James Brown

When anyone mentions "The Godfather of Soul" or "The Hardest Working Man in Show Business", there is no doubt who they are referring to. One of the most influential artists of 20th century, James Brown has definitely worked to earn these titles of high esteem. By going from shining shoes to becoming a major entertainer and groundbreaking musician, James Brown achieved the American dream.
Growing up in poverty in Georgia, Brown scraped for money from various odd jobs. He was inspired to become a performer, and formed his band, the Flames, in 1956 with his reform school friend Bobby Bird. This group was the start of a highly successful career packed with R&B and funk hits. Their very first single, "Please Please Me," sold over a million copies.READ MORE


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April 5, 1968, Boston Gardens Listen

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James Brown and the Famous Flames
L'Olympia, Paris, France
November 25, 1967
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James Taylor

Biography

by William Ruhlmann

When people use the term "singer/songwriter" (often modified by the word "sensitive") in praise or in criticism, they're thinking of James Taylor. In the early '70s, when he appeared with his introspective songs, acoustic guitar, and calm, understated singing style, he mirrored a generation's emotional exhaustion after tumultuous times. Just as Bing Crosby's reassuring voice brought the country out of the Depression and through World War II, Taylor's eased the transition from '60s activism and its attendant frustrations into the less political, more inward-looking '70s. He was rewarded with a series of hit albums and singles (surprisingly, many of the latter were covers of old songs rather than his own compositions), and he managed to survive his initial fame to achieve lasting popularity. He continued to tour successfully for decades, and, starting with his 1970 breakthrough Sweet Baby James, all but one of his regular album releases for the rest of the century went gold or platinum, while his 1976 Greatest Hits album achieved a diamond certification reflecting sales of more than ten million copies. read more 

James Taylor
The Jabberwocky
Syracuse New York
6 February 1970 Listen

James Taylor
Live At The Jabberwocky
Syracuse, NY 2/7/70 Listen



James Taylor 04/25/70
Sanders Theatre at Harvard University Listen

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Rockpile

British pop songwriter, bassist, and producer Nick Lowe had an interesting arrangement with his fellow Brit musician and longtime collaborator, Dave Edmunds. The two decided to produce tracks for and play on each other's solo albums, as well as be members in a band that would support each one when they toured as solo artists. Hence the birth of Rockpile, probably the best known and best loved of all U.K. pub bands.
For about five years in the late '70s and early '80s, the UK-based supergroup, Rockpile, captivated audiences around the world. Driven by their infectious energy and the imagination of the group's principle songwriter, Nick Lowe, the quartet churned out many rollicking performances, including this one, captured at the world-famous Palladium in New York City.
After leading and playing bass for the classic Brit pub band, Brinsley Schwartz, Lowe moved into producing by the mid-1970s. In 1976, he signed on with Stiff Records, the punk label started by Elvis Costello's manager, Jake Riviera. Lowe saw his initial success with Stiff, producing many of its artists at the same time he was an act on the label as well. Between 1979 and 1981, Lowe and Edmunds worked under the name Rockpile with Bremner and Williams. Vocally, Lowe and Edmunds borrowed heavily from the Everly Brothers. The band's one LP on Columbia did moderately well, but by 1981 the group was kaput



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Carlene Carter was married to Nick Lowe

Dave Edmunds and Nick Lowe

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Band Members
Dave Edmunds - guitars, vocals
Nick Lowe - bass, vocals
Billy Bremner - guitars, vocals
Terry Williams - drums

The Stray Cats

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The Stray Cats caused a rockabilly revival in the early 1980s. Adrift in a market for Duran Duran and Eddie Money types, the Stray Cats made their mark on MTV with a rowdy 1950s resurgence. Stray Cat singles "Rock this Town," "Stray Cat Strut" and "Runaway Boys" were huge hits both in Europe and in the U.S., and the American-released album Built for Speed occupied the number-two spot on the Billboard Album Chart for 26 weeks. Throughout the 1980s, the Stray Cats not only made their mark with fans but also with fellow cool-cat musicians. Taken from Wolfgangs Vault.


