Album of the Week 10-7-23

Submitted by joe shikspack on Sat, 10/07/2023 - 3:00pm

Afternoon folks!

Well, after a few days youtube increased my daily upload limit to 70% of what it used to be, so there's a little more here than I was expecting earlier this week.

We've got some serious blues from Chicago blues guitarist Fenton Robinson, followed by an album by guitarist and singer Bumble Bee Slim backed by some serious jazz players and we finish up with a compilation from New Orleans songwriter and piano player Huey "Piano" Smith and His Clowns.

In the blues rock vein, we've got an album from the Blues Magoos. After that there's a half-speed mastered reissue pressed on really quiet vinyl of It's A Beautiful Day's self-titled album - to my ear the best version of it out there.

We finish up with the Holy Modal Rounders doing their folk/blues/rock/sarcasm best.

Enjoy!

Here 'tis:

Fenton Robinson - Somebody Loan Me A Dime

Bumble Bee Slim - Back In Town

Huey "Piano" Smith & His Clowns - Imperial Sides 1960-1961

The Blues Magoos - Basic Blues Magoos

It's A Beautiful Day - It's A Beautiful Day

The Holy Modal Rounders - Good Taste Is Timeless

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Submitted by QMS on Sat, 10/07/2023 - 3:50pm
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Regretfully, the MacBook lost its ability to make sounds.
Have a really good set of speakers once driven by the 'puter,
but the sound port is dead on this machine.
Planned obsolescence?

Thanks for the variety!

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Submitted by joe shikspack on Sun, 10/08/2023 - 2:12pm
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@QMS

sorry to hear about your pooter problems. a cheap way to get around the sound port dying might be to get one of those usb pluggy things with the stereo jack on the end to plug your speakers into.

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Submitted by enhydra lutris on Sat, 10/07/2023 - 4:52pm
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in SoCal, in real time, back when. Definitely in the "have any of you ever heard ...?" category. Thanx.

be well and have a good one.

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Submitted by joe shikspack on Sun, 10/08/2023 - 2:15pm
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@enhydra lutris

i found out about the rounders through the fugs. stampfel and i think weber both played with the fugs for a while. the rounders briefly got some mainstream attention for their part in the easy rider soundtrack. but, yeah, they are sort of an obscure group i guess.

enjoy!

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Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 10/09/2023 - 3:09pm
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@joe shikspack

friends when he showed up asking "Hey, have you heard these guys", I really think it was all word of mouth in SoCal.

be well and have a good one

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Submitted by Blue Republic on Sun, 10/08/2023 - 8:15am

in the Moonlight

Thanks for the Beautiful Day & Rounders -

Back at you with some Clamtones - same personnel as Holy Modal Rounders but when Steve Weber was fronting the band they were Rounders, when Jeffrey Frederick was, they were the Clamtones (sometimes alternating sets in the same show).

Caught them a few times in Portland (Clamtones version) back in the mists of time, don't think I saw them in the Rounders incarnation...

This tune somehow reminiscent of life back then...

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Submitted by joe shikspack on Sun, 10/08/2023 - 2:22pm
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@Blue Republic

thanks for the tune!

yeah, if memory serves, sometime in the 70's most of the rounders relocated out of new york city to oregon but notably peter stampfel stayed in new york. sometime after moving west they went electric.

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Submitted by Blue Republic on Sun, 10/08/2023 - 8:24am

I understand White Bird was written during a spell when the band was stuck without work (or money) in a small upstairs space in winter time Seattle. Which can be dreary enough even with some work and money.

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Submitted by joe shikspack on Sun, 10/08/2023 - 2:23pm
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@Blue Republic

wow, a pretty cool tune for such unpleasant circumstances.

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Submitted by dystopian on Mon, 10/09/2023 - 4:02pm
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Hi Joe,

Thanks for all the great sounds man!

Holy Modal Rounders! Dr. Demento played some on his radio show. I never cease to be amazed at what you have and provide us with! That Fenton was a great player.

Great Blues Magoos... hadn't heard it in decades... ROFL at "The President Council of Psychedelic Fitness"... I was on the honor roll, not to brag...

Re: last week's... Probably mentioned it before but Maggot Brain was actually very big in super white suburban Hunt. Bch. amongst the stoner music freaks at the time. We loved it, and Eddie Hazel especially. His California Dreamin' (later solo work) is great too.

That Eddie Boyd was great too, with the promising guitarist.

The Mayhall was a big change with the horn-heavy sound, but despite critics it was very popular in socal, probably prejudiced since recorded at the Whiskey...

thanks again for the music!

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Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 10/09/2023 - 7:46pm
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@dystopian

heh, i have some pretty arcane stuff in my collection, i guess. Smile

i just cleaned up another album by that promising guitarist that recorded with eddie boyd. it's from his post fleetwood mac serious acidhead phase. it's the sort of stuff that deadheads and jamband followers would probably like, so maybe some folks here will dig it. i'll try to post it soon.

have a great evening!

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Submitted by QMS on Thu, 10/12/2023 - 8:04pm
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@joe shikspack

are you suggesting we are they?
proctorus

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