Kate (and Damien) have let loose with their next single from the forthcoming album of covers 'Hand Me Downs' with Taylor Swift's 'Shake It Off' an extraordinary choice if you ask me but thanks to my daughter and indeed my granddaughter (3) and their pushing me to listen to the original, Kate and her hubby do a fine version of this classic meme of a song . . . . . check it out here Kate Rusby on Facebook - the next single from Hand Me Downs she seems to have stopped allowing the embedding the vids which is fine of course so check it out and of course get ready to buy it! Kate says:
🌟😆😆😃❤️This is SHAKE IT OFF, 🥰🌈our 3rd digital release from my forthcoming album Hand Me Down. Brand new single, OUT TODAY, just sayin!!!! 🎉🎉🎉 Go find it and dance and please share, share, share... 🥰ps Hand Me Down out Aug 14th. #newalbum#handmedown#coversalbum#pleasesupportandbuy#taylorswift#banjosgalore#moog
Thursday, July 23, 2020
Our KATE RUSBY on't radio
Lovely chat with Kate this morning with Jenni and always enjoy Women's Hour around my coffee time . . .this was obviously fascinating hearing about how her forthcoming album of covers 'Hand Me Downs' came about and I didn't really know so much about Kate's parents! Fab!
Whoooo hooooo!!!! 😃🌟 I’m on Woman’s Hour this morning!! I’m a very happy girl as it’s one of my favourite shows. With the very fabulous, fellow Barnsley-ite Jenni Murray 😊❤️ Starts at 10am BBC Radio 4 or tune in here https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007qlvb
The programme that offers a female perspective on the world
Available on catch up if you missed it!
Wednesday, July 22, 2020
Looking good . . . . . .EMILY BARKER
For the Woman Who Planted Trees
Emily says today on her Facebook page
Emily Barker is with The Woman Who Planted Trees (official video) Premiere and The Green Belt Movement.39m · Join me at 6pm BST on Saturday 25th July for the YouTube premiere of the official music video for my new single, 'The Woman Who Planted Trees' - a song inspired by environmentalist and activist, Wangari Maathai. “It’s a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.” Wangari Maathai Kenyan activist, Wangari Maathai founded The Green Belt Movement in order to reforest degraded land to provide food and empower women in her community. Since its establishment in 1977, over fifty million trees have been planted in the region, and over thirty thousand women trained in forestry, food processing, beekeeping and other trades that provide an income as well as protect and nurture the environment.In 2004 Professor Maathai became the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize which was awarded for her “contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace". Though she passed away at the age of 71 in 2011, her legacy lives on with seeds and saplings planted years ago now towering as mature trees above the people in the community. I saw a short documentary about her which included interviews with her daughter, Wanjira Mathai, as she walked through the beautiful forests planted by her mother and friends. In the desperate context of our times, we can look to people such as Wangari Maathai and The Green Belt Movement for inspiration, knowledge and instruction. #WangariMaathai#treeplanting#womensrights#GreenBeltMovement#Ecosia#community#empowerment#womensempowerment#trees#freedom#democracy#peace#knowledge#inspirationDiscover Wangari Maathai's legacy at The Green Belt Movement - http://www.greenbeltmovement.org/Directed and Produced by Joe Magee The Woman: Corinne Walker Music: Emily Barker Cinematography: Joe Magee
Tuesday, July 21, 2020
because . . . . . . . . . well it's Tuesday
The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
Monday, July 20, 2020
EMILY BARKER, BLAZE FOLEY, JOHN PRINE,
Cup o' Joe
Emily Barker, coffee and her sounds of the week . . . . . . I love these posts from Emily as she shares with us much of interest and musical taste (well my being a fan of her's is rather an indicator but I haven't found anyone yet we don't share a taste for) This of course is making me want to go out and buy this live album . . . . . . . Blaze Foley we shared as a discovery through our both enjoying the work of John Prine (Prine frequently covered Foley's 'Clay Pigeons' see below) Emily also appears to get through considerably more coffee than I do so I can't join in again (yet) . . . .