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FREE

Biography

by Jason Ankeny

 Free formed in London in 1968 when guitarist Paul Kossoff, then a member of the blues unit Black Cat Bones, was taken to see vocalist Paul Rodgers' group Brown Sugar by a friend, drummer Tom Mautner. After deciding to form their own band, Kossoff and Rodgers recruited drummer Simon Kirke (since Mautner was at university) and 16-year-old bass phenom Andy Fraser from the ranks of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers; with the aid of Alexis Korner, who also suggested the name Free, the fledgling band signed to the Island label, issuing their bluesy debut Tons of Sobs in 1968.

Free's eponymous 1969 follow-up expanded on their roots-based sound, incorporating rockers like Albert King's "The Hunter" as well as muscular ballads like "Lying in the Sunshine" into the mix. Although both of the first two albums fared poorly on the charts, 1970's Fire and Water became a tremendous hit on the strength of the primal "All Right Now," a Top Five smash powered by Rodgers' gritty, visceral vocals. After headlining 1970's Isle of Wight festival, the group appeared destined for superstardom, but the LP Highway did not fare nearly as well as anticipated, and after a grueling tour which yielded 1971's Free Live, the band dissolved amidst ego clashes and recriminations. Read more.

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Paul Rodgers and Simon Kirke were 18, Paul Kossoff 17 and Andy Fraiser was only 15.

Free .... December 12, 1970 (Broadcast January 2, 1971)
"Midnight Hour", Radiohuset, Stockholm, Sweden
(EX FM - from Liberated Bootleg "Radio Free" (Remastered Edition))
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Paul Kossoff

Free

The Metallized Blues
Tampa Stadium, Tampa, Florida
April 30, 1972

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One of the last of original band

Edinburgh, Empire Theatre
September 14, 1972
- Paul Kossoff’s 22nd Birthday -
Lineup: Paul Rodgers, Paul Kossoff, Simon Kirke, Rabbit Bundrick, Tetsu
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Wet Willie

Next to the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd, Wet Willie was unquestionably one of the best bands to come out from below the Mason-Dixon line during the dawn of the Southern Rock movement. The band had a country feel to many of their songs, but paid equal respect to the classic Stax-styled soul recordings of the '60s and early '70s. The group, under the skillful guidance of rock impresario Phil Walden and his Capricorn Records label, rode the coattails of the Allman Brothers Band and found a solid home on American FM radio with memorable tracks such "Keep On Smiling."
But it was vocalist Jimmy Hall's passionate blue-eyed soul vocals that made Wet Willie such a great band. His performances during the heyday of Capricorn in 1973 and 1974 are the things legends are made of, with the band getting glowing reviews night after night. But by 1975, it was apparent that Hall and company were tired of being the second banana to acts like the Allmans and upstart Elvin Bishop at the label. In late 1975, he negotiated a move to the more powerful Epic Records, a division of Sony. With that move, he also chose to revamp the band lineup.
Sadly, the move to Epic did little for the success of the band. Their first release for the label,Manorisms, got good reviews, but failed to break though with a major hit single. The band carried on for a few years and then broke up. Hall reunited with some of the original members for a new version of the band in the '90s, and continues to work as a solo singer. Today, the band works in two configurations: as Wet Willie, with Hall as the lead vocalist, and as the Wet Willie Band that has various band members doing lead vocals.
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Bottom Line (New York, NY) Dec 18, 1977 Early Show

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Bottom Line (New York, NY) Dec 18, 1977 Late Show

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Quicksilver Messenger Service

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John Cipollina

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Biography

by William Ruhlmann

The band that became Quicksilver Messenger Service originally was conceived as a rock vehicle for folk singer/songwriter Dino Valente (b. Nov. 7, 1943, d. Nov 16, 1994), author of "Get Together." Living in San Francisco, Valente had found guitarist John Cipollina (b. Aug. 24, 1943, d. May 29, 1989) and singer Jim Murray. Valente's friend David Freiberg (b. Aug. 24, 1938) joined on bass, and the group was completed by the addition of drummer Greg Elmore (b. Sep. 4, 1946) and guitarist Gary Duncan (b. Sep 4, 1946). As the band was being put together, Valente was imprisoned on a drug charge and he didn't rejoin Quicksilver until later.

