Two six packs of Shiner

99 cent butane lighter

Lucky Strikes and a fifth of Patron

Ice down that Igloo cooler

Tank of gas that oughta do er'

I can feel a good one comin' on

Might need a few translations here ...  

'Shiner' is beer from Texas; 'Lucky Strike' cigarettes; 'Patron' is tequila; the rest I think you'll get ...

Watched the Netflix series 'Yellowstone' and it was full of songs like this in a landscape of cowboy tough guys and the girls were pretty tough too.
Blackberry Smoke formed in Atlanta, Georgia in 2000, this track is from 2009 ‘Good One Coming On’ -

We're gonna roll all night

There were plenty more tracks like this from artists I didn't know - Shane Smith & the Saints,

The Panhandlers & Cody Johnson - check them out

  

From The Cove (see last Wednesday's Spotlight post) to Hollow Coves in one small hop.

This month's Road Track is from Hollow Coves an Australian indie folk band formed in 2013. The band consists of vocalists and guitarists Ryan Henderson and Matt Carins.

The track is called 'On The Way' and we are on the road in a VW camper and a Road Trip bucket list - perfect. I'm right there... 

Along with a couple of albums they have also released and EP called 'Wanderlust'. No surprise there !

 

  

An alternative (and occasional) music posting highlighting something out of the ordinary. Perhaps of limited appeal, unconventional, experimental or just far-out ! Call it what you like (or switch it off, if you don't like). 

Our most recent Fairlight Folk event celebrating The Hayloft Club from the 70s and 80s was another successful and enjoyable evening - lots of wonderful old stories and plenty of great music from Garry Blakeley and Bear Lucas. Here's a couple of short video clips for posterity.
Just click the play button twice.

Garry and Bear with their improvised version of John Martyn's 'The Man in the Station'

A segment from 'Music for a Found Harmonium' 

You may recognise it but didn't know that was the title of the piece, written by English composer
Simon Jeffes in 1984.

Various tunes old and new were played - I didn't get to note down all of them so here's a mention of those I did. 

- 'Pirates of the Caribbean' medley into a reel including 'Heilan' Laddie'.

- 'Si Bheag Si Mhor' (little [bheag] fairy hill and a big [mhor] fairy hill. The tune is from the 18th century by Turlough O'Carolan. Fairy hills in Fairlight !

- 'The Keeper would a-hunting go' (chorus song 'Hey down, ho down, derry derry down').

- 'Vivaldi' (a version of the Curved Air instrumental track from 1970 - previously called 'Viv's Audi').

- 'Dirty Old Town' (written by Ewan MacColl - who actually played at The Hayloft in 1974, with American folksinger Peggy Seeger).

- including the two songs featured above, there were a number of jigs/reels & polkas that I either missed the names of or Garry confessed to having forgotten what they were called anyway. 'The Irish Washerwoman' may have been one of them? 

Background info here. 

   

Sentimental time this Friday after recent events.

Last Sunday May 11th marked one hundred years ago in 1925 when my father was born.

I had previously noted he shared his birth date with one Irving Berlin, who was born in 1888, and lived to be 101. He wrote hundreds of songs, many becoming major hits, which made him famous before he turned thirty. One song from the musical movie 'Top Hat' starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers was 'Cheek to Cheek'.

So this is for all you 'Baby Boomers' who are here today probably as a result of your parents meeting and dancing cheek to cheek. 

 -  B L A T A N T   A D V E R T I S I N G   C O N T E N T  -

This is the poster we have produced to publise the folk event in our local pub happening this Sunday.
It provides the details that were listed in the post last month called 'Fairlight's Folk Revival' that contained music videos: Click on

  

[At the beginning of last year]

Friend Mel says to me “Do you fancy doing a Vinyl Night up at the Cove. Like they do at the Jenny Lind in Hastings? “

“Yeah. Sounds good to me” I reply.

“Let’s ask Henry, see what he says”.

Henry at the Cove liked the idea and said we could use the upstairs room in the pub on a Thursday night. We cobbled together some equipment and went for a dry run to check everything out.

Launched in May, we switched to every first Tuesday of the month - our one year birthday is this coming week.

We have about a dozen regulars, which was good, and everyone enjoys listening to records they've maybe not played in years. First half it's play what you want, with the second half being a selected theme. We've had ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll’ (naturally); 'Desert Island Discs'; 'Tamla Motown/Soul'; 'Sixties Singles'; 'Film & TV Music' and 'Sounds of Summer' to name a few. And have Shake, Rattled and Rolled our way through quite a variety of tracks - Abba to Zappa - often discovering something new and memorable or simply a forgotten group or artist.

Picking just one such moment at random, which met with nods of approval and 'I'd forgotten how good this track was' comments: from the 1969 album 'Family Entertainment' this is 'The Weaver’s Answer' from Roger Chapman and Family.  

This recording is from TopPop, the first regular dedicated pop music TV show by Dutch broadcaster AVRO which aired weekly from 1970 to 1988.

Great saxophone solo is shown as a flute playing... no idea why ? That's the 70s for you !