Through their adaptation of traditional English folk songs, Fairport Convention , founded in 1967, became England's most influential folk rock band. Here the group performs "Matty Groves" in Birmingham Town Hall, 1990. The ballad , versions of which appeared in the 17th century, is about an ill-fated tryst between a nobleman's wife and a servant. "Matty Groves" is one of the tracks...
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The latest edition of "Classic Rock Presents Prog" hits the stores on Wednesday November 25th. Issue Five features Mike Portnoy, Katatonia, Renaissance, Mostly Autumn, Roy Harper, Oceansize, The Devil's Blood, Fairport Convention, Black Bonzo, Pythia, Tilt, Within Temptation (Sharon den Adel), etc. etc. plus French Prog. The free CD, "PROGNOSIS 5", includes the following tracks...
Here’s the latest batch of Music Musings and Miscellany’s unapologetically subjective selection of the twentieth century’s best 1000 singles. FAIRPORT CONVENTION – Si Tu Dois Partir / Genesis Hall (Island 6064 1969) In the period between the end of the sixties and punk, for the serious prog-rock, metal and folk-rock fan, the 45rpm seven inch single [...]
Unity Peg has designed a range of Text Transfers to liven up your blank wall space. The collection consists of a choice of 19 different phrases, each one being the name of an album. They have chosen titles that are...
Today, epic story-songs about infidelity. My dad used to sing this one for us - it is a very old English ballad, and we reveled in the gory details. In some versions, Lord Arnold strikes his cheating wife through the heart and pins her against the wall after she tells him she'd rather kiss from her dead lover's lips, and in others he cuts her head off and kicks it against the wall.
In February 2009, Vetiver released their album, Tight Knit, a homely collection of soft songwriting that went against the grain of the more dark and introspective experimentation of previous outing To Find Me Gone. Another band who found themselves amid the flurry of freak-folk's awakening earlier this decade, Animal Collective, released in Merriweather Post Pavilion a record that focused on the domestic,...
As the adverts always have it - NEW! IMPROVED! VIM! And, no doubt, ZIP A DEE DOO-DAH! too So, Vim is a concept that can mean many things to many people. Over on the Mothership, some people seem to have objected to the idea that up tempo songs automatically means vimminess, but I don't know about that, one woman's Vim is another woman's Cillit Bang. Personally, a toe-tapping quality switches on my vim...
Unity Peg has designed a range of Text Transfers to liven up your blank wall space. The collection consists of a choice of 19 different phrases, each one being the name of an album. They have chosen titles that are...
Last week I posted a video of 1970s Celtic rock pioneers Horslips performing the "The Man Who Built America," and I described them as a combination of Jethro Tull, Thin Lizzy, and The Pogues. Although it's a great song, there wasn't anything Pogues-like with that tune. "High Reel" moves the needle a bit in that direction, although the feel of it is more in line with British folk...
AFTER HALLOWEEN By Fairport Convention Red and gold and Halloween have passed us by The charcoal branches lean against the rosy sky You are so far away and I could touch you if I may But don't you worry now, I'm only dreaming anyway You may be lonely, you may be just on your own It could be anywhere, some place that I have know But who am I and do we really live these days at all And are they simply...
A longer list from me than usual, and as varied as the things that came out of the Hobgoblin's hat... Moon Gone Down - the Gourds The Moon Shines Bright - Shirley and Dolly Collins Kiko And The Lavender Moon - Los Lobos Spanish Moon - Little Feat No More The Moon Shines On Lorena - Kev Russell's Junker Lovers' Moon - Any Trouble Midnight Moonlight - the Be Good Tanyas Fever Moon - Diana Jones Teenage...
Full Baltimore Sun story (with lots of commentary below it) here: The Baltimore City Council voted Monday to allow bars and restaurants in some of the city's trendiest neighborhoods to hire bands, singers and other performers, overturning a decades-old prohibition that City Council President Stephanie C. Rawlings-Blake says has stifled nightlife in town. "This is an opportunity in lean times for...
This is the blurb from Free Reed about 'Shine In The Dark', the third album in the RT boxed set: There is a special magic in the way Richard on stage will transform a song into an epic performance on stage, through an astonishingly inventive guitar improvisation. For the first time, some of his finest guitar workouts are brought together on one CD in a set of performances which can only be called breathtaking....
http://www.mediafire.com/?2mmjjy0gtni [WTF?] /Peel Intro /Led Zeppelin - Communication Breakdown/ Tyrannosaurus Rex - Ride a White Swan /Joe Cocker - Delta Lady /Peel recalls the history of Top Gear and looks forward to his new nighttime show /Pink Floyd - Daybreak /Randy Newman - Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear/ Peel bemoans the BBC's wiping policy and has a rant about Gardeners' Question...
This podcast is a little bit random, I have to say. There are songs which follow on from the like folk/hate covers posts which have appeared over the course of the last week or so on the site, a couple are related to the fact that Mrs. Toad is once more away in God Bless [...]
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