Lil' Ed & the Blues Imperials - Live Portland Waterfront Blues Fest 2014

Another by The Rippin Frog from this year's edition of the Waterfront Blues Festival.

Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials
Waterfront Blues Festival
Portland, OR.
July 5, 2014

Another year of WBF recordings. Recorded from KBOO FM in Portland, OR. A great lineup again this year. I was looking forward to Greg Allman's set, but he had to pull out due to sickness. Oh well, I wouldn't have  been able to share him here anyway. Seems to be much more DJ talking this year, interrupting some music. I just left it in rather than trying to edit each show. Feel free to make any changes you wish for personal use.
I may need help with some of the set list's as I don't know all the bands.

Enjoy, twofthrs

FM> H2 Zoom in wave format> Flac w/TLH> torrent (SBE's checked)

From working at Chicago’s Red Carpet Car Wash to appearing on national television, from gigging at the smallest ghetto blues bars to performing on the biggest international concert stages, master bluesman Lil’ Ed Williams has come a long way. Mixing smoking slide guitar boogies and raw-boned Chicago shuffles with the deepest slow-burners, Lil’ Ed and his blistering Blues Imperials – bassist James “Pookie” Young, guitarist Mike Garrett and drummer Kelly Littleton – deliver the blues, from gloriously riotous and rollicking to intensely emotional and moving. Not since the heyday of Hound Dog Taylor & The HouseRockers has a blues band made such a consistently joyful noise.
Currently celebrating 24 rip-roaring years together, Lil’ Ed & The Blues Imperials ply their musical talents with skills that have been honed to a razor’s edge. As much a family as a band, Lil’ Ed, Pookie, Mike and Kelly have outlasted sports stars and presidents, musical fads and fashion trends. And together, they continue to make blues history with each and every performance and new recording.
Blues history runs deep through Lil’ Ed’s blood – his uncle and musical mentor (to both Ed and his younger half-brother Pookie) was the great Chicago slide guitarist, songwriter and recording artist J.B. Hutto (author of the only non-original on Jump Start, “If You Change Your Mind”).  According to The Chicago Tribune, “Williams represents one of the few remaining authentic links to pure  Chicago blues.” The Associated Press agrees, stating, “Williams fills Chicago’s biggest shoes with more life and heat than anyone on stage today.”
The band won the prestigious Blues Music Award for Band Of The Year in both 2007 and 2009 and also took home the Best Live Band Award in the 2011 Living Blues Critics’ Poll. Blues Revue said, “Listen and hear how a great blues player can make a guitar weep…Lil’ Ed is a blues master at the top of his game.”

Set List

01 I Need Help
02 Operator ???
03 Icicles In My Meatloaf
04 Mess Around
05 Check My Baby's Oil
06 House Of Cards
07 Unknown
08 Drownin' On Dry Land ???
09 Boogie Chillen

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Charlie Musselwhite - Live Portland Waterfront Blues Fest 2014

The Rippin' Frog starts our summer party with some recent recordings from the Waterfront Blues Festival.

Charlie Musselwhite
Waterfront Blues Festival
Portland, OR.
July 5, 2014

Another year of WBF recordings. Recorded from KBOO FM in Portland, OR. A great lineup again this year.
I was looking forward to Greg Allman's set, but he had to pull out due to sickness. Oh well, I wouldn't have been able to share him here anyway. Seems to be much more DJ talking this year, interrupting some music.
I just left it in rather than trying to edit each show. Feel free to make any changes you wish for personal use.
I may need help with some of the set list's as I don't know all the bands.
Enjoy, twofthrs

FM> H2 Zoom in wave format> Flac w/TLH> torrent (SBE's checked)

