Jesus On the Mainline: Aerosmith, Hanson Green, and Ry Codder,

I love this song, here are couple of my favorite renditions on YouTube:

Aerosmith


 Hasan Green & F.O.G.

Ry Cooder

Feel Like Going to Chruch: Jesus is on the Mainline

I  posted this a month ago or so, and did not include the video.  So here goes with the video this time. LOL.

This video is one of those rare gems that makes me want to clap my hands, just like my grandmother used to do when she said she was getting happy.






Notes from YouTube:



From "Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces: Let's Have A Ball", a
 film by Les Blank taped at The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA on March 25'th
1987. Awesome solo's by George Bohannon and Ry using slide on
mandoguitar! (that was a first for me)



Comment from MrBillindallas:

Concert
 was from a two night run - the last of nine total dates on the NorCal
tour. Shot on 16mm film with an audio remote truck in the alley. Movie
was released in Europe but not in the US. Great band, at one of the best
 venues in the 'States, the last two nights of the mini-tour they were
truly on fire. One venue was so small the band filled the stage and the
dance floor.



Setlist for the two nights in Santa Cruz:



3-24-87 Santa Cruz, CA (the Catalyst):



Showtime

Little Sister

Smack Dab In The Middle

Lets Have A Ball

Me and Frank

unknown title [Spanish lyrics]

Hell Have To Go

If Walls Could Talk

Jesus on The Mainline

How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times & Live?

One Meatball

Atom Bomb

Teeny Weeny Bit of Your Love

Why Dont You Try Me?

Down In The Boondocks

The Things That Make You Rich Make Me Poor

Crazy Bout An Automobile (Every Woman I Know)

encores:

Chain Gang

Down In Hollywood

Goodnight Irene



3-25-87 Santa Cruz, CA (the Catalyst):



Smack Dab In The Middle

Lets Have A Ball

unknown title [Spanish lyrics]

Hell Have To Go

If Walls Could Talk

Jesus On The Mainline

How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times & Live?

One Meatball

Atom Bomb

Teeny Weeny Bit of Your Love

Down In Mississippi

instrumental

The Things That Make You Rich Make Me Poor

Crazy Bout An Automobile (Every Woman I Know)

Chain Gang

Down In Hollywood

Goodnight Irene



Band:

Ry Cooder: guitar, vox

Jim Keltner: drums

Van Dyke Parks: keys

Jorge Calderon: bass

Flaco Jimenez: accordion

Miguel Cruiz: percussion

Steve Douglas: sax

George Bohannon: trombone



Singers:

Bobby King: tenor

Terry Evans: baritone

Arnold McCuller: tenor

Willie Green Jr: bass

I Feel Like Going To Church - Ry Cooder - Jesus On the Mainline

This video is one of those rare gems that makes me want to clap my hands, just like my grandmother used to do when she said she was getting happy.



Notes from YouTube:

From "Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces: Let's Have A Ball", a film by Les Blank taped at The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA on March 25'th 1987. Awesome solo's by George Bohannon and Ry using slide on mandoguitar! (that was a first for me)

Comment from MrBillindallas:
Concert was from a two night run - the last of nine total dates on the NorCal tour. Shot on 16mm film with an audio remote truck in the alley. Movie was released in Europe but not in the US. Great band, at one of the best venues in the 'States, the last two nights of the mini-tour they were truly on fire. One venue was so small the band filled the stage and the dance floor.

Setlist for the two nights in Santa Cruz:

3-24-87 Santa Cruz, CA (the Catalyst):

Showtime
Little Sister
Smack Dab In The Middle
Lets Have A Ball
Me and Frank
unknown title [Spanish lyrics]
Hell Have To Go
If Walls Could Talk
Jesus on The Mainline
How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times & Live?
One Meatball
Atom Bomb
Teeny Weeny Bit of Your Love
Why Dont You Try Me?
Down In The Boondocks
The Things That Make You Rich Make Me Poor
Crazy Bout An Automobile (Every Woman I Know)
encores:
Chain Gang
Down In Hollywood
Goodnight Irene

3-25-87 Santa Cruz, CA (the Catalyst):

Smack Dab In The Middle
Lets Have A Ball
unknown title [Spanish lyrics]
Hell Have To Go
If Walls Could Talk
Jesus On The Mainline
How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times & Live?
One Meatball
Atom Bomb
Teeny Weeny Bit of Your Love
Down In Mississippi
instrumental
The Things That Make You Rich Make Me Poor
Crazy Bout An Automobile (Every Woman I Know)
Chain Gang
Down In Hollywood
Goodnight Irene

Band:
Ry Cooder: guitar, vox
Jim Keltner: drums
Van Dyke Parks: keys
Jorge Calderon: bass
Flaco Jimenez: accordion
Miguel Cruiz: percussion
Steve Douglas: sax
George Bohannon: trombone

Singers:
Bobby King: tenor
Terry Evans: baritone
Arnold McCuller: tenor
Willie Green Jr: bass

Down At The Field - Ry Cooder

 A very, very good album

Telegraph

Stunning songs of protest from American guitar legend Ry Cooder ...... The lyrics are bitingly satirical - "with champagne and shrimp cocktails/and that's not all you find/there's a billion dollar bonus/and no banker left behind"  .... “These times call for a very different kind of protest song. ‘Where Have All the Flowers Gone?’ We’re way down the road from that.” If protest is what you want, Cooder has delivered it magnificently.

1. Too Tight This Rag of Mine 2. You ve been Doing Something Wrong (I Can Tell By the Way You Smell) 3. Blind Man Messed Up By Tear Gas 4. Instrumental 5. How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live 6. Slow Consumption 7. Forget That Folding Bridge 8. Fool for a Cigarette/Feelin Good 9. Crazy Bout an Automobile 10. Feelin Like a Submarine (Kentucky Blues) 11. Don t take everybody to be a Friend 12. The Tattler 13. One Meat Ball 14. Preacher 15. Vigilante Man from the 70's

Taj Mahal Leavin Trunk

From the comments section: According to notes at YouTube it is from "The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus." This was a hell of a band fronted by Taj Mahal, with Jesse Ed Davis, Ry Cooder, and Chuck Blackwell.

Taj Mahal - Leaving Trunk

I really like Taj Mahal's cover version of Sleepy John Estes' song Milk Cow Blues which appears on Taj Mahal's, 1968 eponymous album, Taj Mahal, titled Leaving Trunk.

The video clip below, I believe, is from the The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus. It is very cool because it also features Jesse Ed Davis, Ry Cooder et al kicking ass and taking names.

WAKE UP MAMA,

I GOT SOMETHIN TO TELL YOU

YOU KNOW I'M A MAN

WHO LOVE TO SING THE BLUES

Here's the lineup according to the liner notes: Jessie Edwin Davies,(sp) lead guitar; Ryland P. Cooder, rhythm guitar; James Thomas, bass; Sanford Konikoff, drums; Taj Mahal, harp

Leaving Trunk mp3 by Taj Mahal


Milk Cow Blues mp3 by Sleepy John Estes.

Paul Jones 13/4/2009

With an R&B movie soundtrack special. Featuring music from film soundtracks, and including Ray Charles, BB King, Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton, the Blues Brothers and Ry Cooder.

Some excellent tracks including

Chris Thomas King - Hard Time Killing Floor Blues


Ry Cooder — Down In Mississippi


Cab Calloway - Geechy Joe (1941)
Mr Cool