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brown_helmet_blues_1971_live_excerpt.mp3
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Dalton Bentley 1971 live
I had forgotten about having written Brown Helmet Blues (I still don't know what the title signifies, grin) and performed it with Dog Canyon 1971 and 1972 early on. My old colleague Bill Welch (who still performs in El Paso,Texas) sent me a CD with this live* cut of me singing the song and playing lead (doing a good job of mixing the original 2 track reel to reel recording made 40 years ago). I edited out a small excerpt of the song and posted it above as an mp3.

*Bill recently informed/reminded me that he had recorded the group in the practice room at his home on a two track simulsynch Sony reel to reel. It allowed us to do the instruments on one track all together, hence relatively live, and then the vocals on the second track---or variations on that two track scheme.


loverbayou1975eradaltonimprointro.mp3
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loverbayou1975eradaltonimprovlead.mp3
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Dalton Bentley live c. 1974
I lost most of the recordings of work I did in the 70's live, but I did have access to an old cassette recording of some improvisation I did live in 1975 or so at The Lariat Club in El Paso, Texas while covering an old Byrds song with the Coyote band (the successor to the Wheat band). I posted two excerpts of that live work above. The first is an introduction to the song that I did using Carlos Montoya techniques (but playing on a Les Paul). The second excerpt is from later in the song, following vocal verses, where I cut loose beginning a long jam.