Sunday, March 28, 2021

Chris Spedding - that mysterious bonus track

As a bit of a joke I added in a bonus track to the second disc of Chris Spedding's '...and on guitar' post, expecting most people to guess that it was Spedding's contribution to the work of The Wombles, which was a project by UK singer/songwriter Mike Batt, and for which Spedding contributed guitar on all their material. While I'm sure most UK visitors got it, it was pointed out to me this week that The Wombles don't actually mean that much in the US, and so the joke would have fallen flat over there. Coincidentally I was playing one of their albums today and realised that there is actually a much better track by the group which highlights Spedding's guitarwork, and so although strictly speaking it's outside the timeframe of the post, I've decided to add it in as a genuine addition to the running order, so the revised track listing is below, and you can get it from Soulseek and use it to replace the bonus track on the original album.  


Disc One
01 Sunshades (from 'Mantle-Piece' by The Battered Ornaments 1969)
02 Late Into The Night (from 'Our Point Of View' by Frank Ricotti Quartet 1969)
03 Tickets To Waterfalls (from 'Songs For A Tailor' by Jack Bruce 1969)
04 Got No Home (from 'Deep Down Heavy' by Bob Downes 1970)
05 Persephone's Jive (from 'Greek Variations & Other Aegean Exercises' by Neil Ardley 1970)
06 Throb (from 'Michael Gibbs' by Michael Gibbs 1970)
07 A New Awakening (from '1969' by Julie Driscoll 1971)
08 Twisted Track (from 'Elastic Rock' by Nucleus 1970)
09 The Pirate's Dream (from 'A Story Ended' by Dick Heckstall-Smith 1972)
10 Pieces Of Me (from 'Pieces Of Me' by Linda Hoyle 1971)
11 Technology (from 'Solid Gold Cadillac' by Solid Gold Cadillac 1972)

Disc Two
01 Woman In My Life (from 'd'Abo' by Mike d'Abo 1970)
02 Philwit's Fantasies (from 'Philwit & Pegasus' by Philwit & Pegasus 1970)
03 Daffodils (from 'Loudwater House' by Tony Hazzard 1971)
04 Mr. Rubin (from 'Sing Children Sing' by Lesley Duncan 1971)
05 Hampstead Way (from 'Say No More...' by Linda Lewis 1971)
06 Climb Up On My Music (from 'Coming From Reality' by Rodriguez 1971)
07 Down (from 'Nilsson Schmilsson' by Nilsson 1971)
08 Madman Across The Water (from 'Madman Across The Water' by Elton John 1971)
09 Avalon (from 'Matthew Ellis' by Matthew Ellis 1972)
10 Penthouse Pauper (from 'Panhandle' by Panhandle 1972)
11 Virginia (from 'Queues' by Vigrass & Osborne 1972)
12 One More Time Around (from 'Vaughan Thomas' by Vaughan Thomas 1972)
13 Oh Babe (from 'Meanwhile... Back At The World' by Roger Cook 1972)
14 The Empty Tidy Bag Blues (from 'Superwombling' by The Wombles 1975)

For MAC users
Press command+shift+period (to show hidden files) and a grayed out folder '...and on guitar" will appear and the mp3s will be inside. Either drag those to another folder OR rename the folder without any periods at the beginning. Press command+shift+period to once again hide the hidden files.

2 comments:

  1. Sorry but I don't see any links. I have been here before , first time this happened.

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  2. All music is now stored on Soulseek, and full instructions are on the right at the top of the page.

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