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[johncorrigan]

JC it's down to you.

....ain't that some kinda Joni Mitchell song?
I really like Sekouba Bambino's voice - Mr Shed's been playing him - but the backing music is uninteresting.
I loved the Damien Dempsey song, Chris and Stevie, about the suicide of two of his friends, though there were some terrible rhymes in it - but I found it very moving.
Duncan Chisolm, as I said and of course King of Birds, and there's one after Sam Lee, who's in sesh next week, but I can't remember which one it was.

That one that I couldn't remember was Kardemimmit from Finland - rather unusual and beautiful.

[Globaltruth]

.... Sam Lee, who's in sesh next week....

I refer my learned colleagues to my previous post on this fellow and the word 'ubiquity'

[Oilrig]

Of course, a person's allowed to respond to the various albums that may cross the desk. Sam is a smart lad and he's made a big impression across the board. His album is also one of the most arresting I've listened to this year, IMVHO, and so I hope you enjoy the session tomorrow! He has a sinuousness of vocal command and a curiosity that just draws you in. Gwan, gwan, gwan, gwan...!

[johncorrigan]

I refer my learned colleagues to my previous post on this fellow and the word 'ubiquity'

Can't do you any favours there on the wordplay front, me learned colleague, but I did, many years ago work in an establishment of some renown in the Glasgow West End called the Ubiquitous Chip - Ronnie Clydesdale, the boss, called it that because the place was surrounded by establishments that dealt in chips - and of course, the wheeze from Ronnie was that you couldn't get chips in there. Many other things - murals, late drinks, chocpots - but not chips!

Is Ms Oilrig on live tomorrow night?

[Globaltruth]

Of course, a person's allowed to respond to the various albums that may cross the desk. Sam is a smart lad and he's made a big impression across the board. His album is also one of the most arresting I've listened to this year, IMVHO, and so I hope you enjoy the session tomorrow! He has a sinuousness of vocal command and a curiosity that just draws you in. Gwan, gwan, gwan, gwan...!

Course you are Oilrig & I do like his stuff that I've heard. But ( you knew that but was coming...)
I get a tad frustrated when there is much other good stuff that doesn't get a single play &, in the case of Mr Lee, when he is attributed a uniqueness that he doesn't have - again, not by you, and, to be fair to him, probably a quality not even sought by him. Who remembers The Murder Ballads? The work of Broadcaster? There's more of course, but I think I've done another list somewhere else this week

I'll be giving the show the usual keen & curmudgeonly attention when I return to what passes for civilisation...

[johncorrigan]

when I return to what passes for civilisation...

Scotland, I assume Global.
On the subject of Mr Lee, he's got a good voice but it's all a bit worthy for me and I wasn't really convinced by him. But I was convinced by Oilrig's Celtic choices - The Rankin Family - terrific! I heard the Calum Stewart and Lauren MacColl track on Radio Scotty the other night and it's just wonderful! And the fifteen minutes of 'De Temps Antan and audience at the Albany Brasserie in Joliette' was sheer generosity - wonder if that'll turn up on a World Routes recording some time - if it is, I may repeat a number of whirls around the kitchen in the years to come - I need the exercise.

I shouldn't forget to mention 'Mexican Institute of Sound' - rather tasty; and an old bit of Youssou just as a bit of a reminder.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01n1thy

[Globaltruth]

I'm sure there are parts of Scotland that are civilised JC...

With regard to Mr Lee, I'll concur with your neat summary & move on I think. Although I do disagree with some of the sweeping generalisations he made...about gypsies as well as folk music. The music itself was an agreeable monotone. But not of (for example) Lhasa de Sala's perfect single tone quality. Harrumph


Seckou Keita followed by Youssou n'Dour worked for me - mellow if you know what I mean, and, yes,Gilmour & Roberts, we had travelled Over Snake Pass that very day - a mere driving bagatelle after a week on the Llyn Peninsula (where I found a paucity of local music - no sign of the Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog apparently they were there somewhere, but on the basis of 1 track I'm not too concerned - so it was the oystercatchers vs the crows who put on quite a good auditory turn one afternoon - or perhaps it was for a tern?

It's very simple - Oilrig should definitely have MORE airtime not less; one of the great pleasures about returning home was listening to her show on a decent pair of Quad speakers, accompanied by a fine cup of Peruvian Tunka Mayo (it's coffee not salad cream) spiked with some old cognac.

[Paul Sherratt]

Mr & Mrs GT, World on 3 with Mr Lee, at home

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JkAOHCQk8Vg/Thuh6A78WmI/AAAAAAAAAeE/qBb2xYOnzuE/s1600/Quad57pipeMusica113-05-200016-04-56.jpg

[johncorrigan]

Mr & Mrs GT, World on 3 with Mr Lee, at home
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JkAOHCQk8V...0016-04-56.jpg

[Quarky]

Working on MAK's shows, and I have to say I'm enjoying them more and more.

But to a hard-rocker like me, it's all very -errr - toneful????

[johncorrigan]

But to a hard-rocker like me, it's all very -errr - toneful????

Very true Oddball - it can get a bit quiet over here - mind you, a wee while back Lopa played some Polish psycho folk metal and my Abernethy almost jumped into my Horlicks (other sweet dreams' beverages are available). Can't find the specific track but if you have Spotty they were called 'Zywiolak' and all Wo3 listeners have been promised a three-minute warning in future.

http://open.spotify.com/track/7gqqQtCYFHyGXlJwS35ECI

[Globaltruth]

Working on MAK's shows, and I have to say I'm enjoying them more and more.

But to a hard-rocker like me, it's all very -errr - toneful????

Well you may want to make sure you give Verity a listen this week

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01n6rwk

A self-confessed fan of Metallica in her teens, she still slips in the odd heavy track. For example, it was through her I came across Recoil...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it1CzJxUJ4w

to be continued over on her thread when we've heard what she's got in store for us this week.

[Paul Sherratt]

Anyone wanting to hear more on those diamonds from the texas dust might like to go here for an hour :

http://www.prx.org/pieces/83376-the-lost-odessa-tapes

Seeing Jimmie Dale & Butch Hancock at The Band On The Wall over twenty years ago remains a truly treasured memory.
And waking up during the bowling alley scene of a late-night showing of 'The Big Lebowski' one of the strangest !

http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/uponsun/lebowski_smokey.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sYUDfBi8tJ8/TiNsUXNKlRI/AAAAAAAAAJk/5_8OFD17EQg/s1600/BigLebowski_065Pyxurz.jpg

[johncorrigan]

Anyone wanting to hear more on those diamonds from the texas dust might like to go here for an hour :

http://www.prx.org/pieces/83376-the-lost-odessa-tapes

Seeing Jimmie Dale & Butch Hancock at The Band On The Wall over twenty years ago remains a truly treasured memory.

Me too Paul - AK played 'Dallas' on his R1 show and then said JDG and BH were playing Perth that weekend - in front of a small and very enthusiastic audience it remains one of the great concerts I ever saw. Thanks for the radio programme - really enjoyable - what a magnificent voice Jimmie has; and here he is doing a slightly different arrangement of the song with another great voice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP_IuplZjyc

[Paul Sherratt]

It's an odd experience listening to MAK in bed on an ipad ...