Nicola Ratti
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(Longform Editions, 2019)
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Bearthoven – American Dream (2019)
Artist: Bearthoven
Album: American Dream
Released: 2019
Style: Classical
Format: MP3 320Kbps
Size: 179 Mb
Tracklist:
01 – Gas Station Canon Song
02 – American Dream I. MM. 0-84
03 – American Dream II. MM. 85-218
04 – American Dream III. MM. 219-392
05 – American Dream IV. MM. 393-610
06 – American Dream V. MM. 611-646
07 – We See Things That Are Not There
08 – American Dream
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Emmanuel – Tú Y Yo... (LP 1982, Mexico)
Ronnie Von - A Misteriosa Luta do Reino de Parasempre 1969
Paul Chambers - Bass On Top 1957
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Ken Hensley - The Wizard's Diary, Volume One (2005)
Reverend Screaming Fingers. Music for Driving and Film, Vol. III.
Someone just knew that we here at Blabber’n’Smoke have a soft spot for music that is dry and dusty and reeks of gulches and sand storms. Sure enough, we’ve reviewed plenty of albums which can fit into that bill, ranging from the “erosion rock” of Giant Sand to the monumental shifting sandscapes of 3hattrio, and so when we were sent this superb slice of cinematic instrumentals, hewn from the mystical Joshua Tree National Park where the Rev. currently resides, it fit right in.
As the title indicates this is the third in a series of albums intended as (and in some cases used for) soundtracks with the tunes often inspired by long drives through inspiring landscapes. The Reverend, real name Lucio Menegon, is an intriguing character, according to Google, fitting into both avant-garde and Americana circles with perhaps the closest comparison being Marc Ribot. Whatever, this album is on a par with any soundtracks released by Ry Cooder with Menegon’s guitar slipping wonderfully from low-bellied twang, atmospheric slide and liquefied mercury runs. Behind his versatile guitar there’s an incredibly simpatico band laying down the bedrock with inventive percussion to the fore with the overall sound not dissimilar to that achieved by the Italian band Sacri Cuori or the fairly obscure UK band, A Small Good Thing.
Aside from the excellence of the playing it’s the atmosphere conjured up by the tunes which really makes an impact. From the start on No Destination we’re in desert territory with Menegon’s guitar rippling over fuzzy rhythm and battering drums, the Monument Valley tune here. Chaparral Kiss in contrast opens with a strummed acoustic guitar before a skewed mandolin is inserted over some tentative keyboards, the effect almost oriental. This effect is fully blown on the following Dream Of The Desperado, a lengthy meditation suffused with slide and pizzicato guitar over an insect buzz of percussion reminding the listener of that weird hybrid of Zen Buddhism and Westerns that was David Carradine in Kung Fu. Whether it’s intentional or not, the basic riff on Lost Alien Highway recalls the melody of John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme while the sound effects on Funereal, a rainstorm pouring from the speakers, summons up visions of muddy farewells in fields of broken homemade crosses. But perhaps the best evocation here is in the fly blown and sun scorched Yuma Interlude where the guitar is almost tearful. Listen to this and surely your head will be infused with images from movies going back to High Noon through Morricone up to Tarantino. It’s quite spine chilling.
Trio Galleta - 2 LP's on 1 CD (+ 2 bonus) (1970-1971)
Any Major Blue-Eyed Soul
The term commonly used for white people doing R&B, or music influenced by the genre, is “blue-eyed soul”. I’m not sure I like the term much, because it suggests that only black people are able to produce authentic soul music. This mix shows that this notion is nonsense.
This lot of songs draws from, the period 1964-73, the prime of soul music. For the challenge of it, I’ve even left out some obvious choices, such as the Righteous Brothers, The Four Seasons or Motown’s Chris Clark. And not all of the acts here were strictly or always soul, but they all produced records that nonetheless merit inclusion in the genre. Including the effort by a future country superstar.

Linda Lyndell, targetted by racist assholes for singing soul music.
One of the artists here had her career destroyed by the Ku Klax Klan. Linda Lyndell was beginning to enjoy some success on Stax records with the original version of the Salt N Pepa hit What A Man when death threats by the KKK, which objected to a white woman singing black music on a black label, persuaded her to go into retirement. She made a comeback much later, and still performs occasionally.
