Newly released / found music of a certain sort

[johncorrigan]

Or jc we could have Paul Jones' take lamenting the demise of SBW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM5_P1ybxI8

Interesting white boy blues pedigree of the song cowritten by Jack Bruce.

He's a fine moothie player that Paul Jones, cloughie. There's some good bass in there too...could that be Jack B do you think?

[Lat-Literal]

In their Twitter accounts, Paul Sherratt and Andy Kershaw are paralleling each other in their abandonment of music for old politics. Andy actually said on the World at One he hadn't been enthused by anything since Tinariwen. Charlie G would still have been talking about music. I miss him a lot. I like the blues but am unable to orientate around it. I need to be properly spoon fed much as what occurred with the country thread. Everyone then did a fantastic job, perhaps especially Paul, so while I still didn't have an overview I had much more of a loving sort of map. I could start an equivalent blues thread - the teaching in such big idea things can't be underestimated - though the range is less. Or we could just do Brexit.

There is a bit more. I'm not entirely sure that Kathryn Tickell is quite the answer to Lopa Kothari who I would never unduly berate. Each is ok. MAK - well, in fairness, I don't fully come from the Scottish angle. Verity is Verity. They are all fine but I want someone who sounds like an enthusiast and a broadcaster who gels with me. Cerys is definitely the nearest but not quite close enough. I don't think it's a woman thing. I reject french frank's analysis. Lucy Duran certainly worked for me. Max etc. At most, mebbe. Mark Coles could be brought back.

[cloughie]

He's a fine moothie player that Paul Jones, cloughie. There's some good bass in there too...could that be Jack B do you think?

I would say so they were both 'Manfreds' around that time, before Paul went solo and Jack to Cream!

[johncorrigan]

I notice that the Congos' 'Heart of the Congos' has been re-released, so a double-dose of Carib delight this morning...
'Can't Come In' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YagIa2a4ADE

[Lat-Literal]

I notice that the Congos' 'Heart of the Congos' has been re-released, so a double-dose of Carib delight this morning...
'Can't Come In' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YagIa2a4ADE

That's a very good album.

From "Poor David's Almanack" - release date 11 August 2017

David Rawlings and Gillian Welch - Cumberland Gap - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjnTSBhUSlw

[johncorrigan]

Offa Rex is a combination of Olivia Chaney and the Decemberists. They've made a record of old British folk tunes - wee bit Fairport-ish from the golden days. Here's 'Flash Company'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04zzHaKuHbE

I like it.

[Globaltruth]

Offa Rex is a combination of Olivia Chaney and the Decemberists. They've made a record of old British folk tunes - wee bit Fairport-ish from the golden days. Here's 'Flash Company'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04zzHaKuHbE

I like it.

Tricky, as that track is a bit of a Norma W. standard and I can't help but recall the times I heard her sing it. Here is a good recording in better times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byvKad9d4os

[johncorrigan]

Tricky, as that track is a bit of a Norma W. standard and I can't help but recall the times I heard her sing it. Here is a good recording in better times
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byvKad9d4os

Grand it is, Global. I have to say that I am rather enjoying Offa Rex' record. Very fine Dennyish version of 'Willie o' Winsbury' on it which I can't see on youtube, but it is on spotty.

https://open.spotify.com/track/6t5XrmtermRQ1stD6287zu

[johncorrigan]

I see Neily's released a record that was due in '76. Lots of stuff that appeared elsewhere in various forms (Yuma, Rust etc), but I hadn't heard the title track, 'Hitchhiker' before (though apparently it has been around for a wee while).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0ckHW3MFjk

[Lat-Literal]

I see Neily's released a record that was due in '76. Lots of stuff that appeared elsewhere in various forms (Yuma, Rust etc), but I hadn't heard the title track, 'Hitchhiker' before (though apparently it has been around for a wee while).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0ckHW3MFjk

Yes, JC, I heard and I was going to get around to it but you have beaten me to it and now it's on my decks so to speak. Interesting. Maybe I was wrong about Jack Leven having been Britain's Springsteen. Neil Young continues to really wear it on his sleeve. One night of recording. 1976. Many songs are featured in different forms elsewhere. But what to make of it?

The lyrics have always cut in and out. One dismisses some of it and, crucially, takes in other parts more tenderly than the lyrics of anyone else. The track you mention is about drug usage. Elsewhere, there is a reference to Nixon which, if nothing else, reminds us how far we have all come. The numbers seem different these days. You can look at all of them from 1976 to 2017. The first time seems so far away when you focus on the arithmetic. Panic. Otherwise, bizarrely, one looks at it all - whatever it all is - directly in its "present day" face.

I am not sure I can understand it. In contrast, I do instinctively feel that I understand Neil. At the end of the day, I think it is that voice and the harmonica for me even more than those snippets of lyric - "why are people so unkind?" - and his elemental way. Still can't get over the human storm I witnessed joyously at what might have been my last Glastonbury. Unique.

Neil Young - Give Me Strength - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNCo8aKPUa0

(And, yes, I like it very much indeed)

I've got to do it although it could only be the rain turning into electronic white light when there - I was alone, 46, had become much more wary about people, almost vulnerable, and I decided that the best and safest place was in the front row - the front row, you might just get a glimpse of me with my hands placed to the stage steadying myself - he delivered!!)

Neil Young - Rockin' in the Free World - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4edwbmjLokY

(Glastonbury 2009)

(It might not be, there isn't much left but I have a feeling there is a festival or two in me; in older age the inclination is to become more and more unpredictable if that were possible)

[Globaltruth]

The Young ‘uns have a new album - this info courtesy of The Guardian who are also featuring a series on modern underground music written by the consistently good Alex Petridis

https://www.theguardian.com/music/ng-interactive/2017/oct/09/where-is-the-musical-underground-in-2017?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Bringing those two strands together :

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JQMf1vNZBzY

[johncorrigan]

The Young ‘uns have a new album -

They're talking to Strangers for their CD, Global. Here's Ghafoor in his bus in Teeside.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDtt2yRWQV0

[johncorrigan]

Not Konono, but KOKOKO! - from Kinshasa. Heard them in session on Peel's son's show on the radio 6 yesterday and pretty mighty fine they were - all those home made instruments making a good appearance here!

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

[johncorrigan]

That young Malian outfit Songhoy Blues featuring Iggy Pop - Sahara

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrTXSrGYL7U

[Globaltruth]

Not Konono, but KOKOKO! - from Kinshasa. Heard them in session on Peel's son's show on the radio 6 yesterday and pretty mighty fine they were - all those home made instruments making a good appearance here!

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

Quite possibly my favourite music video of the year JC. As simple as that...