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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10214 Registered: 05-2005 |
Zwan - Lyric https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwmUMySS NQc | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4696 Registered: 03-2005 |
Sodastream - Letter From Melbourne https://sodastream.bandcamp.com/track/le tter-from-melbourne There had to be some songs to come out this thing. This one from November 2020 is lovely. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1462 Registered: 04-2005 |
Cheers Randy ! Lovely but sad. Their CDs are nice, but tend to be a little samey after a while ? And things ain't exactly going in the right way at the moment. We got told yesterday at work that it was back to 3 days homeworking a week. And I'm well aware of the psychological impact that it has already taken on some people. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4697 Registered: 03-2005 |
Yes, Andrew, it never seems to end. I have all sorts of fantasies of things I want to do which stay on hold because they all require advance planning and I'm not going to plan for something only to find we're back in purgatory. I have another project of Karl Smith's called "Lee Memorial" which I love. I got a solo album by him and was disappointed. So I've never explored any Sodastream albums. But this song impressed me. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10216 Registered: 05-2005 |
Tom Morello, Bruce Springsteen & Eddie Vedder - Highway To Hell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuNlA6BB 28E Now, that can banish all thoughts of Sodastream from my brain. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4699 Registered: 03-2005 |
Pádraig's mention of The Carnival Brothers sent me to their bandcamp page. I kept thinking "who is it they're reminding me of?" Ah, yes. Dean Manning -- If I Was a Spy https://wallofdean.bandcamp.com/album/di plomatic | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10222 Registered: 05-2005 |
Good memory, Randy. I think I may have introduced you to that Dean Manning album, but maybe it was the other way round. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2019 Registered: 10-2006 |
Cassandra Jenkins – Michelangelo Had me with the opening words, “I'm a three-legged dog/Workin' with what I've got…” Nice little clipped Neil Y sort of riff and a cool slow voice. Don’t need much more than that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_TLHH4b ss8 | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2020 Registered: 10-2006 |
Maple Glider - View From This Side Melbourne’s Tori Zietsch, it seems, and any song that starts off with this kind of crystalline acoustic picking and then ever so briefly tantalises with the ghost of Dusty Springfield is going to get me listening. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBS8dvdG dp4 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10224 Registered: 05-2005 |
The National - Somebody Desperate. They're back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh0tSeN4 PGI | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10225 Registered: 05-2005 |
Paul Brady - Arthur McBride https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBGkhPx5 29g | ||
| Uli B Member Username: Marenhannes Post Number: 32 Registered: 03-2006 |
Mickey Jupp - My Typewriter The „white Chuck Berry“, early 70´s | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10228 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Panics - No More Tears. They are so good at covers. They'd make a fabulous wedding band. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2021 Registered: 10-2006 |
David Bowie - Kooks Some sort of Hunky Dory anniversary celebrated on the radio this morning, so good to hear Kooks again, one of the few songs written by a rock star for a new baby that doesn’t have one folded over the sink, a lyric of great warmth and vivacity. A rich and varied album all in all, maybe less involved in pushing some new experimental metamorphosis, the one by DB I’d keep if I could only keep one. I’d forgotten Peter Noone had a hit with Pretty things! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10230 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ducks Ltd. - How Lonely Are You? This is so like McCarthy, they oughta be paying royalties. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mevWrqbf kAQ It's also great. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2026 Registered: 10-2006 |
Anthony Joseph - Calling England Home Don't much like jazz, don't much like poetry set to music (unless Betjeman & Parker). Love this. A bit Black Star maybe? Just finished reading Sam Selvon, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW4vGD6M QVY | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10231 Registered: 05-2005 |
George Harrison - My Sweet Lord https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04v-SdKe EpE A very cool new video for it. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2027 Registered: 10-2006 |
