tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31654966632713830392024-03-05T06:55:01.253+00:00Bucketfull Of BrainsRock'n'Roll * Pop * Psych * Garage * Punk * R'n'B * Country * FolkNick Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01584326985288527303noreply@blogger.comBlogger210125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165496663271383039.post-47608560626520764472018-10-11T12:38:00.003+01:002023-08-22T13:18:18.754+01:00A Bucketfull Of Possibilites <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>A Bucketfull Of Possibilities </i>was the last various artists compilation Terry and Nick compiled for Bucketfull. Unlike the previous three (and the Zip and Citadel collections) this was a stand-alone production in a jewel box. Also it didn't come with the magazine but was sent separately to all subscribers.<br />
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At that stage there was considerable doubt as to the continued viability of the magazine. In March 2003 Nick had returned from the ECMAs in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to discover that Caroline Distribution would no longer be stocking and selling magazines. It was the Caroline sales that guaranteed the income keeping the mag going.<br />
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The magazine had a bit of capital so pressed on regardless and decided the projected CD might as well happen. The consequence was <i>Possibilities </i>and you can read our thoughts about it below.<br />
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1 Sigmatropic Featuring
Carla Torgerson - Haiku 13 </div>
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2 Snail - Bamboo
Rain </div>
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3 Diamond Star
Halo - The Sky is Falling </div>
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4 Brett
Smiley - Blame It On The Moon </div>
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5 Aerovons - Stopped </div>
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6 Phil Seymour - Love
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7 Drazy Hoops - The
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8 Sgt.
Arms - Company Girl </div>
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9 Victor
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10 Walter Ghoul's
Lavender Brigade - Merry Xmas Elizabeth Kimbal </div>
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11 Jon Green - Back
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12 Steve Wynn & The
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13 Nelson
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14 Marc Carroll - You
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15 Jet Lag - Beautiful Scars </div>
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16 Cotton
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Listening to her
fascinating Freak Zone Playlist (no longer available sadly) the other
week I was reminded that back in 2006 we’d interviewed Gwenno and
put her then-band The Pipettes on the cover.
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That was in Bob#70 and
looking back the whole issue strikes me as a rather good issue.For
one thing there’s a piece on The Eighteenth Day Of May – a chat
with Ben, Karl and Richard – when they were still a going concern.
It’s sad to think it’s over a decade since they split, but since
between them they’ve birthed The Left Outsides, The Hanging Stars,
Lake Ruth, Trimdon Grange Explosion, and The See See (and who have I
forgotten?) our regret must be a little tempered.
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There’s also
interviews with John Doe, Howe Gelb, Jason McNiff, Ian North of
Milk’N’Cookies, Scott Morgan of Sonic’s Rendezvous Band. Alan
Tyler and Jeremy Gluck provide recollections of Nikki Sudden, and
there’s a photograph of Robin Wills.
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Twenty years ago we’d
been running Bucketfull for about two years, and by then – between
August 1996 and December 1997 - had published four issues without too
many hiccups. OK we (or more precisely Terry) had been taken to court
by a scumbag, and there were the weird and often inexplicable typos
which mortify to this day, but we were solvent. We’d also got shot
of all the subscribers we’d inherited from Jon Storey and now had
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We were hitting #50 and
thus far hadn’t cover-mounted anything. It wasn’t a good time for
7” singles; the nearest pressing plant that anyone knew of was in
the Czech Republic; so we thought we’d do a CD compilation instead.
We made a wish-list and started working through it, and surprisingly
we kept on hitting pay-dirt.
