DJ Shimmy Goes West - Setlist 26.January.07

My first night of 2007 was a very, very cold one (20 degrees !) so I had it to warm up it with goodies mostly from my Holiday jaunt to the South...

The first few here are in order...

Mighty Baby - Egyptian Tomb (from CD) -- amazing opening track from this otherwise mediocre album-- this is the band that was The Action...

Nilsson - Jump Into the Fire - Nilsson Schmilsson - RCA Victor LSP-4515 -- picked this up at a thrift store in North Charleston, SC. Great pounding rock track. Klaus Voormann (German friend of the Beatles...) on bass.

Bob Seger - Bo Diddley/Who Do You Love - Smokin' OPs - Palladium/Reprise MS 2109 -- Great long medley of two Bo Diddley covers given Seger's classic hard rock treatment.

Stephen Stills - Song of Love - Manassas - Atlantic SD2-903 -- Great slide playing on this track and decent vocals, too. The record as a whole is inconsistent but worth it for a few tracks and the backing of 70's session players like Dallas Taylor (drums) and Joe Lala (bongo, other percussion).

Salem Travelers - Tell It Like It Is - same - Checker LPS-10052 -- Amazing uptempo gospel soul/funk from Chicago. The whole LP is worth it!

Standells - Dirty Water - same LP - Tower T 5027
The Chob - Fortune Teller - EP LP Vol 1. - Raven RVLP-05
Bobby Womack - Daylight - Safety Zone - UA-LA544-G

Sam Cooke - Twistin' The Night Away - Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963 - RCA Victor AFL1-5181 -- Finally have this on vinyl. Great party music!

Kingsmen - Little Latin Lupe Lu - Volume 2 - Wand 659 -- Pretty good version, actually.

Jean Knight - Do Me - Stax of Funk/The Funky Truth - Stax/Fantasy reissue
Johnny Burnette The Rock'n'Roll Trio - Rock Therapy - Tear It Up -
Solid Smoke SS-8001
Kenny Price - Big Daddy - The Sheriff of Boone County - RCA Victor LSP-4527
Sky Saxon Blues Band/Seeds - Creepin' About - A Full Spoon of Seedy
Blues - GNP 2040
Love - Hey Joe - S/T - Elektra EKS-74001
Long Ryders - Looking for Lewis and Clark - State of Our Union - Island 90459
New York Dolls - Personality Crisis - Mercury Reissue

Maxine Weldon - Grits ain't Groceries (All Around the World) - Right On - MRL 319 -- a Little Milton song? That's what someone came up and told me.. whatever, great funky soul!

Charlie Rich - Lonely Weekends - Fully Realized - Mercury SRM-2-7505

Neil Young - Hold Back the Tears - American Stars'n'Bars - Reprise MSK 2261 -- part of the late-night set, this is a weeper from Neil's more country phase in the late 70's, featuring Emmylou Harris & Linda Ronstadt on backing vocals...

Chambers Brothers - All Strung Out Over You - The Time Has Come - Columbia CS 2722
Drifters - Save the Last Dance for Me - The Best Of... Up On The Roof - Atlantic 8073
Bob Dylan - Knockin' On Heaven's Door - Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid OST - Columbia KC 32460
Beatles - In My Life - Rubber Soul - Reissue

Major Lance - Just One Look - The Monkey Time - Okeh OKM 12105 Not his hit, but a great version. This whole (MONO!!!) LP is absolutely fantastic. Lance has a totally unique delivery, the only thing anywhere near is Curtis Mayfield (who wrote many of these tunes).

Alice Cooper - Eighteen - Love It To Death - Straight/Reprise WS 1883 Just a great rock track, which references the Animals ("I GOTTA GET OUT OF THIS PLACE!!") and sounds not a little bit like Iggy Pop.

Jazz Crusaders - Thank You (Falettinme Be micelf agin) - Old Socks New
Shoes... Chisa C5804
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run - same - BL 33795

Jerry Reed - She Got the Goldmine, I Got the Shaft - Rowdy Country - K-Tel WU 3680 What can you say about divorce drama like this? Country Gold !

Dr. John - Right Place, Wrong Time - same - Atlantic SMAS 95100

*** SINGLES ***

Slits - I Heard It Through the Grapevine ...
Ballyhoos - Ballyhoo Riot - Hey!Pachuco
New Lou Reeds - Lookin' for a Boogaloo

Show Stoppers - Ain't Nothing But a House Party - Beacon 3-100 (UK) - Had this for a long time, but this is the first outing for this interesting Northern Soul (pop hit) record from '66.

Abaco Dream (see earlier post)...
Jean Knight - Mr. Big Stuff - Stax STA-0088
Nancy Sinatra - These Boots are Made for Walkin'
Count Five - Psychotic Reaction - Double shot 104
Sonics - You Got Your Head On Backwards
Los In - El Septimo Hijo - CBS
Eddie and the Showmen - Squad Car - Liberty...
Little Richard - Slippin' and Slidin' Specialty SP-572

Johnny Jenkins - I Walk On Guilded Splinters - Capricorn C-8000 Great, strange blues/rock track with backing by the Allman Brothers... Georgia.

Temptations - Get Ready (Motown Yesteryear)
Velvet Underground - Inside Your Heart - White Heat Bootleg 7"
Meters - Cissy Strut - Josie 45-1005
Soul Survivors - Hey Gyp - Crimson CR-1010
Tony Joe White - Groupy Girl - Monument (FR) SN-20.362
Chick Willis - Stoop Down Baby - La Val LV 871

Jimmy McCracklin - What's Going On - Minit 32064 -- Great funk with Jimmy McCracklin not sounding unlike a funky version of Jimmy Reed !

Bobby Byrd - If You Don't Work You Can't Eat King 45-6342

Dorothy Moore - Here It Is - Malaco - M 1029 -- 1975, Amazingly funky soul.. Mississippi singer.

Creative Funk - Moving World - Creative Funk 12001 - Liking this GEMM purchase more and more... obscure instrumental funk from around '70 ?

Staple Singers - Love Is Plentiful - Stax STA-0083
Roy Orbison - Working For the Man - Monument reissue
Hollywood Argyles - Alley Oop - Goldisc reissue
Fats Domino - My Girl Josephine - Imperial 5704
Clarence Henry - Ain't Got No Home - Argo 5259
Shirelles - Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow - Scepter 1211
Betty Smith Group - Hand Jive - London 45-1787
Waylon Jennings - Ramblin' Man
Jerry Reed - When You're Hot You're Hot - RCA Victor 47-9976
Johnny Cash - Hey Porter - Sun reissue

100 Proof (Aged in Soul) - Somebody's Been Sleeping - Hot Wax HS 7004 One of the few soul records on Hot Wax of interest (that I've encountered, at least...)

John Edwards - Careful Man - Aqare AW-043 - Great Georgia Soul!

Arthur Conley - Whole Lotta Woman - Atlantic (ES) H-236 - He of "Sweet Soul Music" fame, I used to write him off as a Sam Cooke-a-like, but he's got something...

Mar-Keys - Last Night - Satellite S-107
Sonny Terry - Ride and Roll - Groove 4G-0135
Beacon Street Union - Speed Kills - MGM K 13865
Betty Lavette - Heart of Gold - ATCO 45-6891
Beatles - Baby You're a Rich Man - Parlophone PDP 5082

Eagles - Take It Easy - Asylum AS-1100 -- Guilty Pleasure. I got something thrown at me for this.

Fatback Band - Double Dutch - Spring SP 171 Good late funk.

Kurtis Blow - The Breaks - Mercury (PT) 6167 964 Yes, early rap! It sounds like, and is, a party.

See you next time (24 FEBRUARY 2007 @ MATCHLESS !)