Smokey 1511 hr (Wednesday 29th May 2019)

While I was up in the study looking out at the rain, Smokey was mostly on the rattan chair in the porch listening to the pattering on the carbonated (wrong word?) roof, but we coincided in the kitchen when I came down to make a mug of filter coffee. He doesn't miss a chance to try to extract a treat from all the bounty I unfairly withhold.

L.
31.5.2019 (1202 hr)

Blip #2938 (#2688 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #009
Blips/Extras In 2019 #115/265 + #049/100 Extras
Day #3352 (761 gaps from 26.3.2010)
Smokey #475
LOTD #2082 (#1923 + 159 in archived blips)

Old Forge series
Smokey series

Taken with Panasonic/Leica DMC-LX100 M4/3 compact

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Jimi Hendrix - Rainy Day, Dream Away (Alternate Take) (recorded 10 June 1968, Record Plant, Manhattan NY)
Jimi Hendrix (gtr) with Freddie Smith (from the Serfs)(ten sax), Mike Finnigan (from the Serfs)(organ), Larry Faucette (from the Serfs)(congas), Buddy Miles (dr)
Jimi Hendrix only released three albums in his lifetime, of which Electric Ladyland, a double album, was the third. Although billed as the Jimi Hendrix Experience line-ups changed from track to track as guests drifted in and out of the studios. Two of my most-played tracks from the original album were Rainy Day, Dream Away and its companion piece Still Raining, Still Dreaming. Neither Noel Redding or Mitch Mitchell, the other two members, played on this track.
"Tom Wilson had discovered and produced my little R&B band," said Mike Finnegan. "He introduced us to Hendrix, and Jimi asked me, Larry Faucette and Freddie Smith to jam on this tune he had in mind." The set-up was inspired by the organ quintet albums Jimmy Smith had made in the early sixties, with Hendrix channelling their guitar player Kenny Burrell. "Having heard Jimi's first two albums I thought he'd be using stacks and stacks of amplifiers and electronic toys to get his sound. To get the guitar tone for Rainy Day he was using this small blond 30-watt Fender Showman amplifer. We couldn't believe it."
This early take was first released on At Last... The Beginning - The Making Of Electric Ladyland: The Early Takes in 2018, the fiftieth anniversary of the album's first release, which I was engrossed in on this day.

One Year Ago:
Caen Hill (cygnets)