They debuted at the end of 1965 and played around the Bay Area and then the West Coast for the next two years, building up a large following but resisting offers to record that had been taken up by such San Francisco acid rock colleagues as Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead. Quicksilver finally signed to Capitol toward the end of 1967 and recorded their self-titled debut album in 1968 (by this time, Murray had left). Happy Trails, the 1969 follow-up, was recorded live. After its release, Duncan left the band and was replaced for Shady Grove (1970) by British session pianist Nicky Hopkins. By the time of its release, however, Duncan had returned, along with Valente, making the group a sextet.

This version of Quicksilver, prominently featuring Valente's songs and lead vocals, lasted only a year, during which two albums, Just for Love and What About Me, were recorded. Cipollina, Freiberg, and Hopkins then left, and the remaining trio of Valente, Duncan, and Elmore hired replacements and cut another couple of albums before disbanding. There was a reunion in 1975, resulting in a new album and a tour, and in 1986 Duncan revived the Quicksilver name for an album that also featured Freiberg on background vocals.

Chicago Transit Authority

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                                               a few days b4 this show

Concert Summary  taken from Wolfgangs Vault

August 17,1969 @ Filmore West

These recordings are from the final night of a run that featured Chicago Transit Authority opening and closing a show that also featured sets by The Youngbloods and Colosseum in between. These remarkable sets capture the band riding high on the great success of their debut album and performing that material, along with some of the songs destined for their second album, which they were recording in Los Angeles that same month. Many of the songs that established…entire summary

Robert Lamm - keyboards, lead vocals
Terry Kath - guitar, lead vocals
Peter Cetera - bass, lead vocals
James Pankow - trombone, percussion
Lee Loughnane - trumpet, percussio, background vocals
Walter Parazaider - woodwinds, percussion, background vocals
Daniel Seraphine - drums

These recordings are from the final night of a run that featured Chicago Transit Authority opening and closing a show that also featured sets by The Youngbloods and Colosseum in between. These remarkable sets capture the band riding high on the great success of their debut album and performing that material, along with some of the songs destined for their second album, which they were recording in Los Angeles that same month. Many of the songs that established the band are here and remind us that this was once a band with serious musicianship whose wide-ranging creativity was both aggressive and inviting. The group had an undeniable flare for writing captivating pop songs, but it is the lengthier, more experimental material that is most impressive here. Terry Kath's sizzling neo-psychedelic guitar playing is simply outstanding on these sets and reveal exactly why Jimi Hendrix himself was so impressed. Blood, Sweat & Tears (with founder Al Kooper long gone) was the other horn band experiencing great commercial success at this time, but Chicago had a gutsier sound, and in many ways were fulfilling the promise of the original Al Kooper-led version of that band. Chicago would become progressively less adventurous with every album, but in 1969, they were one of the most confident, diverse, and just plain exciting bands on the planet.
Following a brief stage introduction, where the MC says, "Just about the most exciting thing to happen to the Windy City since the big fire -- a real heavy -- let's welcome Chicago," the early show begins. They kick it off with "Poem 58." It begins as a guitar-heavy tour de force with Terry Kath absolutely ripping away, prior to becoming an intriguing bluesy love song. Like much of Chicago's early material, this is a lengthy modular composition, featuring plenty of tight ensemble playing as well as sections for improvisational flights.
A brief freeform piano improvisation by Robert Lamm leads directly into a tight letter perfect rendition of "Does Anyone Really Know What Time It Is," one of the songs receiving AM radio attention at the time and that would become one of their first big hits. Another lengthier composition, "It Better End Soon," follows, where Robert Lamm voices his political opinions within another modular framework. The remainder of the early show vacillates between additional first album material, such as Lamm's power-pop confection, "Questions 67 & 68" and the Lamm/Pankow composition, "Someday," as well as new material destined for their second album; sessions for which were currently in progress at the time of this run.
"Poem For The People," although missing a few seconds near the end (due to the reel running out) is expectedly almost identical to it's studio counterpart. The same can be said for the setclosing "25 Or 6 To 4," which they were also recording at the time, but in the case of the latter, the bands enthusiasm for this new song is contagious and it is wonderful hearing this classic early Chicago number when it was so vibrant and new.
Following this, a stage announcement is made saying "They'll be back to close our show." Earlier in the set, Robert Lamm says, "We can't play everything now, but we'll play the other songs at the next one," which is exactly what they do during the incendiary set that closes the show later that night.
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The Black Crowes

