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This is astonishingly good.

Thanks Ivor for the rec...

Fran wrote:This is astonishingly good.

Thanks Ivor for the rec...

I'm delighted you like it... I would have bought it off you if you didn't! ( I have the CD)
It's not for everyone I imagine. It follows no trends, makes no allowances for the media and manages to be cover a lot of ground in its 28 minutes. Mind you Gil Scott Heron has always been like that.


still relevant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS3QOtbW4m0

or this gen about Ronnie Reagan
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_q ... movie&aq=7

or his jazz side
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S362Wur1zMA

Derek wrote:

What do you think of it Derek?

It's too short, I want more!

My offering for CD of the month and early runner for CD of the year.




An All Covers offering;

Passenger
Perfect Day
Rehab
Nightclubbing
Hanging on the Telephone
Do It Again
Riders on the Storm
Golden Brown
I Fought the Law
Ring of Fire
Blue Monday
You Can't Always Get What You Want

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOwl-bMf ... r_embedded



They are all in their 70s – except the ones in their 80s. And they are all wearing hats. The 84-year-old Egbert Watson hunches over a banjo; Joseph "Powda" Bennett, 73, clasps a pair of maracas; Derrick "Johnny" Henry, 71, rests on a rumba box; while Allan Swymmer, 82, hits the bongo. They all watch the last man, 72-year-old Albert Minott, who is seated in front of them, dressed in pale slacks, a bright orange shirt and a tweed fedora and cradling an acoustic guitar. He has a thin face and when he sings we hear a dark, gravelly rumble of a voice and see more gaps than teeth – a reminder of his years as a fire-eater.
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Derek wrote:My offering for CD of the month and early runner for CD of the year.




An All Covers offering;

Passenger
Perfect Day
Rehab
Nightclubbing
Hanging on the Telephone
Do It Again
Riders on the Storm
Golden Brown
I Fought the Law
Ring of Fire
Blue Monday
You Can't Always Get What You Want

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOwl-bMf ... r_embedded



They are all in their 70s – except the ones in their 80s. And they are all wearing hats. The 84-year-old Egbert Watson hunches over a banjo; Joseph "Powda" Bennett, 73, clasps a pair of maracas; Derrick "Johnny" Henry, 71, rests on a rumba box; while Allan Swymmer, 82, hits the bongo. They all watch the last man, 72-year-old Albert Minott, who is seated in front of them, dressed in pale slacks, a bright orange shirt and a tweed fedora and cradling an acoustic guitar. He has a thin face and when he sings we hear a dark, gravelly rumble of a voice and see more gaps than teeth – a reminder of his years as a fire-eater.
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Saw them on the Jools show singing the Rehab song - hilarious but fuggin' brilliant :-)

Although a lifelong Beatles fan I never really quite liked their very early stuff.