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FORGOTTEN EFFORT

August 25, 2014, 3:57 pm
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Top image alternative cover by artist Pete Turner,   The bottom image is the better known image

           For the average listener, Under Milkwood's self-titled album will come as a sad knock-off of Jefferson Airplane's own landmark album, `Surrealistic Pillow'. For the connoisseur of sixties psychedelia, this will come as a wonderful surprise. Like Pillow, this album is split into an electric camp and a folkier, more stream of consciousness side. The recording was made in 1970, a time when psychedelic music was on its way out; all of the great bands of that era were in their twilight (except for the Grateful Dead): the Doors were good for one more album, `L.A. Woman'; the Jefferson Airplane had all but called it quits after 1969's `Volunteers'; the Beatles of course were on their last legs . . . In a way Under Milkwood is a classic example of too little too late. The opening track, "Empty room" is as good as it gets with the San Francisco sound: twin guitars loudly battling for the lead, a powerful vocal and a great drum/bass back-up. Generally the folkier songs are dependent on the vocal talents of Clara Miles; "Changing Seasons", "Tell Me" and "Lost Youth" are all pastoral, almost motionless songs. To many listeners they will be uninteresting, because other bands such as Pentangle, Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span have all done this much better. There are two prominent saxophone songs. The first, "Forgotten bridge", is a curious duet with a loud guitar that never seems to take off and go anywhere. The second, "Parade", is a strange, almost hymn-like procession. "Sandwiches and rock and roll" is loud, unimaginative filler. The last two songs actually tips things towards the favorable. The "Ballad of the spirit world" is an awesome instrumental that has a great sax solo at the start and a freaky guitar workout halfway through and then the same sax solo closes it! "Final song" bookends "Empty room", because both songs are about the loneliness of being different. It has an interesting vocal duet between Miles and Thornam, one of the guitarists. Like the opening track, this song builds to a furious, twin lead guitar attack-in all, a great way to close an album-and an era. R.Cossboon

01.Empty Room - 4:56
02.Changing Seasons - 4:23
03.Tell Me - 5:33
04.Forgotten Bridge - 3:49
05.Parade - 2:44
06.Sandwiches Rock'n'Roll - 3:30
07.Lost Youth - 1:30
08.Ballad of the Spirit of the World - 6:21
09.Final Song - 6:11

Under Milkwood :
John Thornam - Guitars, Vocals
Stephen Mallory - Guitars, Vocals
Robert Mickalsky - Drums
David Turner Jr. - Keyboards, Guitar, Vocals
Clara Miles - Lead Vocals, Percussion
Mike  Lewthorne - Tenor Sax
Alphonse Barnet - Trumpet, Flute, Harpischord


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SO GATHER ALL BLACK ROSES

August 26, 2014, 9:45 am
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Clear Light was a psychedelic rock band that formed in Los Angeles in 1966. They were very much in the mold of fellow Elektra Records artists Love, Tim Buckley, and especially the Doors.

In 1966, the The Brain Train formed and was managed by Sunset Strip hipster Bud Mathis. They recorded a single at the time but soon changed their name to Clear Light where they were signed by Elektra. One condition was that they fire Bud Mathis and in doing so, Doors' producer Paul A. Rothchild took over management of the band.( I have included that single as a bonus)

The core members of the group were Bob Seal, lead guitarist and vocals, Robbie"The Werewolf" Robison, rhythm guitar and vocals, Doug Lubahn bass and vocals,Dallas Taylor drums, and Michael Ney, on, most unusually, another set of drums. They soon added Cliff De Young on lead vocals. This is the version of the band seen on their one and only album cover. However, sometime during the often described "brutal" recording process, Paul Rothchild was not happy with Robbie "The Werewolf" Robison's guitar playing skills and pressured the group to replace him. That is how keyboardist Ralph Schukett entered the band. For some reason, this was not properly addressed on the album cover and there vamped version of Clear Light appears only on the album insert, if you were lucky enough to get an original copy.

