Fairport Convention - Autopsy - 'What We Did Instead of Holidays’ Clinton Heylin

 An advert on Route for the wonderful book 'What We Did Instead of Holidays' has just been released in a new paperback edition and they used this track to illustrate it.

"Conscious that shipping and customs costs are a barrier, we have issued the paperback in a way to avoid such problems and thus make it more accesible to international readers. "

All links here: https://www.route-online.com/.../what-we-did-instead-of...

Fairport Convention - Autopsy (Unhalfbricking)

Produced by Joe Boyd. 

Sandy Denny - lead vocals.

Richard Thompson – electric guitars, electric dulcimer.

Simon Nicol – guitar.

Ashley Hutchings – bass, backing vocals.

Martin Lamble – drums.

Go buy it! it is seriously one of the best books Route have publilshed and certainly the best book (other than Richard Thompson’s own!) on the Fairports

Kelly Boesch: 'Quiet Rebellion'

Today's post from Kelly . . .   

She says:  "Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is refuse to change your ink to fit someone else’s page. These lyrics are about finding the grace in the strange. Stay liquid in a world made of stone. It’s called ‘Quiet Rebellion’.

The visuals were made using Midjourney and animated using VEO3. Lyrics written by me, Kelly Boesch. Music created under my creative direction with assistance from Suno."

Kelly Boesch

Ernest Tubb - Waltz Across Texas | Better Call Saul - Bob Odenkirk

 Ernest Tubb - Waltz Across Texas With You

Ernest Dale Tubb (February 9, 1914 -- September 6, 1984), nicknamed the Texas Troubadour, was an American singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest career hit song, "Walking the Floor Over You" (1941), marked the rise of the honky tonk style of music. In 1948, he was the first singer to record a hit version of "Blue Christmas", a song more commonly associated with Elvis Presley and his mid-1950s version. Another well-known Tubb hit was "Waltz Across Texas" (1965), which became one of his most requested songs and is often used in dance halls throughout Texas during waltz lessons. Tubb recorded duets with the then up-and-coming Loretta Lynn in the early 1960s, including their hit "Sweet Thang". Tubb is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.

 I came across this yesterday  from watching the peerless exquisite ‘Better Call Saul’ [Season 2 Episode 3] on the newly acquired Netflix which I am currently steeped in!

 Better than Breaking Bad!? Contentious I grant you but it is currently making me laugh and cry and feel sloppily sentimental and laugh like a drain. It is frankly brilliant A work of genius I think  . . . . . . .  props to the wonderful Bob Odenkirk, Rhea Seehorn, and Jonathan Banks and not forgetting creators Vince Gilligan & Peter Gould. 

Picture of The Day II | life is weird right?

 

This came up in my Facebook memories!

I said "

Someone I follow posted this sent in by a friend who had received a euphonium for repair (I know right?!) and inside the case was this label! 

It was going to be an odd week I figured!! Just goes to show you never can quite tell!  Omens there!

So hey . . . . . . .

Let’s be REAL careful out there! 🤔 🤪 😜 🎷 🎼 🎭 (they didn’t have a euphonium emoji!?) 

😏😳💜

We miss Viv too! 

Picture of the Day: So Long Marianne

 Marianne Faithfull, in her London flat, photographed by Anwar Hussein in July 1980.

The always beautiful Marianne Faithfull - check the album collection from The Stones Get Yer Ya Ya’s Out to With The Beatles and Jennifer Warnes Stevie Wonder and Genesis she had great taste . . .and knowledge. We miss her

More from The Guvnor! KILBURN AND THE HIGHROADS - ‘ENGLAND’S GLORY'

 Full of English idioms this is the sort of song Ian excelled at wealth it didn’t make it into the Blockheads canon! A gem none the less!

Ian Dury (and the Blockheads)

Billy Strings - Here Comes The Sun - Rupp Arena Lexington 20/06/2025

 The thing Billy gets’ here is just to play it as straight as you can! This is perfection . . . . . . 

Any sign of Spring where you are? It is sunny here but don’t say it too loud we are supposedly bang slap in the middle of Storm Chandra! Ssshhhh!

Birthdays: RODDY FRAME

  . . . of Aztec Camera of course but

visitors will spot that I adore Roddy’s solo work . . . still all available through his website and well getting (in fact why haven’t you bought everything! You can afford it!) Thanks to Route for the timely reminder!

Aztec Camera - Oblivious [1983]

so Route say: Happy birthday to Roddy Frame, born in East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire (that’s scotland to you!) on this day in 1964. 

He sees you crying and wants to kill your friends

Roddy Frame

Buy the platters here . . . AED Records

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Floppy Boot Stomp [Dust Sucker] Gary Lucas posts some Beefheart (obvs!)

  . . . and we could start as we mean to go on! Gary Lucas posted this one this morning! Why wouldn’t he?

It’s FLOPPY BOOT STOMP so obviously I dedicate this to the Boss of FBS and the Voodoo Wag, Silent Way and Brother Jobe of course and all their lovely boys!

Gary Lucas

Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band - Floppy Boot Stomp [Dust Sucker] 

Floppy Boot Stomp

Captain Beefheart - Topic

Don Van Vliet– vocals

John "Drumbo" French – drums, percussion

Denny "Feelers Rebo" Walley – guitar,

Jeff Moris Tepper – guitar

John Thomas – Rhodes electric piano, Mini Moog

 

Gary says: My friend French rocker Fred Pessoa shares some recent French comic art saluting Le Capitaine Coueur de Boeuf

Elliott Smith - No Name No 1 | O My Soul

O My Soul

No Name #1Elliott SmithRoman Candle