Nevermind (Glitterhouse is 20)

 

It's our old friends Glitterhouse from Beverungen, Germany with Nevermind a 3xCD Compilation from 2004 celebrating the label's 30th birthday.

Here is the tracklist courtesy of Discogs listing all 51 tracks and artists. It can be picked up remarkably cheaply with a Median price of £3.96. Maybe this is because it is a little bit worthy and includes a number of pretty obscure artists. Come Fly With Us remains the Glitterhouse Compilation to have.

One track from each of the 3 CDs I think.

From disc 1 here is Carla Togerson, of Walkabouts fame, with the song Pelagic which is taken from her 2004 album Saint Stranger.

Representing disc 2 we have Rainer Ptacek a German -American guitarist and singer songwriter based in Tucson and  more commonly known just as Rainer.  Sadly he died in 1997 following a brain tumour. Love Buys Love is his selected song He is the only one of the chosen artists that I haven't seen perform.

Finally we have the opening track from Disc 3 (which is subtitled Classic tunes of Glitterhouse Records) Jon Dee Graham gives us Big Sweet Life

I really should give this one a proper listen.

Carla Togerson - Pelagic

Rainer - Love Buys Love

Jon Dee Graham - Big Sweet Life

Saturday Shuffle 155

 

Regular / Long Suffering (delete where appropriate) readers  will not be surprised to see Rose City Band appearing once more on the Shuffle. I've seen them twice and have four of their five albums with Garden Party being the odd one out. Sunlight Daze is taken from their latest album 2025's Sol y Sombra.

I'm much less familiar with the next two acts. I'm not a fan of Fleetwood Mac from their Rumours era and beyond.. Say You Love Me is taken from its 1975 predecessor Fleetwood Mac (aka The White Album).

We conclude with Dale McBride and Prissy Missy taken from Keb Darge & Little Eva's Legendary Wild Rockers album.

More Legendary Wild Rockers next Saturday.

Rose City Band - Sunlight Daze

Fleetwood Mac - Say You Love Me

Dale McBride - Prissy Missy

 

Bellshill Bands - De Rosa

 

De Rosa are probably one of the more obscure bands to feature in this series.

Active from 2001 -2009 and then 2012 -2021 their membership consisted at various times of Martin John Henry, Chris Connick, James Woodside, Neil Woodside and Andrew Bush.

I have their 2006 album Mend, on the Chemikal Underground label, which according to my spreadsheet I picked up in Fort William. I thought it was from Muir of Ord but I might be confusing them with Rader Bros. The personnel on the album are Martin John Henry and the Woodside Brothers. It is the first of three studio albums they released.

I've become a bit of a fanboy of M. John Henry and have picked up a few of his albums including this years Early Songs of Late where he sings acoustic versions of the majority of  songs from Mend and a few others. I had the pleasure of seeing him performing them live just over a year ago.

Here are some of  original geographically based songs by the band.

De Rosa - New Lanark

De Rosa - Cathkin Braes

De Rosa - Hattonrigg Pit Disaster

Echo & the Bunny Men - Peel Sessions 1979 -1997

 

2026 Charity Shop Purchases #20 - Echo &the Bunnymen - Evergreen/History of the Peel Sessions 1979-1997

I was in Debras, a charity furniture shop in Shawlands, with Mrs CC who was looking for a  set of bedroom drawers, successfully as it happens. I had time for a very quick glance at the relatively low number of CD's on the shelves.

Evergreen the 1997 "comeback " album by Echo & the Bunnymen on the London label caught my eye. I made the schoolboy error of not checking the disc as I was too busy lugging the cabinet into the car.

When I got home I noticed that the Evergreen disc was missing. I was a bit annoyed but not that unduly bothered as I'm not really a huge fan and also  have both Nothing Lasts For Ever and Don't Let It Get You Down as CD singles

The second disc  a limited  bonus disc  called History of the Peel Sessions 1979-1997 was intact. I would have been more annoyed if that one was missing. Here fellow blogger (La) Luna does the leg work to save me the bother.

