[Music] What's the best song you have heard today? Share it here.

[Super Steve Earle]

Following my recent post on the lost pleasures of buying vinyl, I reached for my LP collection this morning. I've only got 2 Ry Cooder albums, bought 30 years apart. There are similarities between the two and this track caught my ear today, plus the opportunity to re-read the long and interesting liner notes on the inner sleeve. It's a slow burn, so probably won't suit our younger listeners who I tend to think want more instant musical gratification

 

[Is it PotG?]

 

[Seagull58]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUxFQ5QBiYk

 

[Trevor]

Was that a young Dave Lee Travis masquerading as a music fan

 

[OzMike]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlR6X2gYf4A

 

[Super Steve Earle]

I saw this chap just after he swept the board at the CMA Awards. He was on the show with Eric Church and Kacey Musgraves. Kacey stole the show on the night, but this is a fine song from his latest album:

 

[Is it PotG?]

 

[Seagull58]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIAZ8unRm2c

 

[Barrow Boy]

His private life, questionable, his musical talent, undeniable.

 

[Surf's Up]

Played loud in the car today....

https://youtu.be/eeuVS6vnN7w

 

[Braggfan]

A friend sent me this over the weekend. Absolutely brilliant.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

This is the album version with the muffled vocals. Powerful stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtVUHIRBmvs

The lyrics can be found here:

https://thepassage.co.uk/texts/troops_out.html

Other viewpoints are, of course, available.

 

[Ooh it’s a corner]

Do you remember this lot then H?

 

[Icy Gull]

Cheating a little here, two songs

https://youtu.be/lTYe9eDqxe8

 

[Razzoo]

 

[Is it PotG?]

 

[Jack Straw]

Nice Reggae tune from Carlton Livingston I came across this evening. "Let the Music Play".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0Zfz-zUDA&list=OLAK5uy_mXQmlMoMllIfXUU2J-gZidsubnrD_oHik&index=10

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Do you remember this lot then H?

Saw them in Camden (the Underworld?). Jake Burns. I loved his optimism. Our Mancunian, Dick Witts was, I suspect, viewing the piece through a rather more English and left wing filter (that I shared at the time). Great track, though (The Passage). The keyboard crecendo reminded me of Gog, Magog, by Peter Hammil. And the weedy vocals add a bit of something. Not quite sure of the word....I may have to look one up



Edit, the Pin Drop album by the Passage is glorious. Bleak and angry. Just like me in 1980

 

[Trevor]

A lot of Floyd in my life at the moment

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

https://youtu.be/SfZaQ0z3_MI