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The Who - Magic Bus
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Recorded at: Advision Studios, London, 29 May 1968 and mixed at Gold Star Studios, Los Angeles sometime between 30 June and 7 July 1968
Produced by: Kit Lambert
UK: Track 604 024
US: Decca32362
UK Release: 11 October 1968
US Release: 27 July 1968
Highest Chart placing:
UK - 25
US - 26
Notes: The Who's eighteenth single release and one that features on a number of compilations as well as being one of the standout cuts on their classic, Who Live At Leeds album.
Notes 2: Features as part of the first US compilation, released to capitalise on The Who's extensive American touring of the period.
Jess Roden: Backing Vocals
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Carol Grimes - Warm Blood
UK album - CA 2001 - the first release on Virgin's subsidiary label, Caroline Records - indeed, it has been said that Carol's name was the inspiration behind the label's name itself.
The label was created as a vehicle for budget-priced albums from mainly jazz (and related areas) artistes whose creative merits outweighed their percieved cross-over / mainstream appeal.
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Recorded in: London and Nashville
Date: 1974
Produced by:
Notes: The album features a stellar cast of musicians - among which:
John 'Rabbit' Bundrick - keyboards;
Henry Lowther - trumpet;
Kenny Buttrey - drums
Sam Mitchell - guitar
Mac Gayden - guitar
Notes 2: The cover portrait was shot in Carol's London (Notting Hill) flat.
Jess Roden: Backing Vocals
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Mott The Hoople - Wildlife
1. Whiskey Women (3:41)
2. Angel Of Eighth Avenue (4:33)
3. Wrong Side Of The River (5:19)
4. Waterlow (3:02)
5. Lay Down (4:13)
6. It Must Be Love (2:24)
7. Original Mixed Up Kid (3:40)
8. Home Is Where I Want To Be (4:11)
9. Keep a' Knockin' (10:06)
Re-issue bonus tracks:
10. It'll Be Me
11. Long Red
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Recorded at: Basing Street Studios, London November / December 1970
Release Date: 1971
Island - ILPS 9144 (Atlantic / US) reissued by Wounded Bird Records 2005
Notes: The live cut, Keep A Knockin' was the only track deemed salvageable from a propsed Live mott The Hoople album and was recorded at Fairfield Halls Croydon during 1970.
Notes 2: There are slight sleeve differences from UK to US - on the original British variant, band and album name is in white, in the US that was changed to gold. For the album's re-issue, the title is now below the band's name.
Jess Roden: Backing Vocals
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Keef Hartley - Lancashire Hustler
1. Circles
2. You & Me
3. Shovel A Minor
4. Australian Lady
5. Action
6. Something About You
7. Jennie's Father
8. Dance To The Music
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Label: Deram SDL13
Released: 1973
Reissued: Eclec 2101 via Esoteric Recordings (a divsion of Cherry Red)
Produced by: John Burns
Sleeve Photo: Richard Sacks
Notes: The reissued album contains linber notes by Keef Hartley as well as previously unseen photographs.
Jess Roden: Lead Vocals
Musicians: Miller Anderson & Junior Kerr (guitar); Phil Chen (bass); Mick Weaver & Jean Roussel(keyboards); Elkie Brooks, Robert Palmer (backing vocals); Keef Hartley (drums).
Notes: It is possible that a second album - featuring this line-up as well as the likes of Hartley's on-off musical boss, John Mayall - may have been recorded... tho' details are sketchy. |
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Sandy Denny - Rendezvous
1. I Wish I Was A Fool For You
2. Gold Dust
3. Candle In The Wind
4. Take Me Away
5. One Way Donkey Ride
6. I'm A Dreamer
7. All Our Days
8. Silver Threads And Golden Needles
9. No More Sad Refrains
10. Still Waters Run Deep (Bonus Track)
11. Full Moon (Bonus Track)
12. I'm A Dreamer (Demo Version)
13. Easy To Slip Away (Bonus Track)
14. Moments (Bonus Track)
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Recorded: April - June 1976 at Island Studios (Basing Street and 22 St Peters Square, Hammersmith), Sound Techniques & CBS (London) and Strawberry Studios (Stockport).
