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Post by Alan on May 1, 2007 10:40:24 GMT
I think one one the great things about British music is that there all of these kind of hidden gems to be found, once you start digging around. Although saying that Wyatt's back catalogue is huge. Theres all the stuff on Blue Horizon too that Mark introduced me too, looks like an expensive hobby though
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Post by faceless on May 1, 2007 10:42:16 GMT
Rory Mcleod is great, I love it when people sing in there own accents it makes the performance more personal. He is also a fantastic musician with great rhythm. He has an amazing way of combing english folk with blues.
Paul James is another artist that I think is a little special his album acoustic blues feels traditional yet quite fresh quite difficult to achieve.
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Post by Michael Messer on May 1, 2007 13:39:31 GMT
Do you mean the Canadian, Paul James, that made an album on Stony Plain Records sometime about 20 years ago? I heard the album about 15 years ago and had a cassette copy for a while, but it got chewed up in the car.....either by the cassette player or the dog.....and that was the last I heard of Mr James, until today! Being a big John Hammond fan, anyone who claimed he was an influence back then, I would have to check them out. Just found it on the net...what would we do without it Shine On, Michael.
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Post by faceless on May 1, 2007 14:14:13 GMT
yes thats the album. However the cover is enough to put anyone off of buying it. But once you get past the stupid picture it is a fantastic album. There is something slightly unsettling about it, I don't know what it is but it adds great character and keeps my attention for the entire 40 minutes.
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Post by Bill Stig on May 1, 2007 16:17:26 GMT
Talking of British music I found an old tape that someone had made for me many years ago - Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated featuring Dick Heckstall Smith and Art Themen on saxes. It's a wonderful album with the cream of British jazz playing with the French born blues man Alexis Korner. It's all instrumental so unfortunately there's none of that Korner gravely voice, but he plays some wonderful gravely guitar - this must be what it would have sounded like if Charley Patton had played with Charley Mingus. I had been trying to get hold of a copy as my taped copy was getting worn and I've just found out that it's been re released. It won't be the same on remastered CD though, I'd miss the crackles from the vinyl it was taped from.
Bill
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2007 17:09:00 GMT
I’m currently listening to Doug Macleod (the CD is called Dubb). I’ve only just discovered him and like his stuff a lot so far, I don’t know how I missed him previously. He’s got a fantastic voice and his playing is rather good too.
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Post by faceless on May 3, 2007 7:19:31 GMT
I saw Doug live when he last toured this country. If you like his cd's he is 100 time better live (but then thats the case with most performers). You will find some fantastic clips on 'you tube' of him when he was in liverpool. I had to laugh when I saw him though, during the interval he would offer to sign the CD that people had just purchased. The only trouble was that his latest CD 'Where I Been' has a black booklet and Doug had chosen a black marker pen to sign the booklet. To me this seemed to be a pointless excursive, but every one seemed happy, or just to polite to say anything.
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Post by Gerry C on May 4, 2007 14:33:17 GMT
This will link you directly to the Dubbster. Man, he is fearsome!!
Cheerily,
Gerry C
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Post by 1928triolian on May 5, 2007 12:21:01 GMT
Hi everybody! here's what is shining my life at the moment:
- pre war: BLIND JOE REYNOLDS, great singing, great sliding, I think Bob Dylan had more than one listening to "Nehi Blues" to record his own version of Broke Down Engine (wonderful, anyway,,,)
- modern blues : MM's Lucky Charms... the more fresh, intense, innovative since 1999' Trike by Bob Log III and Too Bad Jim by Burnside. I just think, Michael, you did a melting album, with a great sound, too.
But my main listening is 1969 Son House At Home, it's a man at the end of his experience in this world, and ready for another world. Readiness is all, as Hamlet says.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2007 17:53:03 GMT
I'm enjoying Chris Smither's Leave the Light On at the moment, it's an excellent album.
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Post by Alan on May 9, 2007 21:42:37 GMT
I think that YouTube has started to rot my brain, I just spent all day working and surfing through the easy listening links. Never knew that Jose Feliciano & Johnny Cash did a duet
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Post by Michael Messer on May 10, 2007 10:48:17 GMT
Wow.....that is excellent! 'I Guess Things Happen That Way' is lovely. I think I have an audio recording of that somewhere. Jose's 'Earl's Breakdown' is wonderful. What a great player! I think he is in regular tuning with the top string down to D. (EADGBD) ----which gives him the best of both for a breakdown in G. Very cool indeed Those Johnny Cash shows were really good. They were similar in format to Jools Holland's 'Later' BBC shows; live music in the studio with JC sitting in with the guests. I remember him commenting when he did the 'Later' show in 94, that it was similar to his own shows. Here's the link... Shine On, Michael.
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