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Category: songs-F

  • Elizabeth Cotten

    Elizabeth “Libba” Cotten (née Nevill) (January 5, 1893 – June 29, 1987) was a profoundly original American folk musician, vectoring between the music of isolated early 20th century North Carolina and the multimodal hypersounds of the present – check her out playing in crystal clear black and white on your youtube. A southpaw church and…

  • Jim Nelson on the Drums and Several Great Rarities: JGMS at Keystone, October 4, 1974

    LN jg1974-10-04.jgms.all.aud-falanga.8649.shn2flac This is great to hear. Three points of historical interest. 1) Louis Falanga’s onstage audience tapes are great documents. 2) Lots of interesting material including, here, some great jazz (“Valdez In The Country”, “People Make The World Go Round”, “Freedom Jazz Dance”), and a great rare (in the Garciaverse) Motown, “Ain’t No Mountain…

  • Flight Of The Bumblebee

    LN jg1976-01-09.jgb.all.sbd-tjs.8386.shn2flac More Booker raw materials. Jerry Garcia Band Sophie’s 260 S. California AvenuePalo Alto, CA 94306 January 9, 1976 (Friday) 112 minute sbd Kahn Shriver shnid-8386 shn2flac –set I (7 tracks, 54:05)– s1t01. //All By Myself [#7:47] (1) [0:54] s1t02. Goodnight Irene [10:35] -> s1t03. Für Elise [0:51] -> s1t04. Slowly But Surely [11:41]…

  • Finders Keepers: JGMS with Jim Nelson on Drums, Keystone, October 5, 1974

    LN jg1974-10-05.jgms.all.aud-falanga.8665.shn2flac I have no idea who Jim Nelson, the drummer, might be. There are some tempo issues all night long. I really like this period for JGMS. “La-La” and “Freedom Jazz Dance” are standouts to me. “Finders Keepers” is also pretty good. When these tapes came into the light, back before 9/11, they were…

  • JGB at Queens College, October 30, 1975

    LN jg1975-10-30.jgb.all.aud-cooper.124251.flac2496 Have barely had time to write a word about the Hopkins-era JGB these last 4+ years of blogging and hiatuses. That remains true, so the writeup will be short. Bottom line is that I think Nicky sounds really good (i.e., reasonably sober). I sort of figure that the day off the day before…

  • ‘Secret’ at Paul’s Mall: see p. 27

     LN jg1974-11-13.jgms.late.aud-seaweed.121034.flac1644 LIA just posted some really nice sources (“November 12, 1974: Garcia Plays Boston” and “November 1974: Garcia & Dead Projects“) relating to the November 1974 east coast tour by the Jerry Garcia-Merl Saunders (JGMS) aggregation of Garcia, Saunders, John Kahn, Martin Fierro, and Paul Humphrey. In discussing 11/6/74 I noted that this was…

  • Grandma said, ‘Boy, go and follow your heart’: JGMS at Keystone Berkeley, November 27, 1974

    LN jg1974-11-27.jgms.106mins.sbd-GEMS.91343.flac1644 Just a few quick notes. 1) Paul Humphrey drumming. The drummer is fast and great. He is noted in Rex’s handwriting on the box for reel #3. 2) Some of this material is just amazing. “Valdez In The Country” and “Freedom Jazz Dance” should make us very Grateful that Merl was there to…

  • JGB at Northwestern: Cahn Auditorium, March 12, 1976 (late show)

    LN jg1976-03-12.jgb.late.aud-unk.xxxxx.flac1644 My love of audience tapes is evident to anyone who reads here. The anthropological instinct (and practice) underpinning field recording enthralls me. To me, everybody who ever taped a gig is right there with Alan Lomax and all the rest. Now, sometimes you have to be willing to sacrifice your aesthetics a little…

  • Summertime in January: The Merle [sic] Saunders Experience, January 15, 1973 at the Inn of the Beginning

    Rex Jackson wrote the band name as ” Merle [sic] Saunders Experience” on his tape boxes for this night, FWIW. LN jg1973-01-15.jgms.early-late.sbd-jgmf.5428+9573.shn2flac Among the Inn of the Beginning materials [JGMF | COAU] I unearthed last summer were ledgers indicating shows by Garcia-Saunders on January 14-15, 1973, only the latter of which had previously been known…

  • Stirring It Up with E.W. Wainwright: JGMS, Keystone Berkeley, March 9, 1974

    LN jg1974-03-09.jgms.all-1.sbd-alligator.33750.flac1644 Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders (JGMS) Keystone 2119 University Avenue Berkeley, CA 94704 March 9, 1974 (Saturday) The recent slow pace of posting is exceeded by the even slower pace of my listening. I have been able to do very little for quite some time. I did manage to sneak in some notes…