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Today’s Vegetables: Thinking The World Was Mine To Be Lost In
Hello Vegetables —
Authority: 127
Okay, now I’m really back. We gots a lotsa catchin up to do, you and I, so the timing of this treat is superb. Like me, you’ve probably worn your copy of Midlake’s The Trials Of Van Occupanther down to a nubbin, so you’re eagerly anticipating their upcoming LP The Courage Of Others . Especially since you ...2 days ago -
That Fairport Stomp
The Rustbelt Radical —
Authority: 119
Like all white folks born into the Midwest I have a Pantheon of Rock. The one handed to me in the neighborhood I grew up in had either Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath at the top, largely dependent on your proclivity for barbiturates (Sabbath) or amphetamines (Zeppelin). The older kids that influenced me in the [...]1 week ago -
A Sailor´s Life...
For The Sake Of The Song —
Authority: 119
...it is a merry life. That fado about Portuguese sailors in the post below made me think of other songs about that romantic but slowly disappearing profession. So while it seems that everybody else is busy blogging Christmas ditties (I won´t, promise...) here´s a six pack of delicious sailor songs for you. All ...2 weeks ago -
Caroles Seminal Albums - #3
The 'Spill —
Authority: 437
This weeks album in the "Caroles Seminal Albums" series is Fairport Convention s 1969 ground-breaking Liege and Lief . It was Fairports fourth release and was a departure from what had come before; there were no Bob Dylan covers and the West Coast inspired folk-rock was replaced by a totally English folk ...2 weeks ago -
Who Knows Where the Hiring Fair In the Lowlands of Holland Goes?
One Neat Thing a Day —
Authority: 123
Haven’t posted in a while. I’ll try to keep posting here every so often, but I doubt there’ll be any regularity to it any more. I’d rather keep posting erratically then stop posting all together, though. So, theme today is stuff I’ve listened to recently . It usually is, actually. I’m just being a little ...3 weeks ago -
Saturday Night At The Liberal Curmudgeon: Fairport Convention Live
The Liberal Curmudgeon —
Authority: 127
Through their adaptation of traditional English folk songs, Fairport Convention , founded in 1967, became Englands most influential folk rock band. Here the group performs "Matty Groves" in Birmingham Town Hall, 1990. The ballad , versions of which appeared in the 17th century, is about an ill-fated tryst between a ...3 weeks ago -
The M M & M 1000 – part 49
Music Musings and Miscellany —
Authority: 122
Here’s the latest batch of Music Musings and Miscellany’s unapologetically subjective selection of the twentieth century’s best 1000 singles. FAIRPORT CONVENTION – Si Tu Dois Partir / Genesis Hall (Island 6064 1969) In the period between the end of the sixties and punk, for the serious prog-rock, metal and ...4 weeks ago -
sunday tune: fairport convention - matty groves
even*cleveland —
Authority: 504
Today, epic story-songs about infidelity. My dad used to sing this one for us - it is a very old English ballad, and we reveled in the gory details. In some versions, Lord Arnold strikes his cheating wife through the heart and pins her against the wall after she tells him shed rather kiss from her dead lovers lips, ...4 weeks ago