Produced by: Trevor Lucas
Released: 1977
UK: Island Records (ILPS 9433)
US: Hannibal Records, (HNBL 4422) released in 1986
Jess Roden: Backing vocals
Musicians included: Jerry Donahue, Pat Donaldson, Dave Mattacks, Steve Winwood, Junior Murvin, Richard Thompson, Billie Livesey, Frank Ricotti, John (Rabbit) Bundrick, Dick Cuthell
Notes: The final album recorded before Sandy's untimely death in 1978.
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Paul Kossoff - Back Street Crawler
1. Tuesday Morning
2. I'm Ready
3. Time Away
4. Molten Gold
5. Back Street Crawler (Don't Need You No More)
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Produced by: Paul Kossoff, Bob Potter, Jean Rousel and Diga (Richard Digby Smith).
Released: 1973
Island Records: ILPS9264
Reissued in 1981 as a 10-track vinyl LP - STLP001 (The Hunter)
Reissued as IMCD84 (the first CD of the original 5-track vinyl)
2008 re-issue was digitally remastered and expanded to a two CD Deluxe Edition including fifteen bonus tracks.
Notes: Disc One contains the original album digitally remastered from the original analogue master tapes plus 6 radically different versions of the opening track, Tuesday Morning.
Disc Two contains a previously unreleased version of May You Never with John Martyn, the complete 38 minute jam for Time Away, Kossoff's cover version of The Lady Is A Tramp plus a further 6 previously unreleased out-takes from the sessions.
Notes 2: Molten Gold was also included on the seven album box set issued by Island for its 25th anniversary celebrations in 1988 (IBX 25) - Island Life: 25 Years of Island Records - however, the track-listing was somewhat erroneous, with Molten Gold credited to Paul Kossoff with Jess Roden on track 3, side 4.
Jess Roden: Lead vocal - I'm Ready
Harmony vocal - Molten Gold (with Paul Rodgers)
Lead vocal - The Lady Is A Tramp
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Sandy Denny - A Boxful Of Treasures
includes:
Losing Game.
The basic track was laid down in 1972 during sessions for Sandy's North Star Grassman and The Ravens album but, at the time discarded. The brass section was added during 1976 during the Rendexvous sessions.
It was at this point that Jess recorded the harmony vocal to the track.
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Label: Fledgling
Released: October 11th 2004
Notes: A Boxful of Treasures is an 88 track, 5 CD, compilation box set of recordings by Sandy Denny that encompasses much formerly unreleased solo material as well as recordings made during her time as a member of Fotheringay, Fairport Convention and other groups.
Jess Roden - Harmony Vocals on Losing Game
Notes: Losing Game was originally released on 'The Attic Tapes 1972 / 84' - a series of recordings issued by Sandy's husband, Trevor Lucas and distributed on casette by the Australian Friends of
Fairport. These were only available via mail order and were compiled
from assorted memorablia collected by Trevor and stored in
the attic of his house (hence the name) and they were issued to
help pay for the education of Sandy's and Trevor's kids.
The 56-page liner book is replete with photos, song-by-song annotations as well as comments and memories by associates ranging from John Renbourn, Danny Thompson, Ashley Hutchings, Linda Thompson, Jerry Donahue, Simon Nichol, Ian Matthews, Dave Mattacks, John "Rabbit" Bundrick, Jess Roden and Dave Pegg to producer Joe Boyd and rock & roll family tree designer Pete Frame among many others.
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Jim Capaldi - Short Cut Draw Blood
1. Goodbye Love
2. It's All Up To You
3. Love Hurts
4. Johnny Too Bad
5. Short Cut Draw
6. Living on a Marble
7. Boy With A Problem
8. Keep On Trying
9. Seagull
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Label: Island (ILPS 9336
Released: 1975
Recorded at: Muscle Shoals in Alabama and also at Basing Street Studios in London.
