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Post by spot51 on Apr 30, 2024 18:49:16 GMT
PS Willie just turned 91. He upset the Maga crowd too recently when they found out he votes democrats. He always has but they just found out and so decided to boycott him. Willie and Co are celebrated at Q2 Stadium.
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Post by Mandochris on Apr 30, 2024 19:12:37 GMT
Very fitting.
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Post by baconleetravis on Apr 30, 2024 20:01:56 GMT
Sorry guys. I had an offer accepted on a house and so have been totally vacant on here for a few weeks. When things have settled I'll get to it
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Post by spot51 on May 1, 2024 8:12:12 GMT
Sorry guys. I had an offer accepted on a house and so have been totally vacant on here for a few weeks. When things have settled I'll get to it Good Luck Mush.
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Post by spot51 on May 1, 2024 8:21:19 GMT
For my third track I'm staying in the USA. Country music employs thousands and thousands of talented performers and a willingness to work with others often sees “supergroups” form to play on albums and tours. One such was I’m With Her comprising Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz and Aoife O'Donovan, all solo stars in their own right (and much loved by their groupie Mandochris ). Another recent combination is boygenius with Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus, again all successful artists. Bridgers played Glastonbury in 2022. Their album is hardly Country and more Indy-Pop yet they showed their Country credentials on a series of live covers of huge hits from that area. French Chris alerted me to them by posting a cover of a Shania Twain song on FB. This is another track from that session. "Cowboy Take Me Away" is one of my very favourite Chicks’ tracks yet boygenius has only gone and done a better version… PS. As I'm posting this threehundred will be delighted to know Classic FM are playing "Song to the Moon".
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Post by threehundred on May 1, 2024 10:07:21 GMT
I checked out Boygenius after you mentioned them on here recently, Spot… massive talent.
This is my winner-so-far this week. Just lovely.
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Post by Furry Frank The Combat Wombat on May 1, 2024 10:20:24 GMT
Sorry guys. I had an offer accepted on a house and so have been totally vacant on here for a few weeks. When things have settled I'll get to it Shirley it's the house that should be vacant? eh...eh? Is this thing on?
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Post by spot51 on May 1, 2024 10:39:10 GMT
I checked out Boygenius after you mentioned them on here recently, Spot… massive talent. This is my winner-so-far this week. Just lovely. The b is lower case FFS!
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Post by threehundred on May 1, 2024 10:55:04 GMT
I checked out Boygenius after you mentioned them on here recently, Spot… massive talent. This is my winner-so-far this week. Just lovely. The b is lower case FFS! Gottit! I’m more of a boythicko myself! 😜
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Post by Mandochris on May 1, 2024 12:39:56 GMT
Well, I love it of course. I love the Chicks too. Waiting to catch some MCC?
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Post by spot51 on May 1, 2024 18:15:37 GMT
Well, I love it of course. I love the Chicks too. Waiting to catch some MCC? She leads off my 2nd batch.
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Post by channonite on May 1, 2024 18:49:06 GMT
As none of the others have said anything, I will volunteer for the week beginning the 20th. I can't do the week before as we are up in that there Londun for part of the week, and then it's a mad dash home to go down to St.Mary's for the playoff game.
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Post by Mandochris on May 1, 2024 20:58:03 GMT
Well, I love it of course. I love the Chicks too. Waiting to catch some MCC? She leads off my 2nd batch. Listened to that live Melanie album today. I loved it. The songs of course but also her banter with the audience was ace. Thanks for flagging it.
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Post by spot51 on May 2, 2024 8:05:44 GMT
She leads off my 2nd batch. Listened to that live Melanie album today. I loved it. The songs of course but also her banter with the audience was ace. Thanks for flagging it. That voice still resonates with me. I remember waking up at who knows what o'clock in the morning at East Afton in 1970 and asking "Who is this?" "Melanie" I was told. She was joshing with over half a million people in that same style and I managed to stay awake till the end of her set.
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Post by spot51 on May 2, 2024 8:34:24 GMT
For my fourth track I'm returning to these shores, albeit the upper bits.
Scottish music has always been huge for me. My grandad was born in Glasgow. My dad was dual nationality and bequeathed me a Scots surname so I've always felt quite Scottish. Growing up I loved the tales of Bonnie Dundee and Bonnie Prince Charlie, only to later find my Clan was Campbell and we backed the winning side at Culloden.
My Mum was a massive fan of Kenneth McKellar who was always on TV and she played his records too. That introduced me to the folksongs of Scotland and also to the works of Ayrshire's greatest son, Rabbie Burns. I was hooked! I love most Scots music - including bagpipes. Every August bank holiday I tune into the highlights of that year’s Edinburgh Tattoo but the best bit is the massed pipes and drums striking up “The Black Bear” as they leave the Castle Parade through the West Gate. The cameras are off before the band breaks ranks and makes for the boozers on the Royal Mile.
Karine Polwart came from a musical family in Stirlingshire. Her brother plays in her band and a sister has a career in another Scots band. She is one of those people you want to hate but can’t. Her parents steered her away from studying music so she earned a Masters in Philosophical Enquiry, taught her subject then worked for Scottish Women’s Aid. These experiences gave her plenty to write songs about.
The pull of music remained and in 2000 she quit her job and sang vocals for 2 established Scots groups before launching her solo career in 2003 and a first album the following year. She is as happy performing in song or prose and has a repertoire spanning traditional Scots folk to groundbreaking political commentary. She recently released an album of just her singing anglicised versions of traditional Gaelic songs accompanied by just a piano which is simply beautiful.
I've chosen one of her self-penned numbers taken from her fantastic album Laws of Motion. It is entirely self-explanatory.
I give you: Karine Polwart and I burn but am not consumed…
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