Recent content by Charlie Jefferson

Yes,TSP, it's a sure fire winner! It's in the making, as we speak! TD - thanks for the link, I will tune in. Some tunes of these last few days: I Tell A Fly - Benjamin Clementine Planetarium- Stevens/Muhly/Dessner/McAlister Living Fields - Portico Pergamon - Tangerine Dream Here's What's...

Hi Jim, TD, TSP et al, It's good to hear from you all. I've missed a few developments: so where can TD's show be listened to and whereabouts would I find his political commentary? Things marginally more settled at my end. I was commissioned to write a new play by some actors, and all that has...

Blimey, that cupboard was an interesting habitat. What's been happening out here on the great expansive plains of these vinyl forums? BBB has transmuted to another moniker, I gather. And I espy Jim too, TSP et al. Hi folks.

Back from the Lakes and spun these last night: Ouroborous - Ray LaMontagne Please - Pet Shop Boys Obey The Time - Durutti Column The Waterfall - MMJ

Thanks for the concern BBB & Jim, I have retreated to the Lakes (with tempremental internet thrown in) to attempt to sort my life out & help my brother with his guest house re-opening following the December floods. Favourite music at the moment: Ouroboros - Ray LaMontagne It's a Jim James...

Have You In My Wilderness - Julia Holter Francoise Hardy Sings About Love Glassworks - Phillip Glass Earth Mother - Lesley Duncan Z - MMJ

Victims Of Chance - The Victims Of Chance Kooper Session - Al Kooper/Shuggie Otis Little Red Record - Matching Mole Donestan - Robert Wyatt Songs Of Love and Hate - Laughing Len Evil Urges - MMJ

Hi Jim, He really had something didn't he? The soul of man dredged from his core in each and every song. Each note, often. I've got most of it on CD and only Is The Actor Happy (his apotheosis, almost) on vinyl. Forget the formats, though, the guy was really delving deep when he crafted and...

BBB, have you ever heard the Berliner Ensemble versions of songs from The Threepenny Opera? They are quite something. Z - MMJ Okonosos - MMJ The Waterfall - MMJ Shot Of Love - Bob Dylan I Love You, Honeybear - Father John Misty Scott 3 - Scott Walker Court & Spark - Joni The Hissing Of...

Good discussion/sub-thread, BBB. I love the Kurt Weill one, it's been appropriated in several slightly edgy drama classes down the years. Certainly makes a decent contrast to Robbie & Buble smoothly crucifying Mack The Knife. Album of the day, it's still Vic Chesnutt's Is The Actor Happy?

You've made me line up those two Joni LPs when side two of Vic is through.

Hi Jim, Vic really is the "real deal" as they say. I won't do the usual comparison game (there are plenty of artists to put him alongside of course) but I find him utterly compelling. His voice rings out in each song like a clarion call to otherness and I'd say Is The Actor Happy? is his...

Is the Actor Happy? - Vic Chesnutt Rock Bottom - Robert Wyatt

Will do, TSP, you're the second person who has mentioned them to me. Thanks.

Be interesting if OTC did, BBB. Great album. Which led to: Bend Beyond - Woods A Season In Hull - The Wave Pictures I Am A Wallet - McCarthy