Produced by:
Musicians included:
Rebop Kwaku Baah & Remi Kabaka(Percussion); Barry Beckett (Piano); John "Rabbit" Bundrick (Keyboards); Pete Carr, Paul Kossoff, Jimmy Johnson, Chris Spedding(Guitar); Phil Chen, David Hood & Rosko Gee (Bass); Gerry Conway, Roger Hawkins (Drums), Steve Winwood (Bass, Guitar, Keyboards); Chris Wood (various wind instruments); Rico Rodriguez (Trombone)
Jess Roden - Guitar
Notes:
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Stomu Yamash'ta - Goo Too
includes:
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Label: Arista
Released:
Notes:
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Grace Jones - Nightclubbing
1. Walking In The Rain (4:18)
2. Pull Up To The Bumper (4:40)
3. Use Me (5:03)
4. Nightclubbing (5:04)
5. Art Groupie (2:40)
6. I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango) (4:28)
7. Feel Up (4:02)
8. Demolition Man (4:04)
9. I've Done It Again (3:48)
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Label: Island
Released: 1981
Jess Roden - backing vocals Pull Up To The Bumper
Notes: Pull Up To The Bumper features on a multitude of compilations from all around the world - some of which are illustrated here.
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Peter Green - Rattlesnake Guitar
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Label: CTC 0205
Released: 1995
Jess Roden - Lead vocals on Crying Won't Bring You Back and Merry Go Round
Notes: liner notes to the album written by Jim Kozlowski and Pete Brown.
Notes 2: A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the album has been donated to the Willie Dixon Blues Heaven Foundation; a nonprofit organisation working to preserve the Blues tradition.
Notes 3: The tracks - credited to Luther Grosvenor, Mike Kellie (drums) and Jess - also appear on seperate promotional CD samplers released in the USA on the Viceroy label.
Notes 4: The album includes one of the latest appearances of the late Rory Gallagher as well as Bobby Tench, Snowy White, Arthur Brown, John 'Rabbit' Bundrick, Luther Grosvenor, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Ray Gomez, Billy Sheehan, the late Bobby Chouinard, Stu Hamm, Jonathan Mover and Roy Z.
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Luther Grosvenor - Floodgates
includes:
I Wanna Be Free
Fire Down Below
Crying Won't Bring You Back
Merry Go Round
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Produced by: Mick Dolan and Luther Grosvenor
Labels:
US: Brilliant RBCD 1007
UK: Angel Air SJPCD 088
Released: August 1996 (US) & May 2001 (UK re-issue)
Notes: Former Spooky Tooth, Mott The Hoople, and Widowmaker guitarist Luther Grosvenor's Floodgates was his first new release in over 20 years and followed hard on the heels of his acclaimed work on the Peter Green tribute album Rattlesnake Guitar. The band included former Spooky Tooth stalwart Mike Kellie (drums) together with Dave Moore (keyboards) and Steve Dolan (bass). Jim Capaldi also guested on the album.
Notes 2: The album was re-issued as The Floodgates Anthology combining the original album with a further nine tracks - three 1999 Spooky Tooth reunion tracks, an unreleased Deep Feeling track, the two songs recorded with Jess for the Peter Green tribute album, and a Mott The Hoople live version of Here Comes The Queen.
Jess Roden:
Lead vocal on I Wanna Be Free and Fire Down Below (original recording) as well as Crying Won't Bring You Back and Merry Go Round (anthology release).
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Various Artists - While My Guitar...
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Label:
Released: 2002
A UK compiled 36-track 2-CD album set
Notes: Artists include: Robert Plant; Prince; Chris Rea; Gary Moore; The Allman Brother Band; Mathews' Southern Comfort; Lynard Skynard; Joe Walsh; Fleetwood Mac; Toto; Boston; Steve Earle; Robert Palmer; Wishbone Ash; J.J Cale; Justin Hayward & John Lodge; Mark Knopfler; Thin Lizzy; Eric Clapton; Dire Straits; Santana; Stealers Wheel; REO Speedwagon; Peter Frampton; Free; The Robert Cray Band; BB King; Roy Buchanan; Texas; Nils Lofgren; Snowy White; Taste; Cream; The Jeff Healey Band.
Jess Roden: Lead vocal - Cryin' Won't Bring You Back (with Luther Grosvenor / Peter Green)
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