Groovy Thunder

It's nearly time for the inevitable FTSOTS end of year list, but let's get the finest reissues and archival albums of 2019 out of the way first ok? You'll come alive when the band starts swinging... With stocking stuffing artwork by the almighty Tinca, it's ho ho ho and here we go.

1. Peter Laughner - The Peter Laughner Box
2. Bob Dylan - The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings
3. Jimi Hendrix - Songs For Groovy Children: The Fillmore East Concerts
4. v/a - If You're Not Part Of The Solution: Soul, Politics And Spirituality In Jazz '67-'75
5. Jim Sullivan - If The Evening Were Dawn
6. Neil Young & The Stray Gators - Tuscaloosa
7. Sachiko Kanenobu - Misora
8. Grateful Dead - Dave's Picks Vol. 30: Fillmore East 1970
9. v/a - Black Man's Pride 3: None Shall Escape The Judgement Of The Almighty
10. Tunng - This Is Tunng... Magpie Bites And Other Cuts

Peter Laughner - Fat City Jive

Good Times

Early seventies live Neil? Just can't be beat, be it solo, with the Horse, or with the Stray Gators, as is the case here. Choice cut from Tuscaloosa '72: a sharp version of Lookout Joe, dedicated to the soldiers who were coming home from 'Nam at the time. "Glory Hallelujah! Will I lay my burden down?" That fancy Flying V of his never sounded so good.

Neil Young & The Stray Gators - Lookout Joe

Song Songs

It's grab bag time alright, inna ten pack stylee. Boss songs all of them. Take your pick please, ladies & gents, and stifle the flames of your discontent.

Mission Of Burma - Academy Fight Song
Shellac - Squirrel Song
The Verlaines - Slow Sad Love Song
The Velvet Underground - Sad Song
Dave Bixby - Drug Song
The United States Of America - Cloud Song
Neil Young & The Stray Gators - War Song
Mott The Hoople - Trudi's Song
Canned Heat - An Owl Song
Betty Davis - Anti Love Song