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I saw this and thought you would like it:
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Friday, December 16, 2011
Blues.....Old and New
My brother Phil and a few friends watch blues and get drunk the odd time. You Tube is a great source for footage and music of some of the blues greats. I created a playlist of blues from Robert Johnson right up to Jack White in order to show the impact blues has had on modern music.
In the second video, Eddie "Son" House does a version of his Death Letter Blues where he tells the story of having to identify his Wife in the morgue. The rawness of this song is unbelievable and has been discussed by musicians as well as anthropology students for years. It shows the harshness of life for some of these fellas in the 30's and 40's in america. Slavery might well have been abolished but these guys still lived in the plantation and worked for white farmers. The video of Son house is from the 70's. Previous to this he had gone into retirement and had been living in a bedsit in New Jersey until Blind owl from Canned heat tracked him down. He was a mad man for the drink and an unbelievable player. One of the god fathers of blues.
Son house is on second on this list, there are 15 songs so just click the forward button to change them
In the second video, Eddie "Son" House does a version of his Death Letter Blues where he tells the story of having to identify his Wife in the morgue. The rawness of this song is unbelievable and has been discussed by musicians as well as anthropology students for years. It shows the harshness of life for some of these fellas in the 30's and 40's in america. Slavery might well have been abolished but these guys still lived in the plantation and worked for white farmers. The video of Son house is from the 70's. Previous to this he had gone into retirement and had been living in a bedsit in New Jersey until Blind owl from Canned heat tracked him down. He was a mad man for the drink and an unbelievable player. One of the god fathers of blues.
Son house is on second on this list, there are 15 songs so just click the forward button to change them
Monday, December 5, 2011
Two for your headphones - WARNING! may or may not be enjoyed at a party as i have so cruelly found out :(
I saw Midlake on the BBC footage of Glasto last year and really enjoyed their performance. The harmonies and chord changes have seen them thrown into the unoriginally named "Neo-Progressive" genre. confusing enough anyway but all the same, you would have to be into 70's prog rock to like them. If you like Floyd, Genesis, Yes, Jethro Tull and also enjoy lyrics about the end of days and how terrible we treat our planet then these guys will be right up your street but by then you may no longer live on a street, you may live in a boat or some other seaworthy vessel and breathe through gills at the back of your ears. Their Album is called "The Courage of Others" and the opening track is called "Acts of Man".
Saunders got me into Younger Brother, not his Younger brother but the electronic duo formed in 2003 by Simon Posford (best known for his Hallucinogen and Shpongle projects) and Benji Vaughan (Prometheus). Their brand of [lifted this from another review] twisted electronica is hard to pin down as it hints at many genres of electronic music without allowing itself to become pigeon holed. The debut album released on Twisted Records has taken on cult status in the underground electronica scenes around the world with duo drawing crowds in their thousands from London to Tokyo, New York to Australia
Kinger
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