Archive for the ‘Acoustic’ Category

Townes Van Zandt – Pancho and Lefty

By • Feb 19th, 2009

A few weeks ago I was having a coffee with a friend and the conversation turned to music (I dont do sport politics and religion can be “tricky”, so music is really about the only “safe” subject – besides I love finding out what people are listening to), and we discovered we were both fans [...]



Woven Hand

By • Feb 15th, 2009

One of the more amazing things that shows up every so often in the NPR RSS feed are there “Desk Concerts”. Basically it’s what the name implies, a performer comes in sits at a desk and then does three songs (sometimes more , sometimes less). NPR videos the performance and it goes up on the [...]



Wendy Ealey

By • Feb 14th, 2009

Wendy Ealey has a voice that takes me back to smoke filled folk venues of Melbourne 30 odd years ago. With good reason, she has been a performer on the folk scene both in Australia and in Britain since the 70′s.

Hers is a big beautiful voice that resonates with passion as she sings songs penned by herself and others accompanying herself on guitar. Political songs nestle comfortably with love songs to form a quilt of human experience.

A song written by Mary Caruana with Brent Parlane called “Bigger Than This” can be found on on her MySpace site, is a ballsy dig at the treatment of “illegal” immigrants. “Child of My Heart” is the story of grief felt by an infertile woman.



Songs From the Blue House

By • Feb 7th, 2009

I’ve finally surfaced from my self imposed hibernation and for my first 2009 post, I’ve come across a wonderfully inspiring act called “Songs From the Blue House” hereinafter referred to as SftBH. Me, I love the Blue Oyster Cult and their song “Don’t Fear the Reaper”. Here that song is covered by SftBH. Described as [...]



Brian Gladstone

By • Jan 29th, 2009

Brian Gladstone is a singer /finger picking guitarist from Toronto. And why is he being featured today? Well head over to the MySpace site, and pick any song you like (it won’t matter- trust me), if you want my pick try “A Song For Everyone“. Now we are ’bout to have a slight digression (there’s [...]



Saltfishforty

By • Jan 27th, 2009

I’ll be honest, I have always really enjoyed my time in Orkney (we’ve been there twice now). Sadly we didn’t catch Saltfishforty, quite a pity. They are really engaging, I suggest you have  a listen to “The Burray Strathspey and Reel” over at Myspace, and then have a listen to the live recordings they have there [...]



Cara Dillon – Black Is The Colour

By • Dec 19th, 2008

I found Cara Dillon while chasing up Kate Rusby’s old band “Equation” (who we must talk about one day soon). Cara has one of those wonderful Irish voices. Which makes a lot of sense, she was born in County Derry and won the All Ireland Traditional Singing Trophy aged only 14 and then went on [...]