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Derek and The Dominos sans "Skydog"

 

Biography

by William Ruhlmann

Derek & the Dominos was a group formed by guitarist/singer Eric Clapton (born Eric Patrick Clapp, March 30, 1945, Ripley, Surrey, England) with other former members of Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, in the spring of 1970. The rest of the lineup was Bobby Whitlock (b. 1948, Memphis, TN) (keyboards, vocals), Carl Radle (b. 1942, Oklahoma City, OK -- d. May 30, 1980) (bass), and Jim Gordon (b. 1945, Los Angeles) (drums). The group debuted at the Lyceum Ballroom in London on June 14 and undertook a summer tour of England. From late August to early October, they recorded the celebrated double album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (November 1970) with guitarist Duane Allman sitting in. They then returned to touring in England and the U.S., playing their final date on December 6.
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Derek and the Dominos In Concert U.S Pressing Vinyl Rip With Bonus
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In Concert
Live album by Derek and the Dominos
Released  January 1973
Recorded  23 October & 24 October 1970, at Fillmore East
Genre  Rock, Blues
Length  89:45
Label  Polydor Records
Professional reviews

    * Allmusic 3/5 stars link
      
    * Robert Christgau (A-) link

 * Eric Clapton: Guitars, vocals

    * Carl Radle: Bass guitar
    * Bobby Whitlock: Piano, Hammond organ, vocals
    * Jim Gordon: Drums, percussion

In Concert is a live double album, recorded by Derek and the Dominos in October 1970 at the Fillmore East and released January 1973.

Six of the album's nine tracks were subsequently included on the 1994 album Live at the Fillmore. The three songs not included are "Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad," "Let It Rain," & "Tell the Truth." Live at the Fillmore also includes these songs, although they are from different sets than the ones appearing here.

 Track listing

   1. "Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad" (Clapton, Bobby Whitlock) – 9:33
   2. "Got to Get Better in a Little While" (Clapton) – 13:50
   3. "Let It Rain" (Bonnie Bramlett, Clapton) – 17:46
   4. "Presence of the Lord" (Clapton) – 6:10

   1. "Tell the Truth" (Clapton, Whitlock) – 11:21
   2. "Bottle of Red Wine" (Bramlett, Clapton) – 5:37
   3. "Roll It Over" (Clapton, Whitlock) – 6:44
   4. "Blues Power" (Clapton, Leon Russell) – 10:29
   5. "Have You Ever Loved a Woman?" (Billy Myles) – 8:15


Also Included "Little Wing Taken from Guitar Player magazine soundpage Aug 1988.



Eric and Bobby

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B.B. "Chung" King & The Buddah Heads

The Buddaheads are a progressive bluesrock band
formally on RCA records.fronted by singer songwriter
ALAN(BB Chung King) MIRIKITANI.Considered to be one of the best guitar player singers in all of
southern california.BB also writes songs with his songwriting partner of 10yrs.,Grammy and Handy
award winner Dennis Walker(also discovered and produced,Robert Cray).
Buddaheads is a term used by the 442nd army infantry,made up of all japanese americans during
WW2(the most highly decorated infantry in the history of America) .It is a name they used to affectionally call each other.BB's uncle Ugi was in the 442nd