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Both Joss and I really
wanted to get a Dan Penn track, so I got hold of his address and just
wrote him a letter, which you still did in those days, and back came
a DAT and a cassette, as you still got in those days, of ‘Jewel Of
My Heart’ along with a friendly handwritten reply which I still have
to this day. The track was an, possibly the sole, out-take from his
<i>Do Right Man</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> album, and is,
and remains, utterly wonderful. </span>
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also got a track from Jim Dickinson, '</span>Too Late'<span style="font-style: normal;">;
a song co-written with Ry Cooder and John Hiatt, and recorded with
his sons Luther and Cody. Joss had interviewed Jim and so this
coincided nicely. We put Jim on the cover; I’d found a nice picture
of him in a Dylan magazine but nobody could trace the origin. I ended
up phoning up Jim to ask him about it and had a long and wide-ranging
conversation – he told me a lot of stories – eventually being
advised “just use it, the magazine went bust”. So we did and he’s
unmistakable on that golden cover. </span>
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So
that was two tracks, and there were another seventeen from folk like
Dwight Twilley who gave us ‘It’s Hard To Be A Rebel’, Matthew
Sweet with ‘Bold Moves’, and Sparklehorse’s Blake-via The Fugs
setting of ‘London’, Bill Lloyd, The Barracudas, You Am I, and
Darryl-Ann.
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Listening
again now I’m astonished at the quality and just how well we
sequenced it. It sounds still so fresh and life-affirming even as
time has made it poignant. Both Jim and Mark Linkous went some years
back, and the loss of Tommy Keene last autumn so soon after touring
with Matthew Sweet still stings.
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We
did very well with it and sold out the first print-run. A second
smaller print-run used up the rest of the CD pressing. They soon went
and that was that. I’d see it now and then on eBay usually going
for between fifteen and twenty-five quid. For a long time all I had a
handful of copies in poor condition, but a few years ago someone –
I think closing a record store – offered me a box of old mags and
when I got to look at it there was a small quantity of #50s in very
good condition.
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thought they’d all gone but the other day, digging around at home
(as some of you will know I have time on my hands currently) I
turned a few copies up. Rather than stick them up on eBay I’m
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Is it that long since 78/79 landed? Guess so. Have you got it? No? Quickly here, there aren’t many left. What’s been happening? Well Richard Buckner and Sacri Cuori were pretty ace, alone and together. Danny Champ and Richard Warren. Jason McNiff just last Monday at the Borderline. Taking Ben Folke Thomas to see Glen Campbell. The Loft. Pete Wylie being Pete Wylie. Jones and Simonon and Primal Scream doing ‘Jail Guitar Doors’. There’ve been moments but it’s been a hiatus, and now before nature abhors this vacuum too much let’s see some activity.<br />
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First activity is announcements from the record label of no less than three upcoming releases between now and May:<br />
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First off is a reissue of Trent Miller’s <i>Cerberus</i> (BoB 112). Originally self-released on his own Hangman Label in autumn 2009 it’s now getting a new push with a listed release date of 5th March. Visit his <a href="http://www.trent-miller.com/">website</a> and learn more about it.<br />
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Then we’re very pleased to be giving a UK and European release to <a href="http://www.edwardrogersmusic.com/">Edward Rogers</a>’ <i>Porcelain</i> (BoB 121) originally put out in the US and Canada on Zip last autumn. This is Ed’s fourth solo album and as ever it features a plethora of New York’s finest. Due 2nd April. <br />
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And then, drum roll if you don’t mind, we’re extremely pleased to announce we’re putting out <a href="http://johnmurry.com/">John Murry</a>’s The Graceless Age (BoB 122) on 7th May. An extraordinary record. You may recall <i>World Without End</i> which John recorded with the old Memphis folkie <a href="http://bobfranksongs.com/">Bob Frank</a>; this is the solo album he’s been working on since. It involves a number of famed SF musicians including Chuck Prophet and it’s going to make some waves.<br />
