k d lang live at Radio 2 Video Clip

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00gj2kj

What a treat - enjoy.

I Confess


Helpless

A Sleep With No Dreaming

Hallelujah

The Water's Edge

Matte Kudasai

Perfect World

Western Stars

Habit Of Mind

Heaven

Reminiscing

Constant Craving

Record Store Day 2011 - Massive Brooce Miss-spell!

Racing In The Sreet! Imagine that I didnt notice!






Anyway I queued from 7:30am and the haul included

The Brooooce 10"

Badlands 10" single of Springsteen Covers (Willie Nile, Danny & The Champions, The Magic Numbers, Billy Franks)

Dylan 7" with Ting Tings remix of subbteranean homesick blues

Queen 7" Stormtroopers In Stilletos

Steve Earle 7" I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive

Villagers Live lp

Ryan Adams and The Cardinals - 2 x 7"

Dangermouse 7" feat Norah Jones

AC/Dc Live 7"

New Josh Ritter Live lp

 
A special release of Josh Ritter & The Royal City Band, Live at The Iveagh Gardens in Dublin will be available at his forthcoming European Tour. Over a rainy evening last July the wonderful Iveagh Gardens in Dublin City Centre played host to it’s first ever series of music shows and Josh Ritter & The Royal City Band were lucky enough to play the first ever rock show at the venue on Sunday 18th July.


THIS IS A EUROPEAN-ONLY RELEASE! US RELEASE COMING SOON.

This limited edition 2xCD & 1DVD set will be available at Josh’s April Irish shows on 13th (Belfast) and 15th & 16th (Vicar Street, Dublin) and in a limited number of shops/venues for Record Store Day on Saturday 16th April.



Live At The Iveagh Gardens tracklisting:

CD Disc 1

1. Moon River

2. Lantern

3. Minds Eye

4. Right Moves

5. Southern Pacifica

6. Rattling Locks

7. Rumors

8. Bright Smile

9. Lillian Egypt

10.The Curse

11. Lark

12. Long Shadows



CD Disc 2

1. Roll On

2. Me & Jiggs

3. Kathleen

4. Change Of Time

5. Remnant

6. Harrisburg

7. To The Dogs (Or Whoever)

8. Snow Is Gone

9. Wait For Love



DVD

1. Moon River

2. Lantern

3. Minds Eye

4. Right Moves

5. Southern Pacifica

6. Rattling Locks

7. Rumors

8. Bright Smile

9. Lillian Egypt

10.The Curse

11. Lark

12. Long Shadows

13. Me & Jiggs

14. Roll On

15. Kathleen

16. Change Of Time

17. Remnant

18. Harrisburg

19. To The Dogs (Or Whoever)

20. Snow Is Gone

21. Wait For Love

Jayhawks - Oran Mor!!! Wednesday 3rd August 2011

The Jayhawks were definitely swimming against the tide when they emerged from a crowded Minneapolis music scene halfway through the 1980s - a memorable decade that saw the likes of the Replacements, Soul Asylum, Husker Du and Prince put Minnesota on the musical map in a big way. Forging a rootsy sound that wasn't quite rock or country - "Hank Williams on speed" somebody once memorably called it - The Jayhawks quickly turned into one of the most important bands of the post-punk era. Over the course of two decades, several albums, countless memorable live shows and enough personal drama to fill a couple of Behind the Music episodes, this beloved band soared to heights few ever achieve while wining the hearts and minds of numerous critics, fans and peers in the process. Named after "The Hawks" - as in "Levon and the Hawks," the name of Dylan's backing band in the 60s before they became known as "The Band" - The Jayhawks and their fellow travelers even helped make the world safe again for artists who weren't afraid to fuse traditional rock, country and folk influences into something that was both timeless and modern, just like the best American bands always have, and now they're back with their famous, original line up!

The Bible - Glasgow Show late Sept!

Thats it really. Great news as far I am concerned!!

Hey Boo looks about 14!!

Forthcoming Stevie Nicks Album In Your Dreams

Ok she is not fashionable but I think her new lp is going to be a cracker. The Dave Stewart production and writing help is just what she needs to lkick start her solo career again.