5 Hand Reel – Carrickfergus The wife gets even more Scottish than me at this time of year so there’s a lot of folk music going, though for some reason she’s not so keen on the punchy versions by 5 Hand Reel that I particularly love. Bobby Eaglesham’s voice found its perfect home here, I don’t think he sings anywhere else with quite this much vowel-teasing yearning. The actual narrative still makes little sense, but research has shown that it’s very much a scissor and paste job that has evolved over the years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHJqHKr- oCg | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4701 Registered: 03-2005 |
That's really lovely, Stuart. And the next thing pitched to me by youtube was "Sliave Gallion Braes" which was pretty nice as well. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2028 Registered: 10-2006 |
I don't know how much time you'd have for Scots folk, Randy!... but 5 hand reel produced the definitive versions for me of some die-hard classics, like Ae fond kiss, Red red rose, and an extraordinary rendering of Earl o'Moray that always raises my neck hair - all sung by Bobby Eaglesham in a state of grace - and A man's a man with Dick Gaughan's harder edged voice. I wish the band had gone on a bit longer, if only to give more space to Bobby's voice - he gave up music for art thereafter, and died too young. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2029 Registered: 10-2006 |
Meanwhile, back to the other half of the Auld Alliance… Laura Cahen - Nuit Foret Yet another talented young French woman singer-songwriter. French journalists apparently say she has a “clear, high, keen voice, with a resonant depth at the bottom of certain words, an organic dimension of fanfare, with brass instruments, trumpets, a bass drum, cymbals, in the open air, under a spring sky” and “a sweet nostalgia in her timbre, balanced by a sweeping range, sometimes stoned, sometimes growling”. Rather lovely, anyway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At5PL_8z imE | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1416 Registered: 03-2007 |
Stuart, I was a big fan of Five Hand Reel back in the day. I believe Dick Gaughan was the main vocalist in the band and I have to say I much prefer his voice to that of Bobby Eaglesham. Gaughan's voice is harder edged, rougher and more 'Scottish' to my ears. A wonderful interpreter of Scottish folk songs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lOKBXFa A1U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s-zJkE1 9go I still have the original vinyl LPs which I note sell for peanuts on Discogs. Randy might surprise you. I believe he has some Easy Club and Jock Tamson's Bairns titles in his collection. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4702 Registered: 03-2005 |
This board has acquainted me with the Scottish expectation that no one else will be interested in them. The English have a lot to answer for! Being a great fan of vocal harmonies, if I had my way I'd have Gaughan and Eaglesham sing together more than seems to be the case. Celtic folk is a fairly specific thing which means it will be for particular moods. It's the instrumental stuff that is more likely to blur in the mind for me. The vocal songs are frequently wonderful. There is a readily available 2CD compilation of their first 3 albums. I'll go with that. Hugh, I do indeed have the Easy Club records; that's how I first heard Ewan MacColl's song "Dirty Old Town." I've had CD reissues of the Johnstons' first four Transatlantic albums for years. Yes, I know they're Irish but they mine a similar seam from my perspective. Milkmaids a-churnin' music, Pádraig! This is the first I've heard of Jock Tamson's Bairns though. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2030 Registered: 10-2006 |
I think there was a tendency to give Bobby the keening ballads and Dick the patriotic stompers, not a bad idea considering their particular timbres, and something that would apparently dog both their later solo careers as fans called out for the “wrong” songs. So they reflect a wee bit of that Scottish dichotomy, maybe, the sentimental romantic and the in-yer-face hard man, and as Randy suggests when they’re mingled together you get the full picture. But with my own trembling foot set gingerly in the romantic camp, Bobby’s gull-soaring, effortless tone as he teases out those old tunes touches my heart like few others. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2031 Registered: 10-2006 |
Jock Tamson's Bairns, an excellent name for a folk band! Never heard of them, despite the apparent Sandy Bell's connection. A favourite of Richard Thompson's too, I see. Right, a wee treat for New Year, then, if the order works out! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10233 Registered: 05-2005 |
Five Hand Reel and Jock Tamson's Bairns are new names to me. I listened to the version of Carrickfergus linked to above. Not my thing. But I have just rewatched, for the first time in probably 16 years, a documentary about The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl's Fairytale Of New York. I was surprised both by how much of it I remembered and also how much I'd forgotten. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUSNzqqL FT0 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4703 Registered: 03-2005 |
Silent James - Christmas Time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZr5MbWN yf4 It just popped up on the iPod in shuffle mode and here it is. |