KEVIN AYERS-JUST FOR OLDE TYMES SAKE (BOOTLEG), CD, 199? (RECORDED: 1970-1974), UK

Following my post of the astounding Ayers boot 'Colours Of The Day", here's a rather more rough sounding one, albeit one filled with essential gems for the obsessed. As was the case with "Colours...", much of this features Ayers' spectacular Whole Wide World band, his first stable unit after his departure from Soft Machine. I've already waxed rhapsodic about this crew in the prior Ayers post, so I'll just note that the delivery here is more loose and liquored up than that captured on "Colours..." (Ayers and crew had a rep for being well oiled back in the day) and the sound quality of the source recordings are rather more wobbly and thick, some of it lamentably so. That said, there's still plenty here to get any Canterbury head hot and bothered, not least a duet with Robert Wyatt on "Clarence In Wonderland" and an unhinged sounding version of "Stop This Train" from "Joy Of A Toy".

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