With an induction into the Blues Music Hall of Fame, 35 Blues Music Awards (including three wins in 2014)
and 11 Grammy nominations (including a 2014 win), American electric blues harmonica player and bandleader Charlie Musselwhite has truly earned legendary status as one of blues music’s most important artists.
One of the non-black bluesmen who came to prominence in the early 1960s (alongside Mike Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield, among others), Musselwhite was born in Mississippi but spent his formative years in Memphis, TN during the period when rockabilly, western swing, electric blues and other forms of African American music were combining to give birth to rock and roll. Musselwhite supported himself by digging ditches, laying concrete and running moonshine in a 1950 Lincoln automobile. This environment was Musselwhite¹s school for music, as well as life, and where he acquired the nickname “Memphis Charlie.”  
In true bluesman fashion, Musselwhite then took off to Chicago, where he continued his education on the South Side, making the acquaintance of even more legends including Lew Soloff, Muddy Waters, Junior Wells, Sonny Boy Williamson, Buddy Guy, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, and Big Walter Horton. Musselwhite immersed himself completely in the musical life, living in the basement of Big Joe Williams and forging a lifelong friendship with John Lee Hooker.
In time, Musselwhite led his own blues band and in 1966 released the legendary Stand Back! Here Comes Charley Musselwhite's Southside Band. Since then, Musselwhite has released over 25 albums, as well as guesting on albums by many other notable musicians including Bonnie Raitt, INXS, Tom Waits and The Blind Boys of Alabama. Musselwhite recently teamed up with Ben Harper on Get Up! — the long-time-coming collaboration that took home the Grammy for Best Blues Album in 2014.

Set List
01 She's Long & Tall
02 Blues, Why Do You Worry Me?
03 Bad Boy (fixed signal loss @ 1:12)
04 I'm Goin' Home
05 Done Somebody Wrong
06 Stranger in a Strange Land (annouince)
07 As the Crow Flies
08 It Ain't Right
09 Roll Your Money Maker

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Music In The Open

Live music in the summer is mostly presented in open air events.
So accordingly, Soundaboard along this August will focus on sharing shows recorded at festivals.

To start here are some links to posts related to festivals recently refreshed:

The Gaslight Anthem - Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany (2010)

Kansas - Sjiwa Summer Rock Festival - Baarlo, The Netherlands (1981)

Kyuss - Bizarre Festival, Germany (1995)

The J Geils Band - Pink Pop Festival, Geleen 1980

Alvin Lee - Bellinzona Piazza Blues (2004)

Twisted Sister - Castle Donington 1983

Audioslave - Montreux Jazz Festival 2005

Mama's Boys - Knebworth Festival 1985

The Faces - Detroit, 1974

A real rock-in-your-face show with The Faces with Rod Stewart on August 24, 1974 in Detroit, Michigan.
I don't know if this a copy of the Stay With Me unofficial release (cover reproduced here), but the tracklist is similar.

Sound Quality: 9.5

Source: Soundboard
  
Track List:
01 - Stay With Me
02 - Motherless Child
03 - Gasoline Alley
04 - (I Know) I'm Losing You
05 - Bring It On Home To Me
06 - Sweet Little Rock n Roller
07 - Maggie May
08 - Too Bad
09 - Every Picture Tells a Story
10 - Twistin' The Night Away

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Golden Earring - Amsterdam, Netherlands 1982

Golden Earring caught live in Amsterdam on September 1982, just a month after the album Cut was released.
This band always does great and intense shows and I'm always looking for more recordings of them. This one is incomplete and has some FM static interference.

Sound Quality: 9

Source: Soundboard

Track List:
01 - Candy's Going Bad
02 - Leather
03 - No For An Answer
04 - Save Your Skin
05 - Twilight Zone
06 - Radar Love
07 - Slow Down (cut)

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Midnight Oil - Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, London 1993

Today we have the Australian band Midnight Oil on a different contribution by our friend The Rippin' Frog.

Midnight Oil won eleven Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Awards during its career, including induction into the Hall of Fame in 2006. At the induction, ARIA chairman Denis Handlin described Midnight Oil as true legends that always led by example in a uniquely Australian way with music that is powerful, uncompromising, inspiring, entertaining and enduring.

Their highly politically/eco engaged themes are still timeless and  as relevant as ever!

This great set would be as close to "Unpluged" as these guys could be!

Seen them in the 80ies  one of the best live act ever !

Tracks:
01 - Feeding Frenzy
02 - The Dead Heart
03 - My Country
04 - Blue Sky Mine
05 - Sell My Soul
06 - Truganini
07 - Warakurna
08 - Short Memory
09 - Beds Are Burning
10 - Earth And Sun And Moon

Band Line Up:
Bones Hillman: Bass, Vocals
Martin Rotsey: Guitars, Vocals
Robert Hirst: Drums, Vocals
Peter Garrett: Lead Vocals
Jim Moginie: Guitars, Keyboards, Vocals

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John Mayall with Mick Taylor - The Keystone, Berkeley 1982

Another one with Mick Taylor but now as part of the John Mayall And The Bluesbreakers band, playing at The Keystone, Berkeley on January 16,1982.
This is the late show, it probably ended past midnight, and being January 17 it was Mick Taylor's birthday.
And let's not forget Colin Allen on drums and John McVie on bass.
The rest of the band is not that bad either... 

