So again music I don’t know but check this out! the image doesn’t look like West Indian music, calypso from Trinidad? or Beckwith stylie ragga or soca or mento so what the heck is going on with this Kip Hanrahan? Jazz but not as we know it! check out more here . . . .
Thursday, November 21, 2024
The Daily Prophet! It’s a Newspaper! . . . not really it’s a journal for the Sealyman! 😉
CHUCK PROPHET - SALLY WAS A COP!(Live!)
Chuck Prophet and His Cumbia Shoes: "Sally Was a Cop" (August 25, 2024;
San Francisco, CA)
Check the closing chorus from the band and the audience . . . . . lovely touch boys!
thanks as ever to Twilightzone!
Suzanne Vega - Close-Up Series [2014] + Lover, Beloved Songs - an Evening with Carson McCullers [2016] | A Butterboy Special
Suzanne Vega - Close-Up Series [2014] + Lover, Beloved Songs - Evening with Carson McCullers [2016]
[6 CDs]
So this is nice thorough and Butterboy’s usual comprehensive compilations and we like Vega don’t we?
SUZANNE VEGA
Meet Suzanne Nadine Vega (née Peck; born July 11, 1959), in sunny Santa Monica, California. Suzanne is a celebrated American singer-songwriter whose music is beautifully infused with folk influences. Growing up in the vibrant city of New York, her early years were shaped by her parents’ divorce and a move to the culturally rich neighborhoods of Spanish Harlem and the Upper West Side. It was here that Suzanne’s love for music and poetry blossomed, leading her to write her first song at the tender age of fourteen.
Suzanne’s artistic journey took her to the High School of Performing Arts, where she studied modern dance, and later to Barnard College, where she majored in English literature. During her college days, she enchanted audiences in the cozy venues of Greenwich Village and became a regular at Jack Hardy’s Monday night songwriters’ group.
Her debut album, simply titled “Suzanne Vega,” was released in 1985 and quickly garnered critical acclaim, achieving platinum status in the UK. The mid-1980s and 1990s saw Suzanne’s career soar with unforgettable hits like “Marlene on the Wall,” “Left of Center,” “Luka,” and “No Cheap Thrill.” One of her most iconic songs, “Tom’s Diner,” originally an a cappella track, was famously remixed by DNA and became a Top 10 hit worldwide. But Suzanne’s influence doesn’t stop at her music. Her song “Tom’s Diner” played a crucial role in the development of the MP3 format, earning her the nickname “The Mother of the MP3.” Over her nearly 40-year career, she has released nine studio albums, with her latest being “Lover, Beloved: Songs from an Evening with Carson McCullers” in 2016.
Suzanne Vega’s legacy is a testament to her talent for weaving poetic lyrics with captivating melodies, making her a cherished figure in the music world.
The “Close-Up Series” box set is a true gem, offering an intimate and refreshing take on a beloved artist’s extensive catalog. This collection is a masterclass in storytelling, with each track meticulously reimagined to highlight the raw emotion and lyrical depth that have defined the artist’s career.
One of the standout features of this box set is its ability to strip down the original arrangements, allowing the listener to experience the songs in their purest form. The acoustic renditions bring a new level of vulnerability and authenticity, making it feel as though the artist is performing right in your living room. The simplicity of the instrumentation puts the spotlight on the poignant lyrics and the artist’s distinctive voice, creating a deeply personal and immersive listening experience.
The “Close-Up Series” is divided into thematic volumes, each focusing on different aspects of the artist’s work. This thoughtful organization not only showcases the versatility and breadth of the artist’s songwriting but also provides a cohesive narrative that guides the listener through various emotional landscapes. Whether it’s exploring themes of love, loss, or introspection, each volume offers a unique and compelling journey.
What truly sets this box set apart is the sense of intimacy it fosters. The stripped-back arrangements and heartfelt performances create a connection between the artist and the listener that is both profound and enduring. It’s a rare opportunity to hear familiar songs in a new light, gaining a deeper appreciation for the artistry and craftsmanship behind them.
In addition to the stunning musical content, the box set is beautifully packaged, making it a perfect addition to any music collection.
Overall, the “Close-Up Series” is a must-have for fans and newcomers alike. It’s a celebration of timeless music, offering a fresh perspective on classic songs while preserving the essence that made them unforgettable. This box set is sure to captivate and inspire, leaving listeners with a renewed appreciation for the artist’s remarkable body of work.
