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Month: January 2018

28th January 2018 Track 5 Comments 2010sdancegrooveTrack of the Week

Là-Haut

When Crotchety Man was a student studying biochemistry in the early seventies the class turned up for a series of laboratory practicals to be told that we were getting a new supervisor. For the next few weeks, instead of the fully qualified doctor of philosophy we had expected, they had appointed a 'demonstrator' who was…Read more Là-Haut

28th January 20182nd February 2020 Album 1 Comment 2010sAlbum of the Monthambientelectronicafolk rockmetalpost-rockprogressive rock

Burning Shed Free EP

Back in March 2017, in my Album of the Month post on Moroccan Roll by Brand X, I opined that the latest incarnation of the band had fully rekindled the energy and enthusiasm of their early albums. As evidence I cited a live version of Malaga Virgen recorded on their reunion tour just a few…Read more Burning Shed Free EP

21st January 2018 Track Leave a comment 1970snew wavepoppost-punkrockTrack of the Week

Message In A Bottle

Or, Tales of the River Bank¹. One morning in the summer of 1979 Crotchety Young Man was on his way to work. At that time he was based in the Berkshire town of Reading and his route took him over the river Thames at Caversham Bridge. There were rather more people than usual in the…Read more Message In A Bottle

14th January 2018 Track 3 Comments 2010sfolknewsTrack of the Week

Whistle Down the Wind

This week it was announced that Joan Baez is releasing a new album on 2nd March. Whistle Down the Wind will be her first new recording for a decade and its promotion marks the end of more than 50 years of touring for Baez. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5-e4qqvKck The phrase, "whistle down the wind", evokes a forlorn sense…Read more Whistle Down the Wind

7th January 2018 Track 3 Comments 2010schamber jazznewsTrack of the Week

Raven

The rain clouds have blown over and the rainbows have faded away. Neil Ardley's bright kaleidoscopic colours have dissipated leaving only black, white and 50/50 shades of grey. These are the colours of penguin suits and polar landscapes but for this Track of the Week we are in temperate regions much closer to Crotchety Man's…Read more Raven

7th January 201815th April 2018 Album 2 Comments 1970sAlbum of the Monthjazzworld

A Kaleidoscope of Rainbows

Before we get into the new year in earnest here's a belated Album of the Month post originally scheduled for December 2017. The album in question is called A Kaleidoscope of Rainbows and it was one of my first forays into the hinterlands of jazz. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImHQwOKyL5s I must have bought this record in the late seventies…Read more A Kaleidoscope of Rainbows

4th January 2018 Uncategorised Leave a comment New Year

Now We Are Three

- - - - - - - - A prisoner breaks out of jail. He runs down the street shouting "I'm free! I'm free!". A small boy is unimpressed. "So what?" he calls, "I'm four". - - - - - - - - The Crotchety Man blog is (very nearly) three years old now and,…Read more Now We Are Three

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