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Frank Kinsel - At Home 1970 | Plain & Fancy
Frank Kinsel - At Home (1970 USA)
Marios says:
"Here’s an interesting album of folk blues with a tinge of country all played superbly by Frank Kinsel and various other famed musicians including Bill Wolfe (6 string guitar) Kevin Kelley (drums) Red Rhodes (steel guitar) and Wolfgang Melz (bass guitar).My taster for the album is the loner vibration blues of ”Gamer.” This long player rarely turns up and not a great deal of information about it has ever surfaced. An obscure release on Epic.The Monocled Alchemist"
”There I was in the middle of the grey on beige fifties and my older brother was diggin’ Etta James singing ’Roll With Me Henry’ (Dance With Me Henry was the successful mass media cop out).music as an expressionThere was some kind of a beginning for me in music as an expression, feeling, or movement at that time. It was the only way out – or in. It was either tan shoes and a clean smile or a beer and a ’50 Merc.Rhythm and Blues groups were a way of life and every party had a basement group composed of four or five guys who could carry on the most.Detroit, I remember you. Expressways turned to freeways and time went by. Michigan, you looked very pretty when it snowed or when the sun set on your lakes. I sang songs for a while there: some were about you and some were about me, then I moved west.California and San Francisco were like a new energy force that I hadn’t felt before, so I stayed and wrote and sang and experienced and experienced some more and came up with ideas to record. So I moved to the south into a somewhat populated city (plug for my new album) named Los Angeles.This is a rather short summary of where I have been for awhile. If it seems incomplete, fill it in with your own life. Have a good day.”
by Frank Kinsel
Tracks
1. You Know Why (Part 1) - 0:132. Gamer - 3:003. Revelations 100 - 3:144. Have A Good Day - 2:085. Like A Child - 2:436. "1964" - 2:057. Sparrow - 3:388. Overpopulated City - 5:199. Good Life Folk Bossa #1 - 2:3810.You Know Why (Part 2) - 2:0711.White Port And Lemon Juice (Donald Woods, Randolph Bryant, Willie Graham) - 1:2312.Sunni - 3:5713.Long Tall Sally's Sister - 2:0314.Hey Who's Been Talking To You - 3:2215.Anger Epilogue - 0:43All compositions by Frank Kinsel except track #11
Musicians
*Frank Kinsel - 12, 6 String Guitars, Vocals*Jimmy Smith - 12, 6 String Guitars*Grant Johnson - Piano*Bill Wolfe - 6 String Guitar*Wolfgang Melz - Bass*Kevin Kelley - Drums*Paul Humphrey - Drums*Anne Goodman - Cello*Red Rhodes - Steel Guitar*Nick Ceroli - Drums
(check the download on the title link or the YouTube playlist in the body text)
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Films at The Week Swappers Mansions
What a weekend!
So far two films; one of the very worst ('Vicky Cristina Barcelona' - Woody Allen featuring Penelope Cruz, hubby Javier Bardem and the always watchable Rebecca Hall & Patricia Clarkson 2008) and . . . . *
one of the very best [Wake Up Dead Man - A Knives Out Mystery - Dir: Ryan Johnson feat. Daniel Craig, Josh O’Connor, Andrew Scott, Josh Brolin, Glenn Close and Mila Kunis)
*Just watched Vicky Cristina Barcelona . . .
Largely to see what all the fuss was about in 2008
Truly dreadful and awful trite, little film. Slight, vacuous and two dimensional; it is barely redeemed by Javier Badem and wife Cruz. Rebecca Hall is always watchable but the stellar Patricia Clarkson is wasted here in a walk on bit part. This is the sort of stuff Allen can reel out by the yard (and arguably does!) it might have been written on a wine label whilst holidaying in Spain! Light and barely frothy.
How this ended up being a top earner for him is beyond me. (Annie Hall anyone? This made more money!?)
Johannsson drifts through it as if in a day dream and brings nothing to it, acting is wooden barely registering any on-screen interest. Her acting here is appalling, stumbling through it with her bottled blonde, shapely, peasant blouse, jeans and espadrilles ‘pretty girl’ schtick as a kind of uniform; she plays a would-be ‘creative’ searching for herself which might be interesting to push a cliché but her acting is clumsy, trite and vacuous
The storyline is borderline racist with sloppy characterisations clichéd stereotypical ‘passionate’ fiery messed up artistic Spaniards, up tight buttoned up moneyed middle class Yanks and people who barely register as having any moral compass whatsoever! Why is it named after the two western characters who are unlikely friends? Why is Marie Elena not included and what Barcelona the key being the report they go to whahere Bardem character wreaks his havoc with the two girls!? Really sad and predictable Men governed solely by their libido and promiscuous women trying to ‘find themselves! Laughable for all the wrong reasons it is described as a rom com! It isn’t!
3/10
Closing theme
to the Wake Up Dead Man film a stroke of genius
The Cramps: Discography 1978 - 1990 | URBANASPIRINES
The Cramps: Discography 1978 - 1990
6 disc profile
If you like the Cramps check out Kostas’ discography here above and er, above . . . I never really got their schtick and it didn’t travel well to the UK that I recall but Kostas has done his usually incredibly thorough job so you know it will be worth it!
GET THE CRAMPS!
John Fahey - The Portland Cement Factory At Monolith California
After the Ryland P and speaking of guitarists how about some Fahey? quite what the story about the title is I am unsure but maybe you guys know?!
John Fahey - The Portland Cement Factory At Monolith California
The Portland Cement Factory At Monolith California · John Fahey
Days Have Gone By, Vol. 6
℗ 1967 Takoma Records, Distributed by Concord.
Ry Cooder - Heroin/Totally Boxed In [Trespass soundtrack] | jt1674
Soundtrack to TRESPASS which I thought I had seen but don’t remember this at all . . . need to check my film scores . . . . . it IS very filmic and not easy listening . . but with Budd and Cooder what did we expect?
"Up On Cripple Creek" by The Band in the studio in 1990 | The Band: A History
Not entirely sure if you like the band THE BAND!?
Well turn this UP!
Levon the beating heart of the Band and just check this version if you do one thing here today!
"Up On Cripple Creek" by The Band in the studio in 1990 for Levon Helm's drum instrumental series by Homespun.
Emmylou Harris & The Hot Band, Luxury Liner [OGWT ’77]
Have we featured this from Emmylou and The Hotband on the OGWT before? I think maybe . . . I don’t care . . .wakey wakey and here's to your Winter Solstice and wathc Albert (Lee that is - he is a Northern Boy!) make the pretty girl with the tambourine dance!
Emmylou Harris & The Hot Band, Luxury Liner [OGWT ’77]
The Hot Band: Albert Lee, Emory Gordy, John Ware, Glen D Hardin, Rodney Crowell, Hank Devito.
From 1977 Old Grey Whistle Test
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