‘Wellerman' - Post Modern Jukebox (Sea Shanty done Ragtime!?) | Scott Bradley

 GENIUS!

Postmodern Jukebox

Scott Bradley (piano)

If the "Wellerman" sea shanty was an early 1900s ragtime piano piece...

Art of The Day: Georgia O'Keeffe, Pond in the Woods, 1922. Santa Fe, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.

Georgia O'Keeffe, Pond in the Woods, 1922. Santa Fe, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.

 

Poem of the Day: Frank O’Hara - Ode To Joy

 

Frank O'Hara 

Ode to Joy

We shall have everything we want and there’ll be no more dying

      on the pretty plains or in the supper clubs

for our symbol we’ll acknowledge vulgar materialistic laughter

      over an insatiable sexual appetite

and the streets will be filled with racing forms

and the photographs of murderers and narcissists and movie stars

      will swell from the walls and books alive in steaming rooms

      to press against our burning flesh not once but interminably

as water flows down hill into the full-lipped basin

and the adder dives for the ultimate ostrich egg

and the feather cushion preens beneath a reclining monolith

      that’s sweating with post-exertion visibility and sweetness

      near the grave of love

                                        No more dying

We shall see the grave of love as a lovely sight and temporary

      near the elm that spells the lovers’ names in roots

and there’ll be no more music but the ears in lips and no more wit

      but tongues in ears and no more drums but ears to thighs

as evening signals nudities unknown to ancestors’ imaginations

and the imagination itself will stagger like a tired paramour of ivory

      under the sculptural necessities of lust that never falters

      like a six-mile runner from Sweden or Liberia covered with gold

as lava flows up and over the far-down somnolent city’s abdication

and the hermit always wanting to be lone is lone at last

and the weight of external heat crushes the heat-hating Puritan

      whose self-defeating vice becomes a proper sepulcher at last

      that love may live

Buildings will go up into the dizzy air as love itself goes in

      and up the reeling life that it has chosen for once or all

while in the sky a feeling of intemperate fondness will excite the birds

      to swoop and veer like flies crawling across absorbed limbs

that weep a pearly perspiration on the sheets of brief attention

and the hairs dry out that summon anxious declaration of the organs

      as they rise like buildings to the needs of temporary neighbors

      pouring hunger through the heart to feed desire in intravenous ways

like the ways of gods with humans in the innocent combination of light

and flesh or as the legends ride their heroes through the dark to found

great cities where all life is possible to maintain as long as time

      which wants us to remain for cocktails in a bar and after dinner

      lets us live with it

                                 No more dying

PLAY ON MR MUSIC (Lee Perry) THE UPSETTER REVIEW

" PLAY ON MR MUSIC "

(Lee Perry)

THE UPSETTER REVIEW

[featuring The Heptones, Junior Murvin, The Congos produced by Lee Perry]

1977

“What’s the drummer doing?!"

 

Glen

As well as a heartfelt note from his ex Marketa even Barrack Obama has commented on the loss

Baby Please Don’t Go - Mississippi Fred McDowell | Sonic Surprises

 Struck as a callow youth by one of the greatest blues songs of all time this is a perennial favourite and I hadn’t heard Fred’s version here slow start fire burn, lifting, building and a’chooglin (it’s a word!) this’ll start the weekend for yew! 

Here from the more recent discord of Sonic Surprises!

BABY PLEASE DON’T GO - MISSISSIPPI FRED MCDOWELL 

1971

Hill country blues that won’t let go

Mississippi Fred McDowell turns this blues standard into a deep, rolling groove, his guitar and voice locking together with hypnotic force.

Recorded live, on November 5, 1971, at the MacDougal Street Gaslight II, in New York City.

This is actually the seventh version of Baby Please Don’t Go to appear on the blog, with a few of the others hiding in my Double and Triple Doses.

Sonic Surprise

@SONICANDVISUALSURPRISES

Roddy Frame: The North Star 1998 + Surf 2002 | URBANASPIRINES (A Kostas personal dedication!)

 

 

Roddy Frame: The North Star 1998 + Surf 2002

Roddy Frame - Small World (for Kostas)

Wow a dedication from my friend Kostas over at URBANASPIRINES and on one of my favourite singer songwriters! Kostas tells us:

"Roddy Frame (born 29 January 1964) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and musician. He was the founder of the 1980s new wave band Aztec Camera and has undertaken a solo career since the group's dissolution. In November 2013, journalist Brian Donaldson described Frame as: "Aztec Camera wunderkind-turned-elder statesman of intelligent, melodic, wistful Scotpop." Since the end of the Aztec Camera project, Frame has released four solo albums, the last of which is 2014's Seven Dials. Best known as the leader of Scottish pop group Aztec Camera, Roddy Frame burst onto the U.K. pop scene as a songwriting wunderkind who became a critical favorite while still in his teens. If the stardom expected of him never quite stuck, Frame has earned a reputation as a gifted, literate tunesmith who has enjoyed a long-running and uncompromising career."

Surf features regularly in my top Ten, Twenty and always Thirty albums of all time.

I am so touched and please read on here . . . . . . .  Roddy Frame at Urbanaspirines

If you don’t have these two download them now you will not regret it I promise!

Roddy Frame - White Pony in 1080p (Live on The Review Show)

Roddy performed this song and 'Oblivious' on BBC's The Review Show on 10th Nov 2013 to promote his album 'Seven Dials'. This was his first TV appearance in 14 years.

Sacrifical Bonfire - XTC [Skylarking] | HERBERG DE KELDER

 

Sacrificial Bonfire

Sacrificial Bonfire- XTC

"What an incredible album closer.”

HERBERG DE KELDER

More antipodean treasure : David Kilgour - Uplift (1991) | Guess I’m Dumb

David Kilgour - Uplift (1991)

Magic melodic Kiwi rock from David Kilgour’s first solo LP.

You say you’re alright

I know you’re not

David Kilgour - Uplift Live performance at the Flying Nun 10th Anniv Concert, 

Powerstation, Auckland, New Zealand, 10 Sept 1991. Filmed by Bob Sutton.

Emily Barker - Sad Songs

 Emily has shared a new lyric video of this heart breaking universal  . . . . . 

Emily Barker - Sad Songs (Official Lyric Video)

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