The Medusa Fora

Based on the other topics,what song you listening to,movies watched and book you are reading.
What album/s have you just purchased?

I just got these in today,

Bruce Springsteen - We Shall Overcome The Seeger Sessions
Bruce Springsteen&The E Street Band - Hammersmith Odeon,London '75
William Elliott Whitmore - Ashes To Dust
Dervish - At The End Of The Day
Merle Haggard - Greatest Hits 3cd Box Set
Irish Songs of Rebellion and Resistance 1798-1998
Also got Norah Jones - Feels Like Home, of Ebay very cheap.

The last albums I bought were:-

The Tossers - The Valley of the Shadow of Death
Flogging Molly - Drunken Lullabies
Flogging Molly - Within A Mile of Home

and the new Christy Moore live DVD.

I just got
The Ducky Boys - The War Back Home
The Sounds - Dying To Say This To You
The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth
check 'em out, they are all pretty good!

Bruce Springsteen (The Pete Seeger Sessions)
Hank Williams III (Straight To Hell)
Emm Gryner (Songs Of Love And Death)
Van Morrison (Pay The Devil)
Joaquin Phoenix, Reece Witherspoon etc (Walk The Line OST)
Morrissey (Ringleader Of The Tormentors)
Dave Van Ronk, Frankie Armstrong (Let No One Deceive You)
Jon Peterson (George M Cohan Tonight - Off Broadway cast)
Patricia Routledge (Presenting Patricia Routledge)
Stanley Holloway (At His Very Best)

Iron & Wine-Woman King
Flaming Lips- At War With The Mystics
New Pornographers- Twin Cinema
Pogues-Dark Streets 7-inch (Finally!)

Johnny Cash - Live at Folsom
Johhny Cash - Live at San Quentin
Woody Guthrie - The Asch Recordings Vols. 1-4

philipchevron wrote:...Patricia Routledge (Presenting Patricia Routledge)

As in the incredibly funny English comedienne of Mrs. Bucket - I'm sorry, it's pronounced Bouquet! - fame? I didn't know she recorded as well?! My mum will love to hear that. I always laugh at her cornering her neighbour Emmet to audtition/rehearse. I know women ( and men ) just like her, and Emmet always reminds me of a very musical friend of Mater's.

philipchevron wrote:Joaquin Phoenix, Reece Witherspoon etc (Walk The Line OST)

What do you think of it?

I quite like it but it's not as 'raw' as Cash' sound

Ow yeah my latest:
T Duggins - Undone
Christy Moore- Live 2006

I saw in the newspaper that the Cash sound has already crashed on Broadway.

Pure Soul - Various Artists - Kent Vinyl Compilation.
I'm down to single figures in my hunt for all 97 of these. I know, anorak on, hood fully up. Still it's only taken me 22 years.

Fintan wrote:

philipchevron wrote:...Patricia Routledge (Presenting Patricia Routledge)

As in the incredibly funny English comedienne of Mrs. Bucket - I'm sorry, it's pronounced Bouquet! - fame? I didn't know she recorded as well?! My mum will love to hear that. I always laugh at her cornering her neighbour Emmet to audtition/rehearse. I know women ( and men ) just like her, and Emmet always reminds me of a very musical friend of Mater's.

She was a great soprano in her day and won the Tony Award for Best Actress In A Musical in her best show Darling Of The Day in New York in 1968. She also starred in Alan Jay Lerner and Leonard Bernstein's troubled but exquisite Broadway flop 1600 Pennsylania Avenue (aka A White House Cantata) and had slightly smaller roles in Richard Rodgers I Remember Mama in New York in 1979, London's restoration musical comedy Virtue in Danger in 1963 and the Royal National Theatre's superb revival of Carousel in 1993. In some ways, as with Angela Lansbury, musical theatre buffs are always slightly surprised she is better known for something else, a lucrative TV role, for instance.

Presenting Patricia Routledge is that rare thing - a highly sought collector's CD, and mine has just cost me over 50 quid. Mind you, not even Emmett would baulk at having it in his CD player.

Mick Molloy wrote:

philipchevron wrote:Joaquin Phoenix, Reece Witherspoon etc (Walk The Line OST)

What do you think of it?

I quite like it but it's not as 'raw' as Cash' sound

Ow yeah my latest:
T Duggins - Undone
Christy Moore- Live 2006

I like it - it's not Cash and Carter but it has the courage of its own convictions. Terry George introduced us to Joaquin after one of our New York shows in March and I found him charming.

And yes, Ring Of Fire has unsurprisingly been extinguished on Broadway.

philipchevron wrote:

Mick Molloy wrote:

philipchevron wrote:Joaquin Phoenix, Reece Witherspoon etc (Walk The Line OST)

What do you think of it?

I quite like it but it's not as 'raw' as Cash' sound

Ow yeah my latest:
T Duggins - Undone
Christy Moore- Live 2006

I like it - it's not Cash and Carter but it has the courage of its own convictions. Terry George introduced us to Joaquin after one of our New York shows in March and I found him charming.

And yes, Ring Of Fire has unsurprisingly been extinguished on Broadway.

dont have the OST but it was an amazing film

philipchevron wrote:Presenting Patricia Routledge is that rare thing - a highly sought collector's CD, and mine has just cost me over 50 quid. Mind you, not even Emmett would baulk at having it in his CD player.

Thank you very much Philip. I'll start a search for a copy.... mum's birthday is coming up soon. Last year I got to send her to see 'Fiddler On The Roof' with Topol when it played Sydney. She played Golde in a local (home-town) production 20-something years ago and again as Yente more recently. I really wanted her to see Topol while they're both still around. She'd LOVE a copy of the Routledge CD so I shall go a-searching...Cheers fer the heads-up.

Fintan wrote:

philipchevron wrote:Presenting Patricia Routledge is that rare thing - a highly sought collector's CD, and mine has just cost me over 50 quid. Mind you, not even Emmett would baulk at having it in his CD player.

Thank you very much Philip. I'll start a search for a copy.... mum's birthday is coming up soon. Last year I got to send her to see 'Fiddler On The Roof' with Topol when it played Sydney. She played Golde in a local (home-town) production 20-something years ago and again as Yente more recently. I really wanted her to see Topol while they're both still around. She'd LOVE a copy of the Routledge CD so I shall go a-searching...Cheers fer the heads-up.

Let me know if you can't find it and I'll run you off a copy. As it is no longer in catalogue, I will not be depriving anyone of income.

Harvey Fierstein and Rosie O'Donnell were recently in Fiddler at the Minskoff Theatre, which is in the same building as the Nokia Theatre in New York. Good show, but Harvey's unlovely vocal chords would really have tested Emmet's patience.

philipchevron wrote:

Fintan wrote:

philipchevron wrote:Presenting Patricia Routledge is that rare thing - a highly sought collector's CD, and mine has just cost me over 50 quid. Mind you, not even Emmett would baulk at having it in his CD player.

Thank you very much Philip. I'll start a search for a copy.... mum's birthday is coming up soon. Last year I got to send her to see 'Fiddler On The Roof' with Topol when it played Sydney. She played Golde in a local (home-town) production 20-something years ago and again as Yente more recently. I really wanted her to see Topol while they're both still around. She'd LOVE a copy of the Routledge CD so I shall go a-searching...Cheers fer the heads-up.

Let me know if you can't find it and I'll run you off a copy. As it is no longer in catalogue, I will not be depriving anyone of income.

And again, I thank you, my mother thanks you, and your country thanks you, Sir!