Mark Knopfler And Emmylou Harris - Arena Di Verona, Verona, Italy June 3rd 2006 | Floppy Boot Stomp

Mark Knopfler And Emmylou Harris - Arena Di Verona, Verona, Italy June 3rd 2006

An XRay Special

Our Emmylou likes a mean guitarist! Heck she had Mancheser lad Albert Lee in her Hot Band for an age!

XRay

Emmylou Harris - Every Grain of Sand [Wrecking Ball] | jt1674

 

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/806715297333706752/emmylou-harris-every-grain-of-sand

ADVERT BREAK | WAR CHILD

 

HELP(2) - Album Trailer - War Child Records

‘HELP(2)’ will be released on Friday 6th March via War Child Records. Pre-order here: https://warchildrecs.ffm.to/help2 DONATE TO WAR CHILD UK: https://bit.ly/4sWKE0K War Child Records presents HELP(2) a brand new collaborative album inspired by the landmark 1995 release 'HELP' to engage music lovers globally in support of War Child's vital work delivering immediate aid, education, specialist mental health support, and protection to children affected by conflict around the world. Featuring an incredible line-up of contributors including Anna Calvi, Arctic Monkeys, Arlo Parks, Arooj Aftab, Bat For Lashes, Beabadoobee, Beck, Beth Gibbons, Big Thief, Black Country, New Road, Cameron Winter, Damon Albarn, Depeche Mode, Dove Ellis, Ellie Rowsell, English Teacher, Ezra Collective, Foals, Fontaines D.C., Graham Coxon, Greentea Peng, Grian Chatten, Kae Tempest, King Krule, Nilüfer Yanya, Olivia Rodrigo, Pulp, Sampha, The Last Dinner Party, Wet Leg and Young Fathers. Check out first single ‘Opening Night’ from ‪@arcticmonkeys‬ here:    • Arctic Monkeys – Opening Night (Visualiser...   Full ‘HELP(2)’ tracklist below: 1. Arctic Monkeys - Opening Night 2. Damon Albarn, Grian Chatten & Kae Tempest - Flags 3. Black Country, New Road - Strangers 4. The Last Dinner Party - Let’s do it again! 5. Beth Gibbons - Sunday Morning 6. Arooj Aftab & Beck - Lilac Wine 7. King Krule - The 343 Loop 8. Depeche Mode - Universal Soldier 9. Ezra Collective & Greentea Peng - Helicopters 10. Arlo Parks - Nothing I Could Hide 11. English Teacher & Graham Coxon - Parasite 12. Beabadoobee - Say Yes 13. Big Thief - Relive, Redie 14. Fontaines D.C. - Black Boys on Mopeds 15. Cameron Winter - Warning 16. Young Fathers - Don’t Fight the Young 17. Pulp - Begging for Change 18. Sampha - Naboo 19. Wet Leg - Obvious 20. Foals - When the War is Finally Done 21. Bat For Lashes - Carried my girl 22. Anna Calvi, Ellie Rowsell, Nilüfer Yanya & Dove Ellis - Sunday Light 23. Olivia Rodrigo - The Book of Love Filmed by children at Abbey Road Studios, London, and in Gaza, Sudan, Ukraine and Yemen.

I’ve pre-ordered it will you?

SUNDAY LESSONS : Thought of The Day | Hitch on Mother Theresa!

 All Chris Hitchens bits from the Penn and Teller TV show on Mother Teresa 

warning may cause offence (tough! and contains very strong language)

GUESS I’M DUMB - a statement

 It isn’t every day that the music blogs cover politics. Friends out in the blogosphere let me know often what their persuasions and beliefs are but this was the latest post from the brilliant Guess I’m Dumb earlier on . . . . .just this

I found it worth sharing here . . . . . . 

 . . . . . as somewhat obviously (I hope) I AGREE!

