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Memories of a Burns Night in Edinburgh 1975 where Stivell and his pipers pied-piped the crowd outside the Usher Hall and played for an extra hour, despite the cops wanting to close the whole scene down. Knowing you don't mess with a crowd of hyped-up rocking Gaels, they just made him play under ...

Possibly the ultimate soul song. I saw Joplin nail this live (you KNOW she'd do this song) but Lorraine's the queen.

Sounds good to me--wonder what county you're from. I'm from Morristown and we talk roughly like you. Only Hudson County talks "Joisey", really, and it's mostly old people too.

It's all about the TONE!!

Aye--fae Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA (but lived in Edinburgh for 13 years).

Loved this guy since his Humblebums days w/ the Big Yin. We'll no forget ye, Gerry.

You guys sound really really fine, Trevor. You may not remember me but I remember jamming with you at the old Palms Wine Bar, particularly on Knocking on Heaven's Door, Helpless and (especially) China Grove, and at a gig with you and Bill Holmberg in S'pore. You sound even better now. Wishing ...

Hi, Robert. Glad to see you're still singing after all these years, and sounding even better at that. You always liked this song. With plenty of memories of the old Palms Wine Bar in Chip Bee, and thank you for letting us play there. Seems there's at least one group carrying on our tradition ...

Looks like Lorna Bannon on the right, not Jackie Rawe. Is it?

Good Jerseyite band. One of them lives in my home town, Morristown.

Baltimore group. Brooklyn writer/producer. And somehow, they manage to fall right in between and create the ultimate Philly soul sound.

Between these lads, Frankie Miller, Maggie Bell, Maggie Reilly, Jim Mullen (of Kokomo), Lorna Bannon, and a host of others who had soul to burn but never made it, Scotland can claim to produce a lotta groups with tons of soul. Maybe it's the water--or the whisky...

Todd in my home town--sorry I missed it; sounds as great as ever

Says it all in this financial climate (as it did in 1982)--written about Detroit, which is where Telegraph Road is.

About cover versions--what about Cocker's? He NAILS this song.

This is what fusion always was supposed to be.

Glad to see you're still going strong, Robert. Remember you from the Palms Wine Bar, 1985-87. Sing it proud... Shakey Paul

I really don't know how I coulda lived in Edinburgh for 13 years (1973-86) and hung around with a number of local musicians (remember Phobia, anyone?), wrote songs, and sought to play blues harp with someone, and missed this guy. He truly was terrific--great voice.

A very great, underrated group, foreshadowing both Jeff Beck's Blow by Blow/Wired period and Hummingbird's 3 albums from 3 of this group (plus Cozy's Over the Top). Jazzy, souly, and a real group feel--Bobby, Clive, Max & Cozy are shaping the song as much as Jeff is. No wonder Stevie Wonder wro...

When and IF I get to heaven, the first thing I'm going to do is to check out Stevie Ray jamming with Hendrix.

I grew up with the 1959 Go-Go Sox. If they had been in a time machine, and gone back to 1910 or so, they would have done just fine. That was the style in those days--solid singles hitters, lots of speed, lots of pitching. Nellie Fox would have shone.

Wonder if there's any interviews with the real Honus around--he was a coach for the Pirates until he was quite old, and would have been around during the radio era, anyway.

I saw him with Colosseum I in 1970, and was very very impressed. I loved Baker and Mitchell, but Hiseman was cleaner than either, with just as much feel. His solos were so complex, but looked so effortless. That he can still do this at 66 is amazing. One of the best drummers around--period.

You're looking at one of the great drummers of all time. I saw this group in '70, and I remember how easy Hiseman made his solos look, and I'd seen both Baker and Mitchell before, and I thought he was better than either, as great as the other two were.

Didn't Bruce use a 6-string bass occasionally with Cream, or at least on his early solo work?

This was Eric's best period--he was incredible!

I always think of Brian as this era's Beethoven--a real genius, despite all he has gone through. I'm glad they didn't have shows like this in Vienna in 1824 though.

I'm a Yank, descended from Borderers (who weren't exactly kind to the Gaels), but "ma hame toun" was Edinburgh for 13 years. I've been gone for a quarter century and I still miss the place, like part of my heart is back there. I wish you all the luck in the world in your struggle. You are one ...

If they had three-band concerts in the late '70s like they did in the '60s--imagine this lineup: Cado Belle, Kokomo, and AWB live. I paid to see the last two play together--I'd pay to see that lineup.

Too bad. This was an excellent band--I remember seeing them on TV after a number of personnel changes (Neil Hubbard had joined, for one) and they did a really powerful performance. You're right about punk--there were a number of local bands in a jazz/soul vein in Scotland at this time, some extr...

Cado Belle--Great! I wouldn't call them disco; rather they belonged to the British soul groups from the period just before, like AWB, or, even closer, Kokomo. Love that sound, which was quite influential in Scotland at the time.

Did you remix this, Tony? it sounds a lot clearer than when you first posted it.

Love the chord modulations at the end--I don't think he actually changes key, but it feels like it.

@Gibsonhb1 And George Harrison, I think. It does sound like a King song, though.

Ladies and gentlemen, the best blues cat Britain ever produced. Bar none.

@orqsilva This song comes from 1962. It's one of Bacharach/David's early ones.

Follow up to the better-known "Hey Girl"--he had a stupendous voice, didn't he? Carole King wrote this.

I didn't know Youlden died--god he was good.

@martianshoes And before that, the song belonged to Mr. Chester Burnett, aka Howlin Wolf. Bloomfield gave him credit. I don't think Page did.

Plainly Clapton and Bruce here. I didn't know about Mitchell, but the drumming sounds "cleaner" than Baker would have done.

@2008WC No, he wasn't a wealthy kid, but he made a fair deal off his Spencer Davis hits, and probably Traffic and Blind Faith as well. Didn't stop him from going into his local pub from time to time and jamming for everyone, sometimes accompanied by pretty famous bandmates.