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    Here is one of the 'chestnuts' from my collection.  This is one of my favorite recordings.  The first known soundboard recording of Led Zeppelin, recorded the night before their first record was released.  Jan 11,1969. 

       I think you'll enjoy this one!!!!



                                                                   

Played: 1897 | Download | Duration: 00:42:30

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                                  Delaney Bramlett, of Delaney and Bonnie passed away last Saturday.  He was 69. 

Delaney and Bonnie and Friends was an excellent band in the early 70's.  Among their friends George Harrison at who's suggestion Eric Clapton took them on the road with Blind Faith.

this from the AP story Dec 29, 2008:

                                    "Born in Mississippi, Bramlett enjoyed a career in the music business that spanned 50 years. 
                                     With his then-wife Bonnie Lynn, he created the Southern blues-rock band Delaney & Bonnie 
                                    & Friends. The group opened for Blind Faith, which featured British guitarist Clapton, in 1969."


And from Eric Clapton's autobiography

                                     "For me, going on [with Blind Faith] after Delaney and Bonnie was really, really tough, 
                                      because I thought they were miles better than us."^[11]

                                                                                                                                    Eric Clapton




Here are two recordings of Delaney and Bonnie and Friends.  In this first recording 'friends' include  King Curtis and Duane and Greg Allman. 

Delaney, Bonnie and Friends
July 22, 1971
A&R Recording Studios
New York, NY

Source: FM (WPLJ Broadcast)

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Greetings and Happy New Year to you.  

I am amazed and quite pleased by the numbers of people who listen to the music I post.  This year Your Mother Should Know Recordings www.ymskrecordings.com had its 100,000 th hit.  Some of the recordings I've posted on this blog have had more than 500 downloads.  Now I know that is not a lot by 'net' standards, and that is OK with me.  I'm happy to share this music with others who appreciate it.  It amazes me what an old hippy with a computer can do these days. 

Please continue to add comments to this blog and e-mail me at ymskrecordings@aol.com .  I enjoy getting your e-mails and comments about the music and I'm happy when I get suggestions about music you'd like to hear!  Check out my list   if you'd like,  and let me know what you'd like to listen to.
 
 

And now a message from the    KARMA DEPARTMENT 

                                            Remeber to treat your fellow human well!



So Happy New Years!  Enjoy the music!  Here's something for a variety of tastes!

And What's  New Year's without the Grateful Dead? Here's a recording I just got recently.   It is followed by New Years Eve Performances by Louis Armstrong Taj Mahal, David Crosby, Miles Davis and Prince, Stevie Ray Vaughn and Dave Mason.

 Here is an excellent  Grateful Dead concert from 1976, a "Betty Board which means the audio quality is tops!  What's a Betty Board you ask? Here's the story.

  I hope you enjoy the music. 

                                                                        

Grateful Dead
Beacon Theater
New York, NY
June 15, 1976 - Tuesday

Played: 1571 | Download | Duration: 00:00:00

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Greetings:

    Yes it has been many months since my last blog.  Much has happened in that time.  Someone once told me to be careful for what you wish for, you may get it.  That in a nutshell is my story.   

     About two years ago I took a job directing a new Energy Education program.   I've been interested in alternative energy for many years.  I sold solar energy systems when Jimmy Carter was president, and have been teaching about energy and the environment ever since.  After 30 years of disinterest in energy policy, by the American public and our representatives in government, recently the cost of energy, the war for oil in Iraq  and concern for climate change have caught peoples attention.  Programs like mine which train people for careers in energy efficiency and renewable energy are suddenly of interest. 

     I have a cartoon on my wall in my office which reads: " An old oak tree is just a nut that held it's ground. " For once in my life I might be in the right place at the right time and I'm loving it.  I'm doing what I have wanted to do all my life, teaching and helping to develop policy here in the Live Freeze and Die State, to promote Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and minimize carbon emissions.  

   That's all well and good, but the problem is that my other passion in life, music, has suffered.   I have little time to play my guitar or sharing music.   For years I've looked at my internal happiness meter and it always seems to correlate with the amount of time I am spending listening to and playing music.   So with that in mind I'm hoping to devote more time to music as we move into the 'arctic' months.  

    Before I get to the real point of this blog, which is sharing music, I must digress with a venture into politics.  

