Sandy Dillon has previously covered at least a couple of Don Van Vliet's compositions.

Now, the cheeky Beefheart botherer has hijacked Don's name to promote a programme of "Blues 20s/30s style" which she is performing with Ed Harcourt, among others, at a Dashiell Hammett night in London next month.

Click on the picture for full details.

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This photograph of a baseball signed by Don Van Vliet in 1982 at a press conference he held to promote Ice Cream For Crow replaces my previous post here.

That post concerned the May release of audio from the press conference. The website owner who owns the tape of the press conference has been so overwhelmed by applications from visitors here that he has asked me to remove the name of his website and links to it.

He wrote today - we checked our email this morning and we simply can't handle that many potential downloads. Over-use penalties (with our host) would break us financially. We already have a large monthly DL limit, but math-wise it just won't work (at this pace)

I hope to be able to bring you news of an alternative arrangement in due course.

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