In the meantime, feel free to use the comments section, to talk among yourselves, share some music, and enter the 'Where is Babs Going?' Contest See you May 1st
Okay....here's a recent digitization of Westwood One In Concert 91-24 The Faces/Rod Stewart. Right off the vinyl, some Faces BBC tracks combined with tracks from 1976 Olympia (London). Plus...tons of press newspaper clippings.
Babs, in all reality I hope you enjoy your imaginary vacation. You deserve the break and I hope you find what you're looking for. Hope it's with family. (That's three hopes. The magic trifecta of wishes)
Croc Wrestling In The Adelaide River? Hang Gliding In The Himalayas? Searching for Eldorado in the back streets of Cancun? Hunting Sasquatch At The Source of the Saskatchewan River? Tandem Racing along the Great Wall of China? Sand Ski-ing In The Gobi Desert?
I'll take Babs up on the invitation to share some music while she's away. One of Babs' recent freeload questions was about favorite soul singers. I bet pmac has this record, but I was unaware of it until very recently.
"I Believe To My Soul" (2005) was recorded in the course of a week with a crew of musicians assembled by producer Joe Henry to back the vocalists Irma Thomas, Mavis Staples, Ann Peebles, Billy Preston, and Allen Toussaint. There are a few well-chosen covers: Ann Peebles sings a lovely "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You", and Irma Thomas takes "Loving Arms" to new heights.
The album is subtitled "Session 01" and the back cover promises "This is the first of a series, and there is more to come." Unfortunately, that didn't happen, but it was the first of several albums that Joe Henry produced for Allen Toussaint.
Joe Henry also produced Solomon Burke's excellent 2002 album "Don't Give Up On Me", and I added his deeply moving version of "None Of Us Are Free" as a bonus track (with the Five Blind Boys Of Alabama on backing vocals).
You guessed right! Its a wonderful collection that got lost in the shuffle of all of the Katrina charitable releases (but, this one was actually recorded a couple of months before the storm). Irma still has The Same Love in her sets, and Toussaint also had We Are One in his up until the night he passed. Wonderful comp that just never got the listens it deserved.
I didn't think about Katrina, but that makes sense now. I believe the next project Joe Henry produced was The River In Reverse with Allen Toussaint and Elvis Costello. Thanks, pmac!
That was Henry's next project, which led to the stints producing Toussaint's last two studio works. The Bright Mississippi (his first production project solely with Toussaint) is a fantastic record.
Here's one for yas bums. Set the wayback machine to 1970, and the first ever NO Jazz and Heritage Festival, held on the grounds of Congo Square in what is now known as Armstrong Park in New Orleans. JF is happenng now, and in an absolute contemptible turn, they are actually enshrining Jimmy Buffet in the legends area of the festival (nothing against Buffet, but he has nothing to do with NO music or culture). Here, in all of its glory, and with remarkable sound, is the set performed by The Meters at that auspicious event! https://mega.nz/folder/U3gwSZrJ#Byg4-fRgpQBwGpP2ksxw0Q
Here's one that I listen to on an almost daily basis, I hope that you can all enjoy it too. From the John Zorn Book Of Angels set, Roberto Rodriguez - Aguares in flac. https://we.tl/t-vRty0AITBB Thanks Babs, have a great vacation
Goin' to the chapel and we're gonna get married. Goin' to the chapel and we're gonna get married. Gee, I really love you and we're, gonna get married. Goin' to the chapel of love.
I'm watching a program on PBS (produced by Edison International) That claims that Nuclear Energy is the cure to global warming. Where do they dispose of that shit? They haven't addressed that question yet. And it's on PBS?
WIPP - Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. Designed to hold "trash from Los Alamos Labs & other nuclear facilities. Unbelievably kinda next door to Carlsbad Caverns. It was big news back in the day (80's-90's) in New Mexico. Lotsa protests. I used to have a six(?) volume set of studies regarding feasibility of the process & projections. Folks were trying to develop symbols for extra-terrestrials to direct them NOT to dig anywhere near WIPP.