What has been considered the band's finest hour came when drunken customers in a Park Avenue club heckled them so brutally that Ralph Schuckett, the usually gentle organist, hurled a few choice words back at them. They then walked off fhe stage, retired to the Albert Hotel, and woke up in the morning to find that they had become underground heroes.

The big hit off their only album, Clear Light, was "Mr. Blue," a psychedelic version of a folk song written by Tom Paxton and a popular request on underground radio at the time, despite the fact it was never released as a  single. Lasting over six minutes, the rather sinister, psychedelic song is considered a classic of the genre. Its lyrics, which alternate between spoken word and song, include verses opening with such lines as, "Good morning,Mister Blue, we've got our eye on you,""Step softly, Mister Blue, we know what's best for you," and "Be careful, Mister Blue, this phase you're going through ...."

The album also included some of guitarist Bob Seal's best psychedelic folk-rock songs, namely "With All in Mind" and "They Who Have Nothing." It had some success in England, but less in the U.S. The end of the group started when Paul Rothchild pressured the other members of the band to fire Bob Seal.When this happened, Cliff De Young was soon to follow and though they struggled on for a brief time, the band was essentially over, especially with the heart and spirit of the band, Bob Seal, gone. Seal was replaced by ex-Fug Danny "Kootch" Kortchmar but the group disbanded in 1968 after having started work on a second album.

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ELECTRICALLY SPEAKING

August 31, 2014, 5:54 am
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Back to a few comps that I have completed  Hope they "spark" your interest!

01 electric chair blues - blind lemon jefferson
02 (have you ever been to) electric ladyland - jimi hendrix
03 electric blue eyes - cranberries
04 electric ocean - cult
05 electric chair - prince
06 electric guitars - prefab sprout
07 she's electric - oasis
08 electric flute thing - blues project
09 the electrician - walker brothers
10 electric land - bad company
11 new electric ride - captain beefheart& the magic band
12 electric aunt jemima - mothers of invention
13 electric spanking of war babies - funkadelic
14 doctor of electricity - country joe & the fish
15 electric los angeles sunset - al stewart
16 electric high - elliot minor
17 electric barbarella - duran duran
18 electrics - a flock of seagulls
19 electric funeral - black sabbath
20 the electric liturgy (processions) - mind garage
21 electric love - gary duncan's quicksilver
22 when electricity came to arkansas - black oak arkansas
23 electric guitar - talking heads
24 electric avenue - eddy grant

As always your feedback is appreciated

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TROPICAL TUNEFOREST

September 1, 2014, 7:05 am
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01  under a blue jungle moon - billie holiday
02  jungle nights in harlem - duke ellington
03  i'm gonna move to the jungle - bb king
04  jungle boy - boys from nowhere
05  jungle strut - santana
06  concrete jungle - bob marley
07  somewhere in the jungle - alice cooper
08  run through the jungle - creedance clearwater revival
09  jungle - electric light orchestra
10  the jungle line - joni mitchell
11  jungle love - problem child
12  down in jungle town - robert crumb & the cheap suit serenaders
13  blue jungle - merle haggard
14  cowboy in the jungle - jimmy buffet
15  welcome to the jungle - guns and roses
16  bungle in the jungle - jethro tull
17  big time in the jungle - old crow medicine show
18  jungle of love - holy moses
19  king of the jungle - beacon street union
20  jungle love - steve miller band
21  space jungle - bongos
22  stranded in the jungle - new york dolls
23  jungle man - red hot chili peppers
24  white boys in the jungle - tribe after tribe


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CALIFORNIA DREAMIN'

September 2, 2014, 6:19 pm
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Randy California - Shattered Dreams (1986)


01. Hey Joe   (06:49)
02. Shattered Dreams   (05:36)
03. All Along The Watchtower   (03:03)
04. Don't Bother Me   (05:08)
05. Downer   (03:25)
06. Second Child   (05:05)
07. Man at War   (04:34)
08. Killer Weed   (04:30)
09. Hand Guns   (02:47)
10. Radioman   (02:59)
11. Run To Your Lover   (03:15)
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ARG!!

