Gerry C on Da Toob!

[Gerry C]

[File under: Shameless Self Promotion!]

Thanks to my top pals Gerry and Ani McNeice, I now have a couple of vids on YouTube. The Url below will (should?!) take you to a solo effort and from there you can link to me duetting with the American singer-songwriter Chris Anderson on a song called Cocaine Lil. No slide, I'm afraid, but that will be next...



Cheerily,

Gerry C

[Michael Messer]

Sounds great Gerry!

Shine On
Michael

[Gerry C]

Thanks Michael!

The two vids are now embedded in my MySpace site at www.myspace.com/gerrycooper

Cheerily,

Gerry C

[Bill Stig]

I enjoyed those clips Gerry.

I remember a friend of mine used to play that song Cocaine Lil years ago and I'd not heard it again since - I could only remember the first two lines. Do you know where the song comes from? who wrote it?

Bill

[Deleted]

hi Bill
the version i know of this song is by John Martin and i beleave it is a traditional arrangment.
and its on the 'London Conversation' album.
great song and i think John Martin does a great version of it.

www.johnmartyn.com/?location=/web/1960s%20and%201970s
www.johnmartyn.com/?location=/web/Lyrics

Gareth

[Bill Stig]

Thanks Gareth,

I remember me and my friend Martin used to listen to Solid Air by John Martyn when we were in our teens so it's probable that that's where he got the song from. It seemed like fun then to be singing songs with drugs references then, but now, seeing too many lives ruined, it doesn't seem funny anymore. Still a great song though, I might consider putting it in my set.

Bill

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hi Bill
in reference to Cocain Lil, i find it a dark song, which for me targets the down fall of any serious drug abuse especialy within the final lyrics.

'Yonder's baby, she's dressed in white
I said, Hey now mama, gonna stay all night
Cocain's sure running round my brain
Now there runs my baby, she's all dressed in black
You said, You know I didn't mean it, won't you please come back?
Cocain's sure running round my brain.

Hey baby, please come quick
This old cocain's making me sick
Cocain sure running round my brain.'

this reads to me as the sad demise of any serious addict.
I do a version of this combined with Angie (Davy Graham) starting with Angie, and then carrying on the decending base line with octaves to accompany the cocain lyrics, i find this quite apt after the demise of Davy Graham, into a serious drug addict

also loved the 'Solid Air'

Gareth
P.S loved the clips by the way Gerry

[growler]

Gerry
Just managed to get youtube up and running again and have had a look at your clips ..... really nice stuff

regards Growler