Some further folk rock and adjacent: Saturday Music Club

Eclection: "In Her Mind"


Fanny: "You've Got a Home" 

The Rose Garden: "Here's Today"


Trees: "Murdoch"


The Byrds: "Full Circle"


The Turtles: "Somewhere Friday Night"

Love: "A House is Not a Motel"


Pentangle: "Let No Man Steal Your Thyme"


The Springfields (UK 1960s): "One Note Samba"; "Island of Dreams"


The Springfields (US 1980s):  "Sunflower"


Susanna Hoffs and Matthew Sweet: "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?"


The Dentists (1980s): "I Had an Excellent Dream"

Richard Thompson, Judith Owen, Debra Dobkin: 1000 Years of Popular Music

onstage playlist:
"Sumer Is Icumen In" (trad., arr. by Thompson) "King Henry" (trad., arr. by Thompson) "So Ben Mi Ca Bon Tempo" (Orazio Vecchi, arr. by Thompson) "Bonnie St. Johnstone" (trad., arr. by Thompson) "O Sleep Fond Fancy" (Thomas Morley) "Remember O Thou Man" (Thomas Ravenscroft) "Shenandoah" (trad., arr. by Thompson) "Blackleg Miner" (trad., arr. by Thompson) "I Live in Trafalgar Square" (C.W. Murphy) "There Is Beauty in the Bellow of the Blast" (from The Mikado) (W.S. Gilbert/Arthur Sullivan, arr. by Thompson) "Java Jive" (Ben Oakland/Milton Drake) "Night and Day" (Cole Porter) "Orange-Coloured Sky" (Milton DeLugg/William Stein) "Drinking Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee" (Granville "Stick" McGhee/J. Mayo Williams) "A-11" (Hank Cochran) "See My Friends" (Ray Davies) "Friday on My Mind" (George Young/Harry Vanda) "Tempted" (Chris Difford/Glenn Tilbrook) "Oops!… I Did It Again" (Max Martin/Rami Yacoub) "Cry Me A River" (Arthur Hamilton) "1985" (Jaret Reddick/John Allen/Mitchell Scherr) "Sam Hall" (trad., arr. by Thompson)

Saturday Music Club: a quick tour

"End of the Rope" is the token Hallowe'en song for this week!










Harry Partch: Music Studio  (1958)

(Part 2)

Deb Fox (and Ron Pellegrino): "Excerpt from Study 12"


Macedonian polyphony


Light in Babylon: "Kipur"


Pentangle: "Hunting Song"


The Tuttles with A.J. Lee: "Sugar Moon"


The Renaissance Bluegrass Band: "End of the Rope"


Chris Connor: "A Taste of Honey"


Sheila Jordan: "Willow Weep for Me"

some folk-rock (and antecedents)

Some previously posted, some not.

Johnny Cash: "Hey, Porter"


Buddy Holly: "Learning the Game"


The Springfields: "Silver Threads and Golden Needles"


Jackie DeShannon: "Needles and Pins"

The Searchers also...

Mimi and Richard Fariña: "Reno, Nevada"

Fairport Convention's superior cover
...and their somewhat tense performance on French television...

The Byrds: "Here Without You"


The Turtles: "You Showed Me"


Blackburn and Snow: "Stranger in a Strange Land"

The Seekers: "I'll Never Find Another You"


Fairport Convention: "It's Alright Ma, It's Only Witchcraft"


The Pentangle: "Light Flight"


Joy of Cooking: "Down My Dream"


Joni Mitchell and The Band: "Coyote"

Fairport Convention:  "Farewell, Farewell"

Saturday Music Club: some more new acoustic, folk-rock and adjacent:

Neko Case: "This Tornado Loves You"


Kathleen Edwards Band: "Empty Threat"


Thievery Corporation: "Saudade"


Be Good Tanyas: "The Lakes of Pontchartrain"


Aimee Mann: "Satellite"


Thao Nguyen (with Maria Bamford and the Witnesses): "The Gift Card Song"


The Wailin' Jennys: "Deeper Well"


Diane Cluck: "Easy to Be Around"

Saturday Music Club: more bluegrass and adjacent

The Bankesters: "Gypsy Jubilee"


Della Mae: "Letter from Down the Road"


Emmylou Harris and Mary Black: "The Green Rolling Hills"


Darol Anger and the Furies: "Evening Prayer Blues"


Sharon Gilchrist, Bryn Davies and Tony Rice (3/4 of the Rowan/Rice Quartet): "Shady Grove"


The Carolina Chocolate Drops: "Leaving Eden"


The Claire Lynch Band: "Buttermilk Road; The Arbours"


Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer: "Snowdrop"


Donald Kauli'a: "Waimanalo Blues" (aka "Nanakuli Blues")


Fairport Convention (2007 Reunion/Augmented Version); "Si Tu Dois Partir"


Doc Watson and Clarence Tom Ashley: "Maggie Walker Blues"

from the folk/bluegrass/new acoustic/country nexus: Saturday Music Club on Wednesday

Alison Brown, Sam Bush, Bobby Hicks: "Wayfaring Stranger"


Beauty and the Beard: "That's It, I Quit, I'm Moving On"


Darol Anger and the Furies: "Evening Prayer Blues"


David Amram and Friends: "Mama Don't Allow"


Rhonda Vincent and the Rage, with Dolly Parton: "Heartbreaker's Alibi"


Sierra Hull & Highway 111: "Bombshell"


Kasey Lansdale and RAB4: "Never Say Never"

Lansdale with John Carter Cash and their band

Kami Thompson Band: "Your Big Secret"

