The Wheezer self-indulgence thread

[Wheezer]

This could be a long one. As a placeholder, a 1969 interview with John Fahey.

[Edit.—Desperate Man Blues seems like as good a place to start as any.]

[Quality Start Machine]

Melanie, Ring the Living Bell. Gather Me is one of the few pieces of vinyl that I have segregated in the keeper section. Tarkio is more than just "One Toke Over the Line," as well.

"Ring The Living Bell" actually hit the top 40, didn't it?

[Wheezer]

Melanie, Ring the Living Bell. Gather Me is one of the few pieces of vinyl that I have segregated in the keeper section. Tarkio is more than just "One Toke Over the Line," as well.

"Ring The Living Bell" actually hit the top 40, didn't it?

The deuce you say.

[Quality Start Machine]

Melanie, Ring the Living Bell. Gather Me is one of the few pieces of vinyl that I have segregated in the keeper section. Tarkio is more than just "One Toke Over the Line," as well.

"Ring The Living Bell" actually hit the top 40, didn't it?

The deuce you say.

Number 31 in 1972.

[Wheezer]

Melanie, Ring the Living Bell. Gather Me is one of the few pieces of vinyl that I have segregated in the keeper section. Tarkio is more than just "One Toke Over the Line," as well.

"Ring The Living Bell" actually hit the top 40, didn't it?

The deuce you say.

Number 31 in 1972.

"I was fasting with a twenty seven day fast on water." Oh, dear. I'm trying to remember the name of the crank and his daughter who popularized this back then (not that it doesn't persist). It involves at least one criminal prosecution.

[Edit.—It was Herbert Shelton.]

[Wheezer]

BSL version of "Son of a Preacher Man." This has been pulled from Y—be repeatedly as a putative copyright violation, so get it while you can.

[Wheezer]

A live version of Bill Lee.

[Edit.—This isn't very high fidelity (I have a better one on cassette), but it's from the '86 Jonathan Richman show at Holstein's, which also featured the best version of UFO Man that I've heard yet: Walter Johnson.]

[Wheezer]

Randy Newman on The Old Grey Whistle Test: Sail Away.

[Edit.—My Old Kentucky Home and I Think It's Going to Rain Today from a live radio broadcast.]

[Tonker]

Randy Newman on The Old Grey Whistle Test: Sail Away.

[Edit.—My Old Kentucky Home and I Think It's Going to Rain Today from a live radio broadcast.]

Meh.  He's no Randy Edelman.

[Wheezer]

Randy Newman on The Old Grey Whistle Test: Sail Away.

[Edit.—My Old Kentucky Home and I Think It's Going to Rain Today from a live radio broadcast.]

Meh.  He's no Randy Edelman.

Very well, then. Don't  make me get out the Vachel Lindsay (which I also have on vinyl).

[Wheezer]

Taj Mahal:

Colored Aristocracy (I used to play clawhammer; haven't ever seen another Hohner banjo)

Ain't Gwine to Whistle Dixie, live version

Fishin' Blues, live

[Edit.—The studio version of Fishin' Blues.]

[Quality Start Machine]

Taj Mahal:

Colored Aristocracy (I used to play clawhammer; haven't ever seen another Hohner banjo)

Ain't Gwine to Whistle Dixie, live version

Fishin' Blues, live

[Edit.—The studio version of Fishin' Blues.]

This rocks.

As does this.

[Wheezer]

Ain't Done Nothing If You Ain't Been Called a Red. With Chinese subtitles. Beats me, but, hey, Faith Petric. This is the version from Rebel Voices, which is uneven but wraps with a terrific Power in the Union (not the Bragg shit).

[Bort]

Ain't Done Nothing If You Ain't Been Called a Red. With Chinese subtitles. Beats me, but, hey, Faith Petric. This is the version from Rebel Voices, which is uneven but wraps with a terrific Power in the Union (not the Bragg shit).

I had that compilation. My introduction to the song.

[Wheezer]

Ain't Done Nothing If You Ain't Been Called a Red. With Chinese subtitles. Beats me, but, hey, Faith Petric. This is the version from Rebel Voices, which is uneven but wraps with a terrific Power in the Union (not the Bragg shit).

I had that compilation. My introduction to the song.

Yah, it also hipped me to Utah Phillips: Pie in the Sky.