Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger And The Trinity: Streetnoise 1969

 

Julie Tippetts (born Julie Driscoll, 8 June 1947) is an English singer and actress, known for her 1960s

versions of Bob Dylan and Rick Danko's "This Wheel's on Fire", and Donovan's "Season of the Witch", both with Brian Auger and The Trinity. Brian Auger and the Trinity was a British band led by keyboardist Brian Auger.
                       

His duet with Julie Driscoll, the Bob Dylan/Rick Danko–penned "This Wheel's on Fire", was a number

5 hit on the 1968 UK Singles Chart. The song also reached number 13 in Canada. Brian Auger and the Trinity and Driscoll's joint album, Open, billed as Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and the Trinity, reached number 12 in the UK Albums Chart the same year. The group and Driscoll opened for Led Zeppelin at the Rose Palace in Pasadena, California on 2 and 3 May 1969.
                            

Streetnoise is a 1969 album by Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and the Trinity, originally released as a

double LP. It includes cover versions of The Doors’ "Light My Fire", Nina Simone’s "Take Me To The Water", Laura Nyro’s "Save the Country", Miles Davis' "All Blues", Richie Havens' "Indian Rope Man", and "Let The Sunshine In" and "I Got Life" from the musical Hair. Driscoll covers this wide range of musical influences easily and with her highly emotive and distinctive vocals, and with Auger's intense Hammond organ, the album is instrumentally interesting, too.
                                 

After Steampacket dissolved, Driscoll signed on with the Brian Auger Trinity, scoring a Top Five UK

hit in 1968 with their rendition of Bob Dylan's "This Wheel's on Fire." Dubbed "The Face" by the British music press, Driscoll's striking looks and coolly sophisticated vocals earned her flavor of the month status, and she soon left Auger for a solo career.
                               

The final collaboration between singer Julie Driscoll (by that time dubbed as "The Face" by the British music weeklies) and Brian Auger's Trinity was 1969's Streetnoise -- it was an association that had begun in 1966 with Steampacket, a band that also featured Rod Stewart and Long John Baldry. As a

parting of the ways, however, it was Trinity's finest moment. A double album featuring 16 tracks, more than half with vocals by Driscoll, the rest absolutely burning instrumentals by Trinity. (Auger on keyboards and vocals, Driscoll on acoustic guitar, Clive Thacker on drums, and Dave Ambrose on bass and guitars.) "Tropic of Capricorn," an instrumental Auger original, kicks off in high gear. It's a knotty prog rock number that contains elements of Memphis R&B. it sounds better than it reads; it twists and turns around a minor key figure that explodes into solid, funky grit with Thacker double timing the band.
                 

Streetnoise was a record that may have been informed by its era, but it certainly isn't stuck there, especially as the 21st century opens. The music here sounds as fresh and exciting as the day it was

recorded. The sound on the reissue is completely remastered and packed in deluxe form; it all adds up to a must-have package for anyone interested in the development of Auger's music that was to change immediately after this record with the invention of the Oblivion Express, and also for those interested in Driscoll's most brave, innovative, and fascinating career as an improviser who discovered entirely new ways of using the human voice. Streetnoise is brilliant.
                               

Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger And The Trinity - Streetnoise
Label: Polydor – 843 399-2
Format: CD, Album, Reissue
Country: Europe
Released: Aug 1990
Genre: Jazz, Rock
Style: Folk Rock, Jazz-Rock, Psychedelic Rock

TRACKS

                             

How Good It Would Be To Feel Free
01. Tropic Of Capricorn   5:30
Written-By – Brian Auger
02. Czechoslovakia   6:45
Written-By – Julie Driscoll
03. Take Me To The Water   4:00
Written-By – Nina Simone
04. A Word About Colour   1:35
Written-By – Julie Driscoll
Kiss Him Quickly, He Has To Part
05. Light My Fire   4:30
Written-By – Jim Morrison
06. Indian Rope Man   3:00
Written-By – Price, Roth, Havens
07. When I Was A Young Girl   8:00
Arranged By – J. Driscoll
Written-By – Traditional
08. Flesh Failures (Let The Sunshine In)   3:00
Written-By – MacDermot, Ragni, Rado

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Looking In The Eye Of The World
09. Ellis Island   4:10
Written-By – Brian Auger
10. In Search Of The Sun   4:25
Written-By – Dave Ambrose
11. Finally Found You Out   4:35
Written-By – Brian Auger
12. Looking In The Eye Of The World   5:05
Written-By – Brian Auger
Save The Country
13. Vauxhall To Lambeth Bridge   6:20
Written-By – Julie Driscoll
14. All Blues   5:40
Written-By – Miles Davis, Oscar Brown
15. I've Got Life   4:30
Written-By – MacDermot, Ragni, Rado
16. Save The Country   4:00
Written-By – Laura Nyro

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LINE - UP

Brian "Auge" Auger - B-3 organ, piano, electric piano, vocals
Julie "Jools" Driscoll - lead vocals, acoustic guitar
David "Lobs" Ambrose - 4- and 6- string electric basses, acoustic guitar, vocals
Clive "Toli" Thacker - drums, percussion