My own feeling is that it's unfortunate that CJ&TF are known, if at all, in wider culture for *that* chant and song at Woodstock, fun and powerful as it is.  They were many things and that was only a small part.  I'm surprised their recorded output, especially the early stuff isn't much more lauded.  Electric Music was effectively the first truly psychedelic (i.e. produced on and about the LSD experience) rock album released.

I also saw him at this time. The local university used to stage an all day annual summer free festival in their refectory and he played an acoustic set on the second stage on a Saturday afternoon and he was hypnotising. I was maybe about twelve at time and I'm not sure I knew who he was or anything about his Woodstock reputation but to remember this 40+years later it made an impression. RIP Joe.

Certainly was . We had already seen them a few months earlier in Manchester and were also very impressed by the support, a young Manchester band called The Children. We went to the merch stand at the break to chat to them and buy a CD . Joe was also very impressed and came over and joined in the chat and also bought a CD. Great guy.
I also saw him solo in about 1972 when he had had only just arrived in the country. Towards the end of the set he asked for requests. One wag shouted "Blue is The Colour" (football songs were the thing at the time) , he played it all the way through with a straight face.

Tonight, 9pm 'til 11pm : Scattering The Roots with Dan Ogus...two hours of the finest folk, roots, blues, etc...plenty of etc...

I've been sifting through my cavernous vaults to bring you some excellent music both new and vintage every Wednesday evening from 9pm 'til 11pm.

The next show goes out tonight, 9pm 'til 11pm (after Express FM Country), featuring the following artists :

All About Eve, The Albion Band, The Levellers, Bob Dylan, Bryan Ferry, Dyble Longdon, Chris Cornell, Steeleye Span, Martin Simpson, Hedy West, kd lang, Heather Nova, Kris Delmhorst, Karen Dalton, The Beatles, The Pogues, Fairport Convention...

Listen tonight, 9pm 'til 11pm on Portsmouth's Express FM, on DAB and online here :

https://www.expressfm.com/programmes/scattering-the-roots/

I didn't have the original, so can't really comment, I'm afraid.  And I agree about Camel, but I can hope (same as I would love to see James Taylor or Mark Knopfler there one day!).

wasnt it just! amazing!

Does anybody want a copy of 'Ashley Hutchings - Always Chasing Rainbows' by Brian Hinton & Geoff Wall, the second volume of his biography?

As most of you will know this was only released on CD-Rom, never in a print edition.

For reasons of abject incompetence I've got two copies.  I wanted to read the book the other month so I purchased another copy (and this is what I paid).  Now I've found the original.

Perfect condition.  £25 to include Tracked48 insured UK p&p.  Overseas at cost.

Augie Meyers, organist for the Sir Douglas Quintet and Texas Tornados, age 85.

She’s About A Mover is one of rock’s greatest early tunes, not least because of the insanely simple and elegant organ riff. The late Doug Sahm (Sir Douglas himself) and Augie were from just down the road in San Antonio, and they were entwined with Texas roots music for their entire careers. RIP

Oh no...that's sad. Another legend gone   RIP Joe.

On this week's Off The Beaten Tracks you can hear music from...

Fairport Convention, Firelight Trio, Constant Follower, Kayleigh Hall, Little Pebble, Frank Turner, The Staves, Gordon Lightfoot, Kathy Mattea, Malcolm Holcombe (with Jelly Roll Johnson), Jane Kramer, David Crosby, Hannah James & Toby Kuhn and Iona Lane

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