The Somewhat Delayed Song Thread

[Lat-Literal]

And if there had never been a Dylan, a Morrison, a Mitchell, what then of the status of Neil Young?

Individual, awkward, a poet of sorts, in essence utterly romantic:

Only Love Can Break Your Heart - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOl01vKXv6I
Heart of Gold - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh44QPT1mPE
Harvest Moon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2MtEsrcTTs
Old Man (Look at My Life) : Live - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An2a1_Do_fc

(Yet again, depth in simplicity......)

[johncorrigan]

And if there had never been a Dylan, a Morrison, a Mitchell, what then of the status of Neil Young?

Individual, awkward, a poet of sorts, in essence utterly romantic:

Only Love Can Break Your Heart - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOl01vKXv6I
Heart of Gold - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh44QPT1mPE
Harvest Moon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2MtEsrcTTs
Old Man (Look at My Life) : Live - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An2a1_Do_fc

(Yet again, depth in simplicity......)

Four Strong Winds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP9UjLeLN5A

[cloughie]

Four Strong Winds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP9UjLeLN5A

A great song written by Ian Tyson, The Searchers did a great version of it. He also wrote 'Someday Soon' which Julie Felix recorded back in the day as also did Judy Collins. Both excellent.

[johncorrigan]

A great song written by Ian Tyson, The Searchers did a great version of it. He also wrote 'Someday Soon' which Julie Felix recorded back in the day as also did Judy Collins. Both excellent.

Had never realised Neily didn't write it, cloughie. 'Comes a Time', the LP I know it from, is one of my favourite Neil Young records. I know Judy Collins' version of 'Someday Soon' pretty well. I listened to her a lot back then. Was thinking of Judy Blue Eyes when Lat was talking of simplicity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWTDgc96bg8

[cloughie]

Had never realised Neily didn't write it, cloughie. 'Comes a Time', the LP I know it from, is one of my favourite Neil Young records. I know Judy Collins' version of 'Someday Soon' pretty well. I listened to her a lot back then. Was thinking of Judy Blue Eyes when Lat was talking of simplicity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWTDgc96bg8

By the way jc there's a CSN&Y link, Steve Stills plays guitar and I think produced the 'Who knows where the time goes' album which Someday Soon is from. 48 years on still one near the top of my album stack!

[gurnemanz]

Four Strong Winds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP9UjLeLN5A

I've known the song for a long time. Popular in 60s folk clubs. I've only got two recordings of it , both acquired quite recently and both good:

Johnny Cash on American V

Bob Dylan & The Band - Bootleg 11, Basement Tapes Complete, CD2 (of 6!) rec 1967 but not issued till 2014. Blocked on YouTube.

[Lat-Literal]

All being reasonably well, it looks like I may fulfill my one remaining ambition on the second Sunday of October.

Holy Island.......and Tynemouth/Whitley Bay........here we come!

Lindisfarne:

Angels at Eleven - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqaElMGJ8zE
Winter Song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg_dsk7u26A
Dingly Dell - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxzdA60uDrU
Roll on River - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2NrVrhtJLA
Clear White Light - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfhMZeb-1oo

Among other things, many not especially musical, it is surely no coincidence that probably the best - and certainly the most misrepresented - semi-mainstream British band of the 1970s came from the same region as by far the most outstanding semi-mainstream British musical group of the 2000s (actually light years ahead of all the "competition"). Yep...it's this again:

The Unthanks - King of Rome - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fL3E8FRxiw

[cloughie]

All being reasonably well, it looks like I may fulfill my one remaining ambition on the second Sunday of October.

Holy Island.......and Tynemouth/Whitley Bay........here we come!

Angels at Eleven - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqaElMGJ8zE
Winter Song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg_dsk7u26A
Dingly Dell - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxzdA60uDrU
Roll on River - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2NrVrhtJLA
Clear White Light - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfhMZeb-1oo

Or:
Run for home - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLwTuOextNI
Lady Eleanor - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUe4JARmdiM
Meet me on the Corner - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YM8EFjEY5s

[Lat-Literal]

Or:
Run for home - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLwTuOextNI
Lady Eleanor - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUe4JARmdiM
Meet me on the Corner - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YM8EFjEY5s

You did it for me.

