Ballad Of Reading Gaol - Extradition (Colin Dryden)

Mackenzie Case

Leavin' Trunk Blues (Ax Sweet Mama) - Jim Condie's DIstant Cousins

This was the opening song from a set I did with Ali Farka Touré & Roger Cissé when we met in Edinburgh in 1988. These are the first notes we in the band ever heard from Ali, so it took us a couple of minutes to get into the feel of his music. Check out the other songs we did on some other Soundcloud pages. The guys in the band were: Jim Condie (guitar), David McNiven (keyboards), Mike Travis (drumkit), Kenny Ellis (bass), and Jim Sutherland (congas, percussion). Roger Cissé provided backing vocals and played the gourd. A big plus was that we managed to get Claude Harper to bring his 24-track mobile (analogue)recording studio along and record the entire gig. He still has the master tapes - I just wish he would learn how to digitise them and do something with them!


Hani - Ali Farka Touré with Jim Condie & Friends 1988

CC Rider

A tribute to the late, great Ian Luff. Two of the greatest tunes ever written.

Nic Bowden:
Flute, Whistle, Keyboards, Melodeon, Piano Accordion, Alto Saxophone, Fiddle, Ukelele, Guitar, Acoustic & Electric Bass, Percussion

The Willow Runnel / Go Mauve (Luff)

Our little tribute to Mr Chuck Berry featuring myself on drums/bass/guitar/vocals and Nic Denholm & Richie Rinn on piano/vocals and harp respectively. Listen and share!

The Radiophonic Tuck Shop featuring Nic Denholm & Richie Rinn

Here's this week's blues.... this time an interpretation of Robert Johnson's "Hellhound On My Trail". Uses the same C minor tuning as last week's "One Kind Favour".

Recorded at home whilst my own Hellhound (pictured) was chewing my clip-on tuner.... little sod!

Hellhound On My Trail

Waiting for You

Mike Raven Radio 390 Sunday  Blues Show 7th August 1966

Recorded over the weekend of 16th/17th/18th January 2021. 
I had put the rthymn guitar and double bass down and emailed it to drummer Robert Thompson who added drums and mixed it . 
Robert emailed me it back and I got into a jazz frame and put the solo guitar on it on Monday 18th.

CC Rider

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