September 4, 2014, 4:38 am
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  Long lived San Francisco band who had their first concert June 12, 1973 and then operating on an on-off basis throughout the 70’s/80´s. Despite their popularity in the Bay Area the band failed to sign to a major label but did record several albums for smaller labels.

Terry & The Pirates
Record Plant
Sausalito, CA
KSAN FM 95,5 SF
1973-06-24


Terry Dolan - Guitars & Vocals
Greg Douglass - Guitars
John Cipollina - Guitars, Electric 12-String on 7
Hutch Hutchinson - Bass
David Weber - Drums

Setlist:
01. Intro Instumental Music > Tom Donahue Intro   1:55
02. Fifth Of Bliss   6:09
03. Ready For The Country   4:05
04. Angie   5:55
05. Truer Than Blue   6:12
06. Inlaws And Outlaws   6:09
07. Walking The Plank   4:14
08. Tom Donahue's Band Introduction   0:42
09. Rave On   3:36
10. Nothing To Lose   4:37
11. Purple And Blonde   5:36
12. Rainbow   3:59
13. Queen Of Thieves > Tom Donahue Outro   5:56


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THE BUFFALO'S BASS

September 4, 2014, 4:07 pm
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Bruce Palmer (September 9, 1946 – October 1, 2004) was a Canadian musician notable for playing bass guitar in the folk rock band Buffalo Springfield

Neil Young told author Jimmy McDonough in the book "Shakey": "Bruce was great. Bruce was one of the best guitar players I've ever heard in my life."

"Bruce would lay down a groove and we could have done anything," said Stills, acknowledging Palmer's prowess.

"There's not a person who listened to the Buffalo Springfield that wasn't drawn to the way he played bass," said bandmate Richie Furay. "He made the music move -- Bruce was truly a musician's musician. I consider it a privilege to have played with him in such a creative time in my life."

"He was the focus that balanced Neil and me." Atlantic Records chief Ahmet Ertegun claimed that Palmer was "a musical guru. The rest of the band all idolised him."

"I have to this day never played with a bass player as good as Bruce", said Mynah Birds drummer Rickman Mason on their Motown recordings in 1966.

Bruce Palmer was born in 1946, in Nova Scotia, Canada, and was most well known as the bassist for the Buffalo Springfield. Palmer began his musical career in Toronto with Jack London & the Sparrows.

He then joined the Mynah Birds, with Rick James on vocals. In 1966, Neil Young joined the Mynah Birds, on the Motown label, although an album was never released.

Bruce Palmer was with Neil Young for the legendary meeting on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles with Stephen Stills and Richie Furay. On the way out of town, Stills recognized Young's hearse with Canadian plates and flagged them down. The rest is history, as they began jamming immediately and formed the Buffalo Springfield.


Joining Neil Young and Stephen Stills in the Buffalo Springfield would be the brief highlight of his career.Palmer was replaced by Jim Messina on bass due to a variety of drug problems and immigration issues. "Bruce was the mysterious one in the group," Furay adds. "You may not have always known what he was thinking as he just looked at you and smiled, but when he plugged the bass in, there was no mistaking his life was truly about the music."

Neil Young continued about Palmer in the book "Shakey": "I think I met Bruce down at David Rea's apartment below the Riverboat (Toronto). [He played] blues guitar. Neither Stephen or I played guitar half as well as Bruce. But he didn't play guitar -- he played bass. Bruce used to sing and play, and it was funky as hell. Funky blues man. He had an old Kay. He can still play the blues, just like that."

Otherwise, Palmer's only other musical effort was a solo album, "The Cycle Is Complete", an experimental album. Palmer briefly formed the band Buffalo Springfield revisited but there was little output from the brief reunion band that was without Young and Stills.



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DO YOU KNOW JACK?

