Welcome to the RPM Seven Day Soundtrack, week ending Friday 1st March 2024. It's the meteorological calendar first day of spring edition....over to....
"Here's my 3 this week..."
"From an old album but only acquired recently...."
Love is a Long Road by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -
"From the latest Stones album. What a performance - best thing I've seen and heard for a while...."
Sweet Sounds Of Heaven by The Rolling Stones with Lady Gaga -
"From his latest album - His first time at The Hollywood Bowl. The orchestra makes for a very different feel to his usual sound. It's exactly 5 weeks until I see him at the Royal Albert Hall..."
Twenty-Four Hour Blues by Joe Bonamassa - "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwjWsf4-Lms
"Hope the start to March is good to everyone."
"Greetings pop (and non-pop) pickers! I was listening to Beck Ola and reminding myself what a great rock singer Rod Stewart was before he turned AOR. And that got me thinking of others who also stirred me greatly in my late teens and beyond, whose exciting earlier work morphed into blander, duller dishwater."
Jailhouse Rock by Jeff Beck (featuring Rod Stewart on vocals) - "The whole album is great but this is the one I played most at 16."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_t-3YFpBmQ&ab_channel=JeffBeck-Topic
Honky Tonk Women by Elton John - "Another cover song, but this is from the 17-11-70 live album. The date says it all: just months before he became a mega-star and began his gradual descent into schmaltzhood. (The exception being 'Tumbleweed Connection'.) At the time I thought this was the best live recording by anyone and, rather like Rory Gallagher's live album, also featuring the combined musicianship of just three people."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5EbECPUO88&list=PL6kKhRlUa8D67_aRmX4DGJhvS-kL7tzHx&index=6
Hound Dog by Robert Palmer - "This was Palmer's last album 'Drive'. He died four months later at the age of just 54, but I'm so glad he made this: a return to the passionate vocals of Vinegar Joe and Sneakin' Sally. No doubt for copyright reasons you can hardly find any of the wonderful tracks on Drive on YT or Spotify. I had wanted to choose 29 Ways to Make it to my Baby's Door, but this one will do."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOTk4ojhGSo
"Have a good weekend."
"Back to basics this week..."
Well I Done Got Over It by Guitar Slim -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcly6f4T9Xk
Bad Women Bad Whiskey by Little Junior Parker -
"Hi folks. Greatly enjoyed your selections last week, as ever. Fab mix of familiar + new, thanks.
I'm on my way home from a 1 week trip to Lagos, SW Portugal. My surfing's still pretty pants, but it's been sunny at least. Sounds like the weather's been grim over east.
Didn't manage to catch any Fado music live, included 1 here anyway + 2 tracks from chaps who passed away a day apart in January."
Silver Lady by David Soul - "70's cheese. Big fan of Starsky & Hutch as a kid."
Running Up That Hill by Kate Bush - "R.I.P. Del Palmer."
Fado Portugues by Sara Correla -
https://youtu.be/mT2KcWp_5qg?feature=shared
"Take care, all.
Cheers!"
"Greetings from Swanton Morley. Thought I'd go for three new items this week, from three of the most talented female artists currently working, all of whom have new albums out or about to be released."
Snake Plant (The Past Is Still Alive) by Hurray For The Riff Raff (Alynda Segarra) -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncNTbuljhwg
Deeper Well by Kacey Musgraves -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGkMYMxi-hw
I Could Drive You Crazy by Sierra Ferrell -
"Thanks again for last week's music. Hope you all are well.
In celebration of Leap Day, and in keeping with tradition, this week I took myself and some friends on another trip by bus. This year, 6 buses took us from home to Bury St. Edmunds and back, so my selections this week are in honour of The Martyr buried in that parish and his canine legend."
Will The Wolf Survive by Waylon Jennings -
How Many More Years by Howlin Wolf -
Wolves by Stephanie Davis -
https://youtube.com/watch?v=T14OXKkMvNA&si=H-ypKLFUPmUlb7Cp
"That's All Folks. "
"Hi Everyone, Still Raining, Still Dreaming, as a well known guitarist once said.... so lay back and groove, dream or whatever to more wonderful 7 Day Soundtrack selections from the RPM faithful; there certainly have been some interesting choices recently. Here are three pieces that have caught my ear this week. Best wishes to all, as always."
Mozart's Rondo Alla Turca by Marnie Laird -
One Draw by Rita Marley -
I Believe by I Am Kloot -
"Here are my 3 for the week... Best wishes to everybody."
Sweetheart Like You by Bob Dylan - "...from album Infidels."
Cover of The Rolling Stone by Dr Hook - "From their second album "Sloppy Seconds" 1972. This track popped up on my partners playlist in the car. I have a book which shows all the front covers of "Rolling Stone" from 1967 to 1997 - a very nostalgic and interesting read."
Don't Kill It Carol by Manfred Mann's Earth Band - "From the 1979 album Angel Station."
"Man...it got pretty psychedelic this week....but ended back down to earth at a rather good session in a back room of a pub in York."
"French space rockers Slift played at the Brudenell in Leeds last Tuesday. Here's the standout track from a night which went so fast because it was so absorbing; what seemed like 40 mins was nearly 2 hours of music."
Ummon by Slift -
"And something was needed to help me negotiate the Leeds road system...."
A Sprinkling of Clouds by Gong -
Farewell to Erin performed by The Bothy Band - "My favourite tune of the night at the session in the Corner Pin...also found on the Bothy's Old Hag You Have Killed Me album, one which I've been listening to recently."
'Til Next Time...