Lucy Hamilton
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Ornette Coleman "Chronology" from the album "The Shape of Jazz To Come" released in 1959 on Atlantic Records.
Some excellent Cornet from Don Cherry on this.
What have you been listening to Pogo ? For the past week I exclusively been listening to Ornette Coleman, Charles Mingus, Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler and more Sandy Denny Demos.
Sandy Denny "The Pond and The Stream" from "I've Always Kept A Unicorn - The Acoustic Sandy Denny" released in 2016 on 180gram 2 X LP on Island Records. This demo was recorded in February 1970 at the Sound Techniques Studios, London, England.
I'm definitely listening to Oosie's Sandy Denny posts
Was immersed in this recently around the anniversary of JFK assassination, doing a remix. Very powerful song.
Jim Glover and Jean Ray were longtime friends of Phil Ochs the writer, and their duet was the first recorded release of this epic song, in 1966. At that time stereo was a fairly new gimmick and some of the panning experiments don't wear well with time. This one has the two voices channeled extreme left and right, so I imaged them closer together and balanced them a bit better.
Other than that, going through a lot of CDs but haven't come across much that is earthshaking of late.
Pogo that video will not play for me.
In other news my Priest is here, yesterday also was my Confession Day if I cannot do Fridays I go Tuesdays.
My Priest and I are now going to play our usual game of Machiavelli * and he has Vodka and I have Chocolate Milk as I am a good girl
Or am I?
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* Machiavelli:
Machiavelli (Italian card game) - Wikipedia
Is the video restricted in Europa?
See if this one works, same song:
Jim Glover actually taught Phil Ochs how to play guitar. Ochs had been more of a journalist/writer before that.
I forgot to strip out the videos from the quoted posts. Makes the page take forever to load. At least I did it this time.
The first it just say This Video Is Not Available.
The second video is okay, that was VERY fantastic. I like Jim & Jean, you know ogo I think we channel each other sometimes because a few weeks ago I was relistening to their first album "Jim & Jean" released in 1965 on Philips Records, not sure what label it was on in America it could have also been Philips or the subsidiary Fontana Records or the other subsidiary Mercury Records, but not only do they perform two great versions of two Leadbelly songs "Relax Your Mind" and "Alabama Sound" they also do Buffy Sainte-Marie's "Welcome, Welcome Emigrante"
Re. Phil Ochs he's too political for me, of course he was talented but too political, same with Richard Fariña and also Ewan McColl. They were in a group together I am sure Jim Glover and Phil Ochs were in I cannot remember the name and I'm sure they didn't release any records.
The first Jim & Jean LP was also on Philips here, the second (the one I linked) on Verve Folkways and their third on Verve Forecast. That first Jim & Jean LP fetches a few bucks on the collector market I think. I don't have it.
Ochs yes was very social/political, that was his passion and led him to "topical" songs, kind of like writing articles with music is how he looked at it. Yet "Crucifixion" is very spiritual, looking at the propensity of culture to build up some hero and then kill him. He doesn't mention JFK in the song but it's obviously the model, yet it's expressed as a general cultural observation. Ochs called it the greatest song he ever wrote, and I think he was right. But the Jim & Jean version is unsurpassed.
The small group (duo I think) with Jim Glover and Phil Ochs was the Sundowners. They did a few gigs but no recordings.
As for Buffy Sainte-Marie, she's one of my favorite people. Had the pleasure of interviewing her and found her a wonderfully openhearted, personable and impish spirit. A wise woman.
Oosie you have a deep well of music that continues to impress. What I think you should do is sell off your liquor cabinet and buy a plane ticket here, where you and I can run a radio station, trading off input over and over. Leave kids A, B, C, D, E, F and G with Mr Oosie, he can handle it. In return I will cook for you.
A beautiful and pure but very troubled soul, I hope wherever Nick Drake is his tormented soul is at peace.
No idea when these Demos were actually recorded, I think somewhere between the beginning of 1968 to the Summer 1970 as the official studio recording of "Day Is Done" is on "Five Leaves Left" and recording of that album began in July 1968 and the official studio recording of "Hazey Jane I" is on "Bryter Layter" and recording of that album began in the Autumn of 1970.
Nick Drake "Day Is Done" this is the Demo of the song from the album "Second Grace - Home Recordings of Alternate Versions and Unreleased Songs" released on 180gram vinyl LP in 2001 on Not on Label (Nick Drake) this is a pseudo-label a holding area for all unofficial releases of music by Nick Drake where no other record label is discernible.
Nick Drake "Hazey Jane" this is the Demo of the song from the same above album.