There might be another five yet because I am in that frame of mind - that's warming to an already very warm theme.

McAloon/Prefab, the "cleverest" of the 1980s, Spennymoor, Durham; the Watersons resident in Robin Hood's Bay etc.

(I can't begin to describe how much Alan Hull made a difference to my life and many others, dead at 50, awful, that)

[Lat-Literal]

Ray Jackson is on lead vocals on some here - but it is mainly "Alan feeling sorry for himself".

The accent is on the commercial/conventional - not that most of it sold.

But it ends with what would be the extraordinary if it wasn't that he'd done it in other songs:

100 Miles To Liverpool - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqOf8NxyyRw
Warm Feeling - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zoi3WmtcGec
Nights - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvdmeni-KBQ
The Evening - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEKWATKVXVc
.....Good To Be Here? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb3ku_XDQjw

There is a whole bunch of other stuff that is much more roots based - they could do anything.

"Nights" which, in truth, is just 1950s pastiche was/is a very pivotal song in my background.

[johncorrigan]

By the way jc there's a CSN&Y link, Steve Stills plays guitar and I think produced the 'Who knows where the time goes' album which Someday Soon is from. 48 years on still one near the top of my album stack!

I also have a Judy Collins LP that is near the top of the stack for me, cloughie - my wonderful Aunt Sadie had 'Wildflowers' and whenever I stayed over there I used to play it to death. Introduced me to Joni, Lenny, Jacques and it still does it for me. There's a couple of Judy's own songs on it. 'Albatross' still makes me tingle, as does 'Since you asked'...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVNlQ3ajqFk

[cloughie]

I also have a Judy Collins LP that is near the top of the stack for me, cloughie - my wonderful Aunt Sadie had 'Wildflowers' and whenever I stayed over there I used to play it to death. Introduced me to Joni, Lenny, Jacques and it still does it for me. There's a couple of Judy's own songs on it. 'Albatross' still makes me tingle, as does 'Since you asked'...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVNlQ3ajqFk

Yes, jc, I love that one two. Joni's Michael from Mountains and both Sides Now in impeccable performances! She never really pushed her own songwriting long term but then she was such a great interpreter of others, Mitchell, Cohen, dylan and others. The third album of hers which I also love is In my Life which has Cohen's Dress Rehearsal Rag and Dylan's Just like Tom Thumb's Blues. All three of the one's we've discussed are in the 5fer, together with Judith and Fifth Album - worth a tenner of anyones money! Good Songs sung well with tasteful arrangements.

[Conchis]

Yes, jc, I love that one two. Joni's Michael from Mountains and both Sides Now in impeccable performances! She never really pushed her own songwriting long term but then she was such a great interpreter of others, Mitchell, Cohen, dylan and others. The third album of hers which I also love is In my Life which has Cohen's Dress Rehearsal Rag and Dylan's Just like Tom Thumb's Blues. All three of the one's we've discussed are in the 5fer, together with Judith and Fifth Album - worth a tenner of anyones money! Good Songs sung well with tasteful arrangements.

Judy Collins' live album 'Living' from 1971is a very downbeat affair (especially for a live album) but it contains some great songs and performances.

[cloughie]

Judy Collins' live album 'Living' from 1971is a very downbeat affair (especially for a live album) but it contains some great songs and performances.

Interesting, Conchis - when you say downbeat, are you referring to poor sound quality or is that OK. Checking on the track listing it appears to have some tracks not available on hervstudio recordings.

[Conchis]

Interesting, Conchis - when you say downbeat, are you referring to poor sound quality or is that OK. Checking on the track listing it appears to have some tracks not available on hervstudio recordings.

No: the sound quality is fine but the album has a depressed and somewhat listless feel, not what you'd expect from a live album (there is minimal evidence of an audience but I'm assured the album was recorded 'live'). The fact that there are two Leonard Cohen covers may account for some of the mood. Despite what I say, I would highly recommend the album - it's very evocative of a time in American society when disillusionment was setting in (the Viet Nam ward dragging on, Nixon in the White House, etc.). It ends with a version of Dylan's ....Tom Thumb's Blues which is superior (i'd argue) to the studio version on In My Life. It's almost certainly on Spotify, so go check it out! :)