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All that is just bare bones (and a few links) for today but over the next days and weeks we’ll surely be posting a lot of (metaphorical) meat.Nick Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01584326985288527303noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165496663271383039.post-31781499867809618672011-10-03T17:41:00.001+01:002011-10-04T10:04:39.552+01:00Rivington Street - Richard WarrenTrack 1 of <i><a href="http://www.richardwarren.info/5/Discography.html">The Wayfarer</a> </i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you've been following our doings on the some of the other sites where we're active you'll have picked up that there's a new issue about to surface. And coming on the 11th October is our spanking new double issue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Our good friend <a href="http://www.richardwarren.info/">RICHARD WARREN</a> is about to release his new album THE WAYFARER, and it's an absolute corker. What's more having recorded it he's made a whole separate 'stripped-down' mix of it and given it to us. And we've stuck copies of it on the cover of this new issue. Plus we've really gone to town on stories, filled more pages, and bought in a couple of new young Turks (possibly stretching veracity there a little). </span><br />
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</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are two ways of dealing with adversity. One is to wallow in self-pity, to whinge and take on the victim persona; the other is to believe in yourself and your inherent talents, to have another go from an alternative direction. If you take the first option you're probably lost for good; if you take the second it's amazing what you can do. Neal Casal won't thank me for praising him as an exemplar of the latter path, but I want to hold his hand up as a guy who took a heavy blow at a crucial moment in his burgeoning career and who's now back on the tracks stronger than ever. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Neal Casal is a singer-songwriter from New Jersey. He's in his late twenties and he's been playing music for over fifteen years. His parents split when he was young and his childhood was somewhat peripatetic, taking in Georgia, California, Michigan, and upstate New York. As far back as he can remember music captivated him:</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I became obsessed with listening to music as early as I can remember. My first recollections of really loving music was, I must have been three or four, and I had Bill Haley's 'Rock Around The Clock' and Don McLean's 'American Pie', little 45s, made my mother play them and I would dance around on the bed. I remember 'American Pie', goofy song that it is. It's a long story song. I remembered the words even then just affecting me, and those images, I just thought about them a lot. The rhythm of 'Rock Around The Clock' was something I loved."</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His Damascus Road moment came when he was thirteen:</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"My ma had this little clock radio. One night I heard 'Sympathy For The Devil' coming out of that radio. I just heard that it really sounded dangerous, that guitar solo, Keith Richard's guitar solo that had that very shrill tone, coming out of the little speaker on my mom's radio. The radio was across the room and I almost ran to it, looking at the speaker, like something was happening to it. Then they said it was the Rolling Stones, I just went out and got all their records and that started me. Soon after my dad bought me a guitar, and the minute I got that guitar I knew the direction of my life was solidified right there and then. It was instantaneous. And I still remember the moment."</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Back in New Jersey in his mid-teens he started to form bands with school friends:</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I wanted to be a guitar player primarily. I didn't want to sing. I didn't even want to play lead guitar that much. I just wanted to be a rhythm guitar player, because Keith Richard was my main inspiration. I'd read quotes of his: "the best way two guitars work together is when you don't know who's playing what". The identity in the guitar playing gets lost, and I like that idea, instead of the typical lead guitar hero thing which I never really got into".</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Singing was initially forced on him:</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Young bands always have trouble finding a singer. There's plenty of drummers, plenty of guitar players, bass players are kind of hard to come by but you can always turn the worst guitar player into a bass player. Never find a good singer though.. Went through all these singers who wouldn't turn up, they'd be off drunk somewhere, and they'd show up three hours late. Finally out of necessity I took control, said I was going to learn how to sing. I started doing that and I burned my voice out there pretty good for a few months, and then I started to get the hang of it. I realised that I just didn't want to play covers anymore. This was the mid-eighties, the town where I grew up if you wanted to play in a band you had to play metal. I wasn't very into that either. So I figured that instead of having to play all these bad eighties covers, any covers, I wanted to start writing my own songs. Sixteen, I wrote my first song, and it never stopped from there. That band turned into an original band, We made a little local record and it all started from there. And the songwriting process became increasingly interesting, and now it's overridden everything else I do. It's the single most important thing I do".