mikeandjenny.me.uk
Music
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Rand-dad Chapman had been a military bandsman with the Gloucestershire Regiment in the early 1900's and had a piano in his house when I was small. I think he twisted Mum's arm to buy one and send me to a piano teacher, so when I was 7 years old I started with Mrs. Nurdin who gave lessons from her home just round the corner in Derham Gardens. I never wanted to practice, but preferred to be out with friends in the road outside which caused endless rows and complaints from Mum. Humphrey Lyttleton , the trum...
permanentcondition.blogspot.com
no condition is permanent: January 2007
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I’ve been absent from the blogosphere for something like the duration of a comet’s orbit, so today’s post is an effort to make up for lost time. Thus, a pair of records are featured, being the first two solo efforts by expatriate Nigerian drummer Gasper Lawal. Both embody every motive behind my (admittedly sporadic) commitment to this journal:. Neither album has appeared on CD in the quarter-century since their release. Kita-Kita, from Ajomasé. Turned up on the epoch-marking Nigeria 70. In regard to his ...
jamsandwiches.tripod.com
2 From Klooks Kleek
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Turn On The Wireless, Turn On The Telly. The Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group. 2 From Klooks Kleek. Thank Your Lucky Stars. The Billy Fury Story. A Band Of Angels. The Great Cosmic Jump. Tomorrow - the album. 50 Minute Technicolor Dream. Hedgehogs and Mad Hatters. Turn Of The Cards. John Mayall Plays John Mayall. Live at Klooks Kleek. 1 965 Decca LK 4680 UK LP. 1988 London 820 536-2 UK CD. John Mayall-vocals, organ, piano, harmonica. Crawling Up A Hill (version 2). I Wanna Teach You Everything. R and B Time.
bigpetebailey.co.uk
Big Pete Bailey
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Selection of photos, many of them previously unpublished, and some of which appear in Pete's book Between the Lines and Spaces. Click on any image to see a lightbox. Show of larger versions. In the lightbox, you can click on the right or left side of a photo to move to the next or previous photo. The Battered Ornaments with the old ambulance. Top (left to right) Rob Tait, George Khan, Pete Bailey. Bottom (left to right) Pete Brown, Chris Spedding, Roger Butch Potter.
cyrildavies.com
Links to related blues and harmonica web sites
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Cyril Davies. British Blues Harp Pioneer. Links to related UK blues and harmonica web sites. The daddy of it all. He supported the skiffle band movement and also brought over many US blues players in the 1950s when the musicians union was making it difficult. Artists like Muddy Waters, Sonny Terry, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Champion Jack Dupree, Louis Jordan, . Sandy Brown Jazz web site. Full of information about Sandy and the UK jazz musicians who played in the fifties and later. Lord Sutch and the Savages.
osdiasdamusica.blogspot.com
Os Dias da Música: Julho 2005
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Quarta-feira, julho 27, 2005. Josh Rouse, ou o gosto por canções simples. Gosto de canções simples. Penso que uma canção pop é isso mesmo, uma canção simples. E essa simplicidade não implica que não se lhes exija qualidade. É claro que aqui está subjacente um critério de apreciação que é só meu. Habituei-me a ouvi-las há muito, quando a melodia escorria do som limpo da guitarra dos. Ou da voz de falseto de. Ou da voz aparentemente frágil de. E não sei se os. Se enquadram na definição. As suas líricas são...