I had wanted to discuss how we each make our coffee, I am a whole bean or ground man with my manual wooden grinder and French press after exhausting all sorts of coffee makers, machinery and killing several electronic grinders and I use measuring spoons rather than weighing the beans! but thought it would probably bore her rigid to ask her why she has ended up as she evidently has! I have tried most means of 'real' coffee making from filters and quite elaborate machines that drizzle liquid into pots to the simplest means of making it ground beans and a cafetière! Emily seems to prefer a machine grinder, weighing out the cherries and filtration by adding several blasts [well two it seems] of hot water straight from a kettle . . . . . . . . how do YOU make yours?! Ha ha ha ha ha (who in the gosh darned tarnation do you think you are talking too?! ED . . . . Shutup! ) Emily says on Facebook:
Good morning! This Monday morning’s Music + Coffee combo.If you've tuned in to my previous episodes, you'll notice I'm not in my usual setting. Lukas and I are in the process of moving house and so for this post and next week's, I'm at my bandmate Rob Pemberton's house for coffee and music. On the weekend I was in Bristol and so took myself to Rough Trade Bristolbranch to browse the racks. I was so pleased to find this Blaze Foley album who I'd only just discovered was the writer behind 'Clay Pigeons' - a song known to me via John Prine's cover version. I delved into Foley's work on Spotify and was struck by its depth, so when I saw this 'Live at The Austin Outhouse' LP, I knew I had to get it. The recording is fantastic - so intimate you feel like you're there in the band room with him. It is a stunning collection of songs with some great guest performances too. Bristol is blessed with so many great record shops. I've had the pleasure of playing at this one a handful of times now. https://www.roughtrade.comIn the early 2000's I lived on a narrow boat in London with my partner at the time and we'd often travel the waterways with a family of baristas. Gwilym Davies in fact was the World Barista Champion in 2009! He's now based in the Czech Republic where he roasts, runs barista training courses, and makes coffee with his partner Petra Davies Veselá. He saw my Music + Coffee posts and wanted to send me some samples of The naughty dog roasts to try. Yes please! It was so lovely to hear from him after all these years and the coffee is delicious. My fave of the four he sent me is the Ethiopia Banko Gotiti Natural - it's quite sweet and berry-ie. Mmmm. Thank you Gwilym and Petra. https://www.kofio.cz/naughty-dogJoin me for Music + Coffee here: https://youtu.be/kyjMKPKaOsMEnjoy your day!Emily x
Damn I miss John Prine . . . . . brings a tear to my eye
R.I.P. EMITT RHODES
Sad to report the loss of the legendary singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Emitt Rhodes. We lost Judy Dyble a week ago, seen here singing accompaniment to this wonderful Fairport Convention song here written by Rhodes and part of the soundtrack of my life . . . . . Richard (Thompson) reports here on his Facebook page:
So sorry to hear of the death of Emitt Rhodes. We covered his song back in 1967, and I got to meet and record with him 50 years later. What a talented man. I will miss him.
Still singing with a beautiful voice and here with RT
Sad loss . . . . Emitt Rhodes
Last week Richard also noted the death of Judy Dyble
"So sad to hear of the passing of Judy Dyble, a founding member of Fairport Convention, after a long battle with lung cancer. All my thoughts and prayers."
RIP Judy Dyble, fantastic singer who was involved with some of the finest talents in the late 1960s folk and progressive rock scene in Britain. Dyble was the singer on Fairport Convention's debut album (also playing electric and acoustic autoharps, recorder and piano). In June 1968, after meeting Ian McDonald, she put an ad in Melody Maker reading "Judy Dyble requires brilliant and creative bass guitarist / vocalist and lead guitarist / vocalist. Musicians only." Peter Giles answered the ad, bringing along his brother Mike and a friend, one Robert Fripp. The lads have already recorded an album called The Cheerful Insanity Of Giles, Giles & Fripp. Dyble recorded with them an early version of I Talk to the Wind. Later that year that group of musicians sans Dyble formed King Crimson. She later formed the duo Trader Horne with former Them keyboard player and vocalist Jackie McAuley. The band got their name after John Peel's nanny Florence Horne as a thank you after the DJ bought Dyble an electric harp. They performed alongside Humble Pie, Yes, and Genesis, but sadly broke up after a sole album. Another collaboration, unfortunately unrecorded, was with Canterbury scene musicians Lol Coxhill and brothers Steve and Phil Miller.