</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This band, Exire, a pun on Exile as in ...On Main Street, was basically a high school band and on graduating Neal wanted to move on, fearing that he'd find himself stuck in the rut of a local circuit, so he left the band:</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">" I went to work in a music store, far away from where I lived, in Pennsylvania. There was a guy in there, in his forties, he managed the place, he was a great guitar player, had played with Leslie West, a great electric guitar player in that old Leslie West, Cream-era Clapton school, that thick toned, slow handed kind of style. He was a great acoustic guitar player as well. He heard me play and thought I had something, and I went and worked for him. I studied under him for a year. He was much older and much wiser, and that was what I was looking for. I knew that I had a lot to learn and this guy was a big mentor to me. I was going back to the first music that I loved, sixties stuff, The Stones, Allman Brothers. I saw the Woodstock movie on public television when I was a kid, and I loved all those bands. Sly and the Family Stone, Janis Joplin, Santana, and where that music leads you. It goes back to the blues, goes back to country music. If you're into the Stones you'd inevitably hear about Gram Parsons, that lets you into a whole other world of Hank Williams, Buck Owens, and Merle Haggard and on down the line. From the Woodstock movie I loved Arlo Guthrie and I found out he's Woody Guthrie's son. So I start listening to Woody Guthrie, and that takes you to Leadbelly and the whole folk tradition that eventually leads you to the English guys, and Led Zeppelin of all bands. I start reading between the lines, Jimmy Page into Bert Jansch. This is what I started with and it got derailed and distracted in the '80s. But I couldn't find band members that wanted to do what I wanted to do. So I just performed by myself. I was making a lot of demos, recording a lot, get musicians to help out, or do it by myself,. I was learning a little about engineering, and how to produce myself, and learning how to sing in the studio".</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Neal became friends with Gary Waldman who in time was to become his manager. Through Gary he got a publishing deal with Warner Chappell which allowed him the freedom to go on making demos. On the West Coast Bud Scoppa, then at Zoo Records, got to hear them and immediately took an interest, though he didn't think Neal was ready to be putting records out:</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"It took me a couple of years to get to the point where I was ready for a record deal. I could have made a record, I had enough songs, in '91 or '92, but it wouldn't have been a fully realised record. I think if I'd made it then, I would regret it now. So Bud just kept up with me for a couple of years. I did a batch of demos in Summer '94, and he went, 'alright, you're ready to go, do you want to come with me?' "</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Neal signed up to Zoo, but before any recording took place Bud Scoppa was gone, the victim of down-sizing. It's often the way that if the guy who signs you goes from a label your days are numbered, but Zoo initially stuck by Neal and he got to make his first album in 1995 in the idyllic surroundings of Palacio Del Rio in Santa Ynez, California. He'd initially been booked into Shangri-La in Malibu where the Band used to record, but Porno For Pyros already in residence refused to leave on schedule. So they were found this other massive place:</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"It was this big old Spanish mansion up near Santa Barbara, used to be Dean Martin's house, and Jimmy Stewart's before him. When we got up there, up the mile long drive, and realised that was where we were going to make our record we just about fainted. The place was just insanely huge, about ten bedrooms, a tennis court, pool. Decadent. We set up in the living room, lived there for a month, we held colossal parties, made great music, no record company people were around to spoil the fun. It was really one of the greatest times of my life. David Crosby lived up the road and he came by one day".