Bob-Dubery
X-rated Bob wrote:
Early days, but so far I'm intrigued - it's like the 60s and the noughties had a head-on collision. The opening track, for example, could easily have come from the Kinks or several other 60s pop greats, but the production and the use of effects and electronica are straight out of the 2000s.
Which is not that weird a proposition really. Who knows what, for example,
Pet Sounds or
Revolver might have been if Wilson and Lennon & McCartney had access to sampling, to synthesizers and so on.
Bob-Dubery
Red Earth & Rust - Skeletons of Memory - Songs for the West Coast.
The "West Coast" in this case is the coast from Paternoster up to the Kunene River.
It's a very beautifully recorded and packaged disc. Seems not to be available in shops outside of Cape Town, but you can order it via Email from the artists themselves. Which I did (R150 including P&P). It arrived in the post box with no fuss or great wait. Some great playing and players (including Willem Moller and Johnny Blundell on guitars), a lovely production job by Johnny Blundell.
Bob-Dubery
OK. I just got a whole parcel of goodies. The one I reached for first was Ry Cooder's Election Special. After the hallelujah's (well deserved) that Cooder's last offering attracted the critical word is that this is even better ?.
Cooder's on something of a late career purple streak, his albums from Chavez Ravine have found in him in fine form as a player and, which was not clear for much of his career, as a songwriter. Said parcel also includes another of the "California Trilogy" albums, My Name Is Buddy
Bob-Dubery
X-rated Bob wrote:
OK. I just got a whole parcel of goodies. The one I reached for first was Ry Cooder's Election Special. After the hallelujah's (well deserved) that Cooder's last offering attracted the critical word is that this is even better ?.
Cooder's got his influences on his sleeve again. On his previous album he did a very deft John Lee Hooker impersonation/tribute. The latest disc has a track titled "Cold, Cold Feeling" that shows a healthy respect for and stylistic nod to Elmore James.
Squonk
My brother mentioned Jon Lord in a mail....
Deep Purple - self titled Album from 1969.
This is good stuff, Jon Lord is on form.
Excellent cover of Donovan's Lalena
Rod Evans on Vocals, I prefer him to Gillian
Bob-Dubery
Well I'm still ploughing through the pile of goodies that arrived today. This is first impressions (in most cases) and they can be deceptive.
Camille O'Sullivan - Changeling. I saw Camille O'Sullivan in London in 2010. She was on a sort of cast of thousands type bill (OK... dozens) and she only got one song in the spotlight. But boy! She did an astonishing, hair raising performance of Jacques Brel's "Next". Nothing on this disc approaches that blazing intensity, but she's clearly a fine interpretative singer, doing fine versions of songs by, amongst others, Arcade Fire, Nine Inch Nails (the inevitable "Hurt", which she does well and she doesn't try to beat Johnny Cash at his own game), Nick Cave and Radiohead.
Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart - Take Me To God. World music, boot shaking bass grooves, dub, trance.... all put into the blender, and actually with some skill. I've heard this one before. Used to have it on CD some years ago. Suddenly it popped into my head so I replaced the long gone CD. Interesting to revisit it.
Loudon Wainwright III - Older Than My Old Man Now. A meditation on growing old (and older than one's parents). Typical lyrical fodder for Wainwright. Lots of guest players - Ramblin' Jack Elliot, John Scofield (great guitar on the opening track), several members of his extended family, Chris Smither and... errr... Dame Edna Everage. Typically wry Wainwright.
Still a few more to go, including that live Fleetwood Mac album that Singemonkey is always gaaning aan about.
Bob-Dubery
This morning it's that live Fleetwood Mac album that Singemonkey talked about in
his GFSA interview.
Oh my.... this is really very, very good.
singemonkey
X-rated Bob wrote:
This morning it's that live Fleetwood Mac album that Singemonkey talked about in
his GFSA interview.
Oh my.... this is really very, very good.
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Dreamed last night that John Mayall and Peter Green were playing, did I want to come see them. No I said, I'd seen them both play in 1999. A bit washed up. Then in walks Peter Green in his 20s with a sunburst Les Paul. I was gobsmacked. Then someone whispered to me, "He's a lookalike. But he can really play." And he could. Haha.
It's a Ramones morning for me.
Bob-Dubery
Carolina Chocolate Drops - Leaving Eden.
aubs1
Axis, Bold As Love ....... Jimi Hendrix
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singemonkey
X-rated Bob wrote:
Carolina Chocolate Drops - Leaving Eden.
Great record that.
Bob-Dubery
singemonkey wrote:
X-rated Bob wrote:
Carolina Chocolate Drops - Leaving Eden.
Great record that.
Yeah! One of many acts that I've been hearing about but not heard, so nice to put the disc in the player and find out that all the fuss is justified.
Squonk
Ben Howard - Every Kingdom - Young English "Folk" musician from Devon, I am really getting into this Album
Next it will be two Putumayo World Music Albums'
1. "Blues around the World" with some interesting artists - The Unseen Guest, Blues Etilicos, Big mama and Victor Uris, Bonnie Rait, Eric Bibb, Rory Block and many more. Almost completely acoustic and roots kind of stuff
2. "American Blues" - Keb Mo', Ruth Brown, Henry Gray, Eric Bibb, Tak Mahal, Sugar Pie Desanto and plenty others
giggsy
Squonk wrote:
Ben Howard - Every Kingdom - Young English "Folk" musician from Devon, I am really getting into this Album
Was listening to that last night (I think I might have picked up on it from a post of yours - thanks!) Very, very good - cant believe that voice comes from a singer in his early twenties. Got the deluxe version of the album, and on shuffle its hard to tell which are the songs which made the album and which ones are the 'bonus' tracks
Squonk
Sigur Ros - Takk
Saw the film "We Bought a Zoo" last week and noticed that Jonsi (from Sigur Ros) had composed the music, and then the article that Riaan posted.
Just had to have a listen
Jack-Flash-Jr
Six Organs of Admittance.... really enjoying the new album:
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Psean
Sibling Rivalry - Durban After Dark
Bob-Dubery
X-rated Bob wrote:
Carolina Chocolate Drops - Leaving Eden.
And now Waterson:Carthy's
Common Tongue which has got me tossing around the idea that a way to understand the bare bones Waterson:Carthy line up - Husband Martin, wife Norma and daughter Eliza - is as an English string band.
That said, for me the final track on the CD is the standout. Norma and Eliza hook up with several other members of the Waterson family for a fab acapella version of an old Baptist hymn "(Will There be any) Stars in my Crown".
epictring
Recently discovered my new favorite indie band: Silversun Pickups
Also listening to Rock & Roll band: Hey, Sugar
As well as Rock band: I, the Mighty and Enter Shikari
Psean
Jack Flash Jr wrote:
Six Organs of Admittance.... really enjoying the new album:
Really cool stuff. I must check out more ?
