Cowboy Junkies Cover Neil Young’s “Helpless”

I love me some Cowboy Junikies. Margo Timmins has one of the more haunting voices in all of rock and roll. In keeping with Neil Young Thursdays here they are covering “Helpless.” Forgive the annoying images in the top corner. I didn’t do it. It’s not my video.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse Perform “Cortez the Killer” in 1991

One of the things I really enjoyed when I was posting shows every day was posting certain artists on certain days of the week. I am a man of some organization. I like to have my ducks in a row as my mother likes to say. There was something nice about knowing that on Mondays I’d be posting Bob Dylan shows, and on Wednesdays, I’d post the Grateful Dead, etc. I kind of miss that.

So in my ever-changing plans on what to do with this blog, I thought it would be fun to try to do something similar again. No, I won’t be posting new shows every day and thus I won’t be posting Neil Young shows on Thursdays. But maybe I can post a Neil Young video on some Thursdays. Or links to interesting Neil Young news.

I like the idea anyway. So here’s a terrific version of one of my favorite Neil songs, “Cortez the Killer” in 1991.

The Band – Isle of Wight, England (08/31/69)

The Band
August 31, 1969
Woodside Bay near Ryde, Isle Of Wight Festival

AUD MR > DAT > CD > EAC > WAV > FLAC

01 We Can Talk
02 Long Black Veil
03 To Kingdom Come
04 Ain’t No More Cane
05 Don’t Ya Tell Henry
06 Chest Fever
07 I Shall Be Released
08 The Weight
09 Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever

[37:33]

I did not harm the sound of the recordings in any way. Pitch adjustment done by the original taper.
Tr.1 is missing about two seconds at the beginning, apart from that this the complete performance.

YES – Long Beach, CA (06/23/75)

Yes
1975-06-23
Long Beach Arena
Long Beach, CA
30th Anniversary Remaster

Mike Millard recorded both the Los Angeles Forum (1975-06-21) and Long Beach Yes shows of 1975. For audio quality, this is the better of the two. The audio is much better to the two 1974 Tales shows, probably due to an upgrade of gear. You might think this was a soundboard recording, if you didn’t know better. As for the performance, Yes is hot, but there are some crackles and Jon’s voice is kind of ragged, as if the smog in Southern California was getting to him.

Art is not included with the torrent but I’m sure there is some floating around, and hopefully some friends will post theirs.

In 1975, Yes were:
Jon Anderson
Chris Squire
Steve Howe
Alan White
Patrick Moraz

Tracks:

Disk1
Firebird Suite
Sound Chaser
Close to the Edge
To Be Over
The Gates of Delirium

Disk 2
Your Move
Mood for a Day
Long Distance Runaround
Patrick Moraz Solo
Clap
And You And I
Ritual
Roundabout
Sweet Dreams

Thelonious Monk – Stockholm, Sweden (03/05/63)

Thelonious Monk Quartet
1963-03-5
Stockholm, Sweden

ex FM, RESEED

Short spoken intro 1’17
Bye-ya 8’36
Monk’s dream 8’35
‘Round Midnight 9’20
Criss cross 5’19
Drum Solo 3’59
Jackie-ing 8’22
Just a Gigolo 3’23
Bright Mississippi 9’13

Thelonious Monk – Piano
Charlie Rouse – Tenor saxophone
John ore – Bass
Frankie Dunlop – Drums

lineage is pre-fm > ? > cd-r or something like that. I tried and find a more precise lineage, butit’s always just described as a”pre-fm” record and that’s it…

enjoyyyy

The Police – Manchester, TN (06/16/07)

The Police
June 16, 2007
Bonnaroo Music Festival
Manchester, TN

source: Schoeps mk4 (DIN) > kc5 > cmc6 > Lunatec V2 > Sound Devices 702 (24/48)
location: slightly right of sbd
transfer: .wav > Spark XL 2.82 (fades, tracking, dither, resample) > xACT > .flac (16/44)

Disc 1
01 Message In A Bottle
02 Synchronicity II
03 Walking On The Moon
04 Driven To Tears
05 Voices Inside My Head ->
06 When The World Is Running Down, You Make The Best Of What’s Still Around
07 Truth Hits Everybody
08 Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
09 Wrapped Around Your Finger
10 The Bed’s Too Big Without You

Disc 2
01 De Do Do Do De Da Da Da
02 Walking in Your Footsteps
03 Can’t Stand Losing You
04 Roxanne
05 Crowd/Encore Break
06 King Of Pain
07 So Lonely
08 Every Breath You Take
09 Next To You

total time: 1 hour 42 min.