</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The album was produced by Jim Scott and some great people worked on it: apart from a band including John Ginty and Don Heffington, there were guest appearances from Greg Leisz, Julie Christenson, and George Drackoulias:</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"That cast of musicians was a dream for me. It started out with Heffington because I really wanted him to play on the record. We got Bob Glaub who'd played on some of my favourite records. Leisz, who's probably the most amazing musician I've ever worked with, without a doubt. Drackoulias came by, he's real fun to hang out with. We had a great day listening to Humble Pie records."</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The album that came out of these sessions was <i>Fade Away Diamond Time</i>. It's a most stunning debut album, full of curiously valedictory songs, fine singing, fine playing, lyrically simple but so well crafted. Evocative and empathic, and universal. We've all had to let things go, and take other roads. Sadly it's now a great lost album, because soon after it was released by Zoo so was Neal. He found out by phone in a Nashville bar around Christmas '95. The story gets told that it was a devastating blow. Neal denies that now:</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"It's been written about me a lot that this was a horrible time but I don't remember it that way now. I remember it as a great time in my life. The whole thing that happened was disappointing and a bad time, but I don't even look at it like that now, I don't let it embitter me or even impede my progress. I think of that as a great time. I got to make my first record exactly the way I wanted to do it. I had a particular sound in mind. I loved to play slow at that time. I had a big slow groove in mind. Listening back to that record I think it was a collection of really good songs. It could have benefited from an uptempo song or two, but that's hindsight."</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The dumping came in the middle of a tour. He cancelled a few dates, honoured a few more, ended up stuck in a blizzard in Pennsylvania for three days. Then home in Jersey:</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Home with no record deal, but it didn't take me long to figure out what to do. I wasn't going to sit around and let a negative situation ruin my life, feel sorry for myself, stop dead in my tracks. I wrote a whole bunch of songs, went to a friend of mine with a record label and we agreed to do a record, so I just went right in and did it in five days and that album is <i>Rain, Wind and Speed</i>. It got me over the situation really quickly. The premise was play and sing live. I didn't want to overdub my vocals. It was a goal of mine to just sing a song, all the songs on the album, 100% all the way through, no fixing, no nothing. Just sit down, sing your song, tell the truth. If there's something a little out of tune you just leave it. It was a goal. I wanted to sing my songs and know that I'd made it all the way through, that there was a continuity there. It's the way I was feeling at the time. It's what I needed to do. I just poured it out in a couple of days and it was good. And by the Springtime we had that record out. I already had my mind on something else. A new record and a new place to go, instead of thinking, 'oh I lost my record deal'. Self-pity is not something in my character. It's what I needed to move on. Otherwise the only record I had to hold in my hand was<i> Fade Away Diamond Time</i>, which was never spoiled by what happened. So now I had this other record, and I achieved my goal which was to sing live, whether it's any good or not I don't know but I did it. That was the best way to move on."</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Rain, Wind And Speed</i>, an essentially acoustic album, came out on the small New Jersey label, Buy Or Die. An advert in No Depression was spotted by Reinhard Holstein at Glitterhouse, who was a big fan of <i>Fade Away Diamond Time</i>. The end result was the German label distributing Rain, Wind And Speed in Europe, then putting out the compilation of archives Field Recordings. In 1997 Neal did a solo tour of most of Europe. Returning to the States he produced an EP for his backing singer Angie McKenna, did some co-writing with Parlor James' Ryan Hedgecock, and recorded and toured with James Iha. In early July he went back to California and with many of the same musicians from <i>Fade Away Diamond Time</i> he recorded the songs that comprise his new record <i>The Sun Rises Here</i>.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>The Sun Rises Here</i> is his finest release to date. There's a blending of styles and musical genres, the willingness to sing about himself which began to surface on <i>Rain, Wind And Speed</i> is much more in evidence. In essence it's a mature work:</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The sound of the record is different, a cross between the two previous records. My goal was to make a folk band album, and I tried to sequence it, to have more variety of songs and tempos on it than my other records. It's a spare kind of record. Lyrically some of my best moments are on this record. There's some very truthful moments for me. Some of the lyrics I really believe in. I'd play them for anybody, 'Last Of My Connections' and 'Real Country Dark'. A few albums down the line my experience is starting to show through."