Originals and cover songs.

[57vintage]

Jings if we start on Free we'd be here till chucking out time, There's a wee riff on "Be my friend" probably no more that 10 notes does it for me everytime

Every one of their albums has been my favourite at some time, although I still feel they phoned in Free At Last a little, even though online Free fans rate it among their best. Quite a bit of good quality live material’s come to light, and has been cleaned up. YouTube’s a goldmine.

[stewarty27]

Dylan's All along the watchtower James Marshall Hendrix.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YoVJJmP_60

[57vintage]

Jerry Lordan’s melody mastered by The Shadows (a tricky little hoor of a bassline, like)

https://youtu.be/QhIs1k8yuPU

And NOT The Shadows (camp overkill warning)

https://youtu.be/f6tnj7IEI0E

But Edgar rescues it with a last-minute winner. Yas.

https://youtu.be/dQNlF_8egsI

[stewarty27]

Bloody hell Edgar Broughton Band !! Long time no hear,

Oft seen outside the students union wi a copy of Silk Torpedo under my arm... as you did in those days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Igt14t_bHYE

Steve Miller cover good as well

[57vintage]

According to my files, the Poop & Jism featured this headline on this date in 2016. I wonder who the sub-editing fan was (nae me)?

The little things that make life worthwhile. Mrs Vintage issued a terse, “No comment”.

[Bojangles9]

Yaaaaaaaas, just newly discovered Lucinda Williams brought out a Beatles covers album at end of last year.

So up my street it could only be topped by her singing The Northern Lights as an encore.

Made my day (month). Fa cares aboot fitba onyway?.

[57vintage]

Yaaaaaaaas, just newly discovered Lucinda Williams brought out a Beatles covers album at end of last year.

So up my street it could only be topped by her singing The Northern Lights as an encore.

Made my day (month). Fa cares aboot fitba onyway?.

I?d hope for a volume 2, as she?s more ir less gone for the Abbey Road/Let It Be Stuff., and I think some of the Rubber Soul/Revolver material would be fertile ground for her.

The best has been her Dylan one, and her personal friendship with Tom Petty made it very worthwhile. The one slight disappointment with the series was the southern soul one. Impeccable in its arrangements and delivery, I do think that there was better material she might have chosen.

[57vintage]

Here are my reviews of the two discs of the Lu's Jukebox series that I was sent:

LUCINDA WILLIAMS
****
Runnin' Down a Dream: A Tribute to Tom Petty
(HIGHWAY 20 RECORDS) www.lucindawilliams.com

Runnin’ Down A Dream: A Tribute to Tom Petty is Volume One of Lu’s Jukebox, a series of six live recordings Lucinda Williams made at Nashville’s Room & Board Studios during the US’s lockdown, with a portion of the ticket revenue assisting venues hit by Covid closure.

In a sleeve that’s a mock-up of Full Moon Fever, songs from Petty’s forty-one year output feature, but it’s only on listening that one is reminded of the common musical ground that Williams and Petty shared, in approach, phrasing, accompaniment, and attitude. These takes remain fairly true to Petty’s originals but, not unexpectedly, are given new *****ity by Williams’s audible respect and affection, stressing how uncannily she can live out a lyric in a three or four-minute drama. A flawless live band sound has been captured by Ray Kennedy.

It’s sad that such a tribute has had to be recorded, and to muse that if only Tom was around to reciprocate with an album of Lu’s songs, ‘Righteously’ or ‘Metal Firecracker’ would have been stellar.

‘Stolen Moments’ closes the album, Williams’s own heartfelt homage to her friend, ‘…in stolen moments you're riding with me again’.
57vintage

LUCINDA WILLIAMS
*****
Lu’s Jukebox Vol 3. Bob’s Back Pages: A Night Of Bob Dylan Songs
(HIGHWAY 20 RECORDS) www.lucindawilliams.com

Sharing a pleasing and worthy disdain for conventional lyrical content, phrasing and diction, taking on Bob Dylan songs in this, the third volume of Williams’s promised Jukebox series, seems like an obvious step for her after the beautifully-judged Volume One Tom Petty tribute. Of the three volumes released so far, this might just be the best.

Eleven tracks are drawn from five albums - if ‘Blind Willie McTell’ is considered an Infidels outtake - from Highway 61 Revisited through Blood On The Tracks to Time Out Of Mind, each flawlessly interpreted, from the rough and tumble of ‘It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry’, to the existential near-crisis of ‘Tryin’ To Get To Heaven’, and the act of courage required to battle with the splenetic behemoth ‘Idiot Wind’.

And talking of courage, how about an ovation for the boys in the band? Surefootedly prompting and powering every Lu vocal, Messrs Eltringham, Mackey, Mathis, Grange, and Lauer respectfully but uniquely follow Kooper, Bloomfield, The Band, Knopfler, and a couple of hundred semi-legendary others in creating empathetic canvases on which Lu paints her Dylan masterpieces.

57vintage

www.rock-n-reel.co.uk

[Bojangles9]

Bloody hell I’ve missed all of them.

Checked out of the internet during Covid so would have been unaware of them at the time but baffled how I’ve missed this series since.
I’m obviously completely out of the loop. Lazily become too reliant on Spotify algorithm. Lesson learned.


Agree re Beatles choices - fab but would love to hear dirtier arrangements on Revolver etc
This selection has showcased surprising clarity of her voice though, suggestions of it being gone after her stroke put to bed.

Cheers for reviews - looking forward to them all (the stones not really my bag but rest right up my street).

[57vintage]

I ordered the Stones one, (I am a fan but they?ve never impressed me live) and the country one from Discogs yesterday. I can probably do without the Xmas one.