September 4, 2014, 10:24 pm
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 I recently had a request for this file. It intrigued me into researching Jack and his whereabouts. I was surprised to learn that jack had passed away in November of 2013,, so I decided to post this one again so everyone can hear what a talented musician Bonus was and to remember yet another of my generations iconic and special musical talents


Jack Bonus... otherwise known throughout the Bay area music scene both then and now as Stephen Schuster.
An accomplished woodwind player and guitarist has been playing for over 40 years in and around SF. This is the only LP made by Jack . His name appears everywhere on LPs from the musicians at the time. He co wrote the song "Silver and Gold" on the first QMS lp. His Tenor saxophone and flute have been an integral part of many recordings. His beginnings date back to being the equipment manager for QMS and jamming with them on occasions. He played as a member of the Keith and Donna Band for a period of time. He was a short term member of Jefferson Starship for the Freedom At Point Zero LP and tours. He spent time with Sly and the Family Stone and on and on and on....
This Lp is a nifty little package that features Jack's gruff voice singing some nice little songs. The Hobo Song went on to fame as a bluegrass tune by Garcia while in Old And In The Way. This LP is rare and deserves a chance to be put out on CD but my copy of the vinyl is great.

                                                          
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PIRATE'S BOOT

September 5, 2014, 6:16 pm
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 Here's a bootleg from 1993, it is basically studio outtakes  with Terry solo on tracks 1-8. Sound quality is not the best but if you are a Dolan / Pirates fan it is a good one to have,


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ANATOMICAL MUSIC BOX

September 5, 2014, 8:08 pm
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01 have you seen her face - byrds
02 my eyes have seen you - doors
03 you must be bleeding through your eyelids - blindside
04 may the bird of paradise fly up your nose - little jimmy dickend
05 talk back trembling lips - ernest ashworth
06 the mustache song - quantum mechanics
07 unknown tongue - blue oyster cult
08 beans in my ears - pete seeger
09 heart - liverpool five
10 if i only had a brain - stackabones
11 superlungs( my supergirl) - donovan
12 almost cut my hair - crosby,stills,nash & young
13 wring that neck - deep purple
14 little hands - skip spence
15 under my thumb - who
16 crazy fingers - grateful dead
17 brothers in arms - dire straits
18 by the hair on my chiny chin chin - sam the sham & the pharoahs
19 no matter what shape(you're stomsch's in - t-bones
20 boobs s lot - fugs
21 busted feet - arthur lee
22 legs - zz top
23 mr.skin - spirit
24 chest fever - band

                                                                    
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QUESTIONABLE CONTENT

September 6, 2014, 3:58 pm
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01 have you seen your mother,baby.standing in the shadows - rolling stones
02 does anybody really know what time it is - chicago transit authority
03 do you wanna dance - david lindley &el rayo-x
04 are you lovin' me more(but enjoyin' it less) - electric prunes
05 are you happy - iron butterfly
06 (is anybody goin' to) san antone
07 what is the reason - rascals
08 how do you feel - jefferson airplane
09 do you believe in magic - lovin' spoonfu;
10 are you gonna be there(at the love-in) - chocolate watchband
11 how is it(we are here) - moody blues
12 who am i - country joe & the fish
13 why is a carrot more orange than an orange - amboy dukes
14 who are the brain police - mothers of invention
15 who makes the moves - dinosaurs
16 have i the right - honeycombs
17 who dat - cigar store indians
18 why did you hurt me - standells
19 who's driving your plane - rolling stones
20 are you passionate - neil young
21 how can i miss you when you won't go away - charlatans
22 ain't that lovin' you baby - youngbloods
23 are you ready for the country - terry & the pirates
24 are you experienced - jimi hendrix experience

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TREASURE CHEST

September 11, 2014, 8:41 pm
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Original artwork by Joe Jusko 1996



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WALKIN' THE PLANK

September 12, 2014, 5:44 pm
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AVAST YE!

