Student grades are due tomorrow, but we went to church anyway - we had to sing, and anyway, after two years of semi-regular practice as a Unitarian Universalist, I have come to a place in my life where I find peace and solace in shared practice which starts and ends with love and service, togetherness and open-ended truths, and a shared commitment to social justice. Much of this is due to the particulars of our chosen worship setting. The UU church which we attend is in transition, with an interim minister who has my [...]
I've been a passive listener of Billy Joel's original work since middle school, I guess. But way back in my emergent years, I was a true blue fan, sifting through his early work as a high tenor, singing along with his songs at summer camp campfires, performing Just The Way You Are for talent shows, tagging along with a friend to see the master perform in the midst of the We Didn't Start The Fire era, struggling to come to terms with his mid-career rock and roll, and the drum-driven pop path which he [...]
Video: Vimeo - YouTube Photos: Flickr - Blueback Hotrod Free mp3 downloads: zip file (right click - save as) The more I read about Johny Lamb from Thirty Pounds of Bone before this session, the more nervous I became. The internet seemed to be full of all sorts of tales of him being reclusive, antisocial and very, very hard on interviewers. Now, the press can be a little unreliable at the best of times, and [...]
UK musician Laurence Collyer folkifies cover songs on his homemade studio album 'The Wanderer' and in live shows to create tales of lonely longing.
When The Darkness hit the scene in the 2003, critics began braying about the "hair metal revival." Well, as it turned out that "revival" was pretty much confined to one band and, really, to one song. Once college kids got sick of shredding their vocal chords trying to hit the "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" high notes, hair metal slunk back to 1984. This is probably a good thing, though it
The first post of the month always features covers of every track on a famous album. Got an idea for a future pick? Leave a note in the comments!Despite the fact that he had already released songs like "Piano Man," "New York State of Mind" and "The Entertainer," it took Billy Joel until his fifth album to hit the big time. After The Stranger hit in 1977 though, weddings were never the same
Regular readers may recall that I first fell in love with the powerful, confessional Americana folk of Signature Sounds artist Caroline Herring after last year's Lantana , a tour de force concept album of sorts which evoked a broad set of southern women's voices struggling with their own claims to power and the lack thereof. As we wrote last month on the cusp of its release , Herring's newest album, Golden Apples of the Sun , is a stunner, too, and I'm happy to report that it's garnering the attention it deserves, [...]
Hello Slowcousticals, I bring you a weekend playlist because I don't have a feature post (let's just be honest here). There isn't even a compromise though because there is some really great music included. If you are a regular reader or are a member of the Last.fm group, you know I am a bit of a playlist fiend. So enough with the blather and let's get to your weekend soundtrack! Slowcoustic Saturday Playlist (November Edition) ~ Wonder Stranger [...]
Introduced to my world from Common Folk Meadow blog and I thought we all need more live folk covers. The Diamond Family Archive is the "band" and it is essentially singer songwriter Laurence Collyer out of Berlin (there we go with all the good folkies being from Germany, well a good measure of them at least...). The latest release "The Wanderer" is a covers album of which we have the title track included below. The album "The Wanderer" is released from Woodland Recordings (where this live recording is from also) for 12 pounds shipping in! [...]
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The Great Park macht sich wieder auf Reisen und gastiert diese Woche für drei auserlesene Konzertabende in Baden und Zürich. Immer mal wieder nimmt Wahl-Berliner Stephen Burch in Cafés und kleinen Lokalen inmitten meist unvorbereiteter Gäste scheu auf dem einsamen Stuhl Platz und schottet sich hinter seinem besten Freund der Gitarre und sorgsam ausgebreiteten Fotografien in eigener Gefühlswelt ab. Mit "todernstem akustischem Drama" schüttet er über alltäglichem Kaffeeklatsch sein Herz aus [...]
ein kleines indiependent label sei heute vorgestellt. woodland recordings wurde einst in brighton gegründet und man schrieb sich nicht nur damals das hehre "diy"- prinzip auf die fahnen. auch heute, da man u.a. auch aus berlin und/oder irland aktiv wird, um das brightoner hauptquartier zu unterstützen, setzt man auf zwar limitiertes, dafür aber handgeschmiedetes material nebst allerliebst organisierter events. nun, da ich diese eingangsnotiz schrieb, wusste ich nicht das, was ich nun weiß. der besitzer dieser kleinen institution ist kein geringerer als the great park, jener gesell, den wir vor einigen tagen als support von liz green vorstellten. [...]
It's that time of year again. There's been so much good music this year, although much of it under the critical radar. The usual suspects will no doubt turn up in the critical lists as usual, but critics and blogs seem to be getting ever more unreliable in the desperate charge to write about something, anything, as the next big thing. So, here's the albums that rocked my mp3 player over the past
I am busily compiling my best of 2007 list for this blog, and the diamond family archive's Pear Tree is definitely up there with the best of this year's releases. ~"it's strange how we listen to songs of love and hate but we don't hear the love songs until it's too late" (Pear Tree) Trance-like and intimate, folksongs for darker hearts, DFA's mesmerising live performances are hard to
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Ci sono giorni in cui proprio non vuoi sorridere eppure devi. Cazzo se devi. Dentro senti il gusto amaro delle delusioni eppure devi sorridere. Ci sono giorni in cui proprio non vuoi scrivere eppure devi. Devi perchè tutto intorno alla tua testa dice così. E' talmente silenziosa questa notte ed è talmente solitaria che un disco così non può che aggravare ancora di più la situazione di [...]
Live Blanket Originally uploaded by Southcoasting My cheap camera can't take dimly lit indoor shots, so I'll pretend I was being artsy. This is Blanket at the Brighton Komedia bar, and very nice it was too. Blanket are Vicky Steer, Stephen Burch and Laurence Collyer. You can hear their music here. Support was from BirdEngine and the excellent Diamond Family Archive.Blanket - It Ain't Easy (
Sorry folks, I have been totally out of it as far as getting to new stuff goes. I will have to do the lame-dance again and merely vomit up the links due to the ancient enemy called time breathing down my neck... 1. Blackwater - The Great Park (Brighton folk a la Field Mice) 2. Hateful - [...]
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