Friday 27 September 2013

Red Hot & Rockin' 1970

WILD ANGELS
 
The Wild Angels recorded 'Red Hot & Rockin' for the B&C label in 1970. I bought my copy in 1974 and I've never wanted to part with it. The rhythm section knocked me for six when first heard it, and it still packs a punch today.
 
FORTY DAYS - WILD ANGLES
 
 
RED HOT & ROCKIN'
SIDE ONE
LITTLE QUEENIE
STUCK ON YOU
SOMETHING ELSE!
FORTY DAYS
ODESSA
LET THE FOUR WINDS BLOW
 
SIDE TWO
HIGH SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL
ALL SHOOK UP
YOU AIN'T GOT ME
I NEED YOUR LOVE TONIGHT
RAVE ON
BULLMOOSE
 
Mal Gray - vocals
 
John Hawkins - lead guitar
 
Rod Cotter - bass guitar
 
Bob O'Connor - drums
 
Bill Kingston - piano
 
Freddie Ling - guest saxophone
 
Ripped while spinning on a 1961 Dansette record player

 
Password for file - DukeBoxRocks


Tuesday 17 September 2013

Eddie Clendening Rockabilly Rave 2004


Love Me
One & Only
Be Good or Be Gone
Mess Around


Eddie Clendening - vocal and rhythm guitar
Deke Dickerson - lead guitar
Jimmy Sutton - double bass
Chris (Sugarballs) Sprig - drums

Mess Around



Eddie on the www.
EDDIE on FACEBOOK

Recommended listening

The First album 2006
 No 2 2010 
The excellent latest album 2013 
Hear song samples below
 

Saturday 14 September 2013

Rachael Stokes - Love & Kisses

Back in 2007 I was searching the internet for artists and bands that play my kind of music, when I came across Rachael Stokes' 'YouTube' profile. Some of her posted videos were filmed with her singing in her shower(good for acoustics). I was impressed with her voice and her delivery of songs such as Janis Martin's 'My Confession' and 'My Boy Elvis'. Her style is suited to vintage rock 'n' roll, both ballads and driving rockabilly. These recordings are demos, with local (Nevada) band Pulling Strings on three of the songs and just Rachael and a very rhythmic rhythm guitar on the other two numbers! I had hoped at some point that she would be in a snapped up by some 'on the ball' producer and end up in a recording studio laying down tracks for her first album, but as yet this has not happened.
 
WALKING THE DOG




Alright Baby
Love & Kisses
My Boy Elvis
Love Me or Leave Me
Walking The Dog
 
 

Saturday 7 September 2013

I Can't Find a Train


I've been digging this platter for years. MR. Roy Acuff with 'I Can't Find A Train'. I picked up this DJ ONLY 45 (in fact two 45's) from a buddy downsizing his excellent country vinyl collection back in 1978.
Roy was 72 years old when he cut this fine little platter, I've loved it then and still dig now.
Recorded April 1975 at the Acuff-Rose Sound Studio, Nashville, Tennessee.


ROY ACUFF 1903-1992


Friday 6 September 2013

SKIFFLE


HOME MADE FOUR TRACK EXTENDED PLAY RIPPED FROM THE VINYL DECCA L.P 'ROCK ECHOES' TAB 56 (1982) WHILE PLAYING ON A 1961 DANSETTE RECORD PLAYER. RIPPED TO MP3 FORMAT.

GOOD MORNING BLUES - CITY RAMBLERS
THIS LITTLE LIGHT OF MINE - RAY BUSH
HOW LONG BLUES - RAY BUSH
I AIN'T GONNA WORRY NO MORE - ALEXIS KORNER


ALEXIS KORNER (Photo thanks to Terry Cryer *)
CITY RAMBLERS
RAY BUSH with THE AVON CITY SKIFFLE GROUP 

 
* Terry Cryer is a British jazz and blues photographer. Described by MOJO magazine as "The Dean of UK jazz and blues photographers", Cryer is best known for portraits of some of the genre’s most renowned performers

Wednesday 4 September 2013

Bargains of the day

Kirkwall had a pop up vinyl shop in Town on 31/08/13. I was not holding my expectations very high on finding anything that I would be remotely interested in, in fact what they had was mostly 80's and 90's music (and a few CD's too?) But would you believe it, the first table I came across had these five little beauties waiting for me, and the price was only £1 ($1.50) for all five!
 
All the MP3's in the links below were ripped from the vinyl records while playing on a 1961 Dansette record player.
Settin' The Woods On Fire
Kaw-Liga
Hey, Good Lookin'
Jamalaya (on the Bayou)

Anna Marie - Jim Reeves
Lost To s Geisha Girl - Skeeter Davies
Unfaithful - Hank Snow
Oh Lonesome Me - Do Gibson

Freedom - Hawkshaw Hawkins
Slave - Skeeter Davies
A Fiddle, a Rifle, an Axe & a Bible - Sons of The Pioneers
I Wish I Was The Moon - Hank Snow
Stop The World - Johnny & Jack
That Inner Glow - Hank Locklin 

Fraulein
(Got a) Heartsick Feeling

The only downer was this excellent looking Hank Locklin E.P volume 3 (above) in the Country Guitar collection, the vinyl inside was volume 7! (I could not believe he only wanted £1 for them all so double checking the records inside the sleeve did not occur to me). I believe the last owner of these records must have got his HANK's mixed up. The tracks on Volume 3 are; 'It's a Little More Like Heaven', 'Blue Grass Skirt', 'Why Don't You Haul Off & Love Me' and 'Send Me The Pillow You Sleep On'.
Cover above found on the net
Hank Snow and the Rainbow Ranch Boys
(Now and then, there's) A Fool Such As I
The Golden Rocket
I Don't Hurt Anymore
The Star Spangled Waltz
 
 


Tuesday 3 September 2013

The Butter's on the Bread

 
Skiffle music, miners' strikes, John Peel, Channel 4's 'The Tube', being in love, songs called 'Hello' about good-byes and life in the U.K in 1984. More on Terry & Gerry here...
 
Hello
Butters on the Bread
T.V Song
Dennis and Brian
Wait Until You're Older
 
 
 

 
T.V appearance 1985