September 14, 2014, 4:10 pm
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ANOTHER PIRATE

September 15, 2014, 1:42 pm
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Artwork by Rick Griffin

 When the Grateful Dead took time off from recording in 1974, lyricist Robert Hunter used the opportunity to release a solo album, Tales of The Great Rum Runners. Hunter sings, plays guitar and pipes, writing almost all of the material and acquitting himself with a vocal style that suggests a limited amalgam of Jerry Garcia, Bob Dylan, Lou Reed and Johnny Cash. Given that Dead fans had few expectations for Hunter beyond clever lyrics, his first solo album is better than expected. An eclectic, folksy collection of songs reminiscent of Bob Dylan and The Band’s Basement Tapes, Tales of The Great Rum Runners manages to stand up on its own musical merits, and not merely as Dead-related minutiae. Sly, lively songs like “That Train” and “Arizona Lightning” invite comparison to Dylan’s Planet Waves; “Rum Runners” suggests what the Moodies might have sounded like with Johnny Cash. Throw in the popular “It Must Have Been The Roses” (since appropriated by the Dead in a dirge-like reading) and the legend-stoking “Boys In The Barroom,” and Hunter’s first album proves to be an interesting ride. The backing arrangements are sometimes spare, occasionally rich, relying on a bevy of Bay Area backing musicians and some help from his bandmates (Garcia, Hart, Donna and Keith Godchaux). Musically, Hunter leans on stock solutions like the obligatory bagpipe number (“Children’s Lament”) or the rollicking piano tune (“Mad”), but to his credit they never feel disingenuous. True, Hunter is at best a middling warbler, but I’ve heard a lot worse (and, frankly, expected it). If the lyrical imagery isn’t up to the level I imagined, the final product is respectable (which is itself remarkable). Tales of The Great Rum Runners may not rise to the level of the Dead, Dylan or The Band, but it’s in the same ballpark. Review from PROGROGRAPHY

Tales Of The Great Rum Runners
Robert Hunter
Initial release : June 1974

Round Records RX 101

Tracks

    * Lady Simplicity (Hunter)
    * That Train (Hunter)
    * Dry Dusty Road (Hunter)
    * I Heard You Singing (Hunter / Freiberg)
    * Rum Runners (Hunter)
    * Children's Lament (Hunter)
    * Maybe She's A Bluebird (Hunter)
    * Boys In The Barroom (Hunter)
    * It Must Have Been The Roses (Hunter)
    * Arizona Lightning (Hunter)
    * Standing At Your Door (Hunter)
    * Mad (Hunter / Hart)
    * Keys To The Rain (Hunter)

Musicians

    * Peter Albin - bass
    * Rodney Albin - vocals, fiddle
    * Maureen Aylett - vocals, spoons
    * Mario Cipollina - saxophone
    * T.Will Claire - vocals
    * Hadi El Sadoon - trumpet
    * John Farey - saxophone
    * Milt Farrow - saxophone
    * Snooky Flowers - saxophone
    * David Freiberg - bass
    * Bruce Gapinski - saxophone
    * Jerry Garcia -guitar
    * Donna Godchaux - vocals
    * Keith Godchaux - keyboards
    * Mickey Hart - drums
    * David Kessner - saxophone
    * Barry Melton - guitar
    * Jamie Paris - harp
    * Steve Schuster ( Jack Bonus)- saxophone
    * Ray Scott - saxophone
    * Markee Shubb - mandolin
    * Rick Shubb - banjo
    * Jeff Slattery - saxophone
    * Randall Smith - saxophone
    * Bill Steele - saxophone
    * Robbie Stokes - guitar

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MAN OF MANY WORDS

September 16, 2014, 10:07 am
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                                           Artwork by Alton Kelly and Stanley Mouse


Artist: Robert Hunter

Title: Tiger Rose

Date: 1975

Label: Round Records RX-105

Producer: Jerry Garcia

There's a stellar line up here to assist Dead lyricist and Jerry Garcia's partner in crime with the second album of his own. While Hunter's voice can be an acquired taste there's no doubting the source of the stories he tells. Wind from the desert, from the plains and blown across the back porches of an older America come from the lungs and soul of the author. All new, but with a familiar feels as if we've heard them before. It takes a unique talent to write a song that is both new and instantly recognizable.