Forgotten Album Friday #21 - Gary U.S Bonds On The Line

As Broooce has dusted off an overlooked gem from his Darkness sessions, Rendezvous, it is time to remind ourselves of the first official release of this track, and the album On The Line.

This is the second album of Gary US Bonds that Springsteen was involved with, Dedication preceding it, and this time Springsteen provides most of the songs and shares production duties with Miami Steve Van Zandt. The album is basically Gary US Bonds and the E Street band and well worth seeking out.

The album has a much more soulful feel to it and there are several standout tracks including Rendezvous,
Out Of Work and a cracking version of Soul Deep.



Key tracks:

Club Soul City

Soul Deep

Love's On The Line

Rendezvous

Forgotten Album Friday #20 - Lou Reed & John Cale Songs For Drella

Songs for Drella (1990) remains a highlight in both Cale and Reed's lengthy careers- it forms part of Reed's strongest trilogy of albums since the Velvets demise (the others being New York, 1988 & Magic&Loss, 1992) Reed & Cale had infamously fallen out when in The Velvet Underground & had not worked together since- this collaboration, along with Moe Tucker's contribution to New York, would lead to the VU temporarily reforming (the resulting live album containing some wonderful takes on classics like Beginning to See the Light & Femme Fatale).




Songs for Drella is one based around a limited musical soundscape (Reed on Vocals/Guitar; Cale on keyboards/vocals/viola) & one that has a sense of improvisation. It was a work primarily written for performance- like Tom Waits recent Alice/Blood Money setz- so perhaps some of the songs are more theatrical than melodic; but I like the whole journey around a fictional take on Warhol's life from people who were once close to him...(the final track on New York leads here...)

The tracks with Cale on lead vocals stand out- Style It Takes (wonderfully performed on Fragments for a Rainy Season),Trouble with Classicists (great guitar from Reed), A Dream & (especially) Forever Changed stand out. Reed also gets to sing some great songs- the amusing Smalltown, the ethos of Work (up there with There is No Time), the spleen-venting I Believe (Valerie Solanis surfacing...) & especially the touching Hello It's Me- which shows that its possible to continue discourse with the dead: "I know it's late in coming but it's the only way I know/Hello it's me- goodnight Andy.../Goodbye Andy"-

Key tracks:

Smalltown

Style It takes

Work

Trouble With Classisiscts

Hello it's Me

New k d lang album

Nonesuch Records will release k.d. lang and the Siss Boom Bang's Sing it Loud on April 12, 2011. Produced by lang and Joe Pisapia, it is the award-winning singer-songwriter's first record made entirely with a band of her own since the pair of albums with the Reclines that launched her groundbreaking career over 20 years ago.

This collection of songs reflects the organic, collaborative nature of the sessions, which took place at Pisapia's Middletree Studios in Nashville. Many of the songs were recorded live in the studio and that energy is palpable. The lead single "I Confess" is one of three songs lang penned with keyboardist Daniel Clarke and Joshua Grange, who plays baritone guitar and dobro. In addition to the original material, Sing it Loud includes a striking version of Talking Heads' "Heaven". Pisapia, who plays numerous instruments and serves as the band's musical director, contributed the title track and co-wrote five songs with lang. Bassist Lex Price (Mindy Smith, Peter Bradley Adams) and drummer/percussionist Fred Eltringham (The Wallflowers) complete the lineup.

Beginning today, fans that sign up for lang's newsletter at www.kdlang.com will receive a free download of "Perfect Word" a track from the new album. Pre-orders of Sing it Loud begin on February 7 on kdlang.com and nonesuch.com and include a manuscript lyric sheet, a limited number of which will be signed by k.d. (The version of the album available from those sites includes four additional tracks.) Sing it Loud is lang's first studio album since 2008's Watershed, which debuted in the Top 10 of the Billboard 200. In 2010, she marked the 25th anniversary of her recording debut with

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Record Store Day 2011. Exclusive Springsteen release!

Set your alarm clock! 16th April is record store day and as usual The Boss is setting up proceedings with an exclusive release ten-inch featuring two live tracks from the December 2010 carousel performance -- the first and only live performance of these songs to date -- "Gotta Get That Feeling" and "Racing in the Street ('78)." The record will come in a picture sleeve featuring a historical shot from when the carousel itself was up and running in Asbury Park.



