960100A January: MICK
TAYLOR FEATURING SASHA. New York City. Recording
of a promofilm. Director: Chuck Fishbein.
- Don’t Cry Little Woman (Sasha Gracanin)
Starring: MT (gtr)/Sasha (voc)
960200A February: MICK
TAYLOR FEATURING SASHA. New York City, Savebone
Studios. Recording of a promofilm. Director: not identified.
- Turn Off The Light (Sasha Gracanin)
Starring: MT (gtr)/Sasha (voc)/Steve Ferrone (dr)/Robin Clark, Tawatha
Agee and
Vivian Cherry (bvoc)/T.M. Stevens (bass)/Carlos Alomar (gtr)/Lenny
Pickett
(sax)/Borko (p)/Earl Gardner, Alex Foster and Stanley Harrison (horns)
960300A March: BRUCE
WILLIS & THE ACCELERATORS. London, Forum Club
Line-up: MT (gtr)/Bruce Willis (voc, harm)/& The Accelerators
960306A 6th March:
Istanbul, Turkey,
960307A 7th March: Istanbul, Turkey,
960308A 8th March: Istanbul, Turkey,
Line-up: see 960310A.
960310A 10th March:
London,
Astoria Theatre, 'The Grand Whammy'
Line-up: MT (gtr)/Snowy White (gtr)/Kuma Harada (bass)/Max Middleton
(keyb)/
Jeff Allen (dr)
Note: Benefit gig for UNICEF.
With special guest star Bruce Willis (voc, harm) on one song. Also
guesting
were Anthony Thistlethwaite (sax) on 'I Wonder Why' and Martin Ditcham
(perc)
on 'You Gotta Move'.
960400A April: MICK TAYLOR ALL STAR BLUES BAND.
Promo-CD ‘Mick Taylor All Star Blues Band’ (Sensible Music SM1).
- I Wonder Why (Albert King) -taken from ‘Strangers In This Town’-CD
- Laundromat Blues (Sandy Jones) -taken from ‘Strangers In This
Town’-CD
- Little Red Rooster (Willie Dixon) -taken from ‘Strangers In This
Town’-CD
- Slow Blues (MT) -taken from ‘Mick Taylor’-album
April: European
Tour.
Line-up: MT (gtr, voc)/Snowy White (gtr, voc)/Kuma Harada (bass)/Jeff
Allen (dr)/
Max Middleton (keyb)
960412A 12th April:
Madrid, Spain, La Sala
(You Gotta Move/I Wonder Why/You Shook Me/Fed Up With The Blues/
Can’t You Hear Me Knocking)
Note: Soundboard recording was made.
960413A 13th April: Jerez, Spain, ‘1st Record And Cinema Fair’
960422A 22nd April: Amstelveen, Holland, Bell’s Club
960423A 23rd April: Marcq En Baroeul, France, Salle Paul Doumer
960424A 24th April: Paris, France, New Morning
Club
(I Wonder Why/Boogie Man/You Shook Me/You Gotta Move/Can’t You
Hear Me Knocking/Band introduction/Little Red Rooster/Judgement Day)
960425A 25th April:
Paris, France, New Morning Club
(You Gotta Move/I Wonder Why/Boogie Man/You Shook Me/Blind Willie
McTell/Can’t You Hear Me Knocking/Band introduction/Laundromat Blues/
Little Red Rooster)
960426A 26th April: Gronau, Germany, Jazz
Festival
(You Gotta Move/I Wonder Why/Boogie Man/You Shook Me/Blind Willie
McTell/Can’t You Hear Me Knocking/Laundromat Blues)
960427A 27th April:
Hamburg, Germany, Fabrik
(You Gotta Move/I Wonder Why/Boogie Man/You Shook Me/Blind Willie
McTell/Can’t You Hear Me Knocking/Band introduction/Laundromat Blues/
Little Red Rooster)
Note: The whole show was recorded by German radio (DLF).
960428A 28th April:
Munich, Germany, Hotel Bayrischer Hof
(I Wonder Why/You Gotta Move/Boogie Man/You Shook Me/Blind Willie
McTell/Can’t You Hear Me Knocking/Band introduction/Laundromat Blues/
Little Red Rooster)
960429A 29th April:
Vienna, Austria, Rock-Haus
(You Gotta Move/I Wonder Why/Boogie Man/You Shook Me/Blind Willie
McTell/Can’t You Hear Me Knocking/Band introduction/Laundromat Blues/
Little Red Rooster)
Note: Two videos of the complete show are existing. One private, one
pro-shot.
960430A 30th April:
Salzburg, Austria, Kulturgelaende Nonntal
(You Gotta Move/I Wonder Why/Boogie Man/You Shook Me/Blind
Willie McTell/Can’t You Hear Me Knocking/Band introduction/
Laundromat Blues/Little Red Rooster)
960500A May: LIGABUE.
