El azar, el bendito azar, el maldito azar. Tan temido como celebrado, puede hacer que un avión explote en llamas sobre el PacÃfico, (aunque casi siempre encontraremos a alguien menos temible a quien responsabilizar, todo sea por no admitir que en la vida hay cosas que escapan a nuestro control) o transformar tu vida en el segundo que tarda una bolita dentro de un bombo giratorio en rodar hasta las manos de un niño con voz de pito. En mi caso, viajo mucho menos de lo que me gustarÃa (menos aún en vuelos transoceánicos) y no juego a la loterÃa, [...]
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"Oh sister sister let me live, and all that's mine I'll surely give..." Presenting a sibling ten pack, in honour of a hilarious novel I enjoyed recently: The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt. Be sure to pick up a copy of this surprising western noir . And buy some albums if you like what you hear below, my amigos da musica . Pentangle - Cruel Sister Wild Tchoupitoulas - Brother John Arson Garden - Two Sisters (Love All Around Them) [...]
As noted yesterday, we're in Puerto Rico for an extended vacation, lazily hopping around the eastern side of the island in fits and starts. Old San Juan was my kind of town, and the perfect port of entry: just touristy enough, with authentic architecture and blue cobblestone streets, fine funky coffeeshops, and the most beautiful green labyrinth of a hotel, with resident parrots and a view of the sea over La Perla off the balcony. But two days in the city was more than enough, and now we're in a stunningly spacious rental home in Ceiba, with [...]
The Pentangle - Willy O'Winsbury This is my jam. Featuring the great Jacqui McShee. Spend some time with the storyline and try to unpack all the Freudian implications. bonus beats (a different performance)
Pentangle : Sweet Child [ purchase ] Bert Jansch : Angie [ purchase ] Most of the time, Bert Jansch is described as a British folk musician. Fair enough, since many of the songs he performed were from the British folk cannon. But Jansch’s first inspiration was the American blues musician Big Bill Broonzy. Broonzy started out playing for dancers in juke joints, so he had to lay down a solid beat. But, on top of that beat, [...]
Do you, like me, peek into the grocery baskets of other shoppers, curious about their lives? I'm terrible for this. I'm also addicted to surreptitiously spying into people's windows, to see the domestic innards of their houses. Although I don't hide in hedges, or wear an anorak, and keep it strictly to kitchens and living rooms, it's probably not the healthiest little habit to have. But I can't help it. There is something about a lit-up room when viewed from the street that fascinates me enough to regularly interrupt my walks. The tendency is at its worst [...]
Do you, like me, peek into the grocery baskets of other shoppers, curious about their lives? I'm terrible for this. I'm also addicted to surreptitiously spying into people's windows, particularly around Christmas, to see the domestic innards of their houses. Although I don't hide in hedges, or wear an anorak, and keep it strictly to kitchens and living rooms, it's probably not the healthiest little habit to have. But I can't help it. There is something about a lit-up room when viewed from the street that fascinates me enough to regularly interrupt my walks. The tendency is [...]
Wizz Jones has released a killer example of British Folk.
Bert Jansch is dead andthat is both a very sad loss and a great shock as it had seemed that hewas up and about again, recovered from his initial problem with lungcancer. There you go... Bert was a big fixture in my younger life,helping me, (after Bob Dylan) convert to an interest in folk/acousticmusic and an engagement with the Brit folk scene of the sixties whichfor a brief few years was actually a cool place to inhabit, mainlybecause of Bert and his sidekick John Renbourn and a couple of otherfaces from the Soho scene, centred round Les Cousins [...]
No Words would likely not exist without the output and reaching influence of Glasgow-born Herbert Jansch , founding member of The Pentangle , who passed away only four days ago. Below I have collected mostly instrumental pieces by Jansch and his Pentangling contemporaries staggered with a few vocal pieces and traditional ballads. R.I.P. Bert Jansch, 1943 — 2011 Download (MP3) / Request Immediate Removal 00:00: John Renbourn • "The Earle of Salisbury" • 1968 01:19: The [...]
Just received the sad news that Bert Jansch has passed away. The highly acclaimed Scottish guitarist was 67. His work, both with Pentangle and as a solo artist, was dazzling and original, influencing such famous names as Neil Young, Nick Drake, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin and the Smiths. Johnny Marr, guitar player with the latter, once remarked that Jansch "completely reinvented guitar playing and set a standard that is still unequalled today. There are people playing guitar who don't even realize they've been influenced by him one step removed..." Amen to that. Bert Jansch - Where Did My [...]
Needle Of Death When sadness fills your heart And sorrow hides the longing to be free When things go wrong each day You fix your mind to 'scape your misery Your troubled young life Had made you turn To a needle of death How strange, your happy words Have ceased to bring a smile from everyone How tears have filled the eyes Of friends that you once had walked among [...]
Bert Jansch died today aged 67. Jansch was one of Britain’s greatest folk guitarists, but had an influence that spread far beyond the genre, inspiring rock musicians as diverse as Jimmy Page , Paul Simon  and Neil Young . Check out a video of him below, performing, The River Bank with Johnny Marr and Bernard Butler on [...]
Pour out a little moonshine for Bert Jansch, the folk singer slob with the clawhammer style who proved what William Wallace already knew: Scottish people can concoct their own ferocious form of the blues. Maybe you've read enough obits to memorize the litany of artists influenced by the Pentangle member and master of intricate acoustic guitar. Let's recite them again: Neil Young, Jimmy Page, Johnny Marr, Nick Drake, Donovan, Devendra Banhart, Fleet Foxes, and Noah Baumbach. The latter slid Jansch's tunes onto the Squid and the Whale Soundtrack , giving the folk legend a last gasp of [...]
Filed under: News , R.I.P. Ben Meadows, WireImage Folk singer and Pentangle founding member Bert Jansch has succumbed to lung cancer after a long battle with the disease., WENN reports. He was 67. Jansch was considered by many to be one of the great Scottish bards, with several critics calling him the British Bob Dylan . During the height of the folk movement in the 1960s, the singer [...]
According to the Associated Press , the Scottish folk singer/guitarist and Pentangle co-founder Bert Jansch died this morning in London after a long battle with lung cancer. He was 67. Jansch was one of the most important figures in the late-'60s British folk revival, the same movement that produced Nick Drake. And like Drake, he was an absolute virtuoso of a guitarist, a man capable of picking out subtle and complex figures and making it look easy. He played with Pentangle from their 1968 formation to their 1972 breakup, and he also released more than 25 solo [...]
Bert Jansch Official Web / Wiki
Forget that wiz tandem of John Renbourne and Bert Jansch (who plays an Appelachian dulcimer here btw) for a second, and don't even pay too much attention to the pretty vocals of Jacqui McShee. Just wait 'til Danny Thompson's hypnotic bass kicks in. Mingus would have been proud. Pentangle - A Maid That's Deep In Love MP3
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NlMTa I5FIY John Carpenter 's drummer Joe Albanese happens to be a Youtube connoisseur and general master of music entertainment. He can engage a group of people for days on Facebook in a race to name bands with the word "black" in the their names. Today he sent over a link to the video seen above, "Old Electric Boogie," a Youtube gem, inspiring us to launch a new L.A. RECORD weekly blog column. IT'S ALL FOR YOU, TUBE will feature a Youtube Mixtape contribution from someone really cool who [...]
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