If you haven't heard of Livin' Blues, don't feel bad. They were a Dutch blues band, but never had much success outside of the Netherlands. They don't have an English Wikipedia entry (as I write this in August 2023), so I've had to use the Dutch one:
It's commendable that the festival organizers included some local talent. But note that all three such acts included in the festival (for which some music survived at least) sang in English. Livin' Blues did the rocking blues that was so popular in the early 1970s.
The Irish singer and lead guitarist Rory Gallagher basically played the same style of rocking blues, but was much more successful with it. So it's disappointing that only two songs by Living Blues and three by Rory Gallagher survived. But most of them are stretched out with lots of soloing.
This album is 36 minutes long. The Rory Gallagher set by itself is 25 minutes long.
077 Hoochie Coochie Man (Livin' Blues)
078 Cherry Girl (Livin' Blues)
079 Messing with the Kid (Rory Gallagher)
080 What in the World (Rory Gallagher)
081 Laundromat (Rory Gallagher)
https://www.upload.ee/files/15645453/Popgla73_06_LivinBlusRryGallaghr.zip.html
The cover photo of Rory Gallagher comes from this exact concert. I couldn't find any good ones, so I took a screenshot from the YouTube video of the concert.
ong order is a mere guess. It appears that the original full length tapes of this show have been wiped. Two
ReplyDeletetracks have turned up on video from Rory's set, Messin’ with the Kid and Hands Off (**), the latter having
being broadcast at least on the August 3rd 1973 episode of Popzien. Two others, What in the World and
Laundromat, have surfaced as off tv reel-to-reel recording*, probably from a broadcast of Popzien from
March 16th 1973. Popgala was a small festival organised by the Dutch television association VARA. Also on
the bill were Ry Cooder, The Faces, and The Who