Sound Quality: 9

Source: Soundboard

Track List:
01 - An Eye For An Eye (volume fluctuations)
02 - Band Intros
03 - Rock It In The Pocket
04 - Have You Heard
05 - Black Cat Moan
06 - My Time After A While
07 - The Stumble
08 - Oh Pretty Woman (fades in)
09 - Checkin' Up On My Baby
10 - Road Show
11 - Aud/talk
12 - Room To Move
13 - Happy Birthday Mick Taylor

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Mick Taylor - Lone Star Café, New York (1986)

A nice Mick Taylor presentation at the Lone Star Cafe, where he is joined on stage by Keith Richards for the last two songs. Mick and band played two shows on this day, the 28th December, this recording was made from the second set.

Sound Quality: 9

Source: Soundboard

Track List:
01 - Soliloquy
02 - Put it Where You Want It
03 - Red House
04 - Giddy Up
05 - Key To The Highway *
06 - Can't You Hear Me Knockin' *
* with Keith Richards

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John Lee Hooker - Bellstar Lounge, Colden, 1979

A recording with the great blues artist John Lee Hooker, here playing with the Coast To Coast Blues Band at the Bellstar Lounge, Colden.

Sound Quality: 9

Source: Soundboard

Track List:
01 My Baby Left Me
02 Insturmental
03 Losin' Hand
04 Raining ?
05 One Burbon One Scotch and One Beer
06 Serve Me Right to Suffer
07 Rock Steady
08 When My First Wife Left Me
09 Boogie Chillun

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Hubert Sumlin & David Johansen - Howlin' For Hubert (Live)

Soundaboard has the Blues again, thanks to the Rippin' Frog.

Hubert SUMLIN with David JOHANSEN – Howlin’ for Hubert (Live) 2004
Live, Chicago Blues Festival June 10,2004

David JOHANSEN ex NY dolls !

Hubert Sumlin, now 78, is used to playing concerts like “Howlin’ for Hubert,” at the Jazz Standard through this weekend.
He was the guitarist who played the silvery leads on Howlin’ Wolf’s great Chicago blues records of the 1950s and ’60s.
On Thursday every tune was from Howlin’ Wolf’s songbook, and Wolf’s name scarcely needed to be mentioned. It’s a Hubert Sumlin gig now.
It helps if Wolf’s voice can be invoked, though, and that explained the presence of David Johansen. Mr. Johansen, who has worked with Mr. Sumlin before, is naturally comical with his baritone. His version of Howlin’ Wolf got at the broad humor that was always there, no matter how many times Wolf has been compounded into a feral myth.
Mr. Johansen also has a healthy sense of shtick: In songs like “Three Hundred Pounds of Joy” and “Who’s Been Talkin’,” he was full of eager petulance, a skinny man trying to fill out an extra-large suit.
But the real action arrived a little later. The guitarist James Blood Ulmer joined the band halfway through the set, and now there were three guitars, including that of Jimmy Vivino, of late-night television’s Max Weinberg 7, who acted as  the evening’s musical director. And at the luckiest moments, there were triple-deckered guitar solos through slow music, showing completely different approaches to the instrument.
Mr. Sumlin — who sang, in a thin voice, on one song, “Sitting on Top of the World” — plucked his leads with his fingers, mostly restricting himself to the three higher strings. He was playing a Fender Stratocaster, and he made the most of that guitar’s vocal-sounding tones, with glottal stops and throaty cries.
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Hubert Sumlin- Guitar
David Johansen- Vocals & Harmonica
LeVon Helm- Drums
Jimmy Vivino- Piano
Mike Merritt- Bass
**
01. Built for Comfort
02. Little Red Rooster
03. Evil
04. Backdoor Man
05. Spoonful
06. 300 Pounds of Joy
07. Tail Dragger
08. Sittin’ On Top of the World
09. Where Did My Baby Go
10. Who’s Been Talking
12. Killing Floor
13. Wand Dang Doodle

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Rory Gallagher - Alternate BBC Sessions 1971-1977

These Rory Gallagher Alternate BBC Sessions comprise recordings not officially released made along the seventies, being the majority from 1971 to 1973.

