Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Pain (Love is a Victim), (Donnie Kehr/Ian Hunter), Ian Hunter, after All of The Good Ones Are Taken but before YUI Orta, as Pain, Reality, Vol. 1

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Mick Ronson and Ian produced this forceful record Pain for Urgent, Cast the First Stone , which reached Billboard's top 100, with Donni...
Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Overnight Angels, Ian Hunter, Overnight Angels

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The anthemic and mystical title track Overnight Angels could be a reference to Hunter's penchant for Native American allusions with ref...
Monday, September 18, 2023

The Outsider, Ian Hunter, You're Never Alone With a Schizophrenic, Tilting the Mirror, Vol. 2

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For the final version of The Outside r Ronson contributes swooping instrumentation paired with beautiful piano and howling prairie wind soun...
Sunday, September 17, 2023

The Other Man, Ian Hunter's Dirty Laundry, Acoustic Shadows, Stranded In Reality

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Hunter took time off until 1986 but during this period he wrote  The Other Man , a song that would not appear until  Ian Hunter's Dirty ...
Saturday, September 16, 2023

The Original Mixed Up Kid (live 19th May 2002), Ian Hunter, Originally a Mott The Hoople, Wildlife, Bag of Tricks Vol. 1

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The Original Mixed Up Kid   is another Hunter track from Mott The Hoople days arising on the Wildlife LP. It seems very much an autobiograp...
Friday, September 15, 2023

Open My Eyes (Hunter/Bath), Ian Hunter, The Artful Dodger

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Open My Eyes  is a co-written song with Darrel Bath (guitar). Bath found it on a tape of jams from Ian's house and he refined it with hi...

Uncle Eugene, RIP

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Uncle Eugene, RIP   Eugene F. “Gene” Smith, 83 of Pekin passed away surrounded by family at 10:40 pm, Tuesday, September 12, 2023 at Pekin M...
Thursday, September 14, 2023

One Of The Boys (Mick Ralphs/Ian Hunter), All The Young Dudes, 1972, Welcome to the Club

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The Mick Ralphs and Hunter song One Of The Boys  was originally from the All The Young Dudes LP and played on the 1979 tour as well as being...
Wednesday, September 13, 2023

One More Time (Alejandro Escovedo), Tilting The Mirror - Rarities (box set only)

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  Alejandro Escovedo  was a fan, covered a couple of Hunter songs, and Ian heard about it before meeting at a benefit in Chicago. When Escov...

Burning America: In the Best Interest of the Country?

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 In recent times, astute observers of American society have noticed a profound transformation taking place within our government institution...
Tuesday, September 12, 2023

One Fine Day, Ian Hunter, outtake from the Ian Hunter sessions

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One Fine Day  was first conceived in Mott but it is an outtake from the first Ian Hunter LP and Ian hated it with a passion but drummer Denn...
Monday, September 11, 2023

Once Bitten Twice Shy, Ian Hunter, A single and album track, Ian Hunter

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One of Ian's best known songs which was both a single and an album track; and, he summarizes it briefly as 1970s Chuck Berry with a twis...