Arlo Guthrie with Gates Of Eden off of his '73 Last Of The Brooklyn Cowboys LP.  Beautiful guitar playing by Clarence White.  What a gem of a song.

 

 

Bob Dylan performing Visions Of Johanna off of the '66 Live Recordings compilation.  Enjoy!

 

 

Visions Of Johanna is a song worth reposting albeit from another fine Dylan performance.

 

 

Fark me, the guy's a genius.  Another awesome live performance with My Back Pages from an unknown concert.

 

 

And what female artist would you choose to do a cover of Dylan's Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands?  Joan Baez off of her '68 Any Day Now LP.

 

 

To continue on with a sweet songs theme here's the full version of Van Morrison's Listen To The Lion off of his '72 Saint Dominic's Preview LP.

 

 

Arlo Guthrie with The City Of New Orleans off of his '72 Hobo's Lullaby LP.

 

 

A sweet Byrd's tune, Lover Of The Bayou, off of their '70 Untitled LP.  This performance is at the Rainbow Theatre in London on 16 Jan. '72.

 

 

Clarence White, bluegrass guitarist extraordinaire, along with & Tony Rice on I Am A Pilgrim recorded in '73, the same year the Byrd's dissolved for good.

 

 

For you guitarists out there here's Clarence White displaying his amazing bluegrass guitar picking techniques.

 

 

 

More sweet guitar pickin'.  John Prine performing That's The Way That The World Goes 'Round off of his '88 John Prine Live LP.

 

 

Another guitarist extraordinaire, Bert Jansch with Poison off of his '69 Birthday Blues LP.

 

 

And it continues with Richard Thompson on Poor Ditching Boy off of his '72 Henry The Human Fly LP.

 

 

Rated No. 1 by Gibson in their top 50 acoustic guitarists of all time is Belgian Django Reinhardt.  St. Louis Blues recorded on September 30, '35.

 

 

 

 

Hadn't listened to this in years.

 

 

No computer for a month, there's a fair bit of catching up to do. No problem as I've been quarantined for 2 weeks due to a quick but necessary trip out of province to Bangkok and back.

 

Good to see you back, but Gnasher is not so pleased.

In town we are all under virtual quarreltine wiv the

missis.

Titty has been going hammer tongs to make

up for you, and maugri has put me in the doghouse.

He's not used to my sheet posts.

However, back in a better time.. 1969.

'All we money gon ta hell'. 

I's had plenty of these Longshot moments mate.

 

 

 

Just found out that Bill Withers passed on this past Monday.  The world lost another great artist.

 

One of my favourite numbers, I Can't Write Left Handed, recorded on October 6, '72, at Carnegie Hall in New York City and released on his '73 Live At Carnegie Hall LP.

 

 

Ain't No Sunshine off of his '71 Just As I Am LP.

 

 

Grandma's Hands off of the '71 Just As I Am LP.

 

 

 

A '72 live in-studio version of Use Me, a number off of his '72 Still Bill LP.

 

 

Performing Lean On Me at a '73 concert.

 

 

Friend of Mine, also off of the '73 Live At Carnegie Hall LP.

 

 

Bobby Womack with a cover of the Stone's It's All Over Now off of his '75 I Don't Know What the World Is Coming To LP.

 

 

Bobby Womack with Moonlight In Vermont off of his solo '69 Fly Me To The Moon debut.

 

 

Al Green with Let's Stay Together, the title track off of his '72 album

 

 

Louis Armstrong with his memorable '67 single What a Wonderful World.