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Bob Dylan – It’s All Over Now Baby Blue – Live 1965

John Williams - Wednesday 16.12.09, 22:33pm

This is an excellent clip of Bob Dylan way back in 1965, still fresh faced and singing It’s All Over Now Baby Blue.
Bob Dylan – It’s All Over Now Baby Blue

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Tags: 1960's · Folk · Live · Pop

John Prine – Sam Stone – Live 1989

John Williams - Monday 14.12.09, 22:28pm

John Prine was ‘discovered’ by Kris Kristofferson on the Chicago folk scene and released his first album in 1971. The album called John Prine contained the song Sam Stone, which would become one of Prine’s signature songs.
The song is a painful reference to the phenomenon of morphine addiction among US war veterans as a result [...]

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Tags: 1970's · 1980's · Folk · Live

Joni Mitchell – Big Yellow Taxi

John Williams - Wednesday 05.08.09, 19:23pm

This is a great song, Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell, performing live in 1970. The more recent Counting Crows version was ok, but this is the original.
Joni Mitchell – Big Yellow Taxi

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John Martyn 1948 – 2009

Terry Lane - Thursday 29.01.09, 21:27pm

John Martyn sadly died today aged 60. Born in New Malden, Surrey he spent his childhood alternately in Surrey and Glasgow from the age of five, after his parents divorced.
In a career that spanned forty years he released no less than twenty-one studio albums.
John Martyn signed to Chris Blackwell’s Island Records label in 1967 and [...]

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Tags: 1970's · Folk · The Old Grey Whistle Test

Hothouse Flowers – Don’t Go

John Williams - Sunday 26.10.08, 07:00am

Hothouse Flowers came and went pretty rapidly in terms of fame and sucess. Not quite one hit wonders, the Irish rock band were courted by Rolling Stone magazine as the best unsigned band in Europe in 1986.
They were picked up by Bono and released their first single through U2’s Mother Records label. A subsequent deal [...]

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Tags: 1980's · Folk · Rock

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