KELLY BOESCH : WAKING FROM A DREAM

 KELLY BOESCH : WAKING FROM A DREAM

Kelly Boesch says:

"This song, ‘Waking From A Dream’ is about outgrowing a life that feels too small and the terrifying, beautiful push to break out of it. It captures the feeling of shedding an old skin and watching a muted world suddenly spill into color. At its core, it’s really just about the quiet vulnerability of letting yourself wake up and bloom.

These scenes are a reminder to pause and take in the beauty around us. They explore the tension between wanting to experience our emotions fully and the struggle of actually letting our guard down to feel them.

Waking From A Dream

[Verse 1]� There came a day I couldn’t stay�Curled in the silence, tucked away�Where I felt small and hours would stall�Against the petals of it all

The tender ache I learned to keep�Had rooted far too dark, far too deep�Till something wild inside my chest�Said leaving might be kinder than the rest

[Chorus]�The air is thin, it cuts, it sings�It tastes like fear and fragile wings�But every step beyond the seam�Feels like waking from a dream

[Verse 2]�I feel the turning in my bones�A fragile break from what I’ve known�Like skin I wore now slipping loose�A sweet undoing I can’t refuse

Now everything is spilling into color�Where I once saw only one�Every shadow finds another�And the light has just begun

[Chorus]�The air is thin, it cuts, it sings�It tastes like fear and fragile wings�But every step beyond the seam�Feels like waking from a dream

[Outro]�There came a day I let it break�The quiet shape I used to take�And though it trembled, soft and raw�I bloomed and let the quiet fall

Lyrics written by me, Kelly Boesch. Music created under my creative direction with assistance from Suno.

Might sign off the day with this one from Kelly Boesch  she is SO prolific! I struggle to keep up but this one hit me and struck me as so good . . . .again!

VA - Magic Of The Sixties Vol. 1 [2012] + Magic Of The Sixties Vol. 2 [2015] (8 x CDs) | BUTTERBOY

Magic Of The Sixties Vol. 1 [2012] + Magic Of The Sixties Vol. 2 [2015]

MAGIC OF THE SIXTIES

This is MY music! This is my era! Butterboy says?

"I’ve always thought Magic Of The Sixties volumes one and two make the most sense when they’re treated as a single eight-disc run, even though they were released a few years apart, the first in 2012 and the second in 2015. Played together, they don’t lock the decade into one sound or storyline. Instead, they let it unfold naturally, full of overlaps, detours, and subtle shifts. Familiar hits sit right alongside less obvious choices, and that closeness does the explaining without needing to spell anything out.

The first set leans into movement and lift in a very deliberate way. Those opening discs draw heavily from the early and mid-sixties, when pop, beat, soul, and folk-rock were still sharing vocabulary rather than staking out territory. The sequencing isn’t locked to a strict timeline, and that choice matters. It keeps the set from feeling like a history lesson and lets the music behave the way it originally did, circulating through radios, jukeboxes, and charts at the same time. Tracks slide into one another easily, not because they’re similar, but because they belong to the same listening world.

Volume two doesn’t try to outdo that earlier energy, it works by adding weight instead. The selections lean further into the later sixties, where arrangements grow denser and performances carry more emotional and political awareness. Songs begin to stretch, not just musically but thematically, taking in psychedelia, deeper soul, and a more inward kind of pop writing. The sequencing avoids a clean break between eras. Instead, it lets the shift happen gradually, so the listener feels the decade pressing forward rather than turning a corner all at once.

Taken together, the eight discs reward time and repeat listening. Familiar songs settle back into proportion when they’re heard alongside lesser-known period material, and genre boundaries start to feel fluid rather than fixed. These sets don’t make a case for a definitive version of the 1960s. They behave more like a working listening map, shaped by sequencing and pacing rather than thesis. What lingers is the sense of motion, how quickly sounds changed, how much overlap there was, and how the decade’s real pull comes from that forward momentum rather than any single moment held up as final.” (Butterboy)

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“Something is happening but you don’t know what it is do you, Mr Jones"

Martha McCartney . . . . . 🐶

Martha McCartney by Linda McCartney 🐶❤️

Pooneil Corners 3

Advert Break: TOM WAITS in WORDS & MUSIC New covers album (+Uncut magazine)

 

