Our own Dick Heath's ALT2 Radio show Returns

Always bike in, my wife has the car to teach at night school on Thursday nights

night school, i see.

Closing down here -  thanks for your company

Putting the show together slowly this week. A lot of purchases arrived in the last few days, including 3 Umphrey's McGee albums, an Jan Hammer album recorded 1968 (in fact  a live recording now issued by Enja Records Japan, and not the MPS CD reissue, pre-Mahavishnu studio recording). Samples from the new album by one of the show favourites, Derek Trucks Band's .  Plus more blues flavoured recordings, only just spotted (very cheap) on Amazon.UK as part of the expanding "Complete Blue Horizon Sessions" series, here by Gordon Smith and Jellybread. I've only previously hear one tune by the relatively obscure Gordon Smith  - that tucked away of the Alexis Korner Memorial Concert CD set - but here is one LP and lots of outtakes, which indicates a Brit who usually stuck to the original 30's arrangements (hence you'll fiind a couple of Cream covers, but I guess in the manner done by the original artists). Jellybread were one of those largely  forgotten 2nd or 3rd ranking British blues bands, who's distinction (it seems from this compilation) was to sing blues rock with very English accents - which doesn't quite work more often than not.  I continue plundering Morglbl's Grotesk, as album of the month. And with my record/CD collection accessible once more some random raid on the obscurers parts of the archives.

Hi
Kim and all, the next one  (remember 50th anniversary of Buddy Holly's most untimely death today!):

Alternative Alternative Show

 

5^th February 2009

 

Format  Track       Time         Band                                  Track Title                                     Album                                        Genre                  Label

CD8      8              4.23         Mörglbl Trio                       Haute Voltige En Haute-Volta   Grötesk                                      Latin Fusion        Free Electric Sound

CD       4              2.33         Bireli Lagrene                  Jack Rabbit                                  Electric Side                             Jazz Fusion        Dreyfus

CD       5              3.26         Wave Mechanics Union Available Light                             Second Season                       Jazz Fusion        HX Music

CD       1              5.18         Graham Bond Organisation                                                  Green Onions                           Solid Bond        Blues Jazz Rock          Rhino

CD       10            7.25         Olaf Kubler & Jan Hammer Trio                                           Let t Go                                      Live At Domicile 1968            Jazz        Enja

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

CD       1              5.01         Derek Trucks Band         Dam In The Flood                       Already Free                             Blues                   Victor

CD       1              5.59         Umphrey’s McGee          Plunger                                          Anchors Drop                           Rock                   SPV Inside Out

CD       2              2.30         Buddy Holly & The Crickets                                                   Peggy Sue                                20 Golden Greats            Rock’n’Roll             MCA

CD       6              3.05         Jeff Aug                              Musical Box Ballerina                 Living Room Sessions          Folk Guitar         Rough Trade

CD       7              5.48         David Cross Band           I Buy Silence                                Alive In The Underworld         Heavy Prog         Noisey

CD       4              6.33         Mörglbl Trio                       Le Projet Pied De Biche             Grötesk                                      Latin Fusion        Free Electric Sound

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

CD       25            2.15         Gordon Smith                   I’m So Glad                                   The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions           Blues            Blue Horizon

CD       1              5.18         Panzerballett                    Pink Panther                                Starke Stucke                           Metal Fusion       Act

CD       1/11         6.03         Umphrey’s McGee          Nemo (15 Nov 2007)                  Jimmy Stewart 2007               Jam Rock            www.umphreysmcgee.com

CD       8              4.56         Merge Factory                   Hold On                                         Unsteady State Of Change    Prog House         Music Unifier

CD       2              9.16         Frank Zappa (Don Van Vliet)                                                 Willie The Pimp                       Hot Rats            Blues Fusion Zappa

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

CD       12            3.54         Bumblefoot                       I Can’t Take My Eyes Off You    Uncool                                       Rock                   Hermit

CD       1              2.16         Buddy Holly & The Crickets                                                   That’ll Be The Day                   20 Golden Greats            Rock’n’Roll             MCA

CD       8              4.18         Jellybread                         Rusty Blade                                  The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions           Blues Rock   Blue Horizon

CD       13            1.11         Jeff Aug                              Chemical Funk                            Living Room Sessions          Folk Guitar         Rough Trade

U Tube                  7.00         Gary Lucas/Ninet             Mojo Pin                                        Live at the French Jeff Buckley Tribute, Hard Rock Paris, 6/03/08   Avant Rock                                        

CD       5              7.24         Nathan Mahl                     Down From The Mountain         Exodus                                      Neo Prog             Unicorn

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

CD       7              3.06         Graham Bond Organisation                                                  Walking In The Park               Solid Bond        Blues Jazz Rock          Rhino

CD       6              6.09         Sleepy People                  Three Things                                Growing                                     Math Rock          TRR

CD       15            1.28         Gordon Smith                   Nobody’s Fool But Mine             The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions           Blues            Blue Horizon

CD       32            4.39         Darryl Way’s Wolf            Isolation Void                               Canis Lupis                              Prog                    Esoteric

CD       3              4.26         Robert Palmer                 Sneakin’ Sally Through The Alley                                                Sneakin’ Sally Through The Alley            Southern Rock                                    Island

CD       2              6.08         Chicago                             Beginnings                                   1968                                           Brass Rock            Newsound 2000

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

CD       5              4.15         Derek Trucks Band         Don’t Miss Me                               Already Free                             Blues                   Victor

CD       7              2.02         Buddy Holly & The Crickets                                                   Maybe Baby                             20 Golden Greats            Rock’n’Roll             MCA

CD       3              3.53         Martin Orford                     Ray Of Hope                                 The Old Road                           Neo Prog             GEPR

CD       7              4.49         Billy Joel                            We Didn’t Start The Fire             Greatest Hits 3/Storm Front  Rock                   Columbia

CD       3              11.51       Umphrey’s McGee          Mantis                                            Mantis                                        Jam Rock           Sci Fidelity

 

 

Edited by Dick Heath - February 03 2009 at 16:14

Who is coming round to chat and keep me company? Looks like the snow is too deep to cycle, so this devoted DJ may have to walk 3 miles tonight carrying a huge box of CDs. Devotion guys, devotion!  BTW got Gary Lucas's go ahead to use his You Tube material, so listen out (but I'll be watching too!!!) his new take on Mojo Pin with Israeli popster Ninet do the Jeff Buckley thing.

Here we go again. Evening everybody!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Doing the rounds including e.mails and Facebook - people write on my wall and then disappear - can't have a fast conversation there! Is this music more to your liking?

that was fantasic (the Lucas)!

you're really going to follow this with Blues, too, aren't you? LOL