Sound Quality: 9.5 (although issues on some tracks liken CD ripping errors)

Source: FM Broadcast

Track List:
 - Disc 1 -
8/12/71 Paris Theater, London:
01.Maybe I Will
02.I Could've Had Religion
03.Crest of a Wave        
04.Messin' with the Kid
1/7/72 BBC:
05.Tore Down
06.Used To Be
07.Hoodoo Man
08.Pistol Slapper Blues
09.The Cuckoo
10.Going to my Hometown
11.In Your Town  

 - Disc 2 -
01.Bullfrog Blues
7/10/72 Bob Harris Show:
02.I Could've Had Religion
03.Messin' with the Kid
04.The Cuckoo
2/5/73 Tommy Vance Show:
05.a.Walk on Hot Coals
05.b.Banker's Blues
2/21/73 Saturday Rock Show:
05.Unmilitary Two Step
06.If I Had a Reason      
5/12/73 Saturday Rock Show:
07.Tattoo'd Lady  
08.Cradle Rock
09.A Million Miles Away
6/20/74 Bob Harris Show:
10.Tattoo'd Lady            
11.Messin' with the Kid
8/19/77 N. Horne Show
14.I Will Take What I Want

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Spirit - Paramount Theatre, Seattle 1971

Time to hear some Spirit music again, for me one of the bands that released better records in the end of the sixties.
Recorded from a broadcast with some oscillations this one took place at the Paramount Theatre, Seattle on 1971.

Sound Quality: 8.5

Source: FM Broadcast

Track List:
Disc One
01 - Intro-Something You Must Say
02 - Nature's Way
03 - Just Care About Me (cut)
04 - Hey Joe
05 - Improvisation
06 - Veruska

Disc Two
01 - Going Away Somewhere
02 - Tow The Line
03 - It's All The Same
04 - I Got A Line On You
05 - Set Me Free-Outro

Re Uploads Pack

First day of summer in the Northern Hemisphere with fresh re-uploads on Soundaboard, here's the latest pack:

Amy Winehouse - Oxegen Festival, Dublin (2008)

Jimmy Page & Robert Plant: San Jose 1995

Humble Pie - The Country Club, Reseda

Genesis - One Disc Live - 29-11-1981

Pat Travers Band - Bruissen, Holland 1980

Blue Oyster Cult - Arlington Heights 2003

Webb Wilder - Fox Theater, Boulder 1993

The Who - Tales From The Who (1973)

Blue Oyster Cult - Reseda, California 1981

Jo Jo Gunne - Ultrasonic Studios, Long Island (1973)

Jo Jo Gunne was the band Jay Ferguson and Mark Andes formed after they left Spirit, Mark however left after the recording of the first album.
Between 1972 and 1974 Jo Jo Gunne released four good albums with the first one getting some commercial success that decreased on the next three and they would split around 1975. Jay Ferguson followed on a solo career from which we had a taste of on this post: Jay Ferguson - Roslyn NY
This show we have here was a broadcast from the Ultrasonic Studios in Long Island.

Sound Quality: 9

Source: FM Broadcast

Track List:
01 Roll Over Me
02 Babylon
03 Intro-99 Days-Run Run Run
04 Rock Around The Symbol
05 Special Situations
06 Rhoda
07 Take Me Down Easy
08 Shake That Fat
09 Brokin' Down Man
10 DJ outro

Jimmy Thackery & The Drivers - Waterfront Park, Portland, Oregon 2002

Another highly recommended show shared by the Rippin Frog: Jimmy Thackery & The Drivers.

Born in Pittsburgh and raised in Washington, Thackery co-founded The Nighthawks with Mark Wenner in 1972 and went on to record over twenty albums with them. In 1986 he began touring with The Assassins, a six-piece original blues, rock and R&B ensemble which he had previously helped start as a vacation band when The Nighthawks took one of their rare breaks. Originally billed as Jimmy Thackery and The Assassins, the band toured the U.S. Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, South, and Texas regions. The Assassins released a variety of recordings on the Seymour record label, two on vinyl (No Previous Record and Partners in Crime) and the 1989 CD Cut Me Loose.
In the wake of the Assassins 1991 break-up, Thackery has been leading a trio, Jimmy Thackery and the Drivers, whose early recordings were for the San Francisco, California based Blind Pig Records. In 2002 Thackery released, We Got It, his first album on Telarc and in 2006, In the Natural State with Earl and Ernie Cate on Rykodisc. In 2007, he released Solid Ice again with The Drivers His latest album 'Feel the Heat' was released in April 2011.

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