MOJO 352 ----- MARCH 2023



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MOJO 352 ----- MARCH 2023



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THE AUSTRALIAN --- 12 February 2023



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One of my favorite guitarists, Robben Ford will perform on Saturday night, Apr 15 at Bluenote Tokyo but, unfortunately, I've received a ticket for Bob Dylan with Charley Drayton on the same day in Tokyo.

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great pic, never seen before .
Mid 70´s ? any idea where ?

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great pic, never seen before .
Mid 70´s ? any idea where ?

Kilburn State Gaumont Theatre, London, Dec. 23 1974 (Faces final UK concert).

Same day as this familiar looking pic?

Kooyong Tennis Courts Melbourne ----- Afternoon show - 17 February 1973



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Kooyong Tennis Courts Melbourne ----- Afternoon show - 17 February 1973



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Kooyong Tennis Courts Melbourne ----- Afternoon show - 17 February 1973



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great pic, never seen before .
Mid 70´s ? any idea where ?

If you look up 'elegantly wasted' in the dictionary. This picture should be there.

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Same day as this familiar looking pic?

totally forgot about that one

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totally forgot about that one

Forgot?!?! But but but it’s appeared on this site more than 48,000 times - many of them on this thread!

Smithsonian Readying a New Robert Johnson Biography and a Trove of Unheard Field Recordings

The releases are the first based on material from the collection of storied folklorist Robert “Mack” McCormick

By Jon Blistein

February 22, 2023



Spider Kilpatrick and Robert "Mack" McCormick/Chris Strachwitz

A new Robert Johnson biography and a box set of previously unheard field recordings are among the first releases the Smithsonian and Folkways are planning from the collection of storied folklorist Robert “Mack” McCormick.

The Johnson book — Biography of a Phantom — will be released on April 4, with the new box set titled Playing for the Man at the Door out August 4. The National Museum of American History will also start exhibiting items from McCormick’s collection on June 23, with the display running for two years. More releases and events centered around the McCormick collection will be announced soon. 

Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey promises to offer “new insights” into the life of the legendary blues musician. McCormick spent decades researching Johnson, starting in the late Sixties, but the folklorist never shared any of his findings, with the biography remaining unfinished and unpublished at the time of his death in 2015. Biography of a Phantom will include 40 unseen black-and-white photos documenting McCormick’s work and research over the years.

As for Playing for the Man at the Door, the three CD/six vinyl LP collection features 66 never-before-heard performances from an array of Black artists, including legendary figures like Lightnin’ Hopkins and Mance Lipscomb. The recordings were made between 1958 and 1971 across what McCormick referred to as “Greater Texas,” a region that encompassed Western Louisiana, East Texas, and parts of Oklahoma and Arkansas. 

Folkways has shared one of those performances, “Train Roll Up” by Leroy “Country” Johnson and Edwin “Buster” Pickens.





The music will be accompanied by liner notes from musicians and scholars Mark Puryear and Dom Flemons that will dig into the marginalized communities McCormick spent his life documenting. There will also be essays from producers Jeff Place and John Troutman, as well as McCormick’s daughter Susannah Nix. 

The Smithsonian’s Museum of American History announced its acquisition of McCormick’s collection last November. The self-trained folklorist began documenting and collecting material in the 1950s, amassing 590 reels of sound recordings and a cache of unpublished manuscripts, original interviews and research notes, photographs and negatives, and an array of other ephemera.

[www.rollingstone.com]

Hey Yeah been waitin' years for
McCormick’s Biography of a Phantom .......



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THE AUSTRALIAN ---- 23 February 2023



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"whisper of an unconfirmed rumor," so in other words, quite possibly maybe

"Where are we going?"
Something you asked me
While time was flowing like a river
And we, we had it coming
We saw the sunsets
We saw the night turn
It was a safe bet

How can a lifetime fit in an hour?
The sky, it opened up, then came the showers
And we stopped at some motel with paper-thin walls
And floral linens and a bible in the drawer

We played Wild Horses on the car stereo
You prefer the Rolling Stones' and I like Gram's

We passed a canyon
We passed a fire brigade headed up the mountains
They said "The wood's ablazin'" and then we got hungry
Stopped at a diner
You flirted with the waitress and I didn't even care

Where do you go to when you look past me?
Do you see yourself miserable and free?
Such a strange notion, to see you clearly
When love's shadow stood up and left the room

We played Wild Horses on the car stereo
You prefer the Rolling Stones' and I like Gram's

"I hate who we've become" spoken like an absolute
Just listened to you speak, there was nothing to dispute
I guess something shifted, I guess something died
Thought I couldn't change it, so I didn't even try

We played Wild Horses on the car stereo
You prefer the Rolling Stones' and I like Gram's
You know I can't let you slide through my hands
You prefer the Rolling Stones', but I like Gram's



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Max Crawdaddy interviews Ben Waters around the 50 min mark....

Some Jeff Beck chat .. working with Ronnie ...
Upcoming expanded reissue Of Ian Stewart tribute -
Boogie 4 Stu with Keith bonus track - Come Back Baby .....

And recent boogie-woogie piano work for three Stones tracks .......



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Brian Jones ......



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MOJO 353 ---- April 2023



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MOJO 353 ---- April 2023



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RECORD COLLECTOR 539 ----- Xmas 2022



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Mick Jagger --- Jerry Lee Lewis --- Sun Studio Memphis 2018



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RECORD COLLECTOR 539 ----- Xmas 2022



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