Well, that took a really long time...thank you, nilpferd, for your helpful how-to. These are three of my current favourite songs, and the fact that they all begin with M is just a coincidence.
Diana Jones is a country singer who's only made one solo album but I hope she makes lots more, because she writes and sings songs in that old-timey style which I really like - and I was into it before O Brother, since you ask. She dresses the part too, like Gillian Welch. I saw her in October at the Roundhouse supporting Richard Thompson and I reckon if there'd been a prize for people in the audience who had her record at home, I'd have been the only winner. This song, My Beloved, is VERY sad.
The Gourds are a Texas band, more or less, also alt.country. I used to feel really guilty about liking country music because it was so not cool (plus I didn't know anybody else that liked it). But now that has all changed. This song is called Meat Off the Bone and I believe there is a euphemism of some kind involved.
And third is Richard Thompson's version of the Mingulay Boat Song. From what he said when he did it at the Roundhouse in October I don't think he knows the origin of the song but I do...Mingulay is one of the Hebridean islands and it had already been deserted for many years when the song was written in the 1930s. So in fact nobody goes homeward to Mingulay any more.
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Treefrog: Why did it take a long time? Mine took two days also following Nilpferd's directions and it was because it just wouldn't paste at that last stage, I kept trying and trying and feeling like an idiot and it just wouldn't do it, finally I pasted to my desktop, that worked so I tried again and it worked, don't know what changed.
I haven't listened to your set yet but I will, I only discovered Linda Thompson with her last album, 'Fashionably Late' do you have it? I fell in love with it and it then led me backwards to her and Richards stuff.
You certainly nailed 'nouns', go to the top of the class.
Because I kept trying to upload songs that were in the wong format, basically - but I also find the whole podbean thing somewhat counterintuitive...
Evening all.
Where ARE (nilpferd's?) PodBean instructions? I'm determined to make uploading work before I go to bed tonight . . .
Email me if we don't want to clog up RROS with repeated techno-instructions. [I've opened my profile's email link.]
darceysdad, Nilpf's instructions are in the comments for the post "What A Weekend", but before you get there, the whole signing up bit is slightly tortuous. Basically you can start uploading once you've found your "dashboard" on podbean
On its way, DD.
Treefrogdemon, musically the Diana Jones track reminds me a bit of the late G.W. Mclennan, formerly of the Go-Betweens, especially his first solo album Watershed.
BTW, I updated my first Podbean users guide under Steenbecks Blogpost "Out, way out". But I might get Blimpy to put it on the sidebar if it would be helpful.
I like that Diana Jones song, sounds like the one Gillian Welch song I know, which I posted above.
Well, if you want to know any more Gillian Welch songs, ejaydee, I have alllll her records...
Yes, the Gourds are an incredible band. Congratulations on coming around to "country" music, but shame on you for being such a silly-head, conforming to perceived accepted notions of good taste. Well, actually, I STILL do that...BUT I TRY NOT TO!!! heheh heee
OK, anonymous...however, I'm talking about when I was, like, nineteen, and living with a person who thought Radio 3-type music was the only kind...The Gourds have played in Scotland (where I live) once but have no plans to do so in the foreseeable future cos it's too expensive now. However they have a song about haggis which I'll post on the Scottish weekend.
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