A quick glance around the schedules

[Lat-Literal]

Coming up soon Baaba Maal on Private Passions (this Sun 24th) and then Celtic Connections. Definitely a 'do not miss'

Some very interesting posts for which many thanks.

Full marks to Mark Coles.

Petroc turned up on "From Our Own Correspondent" (R4) on Saturday as did yoiking.

Looking forward to Baaba Maal on "Private Passions".

[Globaltruth]

Looking forward to Baaba Maal on "Private Passions".

Sometimes I think Michael Berkeley has the best job on r3. That was an excellent programme, - I want to seek out more about Epopee Mandingue particularly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkzFYdv-ms8

[johncorrigan]

I heard reference to this on Radio 2 last week where Simon Mayo told Bonnie Raitt that Woody Guthrie had written a song decrying the 'racist landlord Trump', father of the property billionaire and presidential 'Ihopenotful' Donald. Here's the song, though not by Woody, and an article from the Grauny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNzFB5SYV2g

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/feb/02/woody-guthrie-songs-fighting-donald-trump-from-beyond-the-grave

[Globaltruth]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06zr3zl - R4 doing their bit for the music of Brazil.


(The Trump/Guthrie story is fascinating JC, there's an anthem waiting right there.)

[Lat-Literal]

Coming up soon Baaba Maal on Private Passions (this Sun 24th) and then Celtic Connections. Definitely a 'do not miss'

Michael Berkeley conducted an informative and sympathetic interview with him and the mixture of music was delightful. I hadn't realised that he was interested in classical and jazz music and applaud his emphasis on finding links. The Epopee Mandingue (Soundjata Keita) by the Mali National Instrumental Ensemble was especially notable. Wonderful voices.

I heard reference to this on Radio 2 last week where Simon Mayo told Bonnie Raitt that Woody Guthrie had written a song decrying the 'racist landlord Trump', father of the property billionaire and presidential 'Ihopenotful' Donald. Here's the song, though not by Woody, and an article from the Grauny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNzFB5SYV2g

http://www.theguardian.com/music/201...yond-the-grave

Fascinating stuff.

I get the impresssion that Don is about as stable as Phil Spector but without any musical talent. On an entirely different note, it was only recently that I discovered the similarity between "Love Will Tear Us Apart" and the Crystals' "Then He Kissed Me", especially in the former's refrain. Arguably, Spector also gave the Wall of Sound to George Martin.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06zr3zl - R4 doing their bit for the music of Brazil.

An interesting programme that was attractively presented. I would have missed it had you not flagged it up GT. It is staggering really given that the late 1960s were not exactly full of radio and television stations or modern marketing techniques and also pre internet just how quickly the Sgt Pepper thing flew internationally in a matter of months. To Eastern Europe and Latin America and across to Africa and the Far East, that and other popular music of the time had before any clampdown an ability to cross boundaries like nothing else.

The left wing versus right wing aspects have been blurred as the years have passed. What was definitively believed to be the former and depicted as such was in effect a response by youth against rigid authoritarianism of whatever persuasion. As Monica implied, Tropicalia was as much of a liberal people's movement as much as it was a musical one although the symbolism of music was paramount. The music itself was interesting and, of course, challenging but notwithstanding that some of the strings could at a push have been provided by Charles Stepney the earlier purer bossa nova was probably more accessible. Its idealism - albeit naive - perhaps ran in parallel to the Beach Boys' surf sound.

I thought that the content of the programme was pretty good in it helped to clarify the developments of Brazilian music during the sixties. As is often the case, the perceived villains became the respected ones both there and abroad. In fact, as this article about Monica - who shares a surname with a famous Mexican revolutionary of the pre sixties period - reveals, Brazilian music of the sixties is arguably more popular now outside Brazil. I will try to locate some of her music including that recorded with Robert Wyatt.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/apr/18/worldmusic.jazz

[johncorrigan]

Cerys is talking to Mulatu on her BBC World Service show this month.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03lkp3l

[Lat-Literal]

Cerys is talking to Mulatu on her BBC World Service show this month.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03lkp3l

Thanks JC.

This was a repeat on BBC4 TV but I watched it and found it very enjoyable:

Bob Harris - My Nashville:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0293k6w

There is/was also this weekend some sort of four day pop-up country music station linked to Radio 2.

I didn't really understand the concept or research it and I fear I might have missed it.

[johncorrigan]

This was a repeat on BBC4 TV but I watched it and found it very enjoyable:

Bob Harris - My Nashville:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0293k6w

There is/was also this weekend some sort of four day pop-up country music station linked to Radio 2.

I didn't really understand the concept or research it and I fear I might have missed it.

I never got it either, Lat, except Kacey Musgraves was on somewhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZfj2Ir3GgQ

However I reckon you'll be interested in Friday night's BBC4 offering.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5P0PHYBTwhpsPqtbwPZ0yXx/loretta-lynn-still-a-mountain-girl

...and I see the great Sissy Spacek's in it too.