Where The Willow And The Dogwood Grow Out May 29 on Ace Records A compilation of recordings from  Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan’s matchless catalogue The album features recordings by Solomon Burke, Bruce Springsteen, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Marianne Faithfull, Bob Seger, Diana Krall, John Hammond, and more, plus extensive sleeve notes with track-by-track commentary. Few artists have remapped the terrain of popular music, and culture at large, like Tom Waits. Over the course of five decades, he has forged a singular aesthetic that defies genre and turns the marginal into myth. His work is neither fully inside nor outside the mainstream tradition but moves restlessly between them, drawing from vaudeville, blues, jazz, folk, theatre – and just about anything else that catches his ear – to craft something wholly his own. With his long-time creative partner and wife Kathleen Brennan, he has dismantled and reassembled the idea of song itself, crafting works that exist as both raw expression and high art. This collection honours not only the extraordinary versatility of Waits and Brennan’s songwriting, but the importance of an artist who continues to haunt and inspire from the edges inward. Pre-Order Now

ALSO:

Hoist that rag! Amid rumours of new activity, the new issue of Uncut goes in search of the real Tom Waits, with the help of Beck, Roseanne Cash, Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams and more. Comes with a FREE 15-track CD curated by Kurt Vile! In shops Friday or order now:  bit.ly/UncutMay2026

Inside the mag: Brian May and Roger Taylor on the audacious Queen II… Tori Amos communes with Celtic gods… the four original PIXIES revisit their “deviant” early years… Kurt Vile takes Uncut round his favourite Philly haunts >>>

Jack White’s new art exhibition… Rick Wakeman talks Bowie, bhunas and golfing with Norman Wisdom… the making of “September” by Earth, Wind & Fire… Ziggy Marley’s favourite records… The Doors X Public Enemy >>>

Plus! Sunn O))), Jesca Hoop, Ringo Starr, Thundercat, U2, Scritti Politti, Super Furry Animals, Yoko Ono, Paul Weller, Taj Mahal, Wednesday, Billy Preston, Sturgill Simpson, Melissa Auf Der Maur, Brown Horse, Irmin Schmidt and Uncut’s Record Store Day essentials. 

In shops Friday or order now: bit.ly/UncutMay2026

Jeff Healy In Memoriam [March 25th 1966 - March 2nd 2008]

 

Happy Birthday, Jeff Healey — A Truly Original Guitar Voice

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Jeff Healey (Norman Jeffrey Healey) was born on March 25, 1966, and became one of the most distinctive guitarists in modern blues. His unconventional technique and expressive playing made him instantly recognizable.

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As the leader of The Jeff Healey Band, he gained worldwide attention with his emotional performances and strong guitar-driven sound. His style stood apart for its feel, tone, and originality.

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He died in 2008, but his music continues to resonate. Jeff Healey remains a unique and influential figure in guitar history. 🎸

The Jeff Healey Band - While My Guitar Gently Weeps 1990

Deep Purple - Mistreated "Live in California 1974"

 

Deep Purple - Mistreated (Single, Album, Burn 1974) Live Concert at the Ontario Speedway near Los Angeles, California 1974 Recorded by ABC-TV 

Ritchie Blackmore - Guitar Jon Lord - Keyboards, Synthesizers Ian Paice - Drums David Coverdale -Vocals Glenn Hughes - Bass

I think Top Hat Crew's "Live Music Archives" posted this earlier on but it wouldn’t play here so here is my found version from YouTube

Kelly Boesch - another joyous video clip and song

 Kelly Boesch

I have a happy one for you today. I’m in line with this beautiful jewel toned #midjourney style. And these characters are wonderful. I hope this can bring you a few minutes of joy today. Animated using @hailuoai_official and song made using @sunomusic

Advert Break: FOY VANCE - New Album ‘THE WAKE'

 Foy says: My new album 'The Wake' is out now. This album marks the end of a journey and the beginning of a new one. 

It took 26 years and 6 trial runs but I finally completed it…It’s a long story that appears to be continuing

About Foy Vance here . . . .

NATIONAL (UK) TREASURE JOE PASQUALE

 

10 minutes of brilliant nonsense from Joe Pasquale live & squeaky show...

Birthdays counted - Aretha Franklyn

 Remembering the great Aretha Franklin (March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018)

Gimme four fried chickens and a coke!

and I posted this song back in 2018 and it still stands as a favourite . . . it is quite the sexiest love song EVER!

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