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I'd be interested in how that one goes for you JAW - I've heard one of the tracks off that and thought it very good, despite not being a huge waterboys or yeats fan!

Might look out for it.

Picked this up today:

Fran wrote:I'd be interested in how that one goes for you JAW - I've heard one of the tracks off that and thought it very good, despite not being a huge waterboys or yeats fan!

Might look out for it.

Picked this up today:

I would have to predicate any comment that I make by saying I've a lot of time for both Yeats and Mike Scott, and that I was impressed at the concert last year. It's unmistakably a Waterboys album, with Mike Scott's "Big music" to the fore. To be perfectly frank, sometimes the match works and sometimes it doesn't. When it works, ( Song of Wandering Aengus, A Full Moon in March, Mad as the Wind and Snow and The Faery's Last Song), it's very good, when it doesn't(The Lake Isle of Innisfree, a slow, talking blues interpretation), it seems forced . He's found a vocalist called Katie Kim who has a really ethereal voice which suits Yeat's other worldly work. But, as I said at the start, I'm biased!!!

BTW, that Hendrix one's a great find. It's been a good month for music!

JAW: have you got this one? I have it on tape and its actually very good, I play it often. The waterboys do "the stolen child" on it and Mike Scott takes a turn on another track too. "Politics" done by Karl Wallinger is excellent too... more good tracks than duff ones.

Fran wrote:I'd be interested in how that one goes for you JAW - I've heard one of the tracks off that and thought it very good, despite not being a huge waterboys or yeats fan!

Might look out for it.

Picked this up today:

Nice one :-) Hope you like it ....

Fran wrote:JAW: have you got this one? I have it on tape and its actually very good, I play it often. The waterboys do "the stolen child" on it and Mike Scott takes a turn on another track too. "Politics" done by Karl Wallinger is excellent too... more good tracks than duff ones.

What type of music is this Fran? Do you think it would interest me [as you know I tend to listen mainly to country, Blues, 1970s rock, acoustic and such]?

Thanks.

Its an album inspired by/dedicated to WB Yeats - really its various poems of his interpreted by a range of artists. And for the most part its very good - could have been terrible, but it worked out well.

I only have it on tape Tom - but if you have a search on amazon you can listen to some bits of it....


Listening to this tonight:




Fran

One of Andys MFSL LPs - yes the sound is good!



Fran

Fran wrote:One of Andys MFSL LPs - yes the sound is good!



Fran

Lucky sod :-( Always loved that cover too....Eric never looked as cool again! Beano rules ok :-)

Gave this a blast last night and was a wee bit disappointed. The slow Peter Green stuff was really effective but the fast rocky stuff was a big disappointment. "Need Your Love So Bad", "I Loved Another Woman","Jumpin' At Shadows", "Merry Go Round" and maybe "The Stumble" are the highlights; that's only five out of fourteen tracks :-( incidentally "Stop Messing Around" is credited to, wait for it, Roy Buchanan!?!?!? Also it's not a sota recording by a long shot; more like a high quality bootleg but that's ok, I have no problem with that at all. The rawer the better!

Listening to the very first Fahey I ever bought. Exquisite ensemble playing.....






http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5RxriY7 ... ata_player - a live acoustic version of a track from the album above....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Vtm7Io ... ata_player - another track from the same concert....



All available on DVD at the end of the month!

Track listing :

1. On The Sunny Side Of The Ocean (03:45)
2. Hawaiian Two-Step (02:05)
3. Lion (07:20)
4. Wine And Roses (05:00)
5. Poor Boy Long Ways From Home (05:00)
6. Steamboat Gwine Round De Bend (03:55)
7. How Green Was My Valley (03:05)
8. Candy Man / Brendas Blues / Take A Look At That Baby (04:00)
9. Beverly (04:48)
10. Medley (04:12)
11. Interview (05:00)