Another white singer, from a country background, once recorded soul music before selling records by the shedload to audiences which included KKK types. Charlie Rich started his career in the late 1950s as a rock & roll singer. In the mid-1960s he branched out into soul, recording with Willie Mitchell at Hi Records, including the original recording of the Sam & Dave classic When Something Is Wrong With My Baby (which went unreleased until 1988). The Silver Fox escaped commercial success as a soul singer and the wrath of racists, and went on to become the self-appointed guardian of pure country.
Another exponent of blue-eyed soul who went country was Roy Head, whose Treat Her Right is something of a blue-eyed soul anthem, having been kept off the US #1 by The Beatles’ Yesterday.
On December 9, 1967, Mitch Ryder played with Otis Redding on a Cleveland TV station (the song was Knock On Wood.) The following day, Otis Redding died in a plane crash. Had Otis lived, he might well have made a star of a white teenage kid with a real soul voice whom he had discovered in Pittsburgh, Johnny Daye. In the event, Daye released just a few singles on Stax before retiring from music in 1968. The featured song is the flip side of his best-known song, What’ll I Do for Satisfaction (which Janet Jackson covered in 1993 as What’ll I Do).

Bob Kuban & The In-Men, with the ill-fated lead singer Walter Scott in front.
Bob Kuban & The In-Men occupy a place in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s one-hit wonder exhibit for their 1966 #12 hit The Cheater, which features here. The eponymous Bob Kuban was the bandleader and drummer. The singer on The Cheater was Walter Scott. In a cruel twist of irony, Scott was murdered with premeditation in 1983 by his wife’s lover, who had also killed his own wife. There’s another murder coming up later.
We know Robert John better for his 1979 hit Sad Eyes (which featured on Not Feeling Guilty Vol. 1). He had enjoyed his first chart action as a 12-year-old in 1958 under his birth-name, Bobby Pedrick Jr. His claim to blue-eyed soulness dates to his short-lived time at A&M records, which saw the release of only two singles.
Jimmy Beaumont was the lead singer of the doo wop band The Skyliners — who had hits with their superb Since I Don’t Have You and Pennies Of Heaven — before he tried his hand as a soul singer. Commercial success eluded him, but soul aficionados know to appreciate his vocal stylings. Later life Beaumont returned to The Skyliners, whom he fronted until his death in 2017.
We have a few UK artists doing their soulful thing; Dusty Springfield’s meddling in the genre is well-known, especially her Dusty In Memphis album, whence the featured track comes. Kiki Dee is less celebrated for her soul exploits (and internationally most famous for her 1976 duet with Elton John, Don’t Go Breaking My Heart). Early in her career, Kiki Dee was styled as a Spectoresque girl singer. She also did backing vocals for Dusty Springfield. She was doing well enough as a soul singer to become the first white British artist to be signed by Motown in 1970. Other UK acts featured here are the Spencer Davis Group and Junior Campbell, whom I introduced in the Not Feeling Guilty Vol. 9 post.

South African soul singer Una Valli, pictured in 1964.
Geographically most remote is South Africa’s Una Valli, who as a white woman singing black music probably did not earn the love of the apartheid regime. Valli performed almost exclusively cover versions of soul and pop songs. In any other world, she might have become a stone-cold soul legend (she previously featured on Covered With Soul Vol. 6 and Vol. 11 and Covered With Soul: Beatles Edition). Stop Thief is one of her more obscure covers, a Carla Thomas b-side written by Isaac Hayes and David Porter. Half of Valli’s 1968 album Soul Meeting was recorded with the backing of a pop group called The Peanut Butter Conspiracy; the other half (including Stop Thief) with a soul-funk band called The Flames, whose Ricky Fataar and Blondie Chaplin later joined the Beach Boys on three albums.
Two years after the featured song by Bill Deal and the Rhondels was released, saxophonist Freddy Owens joined the group. In 1979 the band was playing in Richmond, Virginia, when Owens was shot dead in the pursuit of a man who had raped his wife. Bill Deal never really got over that and four years later quit the music industry. He died in 2003.
Several of the songs featured here were favourites on England’s Northern Soul scene, in which DJs would compete to find the most obscure 1960s soul records to be played in specialist clubs which were located mostly in northern England. The most famous venue in this sub-culture, which had its own dress codes and dancing styles, was the Wigan Casino. When the venue closed in 1981, Dean Parrish’s I’m On My Way was the last record to be played there. Six years earlier, the popularity of the 1967 tune on the Northern Soul scene had led to its re-release, selling a million copies in the UK — and Parrish earned no money from it.
As always, the mix is timed to fit on a standard CD-R and includes home-irised covers. PW in comments.
