Seu Jorge - Life On Mars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6l8zrsf4LY
Slim Dusty - Looking Forward, Looking Back
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D59cX23PDu4
For more info:
ABC Australia - Slim Dusty Week
http://www.abc.net.au/radio/digital/extra/3848537.htm
With the announcement this week that the BBC is disgracefully cutting "World Routes", it very sadly shows that it has dropped to third place behind ABC and NPR in the global league of public radio broadcasting.
Quote: Horseradish @ September 17 2013, 9:15 PM BSTSlim Dusty - Looking Forward, Looking Back
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D59cX23PDu4
For more info:
ABC Australia - Slim Dusty Week
I might not attempt to catch up on the entire back catalogue, but thanks as always for an introduction to one of music's quirkier byways, a local legend in this case.
Can't believe I had never heard this proclaimers song until tonight after reading about the new movie of the same name based on their musical that I also hadn't heard off. What a brilliant song
The atmosphere when it is sung here must be amazing
It's my new favourite song.
Quote: Tursiops @ September 11 2013, 7:55 PM BSTThe Transatlantic Sessions:
Have just caught up with these. I very much liked the first and loved the second. Hadn't heard either before. The Transatlantic Sessions has been a tremendous project. That mix of the celtic and Americana really works for me and it feels like home. The harmonies on the first track are superb but it is mainly Amos Lee. He is a fine artist as is Declan O'Rourke who also gets a mention. Paul Weller described "Galileo" by the latter as the one recent song he wished he'd written. Great as it is, it is this one that gets my vote:
Declan O'Rourke - We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuY7SPc6_OU
Quote: Will Cam @ September 17 2013, 11:18 PM BSTCan't believe I had never heard this proclaimers song until tonight after reading about the new movie of the same name based on their musical that I also hadn't heard off. What a brilliant song
The atmosphere when it is sung here must be amazing
It's my new favourite song.
I like this too. How many teams are green? Hibs, Celtic, Real Betis. Possibly too many are blue?
Redondo Beach by Patti Smith
The Black Keys - Gold On The Ceiling
Quote: Gordon Bennett @ September 16 2013, 9:57 PM BSTEdge Of Twilight by Gentle Giant
I loved this one.
What a brilliant "far out" video.
And the muppets have never looked so cool. 
Quote: Gordon Bennett @ September 13 2013, 4:40 PM BSTChange Is Now by The Byrds
Devil In Disguise by The Flying Burrito Brothers
Pardon My Heart by Neil Young
Water Of Love by Dire Straits
It is clear in "Change is Now" where the Stone Roses' heads were in the 1980s. A wonderful lineage, that.
I don't own any Burritos' records but I do have Gram Parsons' solo albums. I think of him as an important figure in that he helped enable country music to have a left field. That was something of a contradiction in terms. Emmylou was close to him, of course, after which it is a short hop in the mind to Nanci Griffith and many other artists, mainstream and alt. It is only comparatively recently that I been able to take on board more traditional country music. Its values can be respected as a separate entity. Right or wrong, they have a fundamental integrity and it also helps that there is a lot of humour in that genre, intended and not.
I have many Neil Young albums but "Zuma" is a key one I don't know. He is someone I am learning about more and it is an enjoyable process. So far, there is hardly any of his output I dislike. His performance at Glasto in 2009 was one of the best by anyone I have witnessed. In fact, I cried with joy. It was that good.
That Dire Straits' track is from their eponymous debut album. Their best in my opinion although some of the commercial stuff is great too. Perhaps surprisingly, the band was originally promoted by a guy called Charlie who was kind enough to correspond with me briefly in the years before his death. He was a fine man and always generous in his comments. I miss him a lot - and the radio was a better place when he was on air.
Gram Parsons - Brass Buttons
Quote: Horseradish @ September 18 2013, 7:55 PM BSTThat Dire Straits' track is from their eponymous debut album. Their best in my opinion although some of the commercial stuff is great too. Perhaps surprisingly, the band was originally promoted by a guy called Charlie who was kind enough to correspond with me briefly in the years before his death. He was a fine man and always generous in his comments. I miss him a lot - and the radio was a better place when he was on air.
Charlie Gillett
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Gillett
Gillett began a weekly radio programme, Honky Tonk, on Radio London in 1972, leaving in 1978. He brought Ian Dury to public attention, and was the first DJ to play demos by Graham Parker, Elvis Costello and Dire Straits ("Sultans of Swing"). In the latter case, significant numbers of London's A&R men had contacted Gillett's studio by the time he had finished playing the song - sending Dire Straits on their journey to global stardom.
Fantasy by Oliver Onions
Quote: George Kaplan @ September 18 2013, 8:37 PM BSTCharlie Gillett
Yes. That's the fella!
Ethiopian jazz piano.
One tune by a nun and the other by a non-nun.
Emahoy Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou - Evening Breeze
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60bAwYLt9iY&list=PL8CB20E3680FF142F
Samuel Yirga of Dub Colossus - Ambassel in Box Revisited
Quote: Horseradish @ September 18 2013, 7:00 AM BSTPaul Weller described "Galileo" by the latter as the one recent song he wished he'd written. Great as it is, it is this one that gets my vote:
Declan O'Rourke - We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea
Also checked out Galileo; both good. I shall check out more.
Lionel Richie - All Night Long
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean http://youtu.be/Zi_XLOBDo_Y
Johnnie Ray - I'll Never Fall In Love Again
http://youtu.be/7R801ZTt46U
T.Rex-Jeepster
http://youtu.be/w-G7-yLFmCQ
Charlie Gillett was brilliant. So enthusiastic and knowledgeable.
i seem to remember he had a sunday lunchtime show playing some really interesting stuff including lots of mid 70s indie stuff.
One record I always remember from his Oval label which was resurrected on a Stiff label was Promised Land by Johnny Allen.
Quote: Chappers @ September 18 2013, 11:07 PM BSTCharlie Gillett was brilliant. So enthusiastic and knowledgeable.
i seem to remember he had a sunday lunchtime show playing some really interesting stuff including lots of mid 70s indie stuff.
One record I always remember from his Oval label which was resurrected on a Stiff label was Promised Land by Johnny Allen.
Great stuff.
I've always thought Promised Land to be one of Chuck's great tracks and this is certainly a fitting version !