WIPP is not for actual nuclear waste, just for "disposal of defense-generated TRU waste from DOE sites around the country. TRU waste consists of clothing, tools, rags, residues, debris, soil and other items contaminated with small amounts of plutonium and other man-made radioactive elements." Sorry to mislead. AND I have no idea what they do with actual nuclear waste, but they hafta do something with it right? One previous suggestion was to shoot it into space.
notBob, good answer to the problem. I had a friend that changed his oil and he put the used oil back into the quart bottles and placed them back in the oil box until he could get it to the recycle place. In the meantime someone stole the used oil from the back of his truck.
I just sold my pick-up after about 25 years. If I had a dollar for every item stolen out of the back, I could afford a new one. But, now they even steal the tailgates which can cost 10k!
Another friend used to carry his carpenter tools in the truck bed with a blanket tossed over them. One night he stopped at a bar and parked next to another pickup with a locking toolbox mounted in the bed. When he came out someone had broke into the guys toolbox and never looked under the blanket in his.
It was just a few years ago while living in a semi-rural area that we still followed the old rule of locking the front door to let folks we weren't home but leaving the back door open in case they needed to get in. Our dogs were friendly IF they knew you...
I live in a rural area and still do that. Lock the front, leave the back open. Although my dogs are friendly they don't like my neighbor because he has dogs too. I used to have a '49 Ford panel. The key wouldn't work on the doors but I could lock one door. I locked the drivers side figuring that's where someone would try to break in. The passenger side was always unlocked.
Here's another album I enjoy & I have hopes that you will too, the album is Perpetual Optimism by Herlin Riley. It's good music for a vacation or a stacation whichever fits. Thanks Babs. https://we.tl/t-IEdYNLUBek
Where is Babs Going? Contest
ReplyDeletePost where you think I might be going. I will select a winner upon my return.
isle of foam...of course
DeleteTo sip lime rickeys on the sunny shores of Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.
ReplyDeleteTo the one and only City of Angels (and quite a few devils too): Krungthep Mahanakorn, aka Bangkok!
ReplyDeleteI would say you are going to see The Grateful Dead.
ReplyDeleteBut my real guess is that you are going to the west coast. California to visit family.
First 4 days of Jazz Fest?
ReplyDeleteIs anybody going to San Antone or Phoenix, Arizona?
ReplyDeleteTucson to Tucumcari, Tehachapi to Tonopah ?
ReplyDeleteTo a higher plane of consciousness.
ReplyDeleteOkay....here's a recent digitization of Westwood One In Concert 91-24 The Faces/Rod Stewart. Right off the vinyl, some Faces BBC tracks combined with tracks from 1976 Olympia (London). Plus...tons of press newspaper clippings.
ReplyDeletehttps://mega.nz/file/rZxw1bra#M4ps91WG6A0ctJStKUxrNNL78JBmBxMeMpUxnd3TgIM
Babs, in all reality I hope you enjoy your imaginary vacation. You deserve the break and I hope you find what you're looking for. Hope it's with family. (That's three hopes. The magic trifecta of wishes)
ReplyDeleteIf you listen to Take Five by Dave Brubeck and then Acapulco Blue and Gold by Quicksilver. It's the same song!
ReplyDeletePlay them backwards & sync with the Wizard of Oz...far out!
Delete-notBob
Aloha! Or maybe Bienvenidos Santa Fe! Hope everyone is enjoying Babs vacation
ReplyDeleteNew Jersey?
ReplyDelete-notBob
On A Highway To Hell?
ReplyDeleteBabs, I can reveal, is on a holistic wellness retreat at Sitarswami's Mystic Kali-Yuga Karwash©, Koreatown L.A., where the Swami will personally mentor her through the Chakric Levels of auto care, including lube n' wax jobs. She will return exuding that New Car Smell what guys are helpless to resist.
ReplyDeleteCroc Wrestling In The Adelaide River?
ReplyDeleteHang Gliding In The Himalayas?
Searching for Eldorado in the back streets of Cancun?
Hunting Sasquatch At The Source of the Saskatchewan River?
Tandem Racing along the Great Wall of China?
