The Organization Ain't Really Organized, 1970John Ashbery, Song.The Insect Trust, Be a Hobo/Hoboken Saturday Night.Ornette Coleman Quartet, Forgotten Sons.Bruce Cockburn, Going To the Country.Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, Bellerin' Plain.Neil Young, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (TV rehearsal).Alice Cooper, Beautiful Flyaway.The Kinks, Get Back In the Line.Elaine Stritch and cast of
Blizzards, Bob & Brautigan Jarvis Cocker , BBC 6 Music's latest celebrity signing to its DJ roster , made an impressive debut on Sunday afternoon. Better still he introduced me to two great tracks I'd never previously heard. Tim Rose's Snowed In was the perfect opener at the end of a week when "weather chaos" has blighted the nation. Until I clicked through to the BBC's Tim Rose artist page from the [...]
mp3: Tim Rose - Morning Dew I've blogged about Tim Rose before and even featured this very song, so I won't go on. Suffice to say that it's an amazing tune and I'd be proud to post it again in another three and a bit years.
a MOJO compilation of influences and collaborations: 1.The Saints - Perfect Day 2. Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues 3. John Lee Hooker - Tupelo Blues 4. Karen Dalton - Katie Cruel 5. Tim Rose - Long Time Man 6. Scott Walker - The Big Hurt 7. Current 93 - All The Pretty Little Horses 8. Einsturzende Neubauten - Blume [...]
I don´t know if anyone here has read The Road , the most recent novel by one of my favorite authors, Cormac McCarthy? An incredibly bleak but very moving account of a father and son travelin´ down the road in a post-apocalyptic landscape after a nuclear showdown. Soon to be a motion picture, I guess only one song fits as the perfect theme song. And that´s Morning Dew , a fine piece of cold war paranoia written by folk singer Bonnie Dobson in 62´. In an interview she once remarked her song was based on a movie too [...]
. The Leaves - Hey Joe, Where Are You Going Love - Hey Joe Tim Rose - Hey Joe (You Shot Your Woman Down) The genesis of Hey Joe is disputed, with some claiming it is an old traditional folk song. There seems to be wide consensus, however, that it was written in the early 1960s by a folk singer called Billy Roberts, who may well have borrowed from a 1950s country song by the same title written by
From the Wikipedia: " Morning Dew ", also known as " (Walk Me Out in the) Morning Dew ", is a post-apocalyptic folk-rock song written by Canadian singer Bonnie Dobson in 1962, that has become a standard." "According to Dobson in a 1993 interview, "Morning Dew" was inspired by the film On the Beach . [1] " " Fred Neil heard Dobson's song and re-arranged it to suit his own [...]
Got that grab bag fever again. I guess you know the score by now: every Friday night here at For The Sake Of The Song - trademark of quality etc. - you´ll get a mixed bag of songs I really liked over the past week. All genres go. Old or new, slow or fast... there are no boundaries. One thing you can be sure of though: they´re all goodies, so grab ´em while you can. Tonight´s issue features a blues about astrology, the version of Hey Joe that Jimi probably based his classic performance on, while we [...]
THE LAST LETTER Hank Snow 1951 Available on : The Thesaurus Transcriptions Bear Family : 1991 [Buy It] LETTERS DON'T COUNT The Nazz Nazz Nazz Screen Gems Columbia : 1969 [Buy It] YOUR PICTURE SAYS REMEMBER, THO' YOUR LETTER SAYS FORGET Frederic Rose 1908 Edison Gold Moulded Record I used to send lots of letters. In college, I had a girlfriend who was at another college, and sometimes each [...]
Locust St.
Carnival Saloon
Diddy Wah
The Cargo Culte
For The Sake Of The Song
Any Major Dude With Half A Heart
Bedazzled!
Moistworks
Neutral Milk Hotel- Aeroplane Over the Sea
Bison - Quill
SABRINA JOHNSTON + TIEFSCHWARTZ
American Idol Finalists: where are they now?