                    Your Mother Should Know Recordings 
                                endorses Barak Obama for 
                          President of the United States

      Coming from NH, I had the opportunity to listen to, and meet candidtates for almost a year before the NH Primary.   I listened to the Repulbicans as they came en mass  through my state.  The only one running who I had the remotest respect for was John McCain.  I knew I disagreed with him on a lot of issues, but i thought he was a decent guy. 

     The further we get into this campaign, the less respect I have for him, and I don't see him as a decent guy anymore.  He is rude, he makes quick ill considered decisions and i abhor his negative campaign tactics and the lack of respect he shows people who disagree with him. He was rude in each of the debates, he never addressed his opponent as Senator Obama, calling him 'that one' in one of his debates.  I'm tired of leaders  who treat others with disrespect.   I beleive in the 'golden rule' and this is not how I wish to be treated, I don't think treating out 'enemys' that way does anything to solve problems.  This election should be about ideas, about philosophy of governing, not about this trite crap.     

       Speaking of substance though we have heard McCain go on about how he is not the clone of W,  he has been a consistant supporter of deregulation of social security, deregulation of the financial industry, failed economic and environmental policies, right wing judicial appointments and a war we are still fighting based on the lies of the incumbant etc etc.    No matter what he says, these are the policies of the current administration and they have failed miserably.  These are  the policies that John McCain is promoting.  

      McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as VP was a stunt.  It may help him with right wing femminists, if there is such a group.  But the women I've spoken with who liked Hillary Clinton see this as a cynical ploy, not a step forward for women or the country.  Furhtermore, I think the decision to chose Palin who he'd only met once, gives us an insight into McCains way of doing things which is to make quick, not well thought out decisions, shoot from the hip. and then come hell or high defend his stupid acts.   This as much as his philosophical views on the world is to much like how Bush does things for my tastes.

        So, I encourage you to vote for Senator Obama.  I beleive he is a respectful intelligent and caring man.  I beleive he shows the leadership qualities which we desperately need now.  If we are lucky, he will bring some respect and sanity back to the government and our society. 

         I don't say these things looking through rose colored glasses.  I am angered by the general move to the right that Obama has made throughout this campaign and he has done some things that really piss me off.  These include his support for the sell out I mean the bail out. Which to my mind is the final plundering of our country by Bush and his cronies.  Similarly Obama supported Bush in the FISA question ( he voted to let the telecommunications companies get off free for violating our rights to privacy), he seems to support 'clean coal' which is at this time purley a fiction. He has also supported drilling offshore which,  will do nothing for us for at least 10 years, and even then contribute little to our overall energy picture. 

         Despite these shortcomings, In my mental calculations, I have recently moved Obama out of the 'Lesser of Two Evil's" Column in my brain to the "I genuinely like this guy column". I'm going to vote for him on Tuesday, and I hope you will too!

        Thank you for your patience and now on to some Music.   

        You may or may not have heard that Merle Saunders died last week.  He was a fine keyboard player who played with (among others)  Miles Davis and Jerry Garcia.  This is a recording of Garcia and Saunders from a project of theirs in the 70's called the Legion of Mary.  
 
I received these CDRs in a trade several years ago. The sound quality is great even though the vocal mix gets buried once in a while . These recordings represent 3 of 5 tapes from the soundboard recording.  The early show ends with Talkin' 'Bout You, and the late show is missing last train from poor valler,  i'll take a melody & mysetry train.  The remaining tracks are in circulation, so if I'm able to obtain them I'll re-release these shows. 

Also in the news is the death of Studs Terkel.  Always an interesting chronicaler of our society, here is a recording of Studs Terkel interviewing John Prine on his radio show in 1970.

Merle Saunders Legion Of Mary 04-09-75 (early & late show) Bottom Line, NYC early show: 1. Think (9:44) 2. Freedom Jazz Dance (14:07) 3. I Feel Like Dynamite (12:03) 4. That's What Love Will Make You Do (13:49) 5. Mississippi Moon (10:01) Legion of Mary April 9, 1975 Set 1          Early show: 1. Harder They Come (22:14) Late show: 2. I Second That Emotion (18:36) 3. You Can Leave Your Hat On (14:50) Legion of Mary April 9, 1975 Set 2

Studs Terkel JOHN PRINE January 7, 1970 Studs Terkel Radio Show - Chicago, IL SOURCE: Pre-FM 1. Hello In There 2. [interview] 3. The Frying Pan 4. [interview] 5. Sam Stone 6. [interview] 7. Donald & Lydia 8. [interview] 9. Spanish Pipedream 10. [interview] 11. Flashback Blues  John Prine on Studs Terkel Radio Show

I hope you enjoy these recordings.

