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Theme - Road Trip
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Theme - Road Trip
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A Commodius Vicus Of Recirculation
| Artist | Song | |
| Mississippi Fred McDowell | Levee camp Blues | |
| Insect Trust | Special Rider Blues | |
| John Fahey | Steve Talbot On the Keddie Wye | |
| Bukka White | Poor Boy a Long way From Home | |
| Rolling Stones | Prodigal Son | |
| Yardbirds | Smokestack Lightning | |
| Howlin' Wolf | Smokestack Lightning '68 | |
| Kinks | Last Of The Steam-Powered Trains | |
| Pink Floyd | Candy & A Currant Bun | |
| Dawn Penn | You Don't Love Me (No, No, No) | |
| Kaleidoscope (US) | You Don't Love Me | |
| Tony (TS) McPhee | You Don't Love Me | |
| Frank Zappa | Willie The Pimp | |
| Allman Brothers | Trouble No More | |
| Muddy Waters | Trouble No More | |
| Cyril Davis | Someday Baby | |
| North Mississippi Allstars | Someday Baby | |
| Mississippi Fred McDowell | Someday | |
Comment:
Due to ignorance, the first time I heard the Dawn Penn cut, I didn't suspect it was anything other than an original. It wasn't until I got my mitts on Kaleidoscope's Beacon From Mars album that the tumblers finally clicked into place. Then, as these things tend to, matters snowballed. Up came the TS McPhee version. Like the 'scope's, this version's central riff was reminiscent of both Willie The Pimp & the Allman's track. The Allmans begat the Muddy original which in turn begat Cyril Davis, The North Mississipi Allstars & ultimately Fred McDowell's "Someday". Listening to Fred I was struck by a resemblance between Levee Camp & the Insect Trust pick. The bedrock of a mix was being laid down before my ears. I fleshed things out with re-makes / re-models / re-sprays of Poor Boy & Smokestack, juggled things about until I found a coherent & satisfying running order & here we are.It wasn't until I played back the finished version that it occurred to me that in the process I'd unconsciously created a (rather fractured, admittedly) narrative arc: the adventures of the blues in the post-war world.
It kicks off in the deep South rides the rail to Chicago, is taken up by first by studious white musicologists (Fahey, the Trust) then by snotty boho English kids, gets bent almost beyond recognition by arty types(Floyd, Zappa), migrates to the Caribbean (Penn) before returning home courtesy of the Allmans & Allstars and finally back to Mississippi Fred.
Dontcha just love it when mixes take on lives of their own?
Title from Finnegan's Wake (OK it originally refered to the Liffey not the Mississippi but you get the (ahem) drift)
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Holy smokestack lightning! This is a phenomenal micro-diaspora! I love that sort of journey.
Yeah, exactly what the Queen said. I absolutely love your mixes and we really, really should set up another trade soon.
riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.
A great theme, smashing notes, and even better toons. Lots of my most fav blues songs are on this mix. First class.
A great theme, smashing notes, and even better toons. Lots of my most fav blues songs are on this mix. First class.
Fascinating. It's the trajectory of the blues.
Interesting. I'm unaware of tracks 12 & 13 so I'm gonna have to seek them out. Quite the undertaking this, it looks grand.
Outstanding, (as per usual), plushpig! Great notes and great genesis of the creation...
Fantasic. Lover every thing.
this is fabulous, my kind of journey... would love to hear it.
This is quite good.
Wonderful excursion!