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Month: December 2016

31st December 20166th August 2018 Album 3 Comments 1990sAlbum of the Monthfolknews

Anthology – June Tabor

Some time in the early 90s I went to see a band called Perfect Houseplants. They were a four-piece modern jazz band: saxophones, keyboards, bass and drums. As often happens with jazz bands each musician had a solo slot early in the performance and another member of the band would announce the soloist to the audience. After Martin France…Read more Anthology – June Tabor

24th December 2016 Playlist 1 Comment christmasPlaylist

A Christmas Playlist

As Christmas Day falls on a Sunday this year instead of a track of the week I've put together a Crotchety Christmas Playlist on Spotify. In the process I discovered several rather good Christmas albums. I recommend the playlist to accompany your festive turkey and afterwards I think you'll find these yuletide collections will go down…Read more A Christmas Playlist

18th December 2016 Track 4 Comments 1970sclassicalpopTrack of the Week

I Believe in Father Christmas

Christmas songs are always sweet. A few are sugar plum sickly. One yuletide song, though, can be savoured every year with no queasiness at all. It is Greg Lake's I Believe in Father Christmas. Those of you who admired Greg Lake's music will know already, I expect, that he died of cancer on 7th December, so…Read more I Believe in Father Christmas

11th December 2016 Track 3 Comments 2010sfolkjazzTrack of the Week

Soothing

Here's a Track of the Week on the periphery of Crotchety Man's sphere of interest. It's a new song by Laura Marling, a singer/songwriter and musician with a background in contemporary folk music, but Soothing is a long way from conventional folk tunes of any period. The instrumentation is highly unusual. It sounds to me like a…Read more Soothing

4th December 2016 Track 1 Comment 1960sfolkpopTrack of the Week

Elusive Butterfly

It's officially winter here in the northern hemisphere but the other day, although it was chilly outside, there were fluffy white clouds hanging in a clear blue sky over the green green grass of the back garden lawn. Looking out from the cosy living room it could almost have been summer again. Suddenly my peripheral vision…Read more Elusive Butterfly

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