I'll keep me eyes peeled for a copy of Evergreen

Echo & the Bunneymen - Read It In Books (Peel Session 22/08/79)

Echo & the Bunnymen - Seven Seas (Peel Session 20/06/83)

Originally briefly posted on Tuesday by mistake!

The Musicals of Andrew Lloyd Webber. 3.

 

George sent me this post as a birthday present!

He writes;

Good news, I’ve been invited back. This week, and I think the picture might have given it away, it’s Jesus Christ Superstar. And I have the film soundtrack, bought from Chalmers and Joy record shop at the top of Gellatly Street in Dundee, probably in 1977. And I still like the music. Unsurprisingly there were some objections to the stage and film versions, but it seems that a Pope quite liked it. And not some person called Pope but a genuine supreme pontiff Pope. And for those of you scoffing at the Pope’s, and mine’s taste in rock opera, you should know it was made by the same bloke who made In The Heat Of The Night.

Words such as rock opera and musical usually strike fear into the heart of many of us, but sometimes there is no accounting for taste. Maybe the 14 or 15 year old me thought it a radical film, possibly an educational one (not having been inducted into any church as an infant), or maybe it is a simple case of  liking the music. Anyway,  one of the many fine songs is Everything's Alright:

But this is the one you really want. The grumpy Judas intervention is a bit derogatory to Ms Magdalene, and critical of the main man (the Judas is not the One Night In Bangkok bloke, he was Judas on the original concept album), but of course well worth a listen

Judas also sings the song that became the well-known  1970s football song “Charlie George, superstar, walks like a woman and he wears a bra”, namely Superstar

And here it is, a great video and splendid soul/gospel song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGcIvK7f77o

I’ve been watching several of the songs on You Tube, and there’s some memorable lines “you have set them all on fire, they think they’ve found the new messiah” sang Judas. Or “a trick or two with lepers and the whole town’s on its feet” (a pharisee, I think). 

And that’s it. Jesus Christ Superstar, probably my favourite rock opera.

Thanks to Mr CC for posting, and thanks to you for reading.

CC writes:

What can I say? I'm lost for words!

Mt Doubt & the Muldoons

 

After digging out Star Wars by BMX Bandits for a listen as part of my recent Bellshill  post I had the urge to listen to another couple of albums by Scottish bands.

I found myself crossing the room to the M Section from were I selected the  In Awe of Nothing by Edinburgh band Mt.Doubt. It was originally released by Scottish Fiction Records in 2016 . I have it on CD but also purchased the vinyl reissue (above) from 2021. A band I saw a couple of times who are sadly no more

Mt. Doubt - Afterglow

Mt. Doubt - Verdant

The Muldoons are a Paisley band who first got together in the 90's but did not record an album  until Last Night From Glasgow released Made For Each Other (2020) and We Saw the View (2024). Both are very much worth having but I opted for the latter on this occasion . A band who are not afraid to use a trumpet.

The Muldoons - Same Old Same

The Muldoons - Hours and Hours

The Blues Collection - Hillbilly Blues

 

This one - number 70 in the Blues Collection series - is right up my street.

Covering songs recorded between 1929 and 1940 it offers a rare glimpse of first-generation Country music.

My first selection is the opening track Bell Clappin' Mama by Bill Carlisle recorded in Charlotte , North Carolina on 16th February 1937. He recorded for over 50 years dying on 17th March aged 93 in Nashville.

Next up is Jimmie Rodgers. Yes that Jimmie Rogers - The Singing Brakeman himself. From 31st January 1931 in San Antonio here is T.B. Blues

We conclude with another Jimmie, Jimmie Davis who went on to be the Governor of Louisiana. From Chicago on 5th August 1933 here he is with Easy Rider Blues.

The good or bad news, depending on your perspective is that there are still a few more from the Collection to go!

Bill Carlisle - Bell Clappin' Mama

Jimmie Rodgers - T.B. Blues

Jimmie Davis - Easy Rider Blues