Another favourite tune. What an energetic recording!
I’ve been meaning to learn this for years. Must drag out the guitar and get to it!
I v. much like the Colin Reid version too, btw, but can’t find that one on YouTube. Here it is to listen to with Media Player or whatever.
However, here’s Colin playing Music For a Found Harmonium; yet another of my favourite tunez. Such a great arrangement! (Looks like he’s changed a bit since I drove to Birmingham years ago to ask him to show me how to play a tricky bit of one of his own compositions!)
And here’s the truly wonderful Penguin Cafe Orchestra playing the original. Sigh…
Rifling through my iTunes ‘Recently Purchased’ folder just now, I came across this. Unsurprisingly, it sounds a little different live. Still, it’s so exquisitely beautiful that it makes me yearn to pick up the guitar I packed away into its case when Piglet arrived, and began to chew everything that wasn’t battened down.
I never did get that sound problem on my computer sorted out, and so I’ve not listened to enough music recently as I have to do it through headphones, which are a pain and a faff. When I listen to stuff like this, though, I wonder why I ever do anything else.
I read just now that Keith Floyd died today, and it came as a real shock.
Keith Floyd was the first of the TV chefs that I ever enjoyed watching, and in fact I enjoyed his first couple of series so much that I used to transport my video recorder round the country with me so that I could be absolutely *sure* of recording the episodes. And video recorders were bloody great big things, back in those almost prehistoric days.
RIP, Keith. You brought a lot of joy to many people, as well as (presumably) a lot of unexpected royalties to The Stranglers ♥
One of my favourite James Taylor songs, which means this is one of my favourite *ever* songs.
*melts*
JT = Acoustic God.
Plus… (I always do this editing thing…) another from the same album: Shed a Little Light. I LOVE this! I remember driving back from the Employment Tribunal in Birmingham about 10 years ago, after a week of trauma in front of a nightmare Employment Judge (or Chairman, as they were called then) to the wedding of two good friends, and listening to this in the sunshine, in my open-topped car. What a blast! A month later I learned that we’d won the case. Quite right too! F*ck the race discriminators
And another… Ducks in a Row
I wanted to show you Native Son too, but it’s not on YouTube. Sob… Here it is, though, in streaming audio.
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