We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

It's Only A Rock And Roll Show

by Michael Finnigan and Jerry Wood

supported by
philip
philip thumbnail
philip I have a beautiful copy of their Blue Thumb LP, and it is a crime against the universe that there isn't more of this awesome music available.
Bruce Thompson
Bruce Thompson thumbnail
Bruce Thompson Ray Charles would be so proud of this rendition.
Lucky enough to see Michael Finnigan perform with Stephen Stills in Chico, CA
I'm sure Bonnie Raitt appreciates your gifts, right Michael ?
Wishing you a healthy future.
Love your playing style. Favorite track: Hard Times.
Walter Revell
Walter Revell thumbnail
Walter Revell What a fun album to listen to going down memory lane with some rock and roll and Blues thank you Mike Favorite track: Tend To Your Business.
/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $7.98 USD

     

1.
2.
Why, am I treated so bad? Why, am I treated so bad? You know I'm all alone as I sing this song, Hear my call, I've done nobody wrong But I'm treated so bad I'm gonna walk out in the master lane Things I do, they seem to be in vain You may be blind, you may be lame, walk on out in the master lane Though you treat me so bad Ooh ooh ooh ooooooh Ooh ooh ooh oooooooh oooh ooh ooh oooooh ooh ooh oohhh you made me blind, you may be lame walk on out in the master lane Though you treat me so bad
3.
4.
5.
Crash on the levee, mama Water's gonna overflow Swamps gonna rise And no boats gonna row You can train on down To Williams Point You can bust your feet You can rock this joint But oh mama, you gonna miss your best friend now? You're gonna have to find yourself another best friend, somehow Now, don't you try and move me Mama you're just gonna lose There's been a crash on the levee And mama, you've been refused Well, it's king for king Queen for queen It's gonna be the meanest flood That anybody's ever seen Oh mama, you gonna miss your best friend now? You're gonna have to find yourself another best friend, somehow Well, that high tides risin' Mama, don't you let me down Pack up your suitcase Mama, don't you make a sound Well, it's sugar for sugar And it's salt for salt If you go down in the flood It's gonna be your own fault Oh mama, ain't you gonna miss your best friend now? You're gonna have to find yourself another best friend, somehow WRITTEN BY BOB DYLAN Bob Dylan Music Company © DWARF MUSIC - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
6.
My My My 04:46
7.
8.
9.
Hard Times 04:19
10.

about

[ Please note the 'audition' playback on this site is 128k MP3 which is the lowest quality considered for music, and may contain artifacts. It's possible to get 'CD Quality' with a your download by choosing a lossless format such as FLAC or Apple's AAC when purchasing. ]

Annotations by Michael Finnigan, 2011

Finnigan & Wood was a really terrific band with great vocals, great players, a lot of versatility, and tremendous energy. We were a very powerful live band, one of the best anywhere during our short time together. These recordings represent where we were relatively early in that period. A few of these tunes later appeared on our Blue Thumb album, "Crazed Hipsters," but these renditions represent earlier performances, at a different time (usually in the early morning hours), in a different place, when it was just the band in the studio and Steve Barncard in the booth.

credits

released October 7, 2011

A JazzCubed release
Produced by Stephen Barncard
16 Tracks recorded in 1970-1971. Assistant: Ellen Burke
remixed and mastered to digital 2011

Michael Finnigan, piano, fender rhodes piano,hammond B3 organ, harmonica, vocals
Jerry Wood, guitar and vocal
David Gates, bass guitar
Ray Loeckle, reeds
Ray "Bags" Bagby, percussion
Don "Squeek" Cleary, drum kit
Lane Tietgen, songwriter

recorded at night in 1970 on a 16 track 3M multi-track audio recorder at Wally Heider Studios, 245 Hyde Street, San Francisco, by a young and inexperienced Stephen Barncard.

Recently mixed from a 24/96 digital transfer from that same multi-track recording at the House of Cubes, San Francisco, CA. by the same S. Barncard.

Thanks to Michael Newman of Topeka, KS for the inspiration to create and release this record.

Group photo by Russ Booth, courtesy of Dennis LaPlant
Taken at the Orphanage in San Francisco, 1971.

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Finnigan & Wood San Francisco, California

After a stint in the jazz world with the Jerry Hahn Brotherhood, Mike Finnigan joined up with Jerry Wood and formed a kick-ass band that stormed the West Coast and the Midwest between 1970 and 1975.

contact / help

Contact Finnigan & Wood

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account