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Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Linda Thompson : PROXY MUSIC

For Linda who we understand has now pretty much permanently lost her voice and the new album Proxy Music is by her children and friends . . . . . . .

Thompson, who Rolling Stone hailed as having "one of rock and roll's fnest
voices," has limited singing capabilities now due to a rare vocal condition. 'Proxy
Music' , however, impressively showcases her songwriting range and prowess.
Tracks like "Darling This Will Never Do," and "Mudlark" hold a timeless quality,
while "Those Damn Roches" and "John Grant" (sung by John Grant himself) boast
very modern sensibilities. 'Proxy Music' contains performances from Linda's longtime friends and admirers as Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright, Eliza Carthy,
The Proclaimers, Dori Freeman, and Grant, along with many talented Thompsons,
including her children Teddy and Kami, and her ex-husband Richard Thompson
playing guitar on several tracks. "Music in my family," Thompson shares. "It's like
glue. It binds us."

Linda on the Web

Damn she was/is pretty!

From happier days . . .

It Won't Be Long

For Linda

Tuesday, August 23, 2022

MARTHA WAINWRIGHT NEW MEMOIR - Review from No Depression

from the excellent eZine this morning this regarding Martha Wainwright's new book

Martha Wainwright Pulls No Punches in Memoir

By Henry Carrigan, The Reading Room

There’s enough misery and plenty of dysfunction to go around in this musical family, and Wainwright often bears the brunt of it. From the beginning she never feels fully at home in her family, she explains in her new book, Stories I Might Regret Telling You: A Memoir. “I was taught to be an outsider. An outsider with a ferociously close family.”

Learn More

Abe Books - Martha Wainwright Memoir here

Saturday, September 18, 2021

Martha Wainwright: exclusive lockdown session | #RoyalAlbertHome

LOCKDOWN CONCERTS!

'MARTHA WAINWRIGHT'

For The Royal Albert Hall

Premiered on 24 Jun 2020

36 minutes of bliss from Martha . . . . . . please consider donating to the RAH! She covers her Dad's 'Pretty Good Day'! Songs from her new album plus others . . . . . . . .

RUFUS & MARTHA - Glastonbury 2005 'Come a Long Way'

For reminding me about Martha and her Dad this is dedicated to Major Gruber over at The Her(m)etic Garage!

Monday, August 02, 2021

MARTHA WAINWRIGHT - NEW ALBUM! - LOVE WILL BE REBORN

NEWS FROM BEE HIVE CANDY

Martha Wainwright - Hole In My Heart.

Martha Wainwright is beginning again. The beguiling performer and songwriter returns with Love Will Be Reborn, out in August. Not since 2012’s Come Home to Mama has a Martha Wainwright record been so full of original written material. Wainwright’s fifth studio album follows recent years of loneliness and clarity in search of optimism and joy.

Wainwright wrote the first song—and what would become the title track— of the record a few years ago. It was a very dark time, she says, but the positivity and luminosity of “Love Will Be Reborn” signalled what was to come. Wainwright was at a friend’s home in London to collaborate on something else entirely when she was struck by the need to write the song. Wainwright demures when songwriting – her process is undisciplined and she prefers to be alone. That day, soon left to that solitude, “Love Will Be Reborn” poured out of her.

“I wrote the song in its entirety within ten or fifteen minutes. I was bawling.” The track feels very English to Wainwright with a soft melody and thrumming guitar, evoking pastoral scenes. Wainwright croons, “There is love in every part of me, I know / But the key has fallen deep into the snow / When the spring comes I will find it, and unlock my heart to unwind it.” It’s poetic and mysterious, yet still there is a yearning for joy and renewal. Wainwright sang the as-yet recorded “Love Will Be Reborn” on tour, serving as an anthem, giving her hope in a time when it was hard to have some.

Much of Wainwright’s songwriting since 2016’s Goodnight City felt too raw. “There were several years where I picked up the guitar, and I was so, so sad and depressed. I would just put it down because It was terrible.” Before writing it out, or writing through it for catharsis, Wainwright had to live it. Album opener “Middle of the Lake” reinforces Wainwright’s path forward as she sings over voltaic chords and percussion, “I sing my songs of love and pain / Winds of change or simply singing, I’m singing in the rain.” Her work never shies away from an existential throbbing wound. “There are a couple major subjects on the record. From what I can tell, there’s really dark and then light,” she says. “It really is reflective of a very difficult period of divorce. Then, after that, it’s meeting somebody new and amazing. And so you hear certain songs about this new love.”

Nearly ten years since a work of personal songs. I adored Martha Wainwright's writing and haunting anguished expressive voice. Less keen on any collaborative work or interpretations of the work of others she is such a totally unique singer songwriter I only really wanted to hear another BMFA! this will be her fifth studio album

Can't wait for this one if this track is anything to go by . . . . .