Sand Ski-ing In The Gobi Desert?
Maybe it's time for this.
ReplyDeleteBat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51MmtAnPkBg&list=OLAK5uy_m0LFLZhzJieO7RdcDRZubTdryU0aT5qB4&index=10
Well. I may add this to your holiday
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwuZ8K2pekU&list=PLWVo2tank-zwCEjXUGXqJPFMtLOHDOouJ&index=10
Taking a trip up to Abergavenny?
ReplyDeleteMarty Wilde is still alive.
DeleteI hope you are going to where I want go: Cape Town.
ReplyDeleteVacay wish: (I forget who said this) but: "misbehave with integrity!"
Pismo Beach? (make sure to tour my world famous fish head incinerator plant!)
ReplyDeleteLook, there's a Howard Johnsons, Want to eat some clams?
DeleteI'll take Babs up on the invitation to share some music while she's away. One of Babs' recent freeload questions was about favorite soul singers. I bet pmac has this record, but I was unaware of it until very recently.
ReplyDelete"I Believe To My Soul" (2005) was recorded in the course of a week with a crew of musicians assembled by producer Joe Henry to back the vocalists Irma Thomas, Mavis Staples, Ann Peebles, Billy Preston, and Allen Toussaint. There are a few well-chosen covers: Ann Peebles sings a lovely "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You", and Irma Thomas takes "Loving Arms" to new heights.
The album is subtitled "Session 01" and the back cover promises "This is the first of a series, and there is more to come." Unfortunately, that didn't happen, but it was the first of several albums that Joe Henry produced for Allen Toussaint.
Joe Henry also produced Solomon Burke's excellent 2002 album "Don't Give Up On Me", and I added his deeply moving version of "None Of Us Are Free" as a bonus track (with the Five Blind Boys Of Alabama on backing vocals).
https://krakenfiles.com/view/nWjlIPxF4v/file.html
https://www.discogs.com/release/8287052
DeleteYou guessed right! Its a wonderful collection that got lost in the shuffle of all of the Katrina charitable releases (but, this one was actually recorded a couple of months before the storm). Irma still has The Same Love in her sets, and Toussaint also had We Are One in his up until the night he passed. Wonderful comp that just never got the listens it deserved.
DeleteI didn't think about Katrina, but that makes sense now. I believe the next project Joe Henry produced was The River In Reverse with Allen Toussaint and Elvis Costello. Thanks, pmac!
DeleteThat was Henry's next project, which led to the stints producing Toussaint's last two studio works. The Bright Mississippi (his first production project solely with Toussaint) is a fantastic record.
DeleteThank you Jonder!
DeleteYes, thank you Jonder!
DeleteFly me to the moon
ReplyDeleteLet me play among the stars
Let me see what spring is like on
A-Jupiter and Mars
Funny you mention that. I was wondering if perhaps Babs had gone Moonwalking in /' on the Sea of Tranquility?
DeleteGiant Steps are what Babs takes
DeleteWalking on the moon
Here's one for yas bums. Set the wayback machine to 1970, and the first ever NO Jazz and Heritage Festival, held on the grounds of Congo Square in what is now known as Armstrong Park in New Orleans. JF is happenng now, and in an absolute contemptible turn, they are actually enshrining Jimmy Buffet in the legends area of the festival (nothing against Buffet, but he has nothing to do with NO music or culture). Here, in all of its glory, and with remarkable sound, is the set performed by The Meters at that auspicious event! https://mega.nz/folder/U3gwSZrJ#Byg4-fRgpQBwGpP2ksxw0Q
ReplyDeleteSooooo fiiiiiiine....!
DeleteThanks to you as well, pmac.
DeleteHere's one that I listen to on an almost daily basis, I hope that you can all enjoy it too. From the John Zorn Book Of Angels set, Roberto Rodriguez - Aguares in flac.
ReplyDeletehttps://we.tl/t-vRty0AITBB
Thanks Babs, have a great vacation
mumbles, thanks for Aguares. Nice combination of Cuban and Klezmer.
ReplyDeleteGoing to the chapel of love?