Turin, Italy. With MT on guitar on:
- You Can’t Always Get What You Want (MJ/KR) -unverified
Line-up: see 960600A.
960516A 16th May:
Stockton,
(You Gotta Move/I Wonder Why/You Shook Me/Boogie Man/Blind Willie
McTell/Can’t You Hear Me Knocking/Little Red Rooster)
Line-up: MT (gtr, voc)/Snowy White (gtr)/Max Middleton (keyb)/Roger
Innes
(bass)/Jeff Allen (dr)
960523A 23rd May:
Kaajani, Finland, Kajanus Teltta, ‘Rhythm & Blues Marathon’
960524A 24th May: unidentified town, Norway,
960529A 29th May:
French TV (MCM) ‘MCM Blues’. Incl.
- You Gotta Move (Fred McDowell/Gary Davis) -Paris 25.4.96
- interview with MT
960601A 1st June:
European TV (NBC) ‘Talkin’
Blues’. Incl.
- interview with MT (recorded in January in New York City, Savebone
Studios)
960600A mid-1996: LIGABUE.
Italian TV ( ) 'Yes For Europe', Turin, Italy.
- You Can’t Always Get What You Want (MJ/KR) -Susan Taylor on backing
vocals
- Vivo Morto O X (Luciano Ligabue)
Line-up: MT (gtr, bvoc)/Luciano Ligabue (voc, gtr)/Mel Previte
(gtr)/Federico
Capitan Fede Poggipollini (gtr)/Rigo Righetti (bass)/Robby Sanchez (dr)
960600B late Spring/early
Summer: SASHA GRACANIN & MICK
TAYLOR. New York
City, Savebone Studios. Producer: Sasha Gracanin. Incl.
- Just Another Girl (Sasha Gracanin)
Line-up: MT (gtr)/Sasha Gracanin (voc, gtr)/T.M. Stevens (bass)/Steve
Ferrone
(dr)/Borko (keyb)/Robin Clark, Vivian Cherry & Tawatha Agee (bvoc)/
Lenny Pickett (horns)
Note: Released as bonus track for Shadow Man on i-tunes in August 2009
(see 090830A).
960705A 5th July:
Paris, France, New Morning Club
(I Wonder Why/You Shook Me/Boogie Man/You Gotta Move/Blind Willie
McTell/Red House/Can’t You Hear Me Knocking/Band introduction)
Line-up: MT
(gtr, voc)/Snowy White (gtr)/Max Middleton (keyb)/Kuma Harada
(bass)/Blair Cunningham (dr)
Note: Soundboard recording
was made.
960706A 6th July: Vittel, France, Palais de Congrés, ‘Festival de Guitare’
17th - 22nd July: Italian
Tour.
Line-up: MT (gtr, voc)/Max Middleton (keyb)/Robert Ahwai (gtr)/Kuma
Harada (bass)/Blair Cunningham (dr)
960717A 17th July:
Izola, Slovenia, Stadium
960718A 18th July: Naples, Italy, Marechiaro Blues Festival
960719A 19th July: Arbatax (Sassari), Italy, festival
960720A 20th July: LIGABUE.
Montreux, Switzerland, 'Jazzfestival'
- You Can't Always Get What You Want (MJ/KR) -Susan Taylor on backing
vocals
- Vivo Morto O X (Luciano Ligabue)
- Hai Un Momento, Dio? (Luciano Ligabue)
- You Gotta Move (Fred McDowell/Rev. Gary Davis)
Line-up: MT (gtr)/Luciano Ligabue (voc, gtr)/Mel Previte (gtr)/Federico
Capitan
Fede Poggipollini (gtr)/Rigo Righetti (bass)/Robby Sanchez (dr)
960721A 21st July: Monforte D’Alba, Italy, Teatro Romana
960722A 22nd July:
Cesena, Italy, La Rocca Malatestiana
(Boogie Man/Blues In The Morning/Goin’ South/Giddy Up/Fed Up With The
Blues-Tore Down-Laundromat Blues/You Gotta Move/You Can’t Always
Get What You Want)
Note: With special guest Luciano Ligabue (voc) on 'You Gotta Move' and
'You Can't Always Get What You Want'.
960725A 25th July:
Rome, Italy.
- interview with MT
960725B 25th July: BLACK CAT BONE.
Tuebingen,
Germany, Kulturzelt
(I Wonder Why/Born Under A Bad Sign/Red House/Wake Up Call/Slow Blues)
Line-up: MT (gtr, voc)/Hans-Joerg Mueller (gtr, voc)/Linus Wahl (keyb)/
Stephan Wegner (bass)/Uli Wagner (dr)
Note: The show exists on private video.