Fairport Convention - Possibly Parsons Green [Nine] | jt1674

 

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/806714940457172992/fairport-convention-possibly-parsons-green

Talk Talk - It’s Time [The Colour of Spring] | jt1674

  . . . . . . time for some more Mark Hollis (sorely missed)

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/806713126248710144/talk-talk-time-its-time

Blues Myths - Will Howard | DANGEROUS MINDS

This is really worth a read . . . . . . I guess it never really struck me before that Robert Johnson’s disappearance and much lauded return suddenly 9sic) able to play like a master being from a meeting with the Devil and a pact struck down at the crossroads being a marketing ploy was so much better than the days [months years?] spent learninging to master his instrument and that it should enter the popular zeitgeist and became a central part of the myth still popular today. The death of legendary blues man Blind Lemon might also be such . . .spread to encourage sales by person or person unknown and this never occurred to me either. read on here

Did Blind Lemon Jefferson die from poisoned coffee?

Will Howard

Birthdays : Dr John Cooper-Clarke

 Happy birthday to John Cooper Clarke, born in Salford on this day in 1949. 

Let him be your vacuum cleaner, breathing in your dust.

and I have used this clip and sent it and the lyrics to so many folk . . . especially critical trolls and gaslighting aggressive nasty folks . . . . . . . v useful!

"What kind of creature bore you? 

Was it some kind of bat? 

They can’t find a good word for you

but I can . . . . . . "

V.A. - Tom Waits covers, Volume 4: 2013-2023 | Albums That Should Exist |Paul and Fabio!

 

Covered: Tom Waits, Volume 4: 2013-2023

Paul says: Here's the fourth and last album in the Covered series celebrating the songs of Tom Waits by collecting cover versions.

Once again, I have to thank Fabio from Rio for being the prime mover behind putting these Waits albums together. He selected a large number of songs, and I narrowed it down to a reasonable amount. And one again, Fabio was nice enough to do the write up. So, take it away, Fabio:

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Waits released his last studio record to date ("Bad as Me") in 2011. His later works revisit all earlier phases in fragmented, refined form. Waits alternates tender ballads with abrasive rhythm experiments, presenting a distilled, self-aware summary of his artistic language rather than a new stylistic break.

This last volume with performances from the 2010s and 2020s is mostly filled with female voices, hinting that, musically, Waits has become something of a ladies' man — at least for a younger generation of singers.

Here again we have a wild range of different styles, from forties-like doo-wop (Ice Cream Man) to eighties-drum-machine-electro-pop ("All Stripped Down"), from jazz and blues rock ("Fumblin' with the Blues", "Shore Leave") to americana and alt-country ("Walk Away", "Blue Skies").

We will also find adult contemporary ("In-Between Love"), dark cabaret ("Little Drop of Poison", "Starving in the Belly of a Whale"), R&B ("Such a Scream"), and confessional ballad ("Martha") in the mix.

Tom Jones makes "Bad as Me" his own. "Emotional Weather Report" is a deep cut taken from the little-known jazz and spoken-word Waits seventies album "Nighthawks on the Radio", which highlights Tom Waits' deadpan humor. 

Other standouts are Rosanne Cash's "Time" and Aimee Mann's version for "Hold On" - which kind of reminded me, in spirit if not in sound, of the acappella version sung by Emily Kinney as Beth Greene in "The Walking Dead" - one of the most poignant moments of the entire series(*). 

(*) You can check it out (along with Tom Waits' original version) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNeGLUAUbgQ&list=RDGNeGLUAUbgQ 

This album is 55 minutes long.

01 Walk Away (Steel Wheels)
02 Bad as Me (Tom Jones)
03 Emotional Weather Report (Marissa Mulder)
04 All Stripped Down (Lisa Bassenge)
05 Ice Cream Man (Hazelnuts)
06 Blue Skies (Lisa Bassenge)
07 In Between Love (Jennifer Porter)
08 Such a Scream (Good Paper of Rev. Rob Mortimer)
09 Fumblin' with the Blues (Natascha & the Spy Boys)
10 Little Drop of Poison (Ellie Gunn and the Firethornes)
11 Hold On (Aimee Mann)
12 Time (Rosanne Cash)
13 Starving in the Belly of a Whale (Belladone)
14 Martha (Jackie Greene)
15 Shore Leave (Nickel)