Music today has been in keeping with Nick Drake, on the gentler side of early seventies singer-songwriters with Bridget St John’s Songs For The Gentle Man (1971). Very much a contemporary of Drake, she was signed by John Peel’s Dandelion label and with help of Peel, John Martyn and Al Stewart went on to make […]
Today was Nick Drake’s birthday (1948), so he would have been 73. Can you imagine the records he might have made if he hadn’t died at the age of 26 on the 25th November 1974? I wonder what Hendrix might have done if he’d lived, after all, he only really made three studio albums and […]
Music today was Revolver (1966) by The Beatles because it keeps on coming up in seshes, the simplicity of Eleanor Rigby, transformed by strings, the harmony and guitar part on And Your Bird Can Sing, the influence of Love You To, the bass playing and the drumming on Tomorrow Never Knows, the sentiment of I’m […]
Music today does not come from anything to do with Led Zeppelin because you just might have heard them before, not that that stops me from posting about popular groups as well as more obscure ones or newer artists. Today’s album is a compilation called When The Day Is Done – The Orchestrations of Robert […]
Music today has been Amythyst Kiah. She is a rootsy Tennessee singer-songwriter whose first album Dig (she does a cover of Fake Plastic Trees) was released in 2013 and her second, Chest Of Glass, in 2017. Wary and Strange is released on June 18th. It’s the follow up to her collaborative album Songs Of Our […]
Music today started with, you guessed it, Big Blue Ball (2008), a Peter Gabriel multi-artist world music project that I wasn’t aware of. I was directed there after listening randomly to a World Party track to find that Karl Wallinger was very involved in the project. Which made me look into World Party to discover […]