Comrades. I hope my post finds the World well. It's been quite a while since my last post, this is due to work commitments as a music teacher; moving home and setting up my studio with a plethora of vintage analog equipment. This has been one heck of a task as I've had to travel widely to purchase some classic studio hardware.
I was particularly pleased in being able to get a vintage Hammond B3 with a Lesley speaker the size of a wardrobe and the original seat. The beautiful gent who owned it was too old to keep it going so he sold it to me for almost nothing because he loved that it was going to be played, enjoyed, restored and used on recordings. Occasionally good things happen to good people.
If you are interested, I will be posting lots of strange music in the next few months.
Good to be back.
Wednesday, 10 October 2018
Saturday, 10 September 2016
Jimmy Dean And The Trailmen: Gunfighter Ballads
Yehaaw! A brilliant album.
My Celtic heritage knows this song as something else. Do you know what?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streets_of_Laredo_(song)
The Polperro Fishermen's Choir: Two Albums From Polperro Cornwall
*Where I live, in my part of merry-old England*, we have our own carols that are peculiar to our villages. These are heard nowhere else in the world; written by locals and now sadly appropriated by musicologists who feel it's their right to glorify their GOD (whatever that might be) and lesser the tradition of a local innocent religion. But we accept this.
The Celts of Cornwall often feel as though they are privileged in their uniqueness; they're not. Many Celts live all over Britain and never treat people as badly as these Cornwallian cocks do.
*Where I live, in my part of merry-old England *we treat everyone with the respect they deserve. No one is an outcomer, or incomer or whatever you dumb-asses call it. Interbreeding doesn't make you special.
Anyway!
These albums show where the American tradition really came from. If a country appropriates God then they better back it up with history because your God came from YOUR homeland.
The Platters: Siempre The Platters
Utterly magical music. A Spanish (Mercury) album from 1962. Classic songs like Sixteen Tons, Only you and The Great Pretender take you to a time where musicians did it all live.
Alan Hull: Pipedream
The recording of the vinyl is a little scratchy on track one but then it's pretty perfect. Alan Hull's first solo album after the break-up of Lindisfarne. All a bit pedestrian for my taste but someone will love it.
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