960728A 28th
July: Oldenburg, Germany, Schlossplatz
(Giddy Up/Blues In The Morning/Goin' South/Boogie Man/I Wonder Why)
Line-up: MT (gtr, voc)/Robert Ahwai (gtr)/Max Middleton (keyb)/Michael
Bailey
(bass)/Richard Bailey (dr)
960821A 21st August: MICK TAYLOR FEATURING SASHA.
CD ‘Shadow Man’ (Alfa International ALCB-3147 -Japan). Producer: Sasha
Gracanin. Sound engineer: Nenad Gracanin. Recorded at Savebone Studios,
New York City from June 1995 onwards.
- Turn Off The Light (Sasha Gracanin) -Carlos Alomar on guitar
- Hurt (Sasha Gracanin) -Don Wershba on guitar
- Just Another Heartache (Sasha Gracanin)
- Shadow Woman (Sasha Gracanin) -Rob Paparozzi on harmonica
- Don’t Cry Little Woman (Sasha Gracanin)
- Honky Tonk Women (MJ/KR)
- Shattered (Sasha Gracanin)
- Happy Man (Sasha Gracanin) -Stan Harrison on sax
- Don’t Wait Too Long (Sasha Gracanin) -Bob Quinones on guitar
- This Night (Sasha Gracanin)
- Someday (Sasha Gracanin) -Bob Quinones on guitar, Stan Harrison on
sax
Musicians: MT (gtr)/Sasha (voc, gtr)/T.M. Stevens (bass)/Steve Ferrone
(dr,
perc)/Borko (org, p)/Robin Clark, Vivian Cherry & Tawatha Agee
(bvoc)/Lenny Pickett, Earl Gardner & Paul Alex Foster (horns)
Note: In fact this is a Sasha Gracanin-soloalbum with MT as session
guitarist.
But the executives from the record company thought it would be a good
idea to cash in with MT's name.
960907A 7th
September: Kalamate, Greece,
(I Wonder Why/You Gotta Move/Fed Up With The Blues/Goin’ South/
Red House/Can’t You Hear Me Knocking/Band introduction)
Line-up: MT (gtr, voc)/Robert Ahwai (gtr)/Max Middleton (keyb)/Kuma
Harada
(bass)/Richard Bailey (dr)
961000A Autumn: VARIOUS
ARTISTS.
Promo-CD ‘Sampler 1995/1996’ (Shattered Music SHA P-02, US). Incl.
- interview with MT (probably from 1993)
961018A 18th
October:
unidentified venue, Spain,
961030A 30th October: Granada, Spain, Aula Magna De Ciencias
961100A November: BLUE THUNDER.
CD ‘Blues And Beyond’ (Dixiefrog DFGCD 8457). Producers: David
Hentschel &
Paul Williams. Sound engineer: Barry Hammond. Recorded at Chipping
Norton
Recording Studios, Oxfordshire, England. Incl.
- Going Back (Paul Williams/David Hentschel)
Line-up: MT (gtr)/Paul Williams (voc)/Micky Moody (gtr)/Pete Stoud
(bass)/
Gary Husband (dr)/David Hentschel (keyb)
Note: Later also released in the US under the group name Juicy Lucy.
961109A 9th
November:
New Brighton, England, Floral Hall, 'Wirral Guitar Festival'
(You Gotta Move/I Wonder Why/You Shook Me/Goin’ South/Band introduction
1/
Boogie Man/Blind Willie McTell/Blues In The Morning/Can’t You Hear Me
Knocking/Band introduction 2/Laundromat Blues)
Line-up: MT (gtr, voc)/Robert Ahwai (gtr)/Max Middleton (keyb)/Michael
Bailey
(bass)/Jeff Allen (dr)
961110A 10th November: WALKIE TALKIE.
CD ‘School Yard Rhymes’(Laundry Room Records LRR9603). Producer:
Justin Goldberg. Sound engineer: C.J. Eiriksson. Incl.:
- Love In Arms (MT/Jim Lacey-Baker) -COMPOSER CREDIT ONLY
Line-up: Jim Lacey Baker (gtr, voc)/Dani Francis (bvoc)/John Harlan
(bass)/
Lonnie Harrigan (dr)/Dino Saldo (sax)
Note: Composer credit, MT does not play on this track.
22nd - 30th November:
Southeuropean Tour.
Line-up: MT (gtr, voc)/Robert Ahwai (gtr)/Max Middleton (keyb)/Michael
Bailey (bass)/Jeff Allen (dr)
961122A 22nd
November: Athens, Greece, Rodon Club
961123A 23rd November: Pescara, Italy, Teatro Micketti
961124A 24th November: Subiaco, Italy, Teatro Tenda
961127A 27th November: Nave, Italy, San Costanzo
961128A 28th November: San Fior, Italy, Sonny Boy
961129A 29th November: Dorgali, Italy, Celite
961130A 30th November: Erba, Italy, Excelsior -unsure