My liver has finally stopped aching from my weekend sojourn in Minehead. All who made the expedition had a splendiferous time at the Dirty Three curated ATP festival. Myself, rather blearily, included. Although owning a few of their records, I'd never seen the Dirty Three do their thing, and 'hazard!', I cried; they are bastard-well brilliant! If there were medals for sheer presence, a tidy r...
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One of my favourite songs of all time. An elusive, solemn number. Neil's songwriting is , for me, the perfect combination of early twentieth century styles. His crooning may not be for all, but it's suits me fine. This song has been covered many times. In my opinion, most successfully by Tim Buckley and, bless his socks for giving it a go, by Billy Bragg. I think Buckley's version may be it's...
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I just saw, "be here to love me" the Townes Van Zandt documentary. If I have ever been more depressed by a film in my life, I can't think of it.
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I just replaced a copy of an old compilation I loved called "crooning on venus". A mad, beautiful compilation based on the tenuous premise: what you'd be likely to hear in a space-port waiting-lounge on venus. It's basically a bunch of well chosen tonal tracks including 'my ideal' by chet baker, amazonian throat singing, john lee at his most downbeat, john martyn, 'starsailor' by tim buckley, a...
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