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CHICAGO
Sugar Blue jams on "Miss You" with the Stones live in Chicago '81.
photo by Kirk West
more: [iorr.org]
Is that Sugar Blue's only appearance with the Stones?
No, 11 September 1989, East Troy as well.
Mathijs
I think there has been some others, in and around Chicago, besides just those two
appearances - but i’m not certain.
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"1234 is Ron Wood at his most Dylanseque ("Outlaws" and "Fountain of Love"). He was hanging with Bob quite a bit in this period (appearing on the Shot Of Love album) and you can hear Dylan's influence in Ronnie's singing/phrasing and some of the lyrics. "She Never Told Me" reminds me quite a bit of "Where Are You Tonight?", the epic final track from Street Legal, for example. "Outlaws" would be a good runner up for the greatest Bob Dylan song Bob Dylan never wrote as well.
As a record 1234 doesn't hold up quite as well as Gimme Some Neck does. A few of the songs seem more like jams than songs, for one thing, though as expected Ronnie excels on guitar, slide and bass. His vocals on the other hand...this was the period where Ronnie was heavily into freebasing cocaine and you can hear it in his wretched vocals."
""She Never Told Me" is the best song on the album and like "Outlaws" another prime candidate for greatest Dylan song Bob never wrote. - ohnothimagen
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Exile, this is a great find. "1234" has always been the most obscure Wood album. The one that has been hardest to get credits and photos. Incredible!
I dont see it as Dylanesque on that album at all. But it is a superb, scattered and shattered album. but there are so many good parts. It takes repeated listening to make sense of those loose jams on Side 2 especially.
I love the breakdown of "Down to the Ground". Good chords. And "Fountain of Love" is that one song that is on every Woody album, where you are totally blown away by the sophistication. There is one of those on all his solo records.
My favorite part of the whole album is on "Priceless", when ronnie sings something like "Been a lot of places in my life, loved a lot of women, oh boy and I ain't lyin, I ain't lyin." And it always strikes me: that he really is not lying. You know, guys always sing that in their songs "I ain't tellin no lie etc". But they usually are. But with Ronnie it hit me: he is not lying at all.
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Palace Revolution 2000
Exile, this is a great find. "1234" has always been the most obscure Wood album. The one that has been hardest to get credits and photos. Incredible!
I dont see it as Dylanesque on that album at all. But it is a superb, scattered and shattered album. but there are so many good parts. It takes repeated listening to make sense of those loose jams on Side 2 especially.
I love the breakdown of "Down to the Ground". Good chords. And "Fountain of Love" is that one song that is on every Woody album, where you are totally blown away by the sophistication. There is one of those on all his solo records.
My favorite part of the whole album is on "Priceless", when ronnie sings something like "Been a lot of places in my life, loved a lot of women, oh boy and I ain't lyin, I ain't lyin." And it always strikes me: that he really is not lying. You know, guys always sing that in their songs "I ain't tellin no lie etc". But they usually are. But with Ronnie it hit me: he is not lying at all.
Thanks for the insight. I'll have to give this album a chance. It didn't strike my fancy on a single listen. I'm looking forward to giving it some good listens.
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Jim Ford
Jim Ford is most famous song is probably "Harry Hippie", a song
recorded and released by Bobby Womack in 1973. Jim co-wrote "Outlaws" with Ron
Wood which was released on Ron Wood's 1234 album.
Jim Ford only released one album, 1969's Harlan County, during his life but he
had plenty of stray singles that accumulate over the years. Most of these
found their way onto Bear Family's 2007 release The Sounds of Our Time, which
reissued the full Harlan County album, along with these 45-rpm rarities and
unheard demo tapes.
Ford revealed to journalist L-P Anderson that there was a whole bunch of
unheard tapes, not sitting in the vault but rather in a canvas bag in his
trailer. The notoriously ornery, uncooperative Ford eventually agreed to
release these tapes but he didn't live to see the release of Point of No
Return, a 2008 compilation of unheard songs. Unheard doesn't necessarily mean
unknown, as this contains Ford's own versions of "I'm Ahead If I Can Quit
While I'm Behind" and "Harry Hippie," songs popularized by his disciples
Brinsley Schwarz and his friend Bobby Womack, who also cut the title track,
"Point of No Return."
The Bo Diddley/Ron Wood compisition "They Don't Make Outlaws Like They Used To"
was composed by Ron Wood and Jim Ford. Ron and Jim also composed "Fountain of
Love" from 1234 and arrainged by Rod Stewart. "She Never Told Me" is another
Wood/Ford collaboration.
JIM FORD "Sweet Baby Mine": [www.youtube.com]