What Are You Listening To?

[JeromeD]

Today's pick - https://youtu.be/I_TE_esWVtI?si=EWyUwqRCUClJNkTL

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^^
nice pick Jerome

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CHARLEY PRIDE  'a decade of charley pride" vinyl 1975

from Mississippi
professional baseballer turned country singer
left us in 2020
dude had 30 Billboard Country #1 hits so definitely no slouch in the industry
love his silky smooth vocals
album scores 2.4 from me which means
I LOVE THIS ALBUM

fave was a #1 hit:

[Ruby]

POCO - Blue and Grey

Because it came to hand - from the vinyl drawers ... 



The theme of the album is the American Civil War which is a subject about which I remain a tad mystified. So I'm just listening for the hearing of it. They were good, this band - super competent, and they made a lot of music but not a huge amount of it was all that memorable. I like this album, I must say (two tracks excepted) - for what it is, which is gentle country rock (subject matter notwithstanding), well executed - great voices.

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INDIGO GIRLS  "swamp ophelia" cd 1994

a revisit
alt-folk/americana/folk-rock duo from Atlanta Georgia
fifth studio album of fifteen, i own one.
some really nice material on here
love their harmonies
just too much of a muchness though
favourite track was not even released as a single
album scores 1.8 from me which means
I LIKE THIS ALBUM

[Ruby]

Back online after a very annoying time of being disconnected! Aargh! ... I got it into my head to listen to the Civil Wars - I dunno - maybe a Freudian association! Who can say? Had been remembering a song of theirs from Live at Eddie's Attic that I used to love. Still do, it turns out. And then I listened to their eponymously titled album which is a little more of the alternative Americana ilk. I like. Well the first 'half' in any case. I still seem to listen in sides! LOL! They made some very nice sounds, IMHO. Not sure what happened, but there's nothing wrong with quality over quantity so I'll just take what they DID put out there. Maybe time to revisit his solo work as well, which I also got on with, at the time it was released. 





That track from Eddie's Attic ... 

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STURGILL SIMPSON  "metamodern sounds in country music" cd/vinyl 2014

a revisit
from Kentucky
sophomore album of nine
i own eight, have purchased the nineth but still awaiting delivery
country, outlaw country, psychedelic country, southern rock
excellent album and my favourite of his
album contains his greatest song in   Turtles All the Way Down | Sturgill Simpson
album scores 2.7 which means
I LOVE THIS ALBUM

posting this one on this occasion:

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DONOVAN  "barabajagal"  vinyl 1969

from Lynne's LP collection
admittedly i have never been a fan of his music
so maybe there was a prejudice already there, but id like to think not
there were only three tracks i can genuinely say i liked on this album
but that said,im sure it would sound okay as 'background noise'
i'll give it a 1.4 which means
I DO NOT LIKE THIS ALBUM

favourite

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ARCHIE ROACH  "charcoal lane" cd 1990

Aussie singer
debut of ten i own four
aboriginal singer/songwriter guy soit fits nicely here in 'folk'
tells stories of the land, the people and his culture
a very good album scoring 2.4 from me which means
I LOVE THIS ALBUM

favourite:





This story's right, this story's true
I would not tell lies to you
Like the promises, they did not keep
And how they fenced us in like sheep.


Said to us, "Come, take our hand"
Set us up on mission land
Taught us to read, to write and pray
Then they took the children away.

Took the children away
The children away
Snatched from their mother's breast
Said, "This is for the best," took them away.

The welfare and the policeman
Said, "You've got to understand
We'll give to them what you can't give
Teach them how to really live".

"Teach them how to live," they said
Humiliated them instead
Taught them that and taught them this
And others taught them prejudice.

You took the children away
The children away
Breaking their mother's heart
Tearing us all apart, took them away.

One dark day on Framingham
Came and didn't give a damn
My mother cried, "Go get their dad"
He came running, fighting mad.

Mother's tears were falling down
And Dad shaped up and stood his ground
He said, "You touch my kids and you fight me"
And they took us from our family.

Took us away
They took us away
Snatched from our mother's breast
Said, "This is for the best," took them away.

Told us what to do and say
Taught us all the white man's ways
Then they split us up again
And gave us gifts to ease the pain.

Sent us off to foster homes
As we grew up, we felt alone
'Cause we were acting white
Yet feeling black
One sweet day all the children came back
The children came back
The children came back.

Back where their hearts grow strong
Back where they all belong
The children came back
Said the children came back....