The Band – Philadelphia, PA (09/17/76)

The Band
1976-09-17
Spectrum Theater,
Philadelphia, PA

source: aud cassette master
taped by Rich Petrunis
sony recorder

nakamichi dragon > benchmark adc1 24/96 >
pc > adobe audition cs6 > cd wave > flac
transfer & seed by Rob Berger april 2013

disc one: 40:20
01 – Ophelia
02 – The Shape I’m In
03 – It Makes No Difference
04 – The Weight
05 – King Harvest
06 – Twilight
07 – Ring Your Bell
08 – The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down >
09 – Across The Great Divide
10 – Stage Fright

disc two: 41:19
01 – Forbidden Fruit
02 – Acadian Driftwood
03 – The Genetic Method >
04 – Chest Fever
05 – This Wheel’s On Fire
06 – Don’t Do It
07 – Up On Cripple Creek
08 – Life Is A Carnival
09 – W.S. Walcott Medicine Show

notes: Thanks to Rich and his son John for sharing this
rarity with us.

Ray Charles – Glasgow, Scotland (05/26/99)

Ray Charles
w/the BBC Orchestra
Clyde Auditorium
Glasgow, Scotland
May 26 ,1999

FM>?> CDR>Flac>Dime>You
MD5 included

Enjoy, twofthrs

Set list:

01_intro
02_one day soon
03_georgia
04_mississippi mud
05_just for a thrill
06_every time it rains
07_say no more
08_stranger in my hometown
09_a song for you
10_you better watch them dogs(the rayletts)
11_i can’t stop lovin’ you
12_i believe to my soul> what’d i say> outro

Fantastic RC from 1999.The performance and the sound are awesome.

Thanks for twofthrs for seeded this show in 2005.

Artwork is included

Enjoy

lolita

Ray Charles – Leverkusen, Germany (11/19/93)

Ray Charles
with Maceo Parker Opening
11/19/93
Leverkusener Jazztage
Leverkusen, Germany

Source FM SBD>DAT

Conversion : DAT @ 48k -> HT OMega 7.1 Soundcard (Optical Inputs)>WAV (48)> Syntillium Cool Edit Downsample to 44.1 WAV>CD WAV (Track Split)>FLAC

Comments

For those burning to CD-R, If you prefer to have only the Ray Charles Set d102 thru d116 will fit on one 80 minute Cd-r

d101 Maceo Parker Opening
d102 Intro Ray Charles and Sadies Tune
d103 Busted
d104 Georgia On My Mind
d105 Mississippi Mud
d106 How Long Has This Been Goin’ On
d107 Mississippi Mud
d108 Blues for Scotia
d109 Still Crazy After All These Years
d110 Stranger In My Own Hometown
d111 The Brightest Smile In Town
d112 Intro Raelettes > Rock Steady
d113 Baby, It’s Cold Outside
d114 I Can’t Stop Loving You
d115 What’d I Say
d116 FInale and Fanfare

JVC Supersession “Wiederholung der Aufzeichnung Leverkusener Jazztage”
(Maceo Parker opened)

Ray Charles Orchestra:
Lawrence Foyen – trumpet
Richard Weiss – trumpet
David Hoffman – trumpet
Kenneth Scharf – trumpet
Peter Beltran – trombone
Steve Sigmund – trombone
Michel Guerrier – trombone
Marc Fields – trombone
William Waters – saxophone
Charles Johnson – saxophone
James Farnsworth – saxophone
Alford Jackson – saxophone
Steve Alliott – saxophone
Ernest Ventrease – keybords
Kenneth Carr – guitar
Thomas Fowler – bass
Pete Turre – drums
Angela Workam – backup vocals
Trudy Cohran – backup vocals
Michelle King – backup vocals
Elaine Woodard – backup vocals
Estella Yarbrough – backup vocals

Ray Charles – New York, NY (01/09/90)

Ray Charles
1990-01-09
NPR Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz [FM] Re-seed
Manhattan Beach Studios
New York, NY

Lineage: FM > ? > CD-R > WAV > FLAC

I received the CD-R in a recent trade with no lineage info. Dimebot reports that this performance was once here, uploaded by Antimudshark in Jul 2008.

Set List:

Summertime (G.& I. Gershwin, Heyward)
The Man I Love (G. & I. Gershwin)
Willow Weep for Me (Ronell)
Blues (Charles, McPartland) & Things Ain’t What They Used to Be (Ellington)
Am I Blue (Akst, Clark)
Portrait of Ray Charles (McPartland)
Oh, What a Beautiful Morning (Rodgers, Hammerstein)
Ray and Marian’s Blues (Charles, McPartland)

Personnel:

Ray Charles-p
Marian McPartland-p