1. The O’Kaysions – The Soul Clap (1968)
2. Soul Survivors – Expressway To Your Heart (1967)
3. The Young Rascals – A Girl Like You (1967)
4. Robert John – Raindrops, Love And Sunshine (1970)
5. Bill Deal and the Rhondels – What Kind Of Fool Do You Think I Am (1969)
6. Charlie Rich – Don’t Tear Me Down (1966)
7. Johnny Daye – I Need Somebody (1968)
8. Linda Lyndell – What A Man (1969)
9. Roy Head – Treat Her Right (1965)
10. Sunday Funnies – Whatcha Gonna Do (When The Dance Is Over) (1967)
11. Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels – Sock It To Me Baby (1967)
12. Bob Kuban & The In-Men – The Cheater (1966)
13. Jimmy Beaumont – I Never Loved Her Anyway (1966)
14. Flaming Ember – The Empty Crowded Room (1971)
15. The Box Tops – Turn On A Dream (1967)
16. Kiki Dee – On A Magic Carpet Ride (1968)
17. Laura Nyro – Stoned Soul Picnic (1968)
18. Dusty Springfield – Just A Little Lovin’ (1969)
19. The Illusion – Falling In Love (1969)
20. Una Valli and The Flames – Stop Thief (1968)
21. The Monzas – Instant Love (1964)
22. Len Barry – 1-2-3 (1965)
23. The Grass Roots – Midnight Confessions (1967)
24. Junior Campbell – Sweet Illusion (1973)
25. Dean Parrish – I’m On My Way (1967)
26. The Spencer Davis Group – I’m A Man (1967)
27. Chi Coltrane – Thunder And Lightning (1971)
28. Tommy James & The Shondells – Crystal Blue Persuasion (1969)
ON THE RAW - Jazz Rock/Fusion • Spain


Gündoğarken - Bir Yaz Daha Bitiyor (1986)
2. Bir Yaz Daha Bitiyor
3. Sen Benim Şarkılarımsın
4. Dert Olur
5. İstanbul
6. Sarmaş Dolaş
7. Tek Başına
8. Sevgini Bırak
9. Kimi Zaman
10. Mustafa
11. Gündoğarken
Tür: Pop Rock
320 Kbps
Gündoğarken - Yaz Bulutları (1988)
2. Bodrum 1972
3. Ver Elini
4. Sensizlikti Yaşadığım
5. Yıldızlar Da İsterim
6. Bodrum 1972 (Reprise)
7. Resimler Resimler
8. Amiral Battı
9. Sevinçle Uyan
10. Kafe'ye Disko'ya
11. Bir Sevda
12. Bisiklet
Tür: Pop Rock
320 Kbps
Canan Uzerli - İçten Gelen Ses (2018)
2. Zaman
3. Dünya Dönüyor
4. Sen Olmadan
5. İstanbul'da
6. İçten Gelen Ses
7. Uçarım Sana
8. Ah Bu Sevda
9. Ağla
10. Taksim
11. Uzak Yüce Dağlarda
12. Mutlu Olmaya Karar Verdim
13. Hep Seni Beklerim
14. En Değerli Define
15. Sadece Sen
Tür: Folk / World
320 Kbps
Şevval Sam - Sek (2006)
2. Söyleyemem Derdimi
3. Şimdi Uzaklardasın
4. Kapıldım Gidiyorum
5. Hastayım Yalnızım
6. Ah Edip İnlerim (Neyleyim Köşkü)
7. Bir Fırtına Tuttu Bizi (Selanik Türküsü)
8. Muhabbet Bağına Girdim
9. Klarnet Taksimi
10. Ömrümüzün Son Demi
11. Böylemi Esecekti
12. Talihin Elinde Oyuncak Oldum
13. Ölürsem Yazıktır
14. Güzel Bir Göz Beni Attı
15. Kimseye Etmem Şikayet
16. Kanun Taksimi
17. Benzemez Kimse Sana
18. Menekşe Gözler Hülyalı
19. Ninni (Ah Yine O Menekşe Gözler)
20. Bir Bakış Baktın (Bağdat Yolu)
Tür: Folk
320 Kbps
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Okay Temiz - Green Wave (1992)
2. Dergah
3. Big Steps
4. Zikir
5. Blossom
6. Bu Neden
7. Green Wave
8. For Yunus
9. Resa
10. Hazar
Tür: Jazz / Folk / Fusion / Instrumental
320 Kbps
ORQUESTRA MILIONARIOS DEL RIO - AMORE SCUSAMI (1965)
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