Foy Vance - You and I (live from Belfast with the Ulster Orchestra )

 Foy Vance - Sketches of The Wake

Sketches of the Wake

Foy Vance - You and I (live from Belfast with the Ulster Orchestra )

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Lyrics: 

Well tomorrow may not be like any other day It's so hard to know now What with the collective they See lately they've been swinging high the wrecking ball Tipping dirt on the foundations I spent so long upon Making sure they would be strong But you and I We are hard as stone You and I We are hard as stone I may empty out my pockets in their hat one day Then I'll turn my back And I will simply walk away They may think it over and reach out their hand But I'll have long since disappeared by then Like water in the sand You see gold was all that they had planned But you and I We are hard as stone You and I We are hard as stone They're like pawns on attack And I am back here castling Trying to find my feet Find my Joi de Vie again But I can't make it on my own I may need something strong That I can build new hope upon Well you and I We are hard as stone You and I We are hard as stone You and I

Birthdays : Vivian Stanshall

 

He was best known as the lead singer with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. The jazz/comedy/eccentric English band (whose members also included Neil Innes and ‘Legs’ Larry Smith) are known to most for their appearance onstage during the strip club scene in Magical Mystery Tour (“Death Cab For Cutie”). Seen and heard here: The Bonzos’ highest-charting single, 1968’s “I Am The Urban Spaceman,” produced by one Apollo C. Vermouth (Macca to you).

Stanshall died in a fire at 51 in 1995.

I’m The Urban Spaceman

Through The Canyons of your Mind

Death Cab For Cutie

Jollity Farm

Tom Waits : Everything You Can Think Is True | Herberg De Kelder

 

Everything you can think of is true

Album: Alice - Original Demo Versions 1992, by Tom Waits

HERBERG DE KELDER

Bukka White (with Memphis Minnie)| I Am In The Heavenly Way | Herberg De Kelder

 Speaking of religious song Bukka here in the Heavenly Way . . . bless’ im! and Memphis Minnie too!

I Am In the Heavenly Way

I Am In The Heavenly Way | Bukka White (with Memphis Minnie)

HERBERG DE KELDER

The Hilliard Ensemble : Thomas Tallis - Absterge Domine |jt1674

I think more than any other perhaps the Hilliard Ensemble did more to spread the word for choral music like Tallis than any other. I first came across then and the composer as an art student largely thanks to fellow art students . . . . .  again I don’t need here to explain about my beliefs (or lack of them?) but heck the love of religious buildings and religious music came from my dear Mum and Dad but from an entirely secular standpoint  . . . . . . . . 

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/811729647373058048/thomas-tallis-absterge-domine

Bob Dylan - Tell Me Mama! Live in France | Route

" Imagine you're at a Bob Dylan concert in 1966, you've been transfixed by the first half acoustic performance, new songs like Visions of Johanna, 4th Time Around and Just Like a Woman have blown your mind. You sit in the intermission wondering what's going to happen next, then this lot walk out and do this at a volume louder than you've ever heard before.”

* the only proviso being that his first single [Mixed Up Confusion] was ELECTRIC! Even Corrinna Corinna the B-side!

Route

More on Bonnie Raitt playing [with John Lee Hooker]

 

Bonnie Raitt: I taught myself guitar when I was nine, looking at the fingers of the people at my summer camp. I just played by ear, mimicking what I heard on the radio and on records. I then fell in love with slide guitar, which I first heard when I was about 14.

In college, I developed my own style. I switched to a Stratocaster — I got a really good deal in the middle of the night for $120 — and then a few years later, in 1972, Lowell George [of Little Feat] showed me his MXR compressor. I'd asked him how he got the tone to last so long — whether it's a ferocious kind of dirty sound, or a beautiful clean sound on a ballad, the compressor really squishes the sound and makes it last longer. The rest of it is just imitating something that you love until you feel like you ye got it; just playing with all your heart and soul every time you pick up the guitar. I was trying to make it as close to the human voice as I could.

John Lee Hooker called you his hero. When I watch tapes of you playing together, the love and joy jumps off the screen. Could you tell us a bit about your friendship?

When we did our recording of I'm in the Mood from his 1989 album The Healer, that's when we started to get close. We had a similar sense of humour; we would just get together and talk about this recording or that by BB King or Bukka White or Fred McDowell. He found a kindred soul in me, and I did in him. He was always one of my heroes, but he became just a man, and my pal.

For the recording sessions [for I'm in the Mood], we turned the lights down. I was platonic friends with John Lee, we didn't flirt or have a romantic thing going on, but I chose that song because it was just so incredibly erotic and alluring. I gotta say it, face to face with him in the dark playing that song ... damn! I was literally out of breath and I needed a towel after the session. We all got a big kick out of that. When he aims it at you, man, there's nobody that can play that kind of lowdown stuff better than John Lee.

The Guardian Interview

Photo: Ken Friedman

Todays MOOD : The Guvnor : BLOCKHEADS! Live!

 THE GUVNOR

Ahoy Oy!

Ian Dury and The Blockheads [with Wilko Johnson] - Blockheads 

‘Cos after all is said and done YOUR'E ALL BLOCKHEADS TOO!

Oi Oi!

Blues Run The Game ( Jackson C. Frank covers ) + John Meyer, Martin Simpson and Bert Jansch

 This cropped up too . . . . . the algorithm just threw this up from Flickkenabokk!

I tried and tested song I love Blues Run The Game

First by 

John Mayer from Jools (but no footage . . . . . ) 

John Meyer

Martin Simpson - 

Bert sings Jackson C. Frank`s "Blues Run The Game" for Dusty Wright's One-Takes

Jackson C. Frank 

Blues Run The Game 1965 

Produced by Paul Simon for EMI

    Album + Al Stewart on second guitar

https://www.fondsound.com/jackson-c-frank-blues-run-the-game-1965/

Profile of Franks life . . .warning: not a happy story

Mr Sun - Jude Johnstone |Nurse Jackie

 So we mentioned the big shiny round thing in the sky and it is definitely out there . . . I started watching the brilliant Nurse Jackie and this was the close out number in Series one Episode 4 I think . . . it struck me anyhoo!

Mr Sun - Jude Johnstone