</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Neal made his first London appearances a few weeks ago, two nights supporting Kelly Joe Phelps and a brief in-store at Rough Trade in Portobello. Just him, his guitar, and his harmonica. At Rough Trade he held us spellbound through 'Eddy & Diamonds', 'All The Luck In The World', 'Maybe California', and 'Today I'm Gonna Bleed' which he wrote after Shawn from Hazeldine dubbed him "Mr. Poetic". What he is is a singer-songwriter from the old tradition, but he can rock more than a bit too. I saw him at first as a cross between acoustic Neil Young and Jackson Browne, but I fancy there's a lot of young Bob Weir in there too. He's currently in Europe with his band, let's hope they get to England fairly soon.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sid Griffin's <a href="http://www.sidgriffin.com/the-coal-porters/">Coal Porters</a> and <a href="http://www.watertowerbucketboys.com/">The Water Tower Bucket Boys</a> together at <a href="http://www.bushhallmusic.co.uk/">Bush Hall</a> next Thursday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.richardwarren.info/">Richard Warren</a>'s first solo album <i>Laments</i> was revelatory. It was initially reviewed in Bucketfull last summer and then featured in our<a href="http://bucketfullofbrains.blogspot.com/2010/12/top-ten-of-2010-plus.html"> top ten</a> of the year. We called it: </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"A record imbued with a Memphis feeling, with a vibe similar to that aspired to by Primal Scream on <i>Give Out But Don't Give Up</i> but here perhaps bettered."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On October 17th Richard releases his second album <i>The Wayfarer</i> on <a href="http://www.tenorvossa.co.uk/">Tenor Vossa</a>. We've heard two different mixes of it and they're very good indeed. Next Tuesday he's previewing the whole album at <a href="http://www.thesocial.com/">The Social</a>, and in support is <a href="http://www.trent-miller.com/">Trent Miller</a> playing songs from <a href="http://godisinthetvzine.co.uk/index.php/2011/08/01/trent-miller-the-skeleton-jive-welcome-to-inferno-valley-bucketfull-of-brains/"><i>Welcome To Inferno Valley</i></a> just released last Monday . </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You'd be wise not to miss it.</span> Nick Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01584326985288527303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165496663271383039.post-79776040259476456952011-07-16T12:10:00.000+01:002011-07-16T12:10:42.723+01:00Bucketfull Of Brains needs you!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjd1Mm2y0ustOrNcYEAk1akoH0DJzohVzG0vieT2neAzHDDC81kyIU7yMvslmzrBIU80vwZW-3l2SusY2syA1GYzbYIu_jNQGPGYy5nfn1U1he9Mui3sgBVASw7weHc49Dt5ei6FpPSRM/s1600/finger+pointing-thumb-260x194-21124.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjd1Mm2y0ustOrNcYEAk1akoH0DJzohVzG0vieT2neAzHDDC81kyIU7yMvslmzrBIU80vwZW-3l2SusY2syA1GYzbYIu_jNQGPGYy5nfn1U1he9Mui3sgBVASw7weHc49Dt5ei6FpPSRM/s400/finger+pointing-thumb-260x194-21124.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the areas of advertising, distribution, and online we now almost certainly need a year zero approach. There’s a lot of information held by the magazine that needs reorganisation, and there’s also a cache of back issues dating back almost to the beginning, along with quite a lot of 45s and flexi-discs that need better exploitation. We could also do with people prepared to take responsibility for sections of the magazine. (And, of course, if there's any publishers out there...)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And while you're waiting check out Chris Eckmann's </span><a href="http://www.longsounds.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">L/O/N/G</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> project with Rupert Huber of Tosca.</span>Nick Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01584326985288527303noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165496663271383039.post-77455907059546091262011-07-09T13:48:00.000+01:002011-07-09T13:48:07.871+01:00Wooden Shjips - new album West due in August<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhELHU5z0g4VVTIm8PKS59c0GWHD8gX3bmwY8B5eqRKN80noOeNYfiw5LD0BSAZSLXcGrETA0-w17gUVa2AeU3xh9GaZ1JTJbWLn3iT1egFTVF47JU-bYyIz_eoWBdxKhbcXWSEI_cCfc8/s1600/west+cover+small.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhELHU5z0g4VVTIm8PKS59c0GWHD8gX3bmwY8B5eqRKN80noOeNYfiw5LD0BSAZSLXcGrETA0-w17gUVa2AeU3xh9GaZ1JTJbWLn3iT1egFTVF47JU-bYyIz_eoWBdxKhbcXWSEI_cCfc8/s400/west+cover+small.