After a political thread that inspired wonderful, meaningful songs about righting the world’s wrongs, Donald Trump was elected president of the USA – then Leonard Cohen died. I left London and flew to Stockholm to rehearse with Anekdoten and then in turn flew to Holland to play, leaving the following day to drive to Germany – […]
Here’s some Leon Russell videos from his extensive career. Starting with a fantastic version of Delta Lady in the studio from 1970 complete with two false starts. His voice rips, the songs rocks. Celebratory soulful R’n’R at it’s very best. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_russell Beware Of Darkness – Concert for Bangladesh with George Harrison […]
The phrase, “They’re so straight they’re weird.” may have been coined to describe Carpenters – yes that’s Carpenters, not The Carpenters, they dropped the ‘The’ because Richard Carpenter thought that it would be cooler ” like Buffalo Springfield of Jefferson Airplane”. He thought in terms of what might be cool? Really? Welcome then to the […]