Patrick Latimer writes: Collateralised Debt Obligations Those that can remember further back than last week will remember CDOs the packaged debts that brought capitalism to its knees in the last decade. Well here is the musical equivalent. Packaged reissues of forgotten performances from the past all nicely presented in a smart card CD holder. Now […]
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AD writes: On 20 August 1969, The Beatles–John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr–put the finishing touches on the Lennon/McCartney masterpiece, I Want You (She’s so Heavy) for their final album–and penultimate album release–Abbey Road: by some considered the best Rock and Pop album ever. It would be the last time all four […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnOXkedBmRs Said one viewer: Definitely my favorite album…1st with Neil Young. The singing really hits it, esp. with “Carry On”, Country Girl”, “Woodstock” and “Everybody, I Love you” standing out (for me)…”4&20″ is another piece of silk, with Stephen Stills using an all-‘E’ tuning. All great stuff.
Martin Chilton (The Telegraph) writes … Danny Thompson is celebrating his 75th birthday with a series of concerts with musical collaborators such as Richard Thompson and Donovan. Here the acoustic bass maestro talks about his varied career playing with folk and jazz greats and pop stars such as Kate Bush and Cliff Richard Continue HERE
Alex Fawcett Band – Working Class BluesCrawlback – SometimesSwamp Poets Duo – Delta FloodSamantha Fish – Leavin’ KindMarc Ford – Bye Bye SuzyAlias Smith & Jones – Hit & RunFive Points Gang – All Points BulletinWill Johns – I Heard You Love The BluesEdgar Winter – Rock ‘n’ Roll Hoochie KooThe Wilbur Project – Transmit […]
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A great back story can make a band. Take Staff Benda Bilili, a bunch of veteran Congolese paraplegic musicians, discovered living on the streets around Kinshasa zoo, playing home-made guitars and driving around in scary-looking motorbike wheelchairs that might have done earlier service in a Mad Max movie. How could they fail to make international […]
Ron writes: It’s not a tribute. It’s an insult. The whole line is: In Birmingham They Love the Governor, but we all did what we could do” meaning they tried to fight segregation. Not support it. MS writes: TIL. The more I hear about the meaning behind some Southern Rock songs the more I like […]
Classic JACK BRUCE album from 1980, the result of a unique collaboration between Bruce andmusicians BILLY COBHAM, CLEM CLEMPSON and DAVID SANCIOUS. A wonderful album of diversity, it saw JACK truly on form with such wonderful songs as ‘Hit And Run’, ‘Livin’ Without Ja’, ‘Dancing on Air’ and ‘Bird Alone’, all written with […]
Celebrate the 150th anniversary of composer Ralph Vaughan Williams with this special publication from our sister title Choir & Organ, produced in association with the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society. With a foreword by Sir Andrew Davis CBE, this special edition presents the broad spectrum of his compositional output, from orchestral works – including the popular The Lark Ascending – to chamber music, from […]
Valentina Lisitsa was ‘just another blonde Russian pianist’ until a shaky home-made video changed everything. Forty-six million YouTube hits later, she talks about her remarkable renaissance. MORE
Disc 1 1) Old Blue 03:24 2) My Back Pages/Baby What You Want Me to Do 06:32 3) Mr Spaceman 03:26 4) Time Between 02:38 5) Goin’ Back 04:26 6) Blue Suede Shoes 01:59 7) He Was A Friend of Mine 02:55 8) So You Want To Be a Rock ‘N’ Roll Star 02:35 9) […]
The recording on this CD, a show performed in October ’75 by the Mac-McVie-McVie- Buckingham-Nicks line up, three months after the release of their first album together, is an early illustration of the new Fleetwood Mac in their initial phase. 1. Intro 00:42 2. Station Man 06:47 3. Spare Me A Little 04:35 4. Rhiannon 07:53 5. Landslide 03:35 6. I’m […]
RJH writes: Paul Simon was asked why would a man who had just made love get up and wash his face? Simon replied, “Well, it’s the ’60s, so I can’t remember.” Paul Simon had suggested he is actually singing to St. Cecilia, the patron saint of music. The song might refer to the frustration of […]
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If You’re Just Warming up to the Blues, Check Out These Recordings Continues HERE
The Terraplanes Blues Band – Rattlesnake BluesBilly Gibbons – My Lucky CardPackrat’s Men Of The Swamp – Creepin’ BluesBluff City Backsliders – 0.44 BluesThe Jujubes – The Last ThingBlues Arcadia – Bad BoogalooThe 2:19 – Black Dog MoanTeed Up – Love Me Like You Used To DoJimmy Rogers – Chicago BoundDelta Moon – Clear Blu […]
Kate Molleson writes: Wandelweiser music feels extra appealing at the moment. Maybe it’s because the grace and quiet, honest fragility is a tonic against shouty geopolitical absolutism. The US composer Michael Pisaro pinpoints his encounter with his Wandelweiser stylistic brethren in the early 1990s as the most decisive moment in his career: “This literally saved […]
Known as “the hi-de-ho man”, Cab Calloway (1907-1994) was famed for his outrageous scat-singing and dress sense. But he also led a great band featuring the likes of Dizzy Gillespie. Geoffery Smith salutes a legendary jazz character. Details HERE
Esa-Pekka Salonen is the principal conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra in London. His career took off when he stood in at the last minute for a sick conductor when he was just 25. Almost 25 years later, he was recently named conductor of the year. 1. Love the music I think the most important thing […]
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Said one: “One of the world’s greatest bands! Great vocals, great guitar and great melody! I don’t understand how such a band can be so overlooked? I hope that they’re still together.” Said another ….. “Hauntingly beautiful. Love it!”