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <a href="http://www.thewickedwhispers.co.uk/">Wicked Whispers</a> are a impressive pop-sike band from Liverpool. They're launching their four song 10" single at <a href="http://www.alleycatbar.co.uk/">The Alley Cat </a>in Denmark Street tomorrow and I'd seriously suggest going down to catch them. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's a real melodic 60s folky, pastoral thing going on, along with farfisa organ. Check out lead track 'Amanda Lavender' below and listen out for 'Flying Round In Circles' which is like Peter Sarstedt with added harpsichord.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our good friend and BoB contributor Martin Dowsing aka Hungry Dog is putting on an evening at the </span><a href="http://www.12barclub.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12 Bar Club</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> this Sunday. Go along and support it, and get a free CD.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Taking their name from a Townes Van Zandt song, Turnstile Junkpile are a British Americana band. Their guitar-led, retro and country-influenced sound recalls artists such as The Jayhawks and Neil Young and features appealing harmonies, pedal steel, banjo, and some serious grooves.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">UK debut from front-man with Brooklyn-based band The Dirt Floor Revue, who combine the twang of Buck Owens, the grit of Johnny Cash and the edge of the Flying Burrito Brothers to create their own modern urban country sound. Other influences include Webb Pierce, Lefty Frizzel, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams, Old 97's, Gillian Welch, Uncle Tupelo, John Prine, Chuck Berry and Link Wray.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Former singer with the now sadly defunct band Black Bart, Simon Stanley Ward is a young country and Americana singer from London. Unashamedly adorned in cowboy hat and shirt, he even has a song called 'American Voice' which wittily pre-empts any criticisms about Englishmen singing in American accents (although the truth is, he doesn’t lay it on too thick and is voice is wonderfully distinctive).</span>Nick Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01584326985288527303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165496663271383039.post-18985908074571033732011-06-30T11:05:00.000+01:002011-06-30T11:05:11.744+01:00Mekons release new album - Ancient & Modern, 1911 - 2011 - due September<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgllMuIrDxin6rXlEvDSbper6yFbKh9w1xUX6SJ3Zt3XYp-_wNHHb1-0GEQ3cFHFiXerEc9v7HYN9Ol0y7s4Dx6qOW6HvmT4VzezDlQeOVCYK50HA3yvpSo9_s70f3ZcmiQm8G1_nJMLNA/s1600/edward3rd.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgllMuIrDxin6rXlEvDSbper6yFbKh9w1xUX6SJ3Zt3XYp-_wNHHb1-0GEQ3cFHFiXerEc9v7HYN9Ol0y7s4Dx6qOW6HvmT4VzezDlQeOVCYK50HA3yvpSo9_s70f3ZcmiQm8G1_nJMLNA/s400/edward3rd.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mekons are proud to announce their return with their latest record, </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ancient & Modern</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. The band’s 26th record will be released on September 27th on the band’s own, newly reformed Sin Record Label. To coincide with the release, Mekons will hit the road this fall. Stay tuned for upcoming tour dates.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ancient & Modern</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, Mekons bring you an 'album' just like albums used to be; cardboard things filled with cheeky, chunky 78rpm shellac. Just take a look at the cover of Ancient & Modern and you’ll know what we’re talking about! Let the band take you for a walk down memory lane, to the world as it was just before the First World War … to the Edwardian Era, to the Naughty Naughties a hundred years ago, a cozy nostalgic world: cricket on the village green, punting down the river in a striped blazer and boater, off with the hounds, picnic hampers, community singing, mistresses and wives, mysticism, secret societies, dangerous poetry, radical modern art, Freud, national strikes, revolution, anarchists, bombers, British concentration camps … oops, is that really a hundred years ago?!? Mekons travel back/forward to a world unaware that it’s waiting for the pistol to CRACK CRACK CRACK in Sarajevo, plotting their singular course through the digital tsunami of contemporary sounds that blare tinnily from your mobile phone or spin at 78rpm in His Master’s Voice from the horn of your exquisite Gramophone.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mekons formed in Leeds, England 34 years ago in 1977 and </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ancient & Modern</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is their 26th album. This current classic line-up has remained intact since the mid-1980′s. Throughout their history, they have worked collaboratively and collectively with everything credited to the band, never to individuals. Their mind-boggling output consistently blurs the lines between high art and low and has included exhibitions in the UK and US, a deranged musical recorded and staged with Kathy Acker, an art performance with Vito Acconci and several books including the unique art catalog/unfinished novel Mekons United.