Listening to Jimmy Page & Robert Plant “Walking Into Clarksdale”

First up this morning is Saint Etienne “Tiger Bay” Folk songs done in a (1994) modern style, it was always going to be difficult to follow up the magnificent “Foxbase Alpha” and “So Tough”, but I like this more now than I did back then

Listening to Levon Helm “Dirt Farmer”

Sunday morning the clocks have gone back, back to 1968 here, first up The Band “Music from Big Pink” They’ve all left us now but this music will be played for millennia yet

Not long had its 40th birthday Its Immaterial “Life’s Hard And Then You Die”

First up today is Roxy Music “Siren”

New books

Listening to this twofer by Slapp Happy a pairing of “Casablanca Moon” & “Desperate Straights” All good stuff

Bought a long time ago from a charity shop these Miles Davis Quintet discs are great, it may have been Miles’s band but Coltrane hogs the solos (apparently he wanted his own band at the time) Taken from a radio broadcast I believe the sound is excellent That’s value for a £1 🤣

From the album "Whiskey for the Holy Ghost" by Mark Lanegan ..... "Carnival" youtu.be/77FdaodmUb4?si=TJ8B…

Terry Allen from the album "Juarez" ... "What of Alicia" youtu.be/cSx5NXjUCl8?si=udqB… youtu.be/cSx5NXjUCl8?si=udqB…

Elvis Costello & The Imposters .... "I Let The Sun Go Down" youtu.be/FCB8m7jezuU?si=NbY7… youtu.be/FCB8m7jezuU?si=NbY7…

Microdisney ... "Are You Happy" Cathal Coughlan again, what a voice. youtu.be/trJV0j9nclc?si=SJNt…

The Fatima Mansions .... "Berties Brochures" youtu.be/VFpGfSqZTHY?si=aXLA…

Looks like a complete power outage Moreton Wirral 😬

Drove to the Point of Ayr lighthouse in North Wales today, a breezy walk with variable skies from bright and clear to ominous looking clouds Luckily the rain started after we got back to the car 🌧️

My 9 books I’ll never forget So hard this bound to think of a load 2mins after I post this, fiction only, will do non fiction later

A last treat for myself as the reduced income is about to bite in the next few weeks What a beauty, heard nothing but good things about this set Elvis Costello “My Aim Is True” 49th Anniversary edition 🤩

hard to pick just 9 .. in fact I could probably change a couple now 🤣

Listening to John Coltrane “A Love Supreme” For an album I’ve had for many years I don’t know this too well, when it’s Jazz time I nearly always reach for Miles, time to have a proper go at some Coltrane I think 🤔