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Comment on Empress of the supper club by Paul Tickell

Paul Tickell — Thu, 23 May 2013 19:57:25 +0000

I much appreciated this piece as I knew nothing about Mabel Mercer.

Comment on Welcome back, Shuggie Otis by Five Things: Wednesday 22nd May – Five Things I Saw & Heard This Week

Five Things: Wednesday 22nd May – Five Things I Saw & Heard This Week — Thu, 23 May 2013 09:00:47 +0000

[…] And Weston kindly gives me these cigarette cards of guitarists, part of a set issued by Polydor in the seventies. It reminds me that I need to download the Shuggie Otis outtakes that Richard Williams writes so well about here. […]

Comment on C’est Chic, encore by John Kieffer

John Kieffer — Tue, 21 May 2013 22:54:19 +0000

Chic were magnificent. I was lucky enough to see them live in their prime in 1979 (although I think minus the sublime Ms Wright). I can remember a gorgeous At Last I Am Free and an epic and almost brutal My Feet Keep Dancing. They were loud too!

As for Mr Friedman, the Double Image record on ECM is a real beauty and as far as I know never reissued.

Comment on A feudal horn by Jennifer Selway

Jennifer Selway — Tue, 21 May 2013 10:42:13 +0000

So it is “futile”. But then, as Woody Allen might say, isn’t everything?

Comment on The home of Johnny Cash by angela banter

angela banter — Tue, 21 May 2013 02:31:51 +0000

I feel compelled to correct a mistake in this article. Troy Seals is my great-uncle. He is not the brother of Dan or Jim Seals. (Distant cousins) His only brother was James Seals Jr (father to Deborah, Terry, James Dalton and Brady Seals) Brady Seals of the Little Texas and his own career as a singer-song writer. Troy has had an extrodinary career and I appreciate your article as a Johnny Cash fan myself.

Comment on C’est Chic, encore by WKB

WKB — Mon, 20 May 2013 20:35:58 +0000

May I put in a word for the 12″, also on Bearsville, of “High Society” backed by “Hold Me Lonely Boy”. Chic are my favourite band, and, whenever I listen to them, it’s usually the bass of Edwards I lock onto above all else. Jamerson of course is supreme, but, I think Bernard stands beside him. All his work is wonderful, but, on the post tap dance fade on the 12″ of “My Feet Keep Dancing” there is a 5 note run at 5′ 21″ which I would nominate as my favourite moment. Ever played “A Warm Summer’s Night” to anyone who didn’t fall in love with it immediately ?

Comment on C’est Chic, encore by John Pidgeon

John Pidgeon — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:25:46 +0000

The most disappointing omission from that documentary was Norma Jean’s ‘I Like Love’, a nothing kind of song, but notable from 3’04” for an entire minute of Nile Rodgers. Strings come in halfway through, but otherwise it’s just that sublime rhythm guitar and a bass drum. There’s a shorter cameo from him on Steve Winwood’s 1997 cover of ‘Family Affair’. I interviewed Winwood not long after for a radio documentary I was making about Viv Stanshall, and told him afterwards how much I enjoyed those moments. He grinned and said, ‘What’s the point of having Nile Rodgers on a record if you don’t let him be Nile Rodgers?’

Comment on A feudal horn by martin colyer

martin colyer — Mon, 20 May 2013 14:22:53 +0000

“Do I understand your question, Man, is it hopeless and forlorn…” probably, if my vox pop is anything to go by. I have one Fugal, one Futile and one Feudal. I’m with Richard, I’ve always sung Feudal in my head. Now it’s back to the Hard Rain DVD to watch Bob sing it…

Comment on A feudal horn by Paul Tickell

Paul Tickell — Sat, 18 May 2013 22:27:31 +0000

Sometimes I hear ‘fugal horn’… Do we know if Dylan has read ‘Finnegans Wake’?

Comment on A feudal horn by bradspurgeon

bradspurgeon — Sat, 18 May 2013 13:46:36 +0000

I’ve been singing it in my living room for around 35 years as “feudal horn,” without having sought the lyrics in my original effort. I remember finding lyrics later and saying, “What the!!!” But always stuck to feudal. When ever I run into memory or interpretation problems on Dylan songs that I sing, I always say to myself, “Well, it doesn’t really matter – first of all much of it is a sound painting and not a literal statement, second, few people know what any of it means in literal terms, and third, Dylan himself DOES change the lyrics around as he sees fit – to say nothing of the melodies…. The beauty is that there are so few songwriters today with whom one CAN take this approach….