ReplyDeleteGoin' to the chapel and we're gonna get married.
Goin' to the chapel and we're gonna get married.
Gee, I really love you and we're, gonna get married.
Goin' to the chapel of love.
Standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona?
ReplyDeleteI've been on that corner
DeleteI'm watching a program on PBS (produced by Edison International) That claims that Nuclear Energy is the cure to global warming. Where do they dispose of that shit? They haven't addressed that question yet. And it's on PBS?
ReplyDeleteWIPP - Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. Designed to hold "trash from Los Alamos Labs & other nuclear facilities. Unbelievably kinda next door to Carlsbad Caverns. It was big news back in the day (80's-90's) in New Mexico. Lotsa protests. I used to have a six(?) volume set of studies regarding feasibility of the process & projections. Folks were trying to develop symbols for extra-terrestrials to direct them NOT to dig anywhere near WIPP.
ReplyDeleteWIPP is not for actual nuclear waste, just for "disposal of defense-generated TRU waste from DOE sites around the country. TRU waste consists of clothing, tools, rags, residues, debris, soil and other items contaminated with small amounts of plutonium and other man-made radioactive elements." Sorry to mislead.
DeleteAND I have no idea what they do with actual nuclear waste, but they hafta do something with it right? One previous suggestion was to shoot it into space.
Simple solution: Pack the waste in Amazon boxes & place on random doorsteps where porch pirates are known to roam.
ReplyDeletenotBob, good answer to the problem. I had a friend that changed his oil and he put the used oil back into the quart bottles and placed them back in the oil box until he could get it to the recycle place. In the meantime someone stole the used oil from the back of his truck.
DeleteI just sold my pick-up after about 25 years. If I had a dollar for every item stolen out of the back, I could afford a new one. But, now they even steal the tailgates which can cost 10k!
DeleteAnother friend used to carry his carpenter tools in the truck bed with a blanket tossed over them. One night he stopped at a bar and parked next to another pickup with a locking toolbox mounted in the bed. When he came out someone had broke into the guys toolbox and never looked under the blanket in his.
DeleteIt was just a few years ago while living in a semi-rural area that we still followed the old rule of locking the front door to let folks we weren't home but leaving the back door open in case they needed to get in. Our dogs were friendly IF they knew you...
DeleteI live in a rural area and still do that. Lock the front, leave the back open. Although my dogs are friendly they don't like my neighbor because he has dogs too. I used to have a '49 Ford panel. The key wouldn't work on the doors but I could lock one door. I locked the drivers side figuring that's where someone would try to break in. The passenger side was always unlocked.
DeleteI had a neighbor that never locked anything. He said that's what insurance is for.
DeleteHere's another album I enjoy & I have hopes that you will too, the album is Perpetual Optimism by Herlin Riley. It's good music for a vacation or a stacation whichever fits. Thanks Babs. https://we.tl/t-IEdYNLUBek
ReplyDeleteThe Jam, live from the 100 Club in 1977, copied from the 10 inch radio reel https://mega.nz/file/7F4gFTBT#OowhneLEPV1a3uSDda61ZbSGlQ4TlWkRoXObjJAq6GQ
ReplyDeleteCool! Could it be that Babs is... Going Underground?
DeleteWell if she's heading 'Down In The Tube Station At Midnight' she probably is.....
DeleteA gift for Babs.
ReplyDeleteA picture book of jazz artists. Don't forget the password = egroj
https://egrojworld.blogspot.com/2024/04/sight-readings-photographers-and.html
Now I know: You're doing a darkness retreat with Aaron Rodgers. How is the crazy bastard?
ReplyDeleteTempus Fugit Babs. Tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteDoes tomorrow even enter into Tempus Fugit? Anyway, welcome home. Hope you had a nice visit. Wherever you were.
We know you're already home & spying on the comments...If you ever really left. & welcome back!
ReplyDeleteMaybe Babs has been an impartial juror in a certain court case - possibly involving an overgrown petulant toddler?
ReplyDeleteI was hoping that would be the case, but as she just posted that was not where she was. Too bad. Babs would have made a great juror.
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