DON'T FORGET TO VOTE FOR OBAMA!

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   It was my freshman year at Northeastern University, early in the second semester.  The best rock and roll establishment of the time, The Boston Tea Party, was a short walk from my dorm.  My roomate Rob was going to hear the Byrds and suggested I come along.  I didn't go, for whatever reason.  To this day, I wish I'd gone!

    About 5 AM or so, Rob dragged his ass back to the dorm with the following story.   His high school buddy lived in a frat at BC with some guys who were friends with someone in the Byrds.  After their gig at the Tea Party they'd gone back to this frat house at BC and had set up and played a house party.  Some party, and I missed it!

    This is a recording I received recently of the Byrds performance at the Tea Party, I wonder if there is a tape someplace of the after-gig music.  This recording is around the time of Sweetheart of the Rodeo and the Live Byrds Album.  The lineup includes the late great Clarence White on guitar. 

    I had the pleasure of hearing Clarence White live on annother occasion when he played for Leon Russel who Rob and I saw as the opening act for Hot Tuna at the Fillmore East.  

                                      


                                                    
                                 

The Byrds Boston Tea Party 1- 22-24-1969 1.  You Aint going Nowhere 2.  He Was A Friend Of Mine 3. Old Blue 4.  Long Black Veil 5.  Goin' Back 6.  Get Out of My Life Woman 7.  The Ballad of Easy Rider 8.  Jesus Is Just Alright 9.  Tulsa County 10.  Mr. Spaceman 11. Sing Me Back Home 12. This Wheel's On Fire 13 Lay Lady Lay 14 Time Between 15. Take A City Bride 16.  It's All Over Now Baby Blue 17.  Come Back Baby

                  


                                                                    

  


 

Played: 2929 | Download | Duration: 00:56:17

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Played: 4055 | Download | Duration: 01:04:18

Your Mother Should             Know Recordings             Trading Non-Commercially                  Released Music Since                            1963

the exceptions being the 4 from The Bootleg Series' which have been removed.

                                         
                        

                      


Tracklist.

1 Blowin' in the Wind   2.42 
2 Long Ago Far Away   2.29 
3 Tomorrow Is A Long Time   3.50 
4 Ballad of Hollis Brown   4.11 
5 The Death of Emmett Till  4.30 
6 A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall  7.03 
7 Let Me Die in My Footsteps  1.36 
8 Quit Your Lowdown Ways   2.44 
9 Babe, I'm in the Mood For You  1.34 
10 Long Time Gone    3.47 
 Don't Think Twice, It's All Right Released on Bootleg Series 7
11 Oxford Town    2.30 
12 Masters of War    4.41 
 Walkin' Down the Line   Released on  Bootleg Series 1 - 3 version
13 Talking John Birch Paranoid Blues 3.17 
14 All Over You    3.45 
15 Bound To Lose, Bound To Win  1.22 
16 I'd Hate To Be You on That Dreadful Day 2.00 
17 I Shall Be Free    4.29 
18 Bob Dylan's Dream   3.56 
19 Bob Dylan's Blues   1.59 

 

Played: 4241 | Download | Duration: 01:03:17

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Al Kooper and Friends
Live at the Roxy
Hollywood, CA
4-7-87


  See Previous blog for notes about this concert.

Set 3
20. A Fool For Your Stockings
21. Goin' Down to Louisiana
22. Long Time Gone
23 Band Introductions
24. I Got You
25 Talk Talk
26. The Stealer
27. You Don't Love Me

 

Played: 4211 | Download | Duration: 00:59:31

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Al Kooper and Friends
Live at the Roxy
Hollywood, California
4-7-87 

Please see previous blog entry for set one and notes about this show

Set 2 

10. All Along the Watchtower
11. Dear Mr. Fantasy
12. Talk Talk
13. I Wish You Would
14. All Along the Watchtower
15. Dear Mr. Fantasy
16. Love the One You're With
17. Hot Burrito
18. Why Did You Leave Me Today
19. Set You Free This Time 

 

Played: 4124 | Download | Duration: 00:40:39