What Album Have You Just Bought?

[DzM]

* Albeit reproducing the ugly, ugly cover. Bill Ward's red tights are unspeakable, but all the worse for standing front of a large mirror so we get a double view.

Capt. Pedantry points out: If it were a mirror you would be seeing his red, red ass cheeks.

[Low D]

* Albeit reproducing the ugly, ugly cover. Bill Ward's red tights are unspeakable, but all the worse for standing front of a large mirror so we get a double view.

Capt. Pedantry points out: If it were a mirror you would be seeing his red, red ass cheeks.

* Albeit reproducing the ugly, ugly cover. Bill Ward's red tights are unspeakable, but all the worse for standing front of a large mirror so we get a double view.

Capt. Pedantry points out: If it were a mirror you would be seeing his red, red ass cheeks.

Nah they did a thing so the mirror looks haunted or something, it's a double image not a reflection.



But don't worry, the rear cover gives you their rears, including Bill Ward's remarkably flat bum, x 2.

[firehazard]

...don't worry, the rear cover gives you their rears, including Bill Ward's remarkably flat bum, x 2.

Blimey. That's hardly an arse at all.

[old barney greyheron]

'New Orleans Blues, Jazz & Soul Gumbo'...after watching the boxset of 'Treme', i've gotten into the music of the city..it's really good stuff..mostly. <smileyface>

[aitor]

Hello, i recently find this one, songs from The Hostage (1960). Brendan Behan

Probably i will buy it despite is not in very good condition.

[Villajohn]

On The Rock.A Newfoundland songbook.Ofra Harnoy.Brilliant!

[Low D]

On The Rock.A Newfoundland songbook.Ofra Harnoy.Brilliant!

That's quite the best-of-Newfoundland tracklist right there.

[Low D]

Pre-ordered the new Trouble Pilgrims album via Bandcamp, Blood, Glass and Gasoline , out in October. Available as high-quality digital download and/or limited edition cd and/or limited edition "ghostly" vinyl and/or limited edition... cassette! So all you driving the old car you paid $300 bux for still has a cassette deck, you're set.

https://troublepilgrims.bandcamp.com/al ... d-gasoline

[DzM]

Pre-ordered the new Trouble Pilgrims album via Bandcamp, Blood, Glass and Gasoline , out in October.

Did they ever release the album they were working on with Philip?

[Low D]

Pre-ordered the new Trouble Pilgrims album via Bandcamp, Blood, Glass and Gasoline , out in October.

Did they ever release the album they were working on with Philip?

? Didn't know there was such a thing, the last recordings I woulda thought were The Radiators' Sound City Beat.

[DzM]

Pre-ordered the new Trouble Pilgrims album via Bandcamp, Blood, Glass and Gasoline , out in October.

Did they ever release the album they were working on with Philip?

? Didn't know there was such a thing, the last recordings I woulda thought were The Radiators' Sound City Beat.

That is likely what I'm thinking of. It's been a while.

[Low D]

Pre-ordered the new Trouble Pilgrims album via Bandcamp, Blood, Glass and Gasoline , out in October.

Did they ever release the album they were working on with Philip?

? Didn't know there was such a thing, the last recordings I woulda thought were The Radiators' Sound City Beat.

That is likely what I'm thinking of. It's been a while.

If you've not heard it you realty should seek it out. "Behind The Painted Screen" alone is worth the price of admission, Phil's moving vocals imbue it with layers of meaning beyond to he original lyric.

[Low D]

Domestic Blues, Bap Kennedy (1998)

Bap's solo debut, produced by The Twangtrust (Steve Earle & Ray Kennedy). I was a Steve Earle fan at the time, have become a Bap Kennedy fan since, but somehow never owned this album, although I've heard it. It's fabulous, and reading the liner notes I discovered one of the reasons why - the backing band includes an A-list of Americana, including members of the same band Earle assembled for his excellent 1995 album Train A Comin' and his off-and-on alternate backing band The Bluegrass Dukes: Peter Rowan, Roy Husky Jr., Jerry Douglas, along with with some percussion, some keys, and guest spots by Nancy Blake on strings and Nanci Griffith on vocals. Drop all that on a batch of Kennedy's songs and you're bound to end up a winner, and that's what happened here.

It's a testament to Bap's writing & performance that he writes a few too many love songs for my liking, but I almost don't mind because his self-effacing sincerity keeps over-sentimentality at bay. This is a trait he shares with Shane MacGowan and Steve Earle (on some of his better "love" songs). There's a great example on this album in "The Way I Love Her":

All those pointless
Arguments and tears
And as far as I can see
You've been worse for her than me

You don't love her
The way I love you
You don't love her the way I do

I did the things I chose to do
My plans did not include her too
I'm back in town, I just got free
You're standing there instead of me

"You're worse for her than me", with the tacit admission that the singer was bad for her, just not quite as bad as the current loser she's with, and the overall selfishness of only considering his feelings, not hers, is one of the best "love song" lines I've ever heard.

[Low D]

"Assembly", the new Joe Strummer compilation.

Nice enough comp with lovely packaging, but nothing super essential: a couple live takes and a new mix on Tony Adams. Strange decision to include "Love Kills" from the soundtrack of the same name when he also contributed the much-better "Dum Dum Club" to the same album. And "Long Shadow" rely just sounds like tbe hastily-written demo that it was, yet it made this "best of". If you own all his work and a pile of bootlegs like I do, there's no reason to own this (and yet now i do). A strange follow up to the "Strummer 101" compilation which included many of the same tracks.

[Villajohn]

Home Recordings.Martin Simpson. Superb!