AQUARIUM DRUNKARD :: Bonus Tracks, Vol. 1: Incl David Bowie

 David Bowie :: Some Are: Will we ever get a Berlin Trilogy Bowie boxed set stuffed with outtakes and alternates? Let us pray. Until then, this one showed up as a bonus track on Rykodisc’s out-of-print 1991 reissue of Low, giving us some tantalizing hints of what may be lurking in the vaults. Whatever — “Some Are” is a treasure all on its own, a delicate dirge with a bewitching melody and typically enigmatic lyrics. Bowie claimed the song was about “the failed Napoleonic force stumbling back through Smolensk. Finding the unburied corpses of their comrades left from their original advance on Moscow.” If you say so, David! 

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All Things Are Quite Silent :: A Mixtape

WINTER MIXTAPE

Third Ear Band – Stone Circle ++ Dando Shaft – Rain ++ Keith Christmas – Ice Man ++ Steeleye Span – All Things Are Quite Silent ++ Lindisfarne – Winter Song ++ Sandy Denny – Late November ++ Pentangle – Bells ++ The Woods Band – Dreams ++ Ralph McTell – Wait Until the Snow ++ Hunt & Turner – Silver Lady ++ Roy Harper – Black Clouds ++ Dick Gaughan – The Snows They Melt the Soonest ++ Gary Farr – Curtain of Sleep ++ Clifford T. Ward – Cold Wind Blowing ++ Bert Jansch – In the Bleak Mid Winter ++ The Wooden O – Sad Tune ++ John Renbourn – Winter Is Gone ++ Dave Evans – Grey Lady Morning ++ Rick Hayward – Breathing Space ++ Stealers Wheel – Gets So Lonely ++ Richard & Linda Thompson – Night Comes In ++ John Martyn – When It’s Dark ++ Caedmon – Storm ++ Tony, Caro & John – All On The First Day

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