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Mudcrutch by Mudcrutch
He says ‘I dont believe in money
But a man could make him a killin’
‘Cause some of that stuff don’t sound
Much different than Dylan
I hear down there it’s changed you see
They’re not as backward as they used to be
He’s gone country, look at them boots
He’s gone country, back to his roots
He’s gone country, a new kind [...]
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Best Ever Chorus?
FiveLive Breakfast have been having a phone vote for the best chorus ever over the past few weeks. I missed the bit where they asked for nominations, which they whittled down to a final 9, and then did a 4-day vote for the best, which turned out to be “Delilah”, written by Les Reed and [...]
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Roll Your Tapes
via BoingBoing, I came across this selection of recordings of Bob Dylan with that overrated charlatan Johnny Cash from 1968/69. Only one song from these sessions ended up on Nashville Skyline. There are also, so it goes, a few quadrophonic remixes of Nashville Skyline tracks – no Johnny Cash required. Regardless of my personal opinion [...]
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Tags: 1969, country music, johnny cash, nashville skyline, quadrophonic
Levon Helm – Dirt Farmer
I mentioned Levon Helm the other day in the same breath as Ringo Starr: two great drummers who played for the singer and the song. I love Helm’s minimalist style, where what he leaves out is just as important as what he puts in.
His drums are an essential part of Dirt Farmer, his first solo [...]
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The Policy
Regular commenter Mike is rightly concerned that I seem to write a lot about music, but that I tend to define it by what I don’t like.
Problem is, there’s always been more to dislike than to like. For me, that’s the whole point.
I’m a refiner, I like to boil things down. I’m a firm believer [...]
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Pop on Trial – the verdict
It was kind of predictable, I think, that the BBC4 Pop on Trial jury would vote for the 1970s as the “most influential” decade of pop. There was an awful lot happening in the 70s; as to how much of it was really influential, I don’t know. Any programme that puts Paul Morley on the [...]
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Tags: 1950s, fifties, pop, pop on trial
Popping Out
BBC4’s Pop On Trial series has been moderately entertaining, if confusing. There seems to be a loose aggregation of related programmes, but (typically of the BBC these days) they don’t seem to be on at regular times.
The Pop Britannia strand might even have been useful in class, except Pete Townshend kept swearing, which would amuse [...]
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Tags: 1950s, fifties
Polyp Weather
What they don’t tell you on the Sensodyne toothpaste adverts: that it tastes absolutely foul.
Over the past couple of mornings, I’ve got up at about the time that Richard Bacon pops into the Breakfast studio on Five Live to announce what his 9-12 phone-in shift is going to be. (My bedside radio is still defaulting [...]
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The Beautiful Girls of Summer
“I seen a shooting star tonight, and I thought of you…”
THE DYLAN
The Perseids and me are old friends. I had an unforgettable night, back in the summer of 1983, when I lay on the deck of a cross-channel ferry and watched the show over the Bay of Biscay. Thanking my lucky stars that I was [...]
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Tags: flirting
A Pop Music Presentation
This presentation formed part of the foundation stage of teaching my media students about the historical development of the popular music industry. It’s part of the syllabus, don’t you know.
There’s a current trend towards rejigging media studies, and making it less about traditional approaches centred around mass media and audiences and making it more to [...]
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