Brian Auger

And the King Bees were on.

And you'd have the Rod Stewart, Steve Packett, Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger, all of that.

And maybe Jeff Beck and someone else would be playing with some of the blues band.

Chris Farlow and the Thunderbirds were on there.

Say Thank you.

From 1974, Brian Auger's Oblivion Express.

Straight ahead, the title track.

Before that, the sensational Alex Harvey Band.

John Legend and The Roots is very good in 2010, and they float like a wrap in the middle of it.

But I gotta say, there was one that really got me, and it was Brian Auger's Oblivion Express from 1973.

They have a Hammond B...

Yeah, baby.

Who's playing piano? Do you know?

I don't know if it was Brian Auger or I really, Jim, I don't know.

Okay,

folks, look it up and call us in and let us know.

Yeah, there you go.

I would put The Band, The Birds, and Brian Auger's Trinity above it, but that's just me.

Well,

we're different.

So let's go hop on a train and let me adjust the BPM for this next song because it's crucial that all these songs gel and flow into each other.

So let's take a train with the conductor Brian Auger.

Here's Night Train to Nowhere from 1985.

Once upon a twilight, the place I can't recall Stood a house of many dreams, you were in them all I know you put a spell on me and filled away my soul I ran towards the station when I heard that whistle call I said I gotta catch the train I hear your voice keep going round and round Keep saying over and over God Go hell if I can see you once again I know you'll be there on that day Through the crowded cities, through the rainy nights, through the flash of neon, through the glaring lights, through the lonely hour, when I am looking back, I feel your reaching eyes, I let my feet toward the track, I said I got, I got strength, I hear your voice keep going now.

You know, here's a translated excerpt of the lyrics.

Quote, in a corner of Rome frenzied and anonymous, and remember that a woman will love you, whoever you may be." Before that, we heard No Escape by Penny Brown, a single from 1985 on Discomposer Records.

And we kicked off this last set with the vocal version of Night Train to Nowhere by Brian Auger.

This was a single from 1985 on Oak Shield Records.

Oh no, oh yeah, I totally do that.

Like, if I, when I'm planning the Trash Pop Treasure show, I do listen to, like, it's like, oh, I think I wanna hear Brian Auger.

But, like, which one? Like, which one? So I will listen to a few Brian Auger songs or whatever and say, "Oh, I haven't heard that in a while.

Let's put that in." Or, yeah, so I do, I, yeah.

W- I mean-

...

the prep, the prep [laughs] on these shows really is, like, way beyond what I sh- could be doing.

But I like it so much that I wanna know that it's gonna be great, you know? And nothing's cooler than, like, like I just said Brian Auger.

Got some beautiful soul from Dojo Cuts, his brand new drop.

Some Brian Auger magic to lift us up before Dastl gets on.

In the middle of the show, coming back with a mix of laid back soul cuts, a little reggae goodness too, including a Charmelles track that's not called As Long As I've Got You, as classic as that one is.

This one was lost in the vaults for a few decades, the great slow burner, I've Done It Again.