Suzanne Vega stands out as one of the most influential singer-songwriters of the past three decades. Her work is marked by intelligence and sophistication, and she is not only a compelling guitarist but also a vocalist who delivers her poetic and literate lyrics with clarity and grace. Vega’s performances are refreshingly free of unnecessary theatrics, allowing her insightful and often profound messages to shine through. Her presence in the music world is truly a delight. (B)
Included as a bonus is Suzanne Vega - Lover, Beloved Songs from an Evening with Carson Mccullers [2016]
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PARAMORE Vs WET LEG - C’est Comme Ça
We like Wet Leg . . . .a ‘wet leg’ is someone not from the island the girls are from! If you are not from their island (The Isle of Wight) then you got wet legs! Obvs!
This Is Why. Out Now. https://paramore.lnk.to/rethisiswhyID
and we like Paramore . . . . . it’s music for young people!
It’s All About The Music Right!?
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Remembering Dr. John (November 20, 1941 – June 6, 2019)
Mac Rebennack was nearing 30 when he transformed himself into Dr John and released Gris Gris: he had already packed a lifetime’s worth of musical experience and incident into his 27 years. His father’s connections as a record store owner in New Orleans’ Third Ward enabled him to sneak into local recording sessions: by 13, he was a professional musician, playing organ in strip clubs in the Third Quarter and performing with Professor Longhair, a local pioneer whose blend of blues, boogie-woogie and Afro-Cuban rhythms, Rebennack would later claim, “put the funk into music”.
Dr John - The Midnight Special - Right Place Wrong Time
By 16, he was a session guitarist and occasional producer, working out of Cosimo Studios and playing in a succession of bands. He even had a local solo hit in 1959, a brooding Bo Diddley knock-off called Storm Warning, but Rebennack was also trouble: his career as a guitarist was ended when his finger was injured by a gunshot at a gig in Jackson in 1960; he became a heroin addict and dealer; he was involved in running a brothel. In 1963, he was sentenced to two years for drug offences, and on release shifted operations to Los Angeles, where a contingent of exiled New Orleans musicians – led by arranger Harold Battiste – were making headway as session players.Rebennack became a member of the most revered Hollywood session group of all, the Wrecking Crew, playing with everyone from Sonny and Cher to Frank Zappa, but professed himself dissatisfied and homesick. Pining for New Orleans, he created the character of Dr John, loosely based on the legend of a 19th-century Senegalese freed slave turned New Orleans voodoo king, the music inspired by the disparate sounds Rebennack had heard at a spiritualist church in the Lower Ninth Ward. Here, he claimed, “Hindus and Buddhists, Jews, Christians, Masons, even voodoos” all worshipped together. He initially developed the idea for singer and actor Ronnie Barron, but when Barron balked, Rebennack took on the role, surrounding himself with fellow New Orleans expats and recording Gris Gris in late 1967.
Alexis Petridis / The Guardian
Don's Tunes reminds us . . . . .
So whatcha gonna do if someone shoots you in the finger? Why drop the guitar and take up piano of course!
From the good doctor’s how to play boogie woogie video!
Dr John (Mac Rebennack ) - Swannee River Boogie
VOLUME II! | FBSVW Random Artists : The Dead Lovers Frye Days, Waco Brothers, Julie Rhodes
FBSVW - Random Artist Sampler #2
FBSVW - Random Artist Sampler #2
Soundboard Recordings @192
Soundboard Recordings @192
Frye Days - SXSW artist-mixtape
Julie Rhodes - Bound-to-Meet-The Devil - B sides
The Dead Lovers - Supernormal-Superstar
Waco Brothers - Receiver-ep
The Dead Lovers - Supernormal-Superstar
Waco Brothers - Receiver-ep
The Dead Lovers - One More Time
Waco Brothers - Receiver | Audiotree Live
Julie Rhodes - Key Won’t Fit My Door (live)
This one’s For Kostas! A Greek Indie Pop band from the 80s!
The Jaywalkers - (You Can’t Be) Happy all the Time (1987)
"Something completely new to me - wonderful C86 style Greek indie pop from the 80s - think Close Lobsters or June Brides, maybe.” Guess I’m Dumb
New to me too!
Maybe we can be happy all the time! ? Its really warm in Greece and Kostas from Urbanaspirines is contemplating going down the beach! We should all join him!!!
THE LAST SACRIFICE - DANGEROUS MINDS | Review by Paul Gallagher
We haven’t featured anything from Dangerous Minds for white some time but today they have posted a doozie well worth a read the background real life story that inspired the Wicker Man film!
Read on and follow the links to Dangerous Minds to complete the story!
DANGEROUS MINDS
Scene: Lower Quinton in South Warwickshire, England. Population 493. A quiet village, settled in its ways, where everyone knows each other and strangers are not welcome—or so it seems.
