Top Of The Box

This sensational film shot by Tony Palmer in 1972 appeared to be lost when Leonard Cohen’s manager Marty Machat died, but 38 years later the film has been retrieved and painstakingly put back together by Marty’s son Steven Machat.
The film was shot over 20 concerts on Cohen’s 1972 European tour and represent a near mythical [...]

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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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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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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 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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