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jadarin wrote:

cybot wrote:On the tt. Playing this a lot since I received it this morning....It's improvised solo electric guitar using minimal fx and a Telecaster. Not what I expected.....



Sounds interesting Dermot..Must have a look out for this!!
How are those Dustin Wong albums sounding??

cybot wrote:

mcq wrote:
When I think of the final years of Judee Sill's life, nothing comes to my mind more vividly than one of Dylan's latterday masterpieces, Not Dark Yet, and in particular, the following lines:

Feel like my soul has turned into steel
I've still got the scars that the sun didn't heal
Well, my sense of humanity has gone down the drain
Behind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain
I've been down on the bottom of the world full of lies
I ain't lookin' for nothin' in anyone's eyes
Sometimes my burden is more than I can bear
It's not dark yet but it's gettin' there.

Every nerve in my body is so naked and numb
I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from
Don't even hear the murmur of a prayer
It's not dark yet but it's gettin' there.

In Barney Hoskyns' excellent article on Sill's life, The Lost Child, he comments that "it's strange how few people appear to have any recall of Judee Sill" and he wonders whether "there was any lingering guilt over her fate - a conspiracy of silence around the fact that she had more talent than many of the Asylum artists that did make it". As Tom Waits (who was also on the Asylum roster in the Seventies) remarked to Hoskyns, "The trouble with history is that the people who really know what happened aren't talking and the people who don't ... well, you can't shut them up".

Beyond the sad realities of her life, the music is imperishable and will endure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gThm6vHwCQ

Wow! I had to stop myself a few times reading the above as I thought I was reading something penned by Ian McDonald! Who could forget his last piece on Nick Drake? Honestly Paul, I don't know how you do it! That is writing of the rarest breed. Let me know when your next book is coming out! Unfortunately my Judy Sill albums, all two of them, are well hidden upstairs! Blast this leg ;)

jadarin wrote: