Bob Dylan & the Liverpool Kids

Here's a short - around 10 minutes - BBC documentary on the Liverpool kids who posed with Dylan while he was on the legendary 1966 tour.

"Dylan and Feinstein [the photographer] just seemed to have stumbled into what amounted to a kids' playground. They were all out in the streets because their parents were probably watching Everton in the Cup Final that day. It was such a clash of 1960s culture. The kids looked like Victorian street urchins and Dylan looked like a man from Mars with his loud shirt and wild hair - that's what fascinated me." Link to story.

You can find the photo in the booklet of the Live 1966: The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert CD. Dylan fan Chris Hockenhall tracked 9 of the 10 kids 40 tears later for the documentary.

Eddi Reader: Willie Stewart

A while back I posted a link to a very fine and very restrained video of Eddi Reader doing the Robert Burns song My Love is Like a Red Red Rose. Very nice stuff, but you sort of expected the members of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra to pop up from behind the rocks. This clip, however, is Eddi live in full throttle at a festival -- with back up musicians who are equally fine, including the amazing John McCusker on fiddle -- on a lively Burns song, Willie Stewart. Reader says one of her thoughts in doing Burns music (she's a Scot, as of course, he was, and she's done his work with orchestras and as well as in more informal settings) is to do it the way someone might might have sung the songs in a pub in the 18th century, and you just happened upon it.

Jigs at a session

Just a bit of the lively craic and lively music you might find at an Irish tune session, especially if your players happened to be some really top ones.
Robbie O'Connell, Mick Moloney, Dana Lyn, Brendan Callaghan, and Athena Tergis play a set of jigs at a benefit for St. Malachy’s School in Philadelphia. This clip is a bit over seven minutes long and the gig took place just a few days back.

I'm Not There - International Trailer

It's a good thing Kerry also posts on SoT or we'd risk becoming the Series of Dylans. But, here's a nice riff on the cue card scene - yet again - first featured in Don't Look Back. All the Dylans take part.

Mary Black: song for Ireland

Her early career as the singer with the group De Dannan helped establish Mary Black's reputation and presence, especially outside Ireland. The very first song she recorded with them was Song for Ireland. It's a piece she's sung in many other places including during the peace process in Northern Ireland, at Stormont. Here she joins De Dannan to revisit the song.

Short profile of Mary Black, somewhat of an excerpt from the longer documentary Still Believing. Once you get past the long opening graphic,there's a fine bit of conversation and music from one Ireland's most well known singers. It's about 6 or 7 minutes long.

Once Upon a Time - Latest" I'm Not There" trailer

What more can be said?

Sterling Harrison - Rainbow 65

I've justed posted a Dreamtime article on the late Sterling Harrison, the best soul singer you never heard of. Here's Mr. Electrifying at his home base, M&M Soul Food, way down deep in South Central L.A., singing the Gene Chandler classic, Rainbow 65. The 9-minute+ clip will probably have you - like me - desperate to see and hear Harrison in a better quality video, but we have to take what we have.

One of the delightful things about this clip is the interaction between Harrison and the audience, with one person providing backing vocals to Harrison's mock annoyance. Outside of soul and rhythm and blues, Harrison entertained his audience with jokes so blue they would have made Redd Foxx blush, and impressions of celebrities ranging from Moms Mabley, Al Green and Ray Charles to Ed Sullivan, Paul Lynde and Richard Nixon. And all the while he milked the room for dollar tips, giving the crowd their money's worth.