On the morning of Saint Valentine’s Day 1945, Charles Walton a seventy-four-year-old farm laborer left his home at Lower Quinton to begin his day’s work. Walton was employed by Alfred Potter at Firs Farm. He was tasked with cutting down hedges at a field on the slope of Meon Hill. It was a cold morning. Mist slowly dispersed as the sun warmed the land. There had been a bad harvest in the previous year, it was hoped this summer would bring a better yield.
Potter later claimed he saw Walton working in his short sleeves at around lunchtime. He said Walton had an hour’s worth of hedge still to trim. He watched as Walton hacked away at the branches with his trouncing hook.
When Walton’s adopted niece Edith Walton returned from her work that night, she was surprised to find her uncle not yet home. Edith knew Walton did not like working late as he suffered from arthritis. She decided to go and look for her uncle. She enlisted the help of a neighbor, Harry Beasley, and the farmer Alfred Potter.
Climbing up Meon Hill, the three discovered Walton’s body. He had been brutally murdered. His trouncing hook was embedded in his neck. His blood soaked the ground. A pitchfork had been thrust through his head, puncturing eye and cheek. His trousers were undone. His shirt and jacket open. A large cross had been carved on his chest. It was later said natterjack toads were placed around his body. Walton’s death looked like a ritual sacrifice.
Charles Walton was a quiet man. He was feared by some and considered odd by others. It was said he could cast an evil eye which could blight crops and kill cattle. They said he could also talk to animals, tame wild dogs, and call birds from the sky into his hand. This led to the whispered accusation Walton was a witch.
Walton’s murder attracted the attention of the London press. The countryside was a remote, foreign land to those denizens of the city, who tended to view country folk as backward, filled with superstition, strange individuals who practiced pagan rituals and witchcraft.
The local constabulary were baffled by Walton’s murder. Scotland Yard was approached for assistance. On February 16th, Chief Inspector Robert Fabian, the Yard’s most successful detective, was dispatched to solve the crime.
Fabian decided to interview all of the inhabitants of Lower Quinton. However, he found the local residents taciturn and unwilling to cooperate with his investigation. He also discovered the only other murder to have previously taken place in the village had been in 1875 when a young woman Ann Tennant was similarly slaughtered with a pitchfork by a farm laborer James Heywood. Heywood claimed he had killed Tennant because she was a witch who had cast spells against him.
The ritualistic nature of Walton’s murder intrigued academic and Egyptolgist Margaret Murray. She traveled to the village to make her own inquiries. Murray was an expert on the occult and believed Walton’s death was a blood sacrifice carried out by a coven of witches.
Fabian believed he knew the perpetrator of Walton’s murder, but he had insufficient evidence to make an arrest. He returned to London. Walton’s murder remains unsolved to this day.
In 1970, Fabian wrote about Charles Walton’s murder in his memoir The Anatomy of Crime:
"I advise anybody who is tempted at any time to venture into Black Magic, witchcraft, Shamanism – call it what you will – to remember Charles Walton and to think of his death, which was clearly the ghastly climax of a pagan rite."So begins Rupert Russell‘s excellent documentary film The Last Sacrifice, which examines the events surrounding Charles Walton’s death. The film explains how this bloody murder in 1945 unleashed a new genre called folk horror leading to a slate of films like Plague of the Zombies, The Blood on Satan’s Claw, and most famously The Wicker Man.
By Paul Gallagher
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HUGH MASEKELA - Still Grazing | Zero G Sound
Hugh Masekela - Still Grazing
As in the MGM days, Masekela is obliged to cover the hit tunes of the day, although "Up, Up, and Away" has more life and jazz licks than those earlier attempts. 1968's "The Promise of a Future" was the real commercial breakthrough - thanks to the out-of-the-blue success of the cowbell-beating "Grazing in the Grass," which improbably rose to the number one slot on Top 40 radio in those enlightened times. That triumphant track would be Masekela's last trip to the Top 40, whereupon he promptly used the exposure to shine a harsh light on what was going on in his homeland ("Gold") and America in 1968 ("Mace and Grenades"). The CD then jumps to a percolating, Echoplexed "Languta" from a 1973 session in Lagos, Nigeria, before concluding with a withering account of the South African coal-mining trains ("Stimela").
The package is given extra credibility by the original producer of these tracks, Stewart Levine, who compiled the album and also wrote a fond set of reminiscences. Many of these premonitions of today's world music scene have been gone for decades, and it's good to have at least some of them back in circulation again.
Tracklist:
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Why you think you have heard Hugh Masakela before . . . . . because you HAVE!