Thompson acoustic and better-recorded: "Gotta Hold On"

Saturday Music Club: some old favorites

Judy Dyble, polyinstrumentalist and singer, Fairport Convention

Anonymous 4: "Antiphon: O Rubor Sanguinis" (composed by Hildegard von Bingen)

A Christmas song (not yet discovered, not properly credited)

Kate Royal: "Ah, Love but a Day" (composed by Amy Beach)

Amy Beach: Theme and Variations for flute and strings, Op. 80 (Carol Wincenc, flute; Jonathan Swartz and Erica Kiesewetter, violins, Nancy Buck, viola, Jesus Castro-Balbi, cello)

Billie Holiday: "The Sunny Side of the Street"

"Fine and Mellow" (The Sound of Jazz performance, 1957)

Sarah Vaughan: "The Sweetest Sounds"

Aretha Franklin, Robert Flack, Sarah Vaughan, Peggy Lee: An Ellington Medley

Buffy Sainte-Marie: "Cod'ine"

"Piney Wood Hills"

Wanda Jackson: "Hardheaded Woman"

"Tore Down"; "Silver Threads and Golden Needles"
Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, and Tammy Wynette: "Silver Threads and Golden Needles"

The Springfields: "Little Boat"

"Silver Threads and Golden Needles"

Fairport Convention: "Morning Glory"

"One Sure Thing" (live at the BBC 1968); the album version
Fairport Convention: "Reno, Nevada"; Mimi and Richard Fariña: "Reno, Nevada"

Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer: "Goodbye Anne"

"The Buffalo Girls/Puncheon Floor"

Emmylou Harris: "Two More Bottles of Wine"/"Ooh, Las Vegas"


Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch: "Didn't Leave Nobody But the Baby"

Sweet Honey in the Rock: "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round" 

"Old Ship of Zion"

Saturday Music Club: Some rock albums from the summer of 1966

Among the notable aspects here...nearly all of these allow, if one pops out the links to watch/listen to them at YT, track selection.

Also notable, perhaps, is that these key albums of the Byrds' and Beatles' careers are also their jazziest albums...for the Byrds, not solely "Eight Miles High" and "I See You" but even "Hey, Joe" feature heavily jazz (most obviously John Coltrane)-influenced guitar riffs on McGuinn's part, and McCartney reaches toward pop jazz in "Good Day Sunshine," "For No One" and particularly "Got to Get You into My Life," and while the tape loops and other experimentation running through "Tomorrow Never Knows" owes more to post-serial electronic music innovators in the classical world, that and some of the other Lennon songs (and Harrison's playing around with Indian classical influence) all have a certain free jazz flavor to them (not quite the MC5, but along the path).  Perhaps some of my fondness for these stems from the Wailers being essentially still a ska band, moving toward the creation of reggae, and that the Animals, the Stones, and of course the Yardbirds, while growing more adventurous, were still not quite ready to shed their partial identities as blues bands...

The Wailers: The Wailing Wailers (issued at the end of 1965 in Jamaica, but of uncertain date and availability in the US and elsewhere...leading off with special pleading)


The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds (released May 1966)


The Rolling Stones: Aftermath (released in the US June 1966; UK April 1966)


The Animals: Animalisms (released June 1966)


The Yardbirds: Roger the Engineer (aka Over Under Sideways Down) (released July 1966)


The Byrds: Fifth Dimension (released July 1966)


The Beatles: Revolver (released August 1966)


Jefferson Airplane: Jefferson Airplane Takes Off (released August 1966)


The Mothers of Invention: Freak Out (official release July 1966; this an alternately sequenced and produced album released as bootleg)

Saturday Music Club: yet more folk-rock

The first earlier post, Some Folk-Rock.
And Some More Folk Rock...

Arthur Lee & Co., performing the Love arrangement of Alone Again Or... at Glastonbury, 2003

Love synching "My Little Red Book" on Where the Action Is, 1966

The Strawbs: Who Knows Where the Time Goes 

Richard Thompson, Suzanne Vega & Loudon Wainwright III: Down Where the Drunkards Roll

Fairport Convention (2009 reunion concert): Meet on the Ledge

"Si Tu Dois Partir" at the same concert

Joni Mitchell and Johnny Cash: The Girl of the North Country

Joan Armatrading: The Weakness in Me

Salem 66: Red Barn

The Seekers: In My Life; Silver Threads and Golden Needles (2012 recording excerpts)

Rainy Day: Rainy Day (the album, 1984)

Saturday Music Club: some folk-rock

The Springfields "Silver Threads and Golden Needles"

The Byrds "The World Turns All Around Her"


The Turtles "You Showed Me" (partially live tv version [Smothers Bros.?] of their Byrds cover)


Simon and Garfunkel "A Most Peculiar Man"


Lucy Wainwright Roche and the Roches "America"


Fairport Convention "It's Alright Ma, It's Only Witchcraft"
 

Joni Mitchell "Urge For Going"


The Byrds "Here Without You"


Fairport Convention "Si Tu Dois Partir"

Jasmin Tabatabai (Bandits soundtrack) "All Along the Watchtower" (still plays despite grayed-out post image--9 Feb 2023)


Joni Mitchell: "The Way It Is" (from the CBC series of the same title)

The Band (and friends) "I Shall Be Released"

The Roches "Acadian Driftwood"


The Mamas and The Papas "Straight Shooter"


Love "Your Mind and We Belong Together"


Fairport Convention ""Reno, Nevada" 

 

Bob Dylan and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band: "Maggie's Farm"