Bruised Swans

I went to folkmob last night. There was a guest slot from a band called Swan Street. They had a great sound with Guitar, Fiddle and Melodeon as well as a few other stringed instruments. Mostly covers including "Meet Me On The Corner" and "Honky Tonk Women" I particularly enjoyed their last number which was about "The Hunter" - no not the Blue Cheer/Free classic but a folky song aout Orion the Hunter. The wonderful Jim and Isobel from Bruise turned up to try out some new material and new instruments! Nice vocal from Jim and Tin Whistle from Isobel!

On my Ipod this week:
Mountain - Nantucket Sleighride
Patto - Singing The Blues On Reds
Jimi Hendrix - Valleys Of Neptune
Return To Forever - Hymn To The Seventh Galaxy
Justin Hinds - Carry Go Bring Come
Jefferson Airplane - Good Shepherd
Miles Davis - Live At The Filmore
Syd Barratt - The Madcap Laughs

Valleys Of Neptune

A new album from The Jimi Hendrix Experience. 40 years too late - where have they been hiding this stuff? It's fantastic. Some previously unheard songs as well as some later versions of familiar stuff - all studio tracks and all engineered by the original Hendrix engineer Eddie Cramer. One of my favourites is the fantastic full band electric version of "Hear My Train Coming" which was previously available as an acoustic demo. What a brilliant version of "Fire" with a blistering guitar solo that was missing from the earlier version. This album proves what a force Jimi was in the development of modern rock guitar technique. There has never been another musician that comes anywhere near producing such spaced out pschedelic blues masterpieces as James Marshall Hendrix.

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This is an old recording of my old mate Ray Bracey
singing "Stepping Stone" with me improvising
on an acoustic guitar plugged into a 15w marshall practice amp