 (Vinyl rip, 1976 – Maulschnauz MOL 0002

Some experiences with logistical problems led on to the idea to form a cooperation named ‘Musikerinitiative Ostwestfalen-Lippe’. Another intention was to claim for public funds which should help to finance future events.

The next festival one year later (3/4 July) took place around a football ground and saw a similar line-up featuring Marlon Klein playing with his new REAL AX BAND and Atzen Wehmeyer who had formed EINHORN in the meanwhile. MUNJU, SKYLINE and the folk band SPARIFANKAL especially known for using lyrics with bavarian dialect, enlarged the festival’s stylistical bandwith.

With 15.000 spectators in total ‘Umsonst und Draussen Vlotho’ was on the way to become the biggest alternative underground festival in Germany.

Umsonst & Draußen Festival – Vlotho 1976 (vinyl rip)
(192 kbps, front cover included)