Line Up:

Robert Hunter: vocals and songs
Jerry Garcia: guitar, piano, synthesizer, pedal steel
B. D. Shot: drums
Mickey Hart: percussion
David Torbert: bass
David Freiberg: piano, celeste
Pete Sears: organ, bass
Donna Jean Godchaux: background vocals

Tracks

* Tiger Rose (Hunter)
* One Thing To Try (Hunter)
* Rose Of Sharon (Hunter)
* Wild Bill (Hunter)
* Dance A Hole (Hunter)
* Cruel White Water (Hunter)
* Over The Hills (Hunter)
* Last Flash Of Rock 'N' Roll (Hunter)
* Yellow Moon (Hunter)
* Ariel (Hunter)
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HUNTER SOLO

September 17, 2014, 3:34 pm
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Jack O'Roses

Robert Hunter

Initial release : 1980
Dark Star DSLP 8001
Robert Hunter solo album recorded and released in the UK. Includes the complete Terrapin Station Suite and a number of other songs that were performed by the Grateful Dead.
Tracks

  • Box Of Rain (Hunter/Lesh)
  • Reuben And Cerise (Garcia/Hunter)
  • Talkin' Money Tree (Hunter)
  • Friend Of The Devil (Dawson/Garcia/Hunter)
  • Delia DeLyon And Stagger Lee (Hunter)
  • Lady Of Carlisle (Traditional)
  • Book Of Daniel (Hunter / Freiberg)
  • Terrapin
    1. Lady With A Fan (Garcia/Hunter)
    2. Terrapin Station (Garcia/Hunter)
    3. Ivory Wheels/Rosewood Track (Hunter)
    4. Jack O' Roses (Hunter)
  • Prodigal Town (Hunter)
Musicians

  • Robert Hunter - guitar, vocals
Credits

  • Engineer, mixing - Arthur Anderson
  • Artwork - Trevor Wright
  • Photography - Roy Wilbraham
  • Agency - Magna, New York (Bill Hahn)
  • Project co-ordination - Nick Ralph
  • Recorded and mixed at Terrapin Records' studio, London




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ALLIGATOR MOON REVISITED

September 19, 2014, 6:15 am
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                                                   Cover concept by Me,Myself, & I

For one last Robert Hunter post I give you a partial recording from Robert and the band Comfort. This recording is from My Father's Place, Roslyn, NY on 5-27-78. In this post I have put together a few of the tunes from his sets on that evening with the thought of giving a feel for the Alligator Moon LP that he had recorded a year or so before with Comfort. Hunter says his was never satsified with the final results of that recording and it has never been released.

1 Keys To The Rain
2 It Must Have Been The Roses
3 Big Wind
4 Promontory Rider *
5 All The Same
6 Alligator Moon Suite*
7 Blue Note *
8 New East Saint Louis Blues *
9 Friend Of The Devil
10 Wild Bill
11 Tiger Rose
12 Jesse James *
13 Cruel White Water
14 That Train
15 Ripple
16 Rum Runners

* An Alligator Moon Song



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ALL STRUNG OUT

September 21, 2014, 5:25 am
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GONE BANANAS

September 30, 2014, 4:03 pm
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Mid-Mountain Ranch
Banana And The Bunch
Initial release : 1972

Raccoon 13 / Warner BS 2626

The only solo release by Banana. Recorded after the Youngbloods split up, with all members of the group except Jesse Colin Young.

    album cover
Tracks

Side A;

    Back In The USA (Berry)
    My True Life Blues (Levinger)
    Vanderbilt's Lament (Levinger / Kane / Bauer / Anderson)
    Interlude (Levinger)
    Double Interlude (Levinger / Swallow)
    Sittin' Alone In The Moonlight (Monroe)
    In Foggy Old London (Robinson)
    Before The Sun Goes Down (Cloud / Organ)

Side B;

    New Sail Away Ladies
    Ocean Of Diamonds
    Familiar Patterns
    Great Blue Heron
    Honky Tonk Blues (Williams)
    Lucas Valley Breakdown

Musicians

    Banana (Lowell Levinger) - piano, guitar, bass, vocals
    Michael Kane - bass
    Steve Swallow - bass
    Joe Bauer - drums
    Earthquake Anderson - harmonica 

 

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