Like last year I warned it could be a US only release but lets hope not!

Roxy Music - Glasgow Second Night

I was lucky enough to get more or less front row tickets for the second night in Glasgow of Roxy Musics For Your Pleasure Tour.

I was not quite sure how good this gig would be but have to say the whole show was simply outstanding. The band were absolutely superb, Ferry is certainly wearing well and Manzanera and McKay showed what outstanding musicians they are.

A strong set list drawing on less obvious material and a good smattering of the hits. I even enjoyed Jealous Guy which normally makes my skin crawl.

The set list:

The Main Thing
Street Life
Pyjamarama
If There Is Something 
Prairie Rose
Just Like You
Amazona
2HB
Like A Hurricane
Tara
Bitter Sweet
Sentimental Fool
To Turn You On
Same Old Scene
My Only Love
Avalon
Jealous Guy
Virginia Plain
Love Is The Drug
Editions Of You
Do The Strand
For Your Pleasure

Teddy Thompson - Glasgow, Archers

I have to say this was a very dissapointing gig. The set was very short at just over an hour, the sound was very poor and the audience somewhat underwhelmed I a sad to say. Teddy drew mainly from his as yet unreleased album and of that material only two tracks stood out.

I hope his tour imroves as he gets into it for future audiences....not least those in Inverness!

Forever Young - Celtic Connections Dylan 70th Birthday Tribute

Borrowing from the official Celtic Connections blurb:


Robert Allen Zimmerman turns 70 on May 24th 2011, a landmark birthday sure to be celebrated with many a memorable musical party. To kick off the festivities, Celtic Connections has assembled an aptly diverse Scottish and international cast of Dylan devotees, including Tim O’Brien, Josh Rouse, Rosanne Cash, Thea Gilmore, Laura Cantrell, James Grant, Kris Drever, Rab Noakes and Gemma Hayes, with Glasgow’s own Roddy Hart & the Lonesome Fire as house band for the evening. As well as featuring the singers’ pick of Dylan favourites, the show also highlights the strong Scottish influence over this uniquely seminal artist’s vast and varied oeuvre, in his adaptations and reinventions of such classic traditional ballads as Tramps and Hawkers (’I Pity the Poor Immigrant’), The Bonnie Lass O’ Fyvie (’Pretty Peggy’) and Lord Randall (’A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall’).


Well I am pleased to say that in my view this concert was absolutely superb. The house band of Roddy Hart and The Lonesome Fire were absolutely fantastic and did not put a foot wrong, clearly incredibly well rehearsed and also clearly loving playing both the material and enjoying the opportunity to play with the other artists. James Grant was again in just superb form and it was fantastic to hear Roseanne Cash perform this material.





The highlights for me included:


Roddy Hart - Not Dark Yet
Rab Noakes - Mississippi and Absolutely Sweet Marie
James Grant and Nell Bryden - All Along The Watchtower
Josh Rouse - The Man In Me
James Grant - Simple Twist Of fate
Roseanne Cash - My Back Pages
Ensemble - Like A Rolling Stone

Full set list:

 

Celtic Connections - Justin Currie ABC

Another great gig on Friday 21st at Glasgow ABC where Justin Currie was the headline act.

Fronting a full band Justin was in absolutely superb form and performed the majority of the new album The Great War and a healthy smattering of classic Del Amitri Tracks. A very minor grumble from me was the lack of material from the first solo album with the exception of No, Surrender.

Hopefully someone will post some clips that I can link to, in the meantime an approximation of the set list:

Ready To Be
Cant let Go Of Her Now
Just Like A Man
As Long As You Don't Come Back
Anywhere I'm Away From You
If I Want You
At Home inside of me
Always The Last To Know
Sleep Instead Of Teardrops (new song?)
A man With Nothing To Do
Everyone I Love
Move away Jimmy Blue
Not Where it's At
The Fight To Be human

Encore:

Here And Now
Ain't I A Lucky Guy (new song?)
No, Surrender
Be My Downfall


And a correction! Thanks to "Anonymous" Nothing Ever Happens was played after No, Surrender. many thanks!