1970 playlist today. It started with:
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I started to use âListen Laterâ with some delay but the feature turned out to be very useful⊠I will try to think for a usecase of Smart Playlists during my vacationâŠ
Listen later has settled in to being a nice and useful feature.
Smart playlists are being used by me to make sure I cycle through and play my albums. I donât actually generally play the playlists, but when I play the albumâs and I have the not played in the last 12 monthâs flag set then it just drops off the playlist when I play it.
my daily find:
After those of Sonny Boy Williamson (Rice Miller), we have tried to gather all (or the most possible!) live recordings of another blues master, Howlinâ Wolf!
The task has been - if any!- even more complicated because spanning on a decade.
Even if Howlinâ Wolf has been recorded live at the Copacabana Club in 1963 for the Argo LPâs âFolk Festival of the Bluesâ, the bulk of his 1960âs live recordings was mostly done in Europe. He was one of the big star of the AFBF 1964, taking the dedicated European audiences by storm. His success was such that he and some members of the AFBF line-up (Willie Dixon, Sunnyland Slim, Hubert Sumlin and Clifton James) embarked in the wake for a further tour of Europe until November 1964. If few of those European 1964 gigs were recorded to be issued on LP, they were done by radio stations with good technical equipments and for the purpose of broadcasting some tunes during their jazz programmes. Now they stay as a testimony of what the Wolf sounded at that time when he was in full possession of his considerable talent and stage presence.
In the USA, Wolfâs career took a decisive turn when the Rolling Stones - while touring America in 1965 - insisted with ABCâs Shindig, a TV programme very popular to teenagers, that Howlinâ Wolf would appear before us. Thus, suddenly, Wolf would be able to be lined-up in festivals and concert halls throughout the country before a white audience! Apparently, several of those (and probably still much more are laying in the vaults) were recorded, very often on primitive equipments. With the exception of the 1972 Aliceâs Revisited venue, none of those US recordings had to be issued. They appeared throughout the years on more or less confidential bootleg albums. The sound is sometime very poor and, although we have tried to improve it with our home studio, itâs quite often still very bad. We have included them anyway here for documentary purpose.
Unfortunately, even he was only in his early 60âs, the Wolf was beginning very ill, the dreadful years of his childhood when he suffered greatly of violence, abuse and unbelievable bad treatments (he got his hoarse voice because he wasnât allowed by his uncle to sleep in the house, even during cold winters and he had to beg for food to passengersâ trains during the nearby stops) took their harmful toll. After a bad car accident during 1973 New Yearsâ Eve, Howlinâ Wolf had henceforth to undergo kidney dialysis several times a week. Although he had still to play gigs throughout the country for making a living, he was strongly diminished and mostly played and sung seated and only a few numbers, leaving most of the set to his band, led by Eddie Shaw. Several bootleg recordings of those late concerts have also popped up but we have chosen not to feature them.
GĂ©rard HERZHAFT
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