Quote: Oldrocker @ September 18 2013, 11:35 PM BSTGreat stuff.
I've always thought Promised Land to be one of Chuck's great tracks and this is certainly a fitting version !
I love the cajun feel of it. An all time classic.
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A bit too "modern R n B" for me but effective -
Oi Va Voi - Yesterday's Mistakes
Quote: Chappers @ September 18 2013, 11:40 PM BSTI love the cajun feel of it. An all time classic.
Another Cajuny song by Chuck . .
That Time Of The Night by Marillion
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.
Yes. There were a lot of phases. His career by the late 1970s had been very far-reaching, even with the reluctance of radio executives to employ him. They preferred so-called personality DJs with little knowledge. But during the next 30 years, he continued to listen to music daily from 9am to 6pm and generally had shows in one place or another including on the World Service. This was where he was in the early 2000s -
http://www.charliegillett.com/playlists2004.html
Back in the 1980s, he had been on the committee that decided to adopt the term "world music" as a new descriptive label but he was never entirely comfortable with it, especially when it became contentious. Many years later, he mildly invited comments about that matter which is where I stumbled in. I knew even less than I do now but he was extraordinarily gracious, both commenting positively and questioning assumptions.
Amadou and Mariam - La Realite
Quote: Horseradish @ September 14 2013, 8:10 PM BSTYma Sumac first appeared on radio in 1942. Born Zoila Augusta Emperatriz Chávarri del Castillo, in Peru, it was rumoured that she was really a Brooklyn housewife named Amy Camus. The latter was her adopted stage name spelt backwards. The exotic Yma, who is mentioned in Vanessa Paradis' "Joe Le Taxi" had a vocal range of slightly over four octaves. She would have been 91 yesterday had she not died in 2008.
Yma Sumac -
Latin - Gopher Mambo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JWxNqyIRtk
Rock - Medicine Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78HgBKQ1y0I
Techno - Mambo Confusion
Remember seeing her in a film when I was a kid and my mum explaining who she was, but she clearly had a more varied career than I had imagined. Particularly enjoyed Medicine Man.
I Don't Know by Jimmy Buffett
Bowie's new album. Oh - it's just finished. Giving it another chance and it's not bad.
I quite like it but like the Stones' A Bigger Bang it has too many songs on it (14) to be a great album.
Honky Chateau - Elton John.
I am really pissed off (wrong thread?) with those stickers HMV put over the end. You can't get rid of the stickyness. (Yes I am taking about those stickers)
Otis Redding - Shake
Martha and the Vandellas - Dancing in the Street
(both on vimeo)
Listening to the wonderful Darwin Song Project at the moment: http://youtu.be/FE5fTV69ocw?t=1m27s
Quote: Harridan @ September 19 2013, 10:13 PM BSTListening to the wonderful Darwin Song Project at the moment: http://youtu.be/FE5fTV69ocw?t=1m27s
Interesting; some impressive names involved.
Quote: Horseradish @ September 13 2013, 6:07 PM BST"Gypsy Blood" for the typical rock output of Doll By Doll. I posted the magical "Stripshow" many weeks ago. You will like the folk classic "Main Travelled Roads" from the mainly experimental eponymous fourth. Also on that album is this track which is different from everything else they did. It is as bizarre as it is impressive and might have been the closest they got to success. I can't emphasise enough that it isn't at all typical of them. But, if I had ever been asked to DJ in a club, which I wasn't, I would have played it every night.
Doll By Doll - Caritas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6kCGa7TCnw
Oh to hell with it, I will post "Stripshow" again because it is a brilliant lost classic. Should have been a No 1.
Doll By Doll - Stripshow
Cheer, lots of homework for me!
Quote: Harridan @ September 19 2013, 10:13 PM BSTListening to the wonderful Darwin Song Project at the moment: http://youtu.be/FE5fTV69ocw?t=1m27s
Yes, interesting. Thanks. Most notably, Karine Polwart seems to put herself in all of the right places.
Supergrass - Late In The Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8HJRVpUHQI
(on vevo)
Strangelove - Elin's Photograph
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73bPjFT55ZE
Hurricane No 1 - Monday Afternoon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnuhKkEy84U
JJ72 - Oxygen