Don’t Go Lose It Baby!
And another from Guess I’m Dumb! | Erik Saint Laurent - Vendredi Mobsède 1967
Erick Saint Laurent - Vendredi Mobsède (Friday on My Mind) (1967)
"A French version of the Easybeats’ Friday on My Mind? It works. And for me, my Thanksgiving break starts on Friday!”
This is great fun! so I Guess I’m Dumb too! [oh you KNOW it! - ED oh DO shut up!]
Song of The Day | Sarah Jane - Listen People [Graham Gouldman] | Guess I’m Dumb
Sarah Jane - Listen People (1966)
"Sarah Jane released just one single, this hushed, haunting baroque take on a song written by Graham Gouldman (10CC, and many hits of the 60s).” Guess I’m Dumb
Everybody’s got to lose somebody sometime
THE DAILY PROPHET! OFFICIAL!
CHUCK PROPHET - WISH ME LUCK
Another for the Sealyman!
thanks to the Twilightzone (as ever)
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Top Band of The Week | THE WEEKS - BUTTONS! FBSVW - Random Artist Sampler #1 | THE VOODOO WAGON
A SILENT WAY SPECIAL
FBSVW - Random Artist Sampler #1
so the Guvnor over at The Wagon (FBSVW) has been checking around in his hard drive and gives us a compilation and includes these guys who we LIKE
A LOT!
TURN IT RIGHT UP!
FBSVW - Random Artist Sampler #1
Soundboard Recordings @192
Soundboard Recordings @192
What you will find here are freebie downloads collected over the years
put up by artist to encourage you to listen and buy their music.
Featuring:
The Weeks
City Saints
Celkilt
DJ Chris Styles
Lizzie Casey
Freakwater
put up by artist to encourage you to listen and buy their music.
Featuring:
The Weeks
City Saints
Celkilt
DJ Chris Styles
Lizzie Casey
Freakwater
and artists from Shamrock Fest 2016
FAB COOL SCENE!
The NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALL STARS - LIVE IN ATLANTA 2000| FLOPPY BOOT STOMP
so The Boss at FLOPPY BOOT STOMP posted an album from these guys (who I am ashamed to say I didn’t know! - The quantity of what you don’t know swappers is AWESOME - ED! Well gee thanks!) So I will post this rather than the later posting today of our Eric The C - go check that out too if Eric is your bag!)
The North Mississippi All Stars Live in Atlanta
North Mississippi Allstars - Atlanta, GA.
February 28, 2000
Set List:
Drinkin Muddy Water
Goin Down South
Have Mercy on Me
Po Black Maddie > Skinny Woman > Drums > Po Black Maddie
My Babe
Shake'em on Down
All Night Long
Wanna Be Your Man^
Party Party^
Over & Done^
^ Freddie Kimbrough on Vocals.
Garry Burnside on Bass throughout performance.
February 28, 2000
Set List:
Drinkin Muddy Water
Goin Down South
Have Mercy on Me
Po Black Maddie > Skinny Woman > Drums > Po Black Maddie
My Babe
Shake'em on Down
All Night Long
Wanna Be Your Man^
Party Party^
Over & Done^
^ Freddie Kimbrough on Vocals.
Garry Burnside on Bass throughout performance.
Some appreciative pictures for the guys at FBSVW HQ they appreciated the gals of rock and a well turned ankle! WOT?!
Beautiful portrait of Pam (Courson) Jim Morrison’s girlfriend taken by Edmund Teske on the 30th of March 1969 prior to the Bronson Caves photoshoot
Now you should know who this is but its Nina Hagen in full slap!
Great gal!
did we have this one already? I don’t care its GRACE!
Hey Nena how many luftballons have you got!?
our Patti
Emmylou
Norah
More Sade . . . . .
URBANASPIRINES profile compilation of 3 Album MARTHA & THE MUFFINS
Martha And The Muffins: Far Away In Time 1987
Bit of a one hit wonder over here (Echo Beach - which we bought when it came out over here) but Kostas has done his usual masterly profile!
Check it out!
Kostas says:
Based in Toronto, Martha and the Muffins initially comprised Martha Johnson (vocals, keyboards), Martha Ladly (vocals, keyboards, trombone), guitarist Mark Gane, bassist Carl Finkle, drummer Tim Gane, and saxophonist Andy Haas. The group forme in 1977 and, on the strength of their debut independent single, "Insect Love"/"Suburban Dream," were signed by Virgin U.K. The band's debut album, Metro Music, appeared in 1980, led by "Echo Beach," which would become a new wave classic.
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