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Well - it's been a artrock kinda week. So here's one of my favourite nostalgic listens from Audience - gets disinterred now and then and played to death before being consigned once more to the bottom of the heap. I don't think they ever gained too much traction but in the their relatively short life-span, they managed to produce some memorable sounds. Hipgnosis was responsible for the iconic album cover.
"You're Not Smiling"
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It's that time of year when you forget what day it is. LOL! Just remembered it's Saturday. I think ...
Still listening to Chris Rea so it's an obvious choice of artist. Slightly less obvious is that although he was grateful for the money he made from his popular songs, he was absolutely committed to the blues and is quoted as saying "Stony Road (sic) is the album you can pin on my headstone." This was the album realised after having an epiphany during the time he underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer and the subsequent long and arduous recovery. If this was 'it' - so to speak - he wanted his daughters to know that their Papa was a bluesman through and through and to leave a legacy as such, with some gravitas, and weight. It follows then that the title track from Dancing Down the Stony Road is the one I'm choosing for today. Again R.I.P. Chris Rea ... the music will live on ...
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"its that time of the year when you forget what day it is"....
i was at the dog park with the dog saturday morning ang Lynne asked me what day it was, i had to check my phone to be sure LOL
guess we are all int he same boat this time of year...
had no idea about Chris Rea's Stoney Road comments, thanks
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The best thing I've heard all week is this new song by Katherine Priddy. She has another album due out on the 6th of March. On "Hurricane", she abandons her strictly folk leanings and heads in a more pop oriented direction - all of that without compromising one iota in terms of her artistic integrity. Well, not that I can tell at any rate! Not sure how many can change tack midstream and get that right! A class act IMHO - very nicely done ...
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