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Featuring for your delectation and delight…</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On his wheezing chest piano, it’s Bertie Bell!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Behind his traps…St John Goulding!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All the way from Bethnal Green, Seraphima Jocasta Honeyman and her amazing fiddle!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the electrified bass, Sophia Corina!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Master of saz, cumbush and all things Oriental, it’s Edward ‘Lucky’ Edmunds!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chorister and Axe Meister extraordinaire, Algernon Langford!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tiverton’s Own Bearded Bard, Frederick Arthur Greenhalgh!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The little Nightingale, Gertrude Florence Timms!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And bringer of mayhem, ‘Mad’ Mortimer Mitchell!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mekons – </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ancient & Modern</span></i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. Warm Summer Sun</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s the week for catching up on long-time heroes. Both Leon Russell and Greg Allman first came to my attention in 1971. Leon through his recording work with Dylan; ‘Watching The River Flow’, and his central role at The Concert For Bangla Desh where the verse he takes in ‘Beware Of Darkness’ can still raise the hairs on my neck; and Greg through The Allman Brothers’ Fillmore East live album.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tuesday found us at a charming BBC 4 show at the Porchester Hal; Leon taking part in a songwriters circle with Nick Lowe and Paul Brady. Porchester Hall is one of those large wood-panelled municipal halls that local government accountants would love to sell off, or the bureaucrats wish to modernise; a beautiful setting, very easy and very comfortable. A familiar audience; Jake Riviera and Peter Blegvad sat on adjacent tables across the row.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Almost on time the artists take the stage. Leon, no longer as mobile as he once was sits at the piano and he starts things off with ‘A Song For You’. It remains one of the loveliest of love songs; “I love you in a place where there’s no space and time” still arrests. He’ll go on to do as fine versions of ‘Tight Rope’, ‘This Masquerade’, and ‘Delta Lady’. Nick Lowe meanwhile essays ‘I Live On A Battlefield’, ‘Cruel To Be Kind’, and ‘Peace, Love And Understanding’ and Brady ‘Luck Of The Drawer’, ‘Crazy Dreams’ and ‘Steel Claw’. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As is the nature of these shows, and as Lowe explains while leaving the template and playing the new ‘I Read A Lot’, the songs are ‘catalogue’. This is partly because they’re all supposed to be telling a lot of stories. This doesn’t happen to begin with though and Brady’s the first to warm up, both in loquacity and in a willingness to accompany, but by the end they’re getting there. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Following a finale of ‘Mystery Train’ they return, and Leon tells a good tale about Dylan as a songwriting master, and recalls the Blue Rock Studio sessions of March 1971 that yielded ‘River Flow’ and ‘When I Paint My Masterpiece’. He then plays a splendid reading of ‘It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry’ where the piano seems literally climbing to the ‘top of the hill’, and then a final ‘You Win Again’.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And that should have been it, except they’d had recording problems at the start of the evening so “can we do a couple of rounds again?” As that brings a second go for ‘A Song For You’ who’s to complain?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our good friend Mr Wesley Stace has announced a new John Wesley Harding album. <i>The Sound Of His Own Voice</i> comes out on <a href="http://www.yeproc.com/">Yep Roc</a> on October 11th. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Recorded in Portland Oregon it's produced by Scott McCaughey and Wes, and mixed by Tucker Martine, featuring Chris Funk, Jenny Conlee, Nate Query and John Moen (members of The Decemberists), along with Peter Buck and Scott, on every song. Also featured are Rosanne Cash, Laura Veirs, John Roderick, Steve Berlin and many others.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Below you can listen to and even download one of the tracks: 'Sing Your Own Song'. </span><br />
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