Hello - this week finishes up the Texas International Pop Festival series, and there's a few other cool albums too - happy downloading and comments are appreciated - been kinda quiet in the comments section lately.

Texas International Pop Festival Vol. 10 - Ten Years After

1. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
2. I Can't Keep From Cryin' Sometimes
3. Hobbit
4. Spoonful
5. I'm Goin' Home

Alvin Lee - guitar; Chick Churchill - organ;
Leo Lyons - bass; Ric Lee - drums

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Texas International Pop Festival Vol. 11 - Sly & The Family Stone

1. Intro / M'Lady
2. Sing A Simple Song
3. You Can Make It If You Try
4. Stand / Love City / Higher
5. Everyday People
6. Dance To The Music / Music Lover
7. I Wanna Take You Higher / Jam

Sly Stone - organ; Rose Stone - electric piano;
Freddie Stone - guitar;
Cynthia Robinson - trumpet; Jerry Martin - sax;
Larry Graham - bass; Greg Errico - drums

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Texas International Pop Festival Vol. 12 - Partial Sets Part 1

GRAND FUNK RAILROAD
1. Intro
2. Are You Ready
INCREDIBLE STRING BAND
3. Introduction
4. Waiting For You
5. Black Jack Davy
SAM & DAVE
6. I've Been Loving You Too Long
7. May I Baby?
HERBIE MANN
8. Tangier
9. Improvisation
CANNED HEAT
10. Intro
11. Bullfrog Blues
12. Rollin' And Tumblin' / Jam
13. talk
14. Blind Owl Blues
LEWISVILLE CHIEF OF POLICE
15. speech

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Texas International Pop Festival Vol. 13 - Partial Sets Part 2

DELANEY & BONNIE & FRIENDS
1. We Got To Get Ourselves Together
2. The Ghetto
3. When The Battle Is Over
4. Things Get Better
TONY JOE WHITE
5. Polk Salad Annie
6. Aspen Colorado
7. Can You See The Lightning
8. Roosevelt & Ira Lee
9. Hard To Handle
SWEETWATER
10. What's Wrong / Jam / What's Wrong
11. Why Oh Why

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Bob Dylan - In Concert (1963)

Like old Bob Dylan? Me too! This awesome Dylan bootleg is taken from an acetate of an unreleased live album on Columbia Records. Great quality and a great performance.

1. Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie
2. Lay Down Your Weary Tune
3. Dusty Old Fairgrounds
4. John Brown
5. When The Ship Comes In
6. Who Killed Davy Moore?
7. Percy's Song
8. Bob Dylan's New Orleans Rag
9. Seven Curses

Tracks 1, 3-4, 8: Town Hall, New York, April 12, 1963
Tracks 2, 5-7, 9: Carnegie Hall, New York, October 26, 1963

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L.S. Bearforce - L.S. Bearforce (1983)

The L.S. here is Lotus Schmidt, who had been the drummer for German band Spacebox in the 70's. On this though he plays bass, giving the percussion duties to Guru Guru's Mani Neumeier and conga player Winfried Beck. Banging away on the guitar is Edmund Heimann , and rounding things out is Embryo's Edgar Hoffman on sax, flute, violin, and an Indian woodwind instrument called a nagaswaram. This sounds largely improvisational, and as usual Mani rocks the house - man what a good drummer! This was a vinyl rip I got a few months ago from Mystery Poster & Friends, so thanks to them! It came as one long .wav file, so I separated the tracks and worked them over with Adobe Audition. Came out pretty good I think.

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Message - The Dawn Anew Is Coming (1972)

Although located in Germany, Message was basically a British band - only the bassist and drummer were German. They have been compared to Nektar, and in fact Nektar's Taff Freeman contributed vocals and plays mellotron on a cut or two. This is an excellent album, up there with the best of early 70's British melodic prog rock. I posted their second album, Of Books And Dreams, which is also great though a little on the darker side, on Sept. 19, 2005. Check the archives.

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Pacific Sound - Forget Your Dream! (1972)

Pacific Sound were four guys from Switzerland who made just this one album which is a psychedelic classic. The music is not near as dark as the gruesome cover might suggest, though there are a couple tracks that remind you of the doomy side of early Procol Harum. Great organ playing throughout. Lotsa influences on this one, the first track really reminds me of something, but I can't place it. Ha! I just got it - Spencer Davis' "I'm A Man"!!

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Muck Groh - Mucke Fuck (1979)

OK don't be shocked by the title - I don't speak German, but as far as I can tell "Mucke Fuck" is a treat of some kind, at least it seems to be something to eat! I could be wrong, I probably am. Maybe one of our German friends will tell us more. Anyway, the album - it's awesome! Muck Groh was a founding member of Ihre Kinder, who went on to form the great band Aera. This is some brilliant jazzy, quirky, eccentric rock performed by some excellent musicians. Gets better with each listen. For another great Muck Groh album check the archives for Jan. 28 2007 and download "Grotesk".

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OK see you next week.