[Lat-Literal]

I never got it either, Lat, except Kacey Musgraves was on somewhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZfj2Ir3GgQ

However I reckon you'll be interested in Friday night's BBC4 offering.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5P0PHYBTwhpsPqtbwPZ0yXx/loretta-lynn-still-a-mountain-girl

...and I see the great Sissy Spacek's in it too.

Definitely.



And Kacey Musgraves is growing on me.

Whatever she says about her parents not being hipsters, she lives now on the East side of town.

I reckon that makes musical sense.

I've never been to Nashville but I like that side best.

[Globaltruth]

...and I see the great Sissy Spacek's in it too.

Sissy Spacek?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=infbptoN4sg

Quite a classy soundtrack in fact...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/soundtrack

[Lat-Literal]

Sissy Spacek?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=infbptoN4sg

Quite a classy soundtrack in fact...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/soundtrack

A nice clip although luckily I don't get the darker aspects.

[johncorrigan]

Sissy Spacek?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=infbptoN4sg

Quite a classy soundtrack in fact...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/soundtrack

You're not thinking Shelley Duval by any chance, Global?
They were both in this total classic...oh how I loved them.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075612/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

[johncorrigan]

I heard an advert for a 50th anniversary celebration of the Bonzos had been on Archive on 4 last Saturday. Here's the intro:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b072zn42

[Lat-Literal]

I never got it either, Lat, except Kacey Musgraves was on somewhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZfj2Ir3GgQ

However I reckon you'll be interested in Friday night's BBC4 offering.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5P0PHYBTwhpsPqtbwPZ0yXx/loretta-lynn-still-a-mountain-girl

...and I see the great Sissy Spacek's in it too.

Friday night's offering was absolutely fantastic, JC. I am a very big fan of hers now. An outstanding talent. I think she has considerable depths lyrically as well as an ability to convey subjects with apparent simplicity. Given her limited education, I sort of wonder about her IQ. Could it be Dylan high? Ditto Willie Nelson actually. It might seem like a patronizing point to make but, with the best will in the world, that is not the most recognized strength in country music. There is also something very human about her clan, notwithstanding they are self-confessed rednecks and without apology for being so. It's in their faces. It's especially in their eyes - particularly Loretta's - as well as their ways.

I'd go further. Without wishing to sound weirder than usual, I'm not surprised to hear that she had a sense of her son's death when in a hospital. There is a spiritual quality to her persona along with the grit and the homespun folksy philosophy. And, of course, there is the more obvious point that while her background was tough, it was accompanied by values, a certain at-odds-with-it innocence, an absence of 21st century posing, business sense and real warmth. Captivated I was by it all and I may well have to view it again.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b073rgy1/arena-loretta-lynn-still-a-mountain-girl

(oh, and granddaughter Emmy Rose certainly deserves a record deal if she hasn't one already - great guitar playing that combines tradition and a contemporary feel)

Here's her "sister", the aforementioned Sissy Spacek, with the late Levon Helm - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RIAGvFzIxI

...and Loretta with Willie Nelson from the wonderful new album - Lay Me Down - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE2jkXyUKC0

[johncorrigan]

Friday night's offering was absolutely fantastic, JC. I am a very big fan of hers now. An outstanding talent. I think she has considerable depths lyrically as well as an ability to convey subjects with apparent simplicity. Given her limited education, I sort of wonder about her IQ. Could it be Dylan high? Ditto Willie Nelson actually. It might seem like a patronizing point to make but, with the best will in the world, that is not the most recognized strength in country music. There is also something very human about her clan, notwithstanding they are self-confessed rednecks and without apology for being so. It's in their faces. It's especially in their eyes - particularly Loretta's - as well as their ways.

I'd go further. Without wishing to sound weirder than usual, I'm not surprised to hear that she had a sense of her son's death when in a hospital. There is a spiritual quality to her persona along with the grit and the homespun folksy philosophy. And, of course, there is the more obvious point that while her background was tough, it was accompanied by values, a certain at-odds-with-it innocence, an absence of 21st century posing, business sense and real warmth. Captivated I was by it all and I may well have to view it again.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b073rgy1/arena-loretta-lynn-still-a-mountain-girl

(oh, and granddaughter Emmy Rose certainly deserves a record deal if she hasn't one already - great guitar playing that combines tradition and a contemporary feel)

Here's her "sister", the aforementioned Sissy Spacek, with the late Levon Helm - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RIAGvFzIxI

...and Loretta with Willie Nelson from the wonderful new album - Lay Me Down - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE2jkXyUKC0

I'll go watch that Lat...not Mrs C's cuppa tea so gave it a miss last night. Great performance by Sissy...think she won an Oscar for her portrayal of Loretta in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' - at that time she was my favourite actress. Don't see much of her these days though she was great in Lynch's 'Straight Story' a good number of years back.