New Music – Paolo Nutini

Watching Glastonbury over the weekend I was reminded following a superb live set that I have not as yet posted about my favourite album of the year Paolo Nutini’s  second album release Sunny Side Up

I had been disappointed with the debut album These Streets as I thought it was over polished when compared to the demo and acoustic versions of songs I had heard prior to it’s release.

The new album however has a great feel to it and sounds like it has been made by a “band” rather than perhaps session musicians (his touring band even features the veteran Fraser Spiers on harmonica) throughout the album there is a feeling of people having a great time and the songs range from Ska/Rock Steady, through Soul to Celtic influenced songs that Mike Scott of The Waterboys would be proud of.

This is a must purchase for anyone who like music with a heart, soul and spirit.

“Coming Up Easy” – Paolo Nutini

Sunday morning go the hazy, hazy jeans
I turn to you and inhale where you lay.
Took a wonder through the garden,
To awake the long long day
And then roll for a while on violet flower bed.

Oh, you kiss my lips again and again and again
And then again and then we watched the sun coming up easy
While the rain came tumbling down
And it watched our bodies so cleanly
We could see them rise up off of the cold cold ground.

It’s a shame the way it’s seems to go
Cause now my best friend, my partner in crime
I’m afraid it looks like we’re
Gonna have to go our separate ways.
You see the thing is I love you, I love you
But you see I resent you all the time.
All my other friends their just saying
Your slowing me down.

Oh I should have known
You’d turn to me and say
Before you throw too much of me away.
Don’t you remember seeing the sun coming up easy
While the rain came tumbling down.
And it washed out bodies so cleanly
Seen them rise up off of the cold cold ground.

We seen the sun coming up easy
While the rain came tumbling down
And it washed our bodies so clean
We could feel them rise up off of the cold cold ground.

 

 

To buy the music of Paolo Nutini click HERE

Happy Anniversary

Today would have been our second wedding anniversary though we would have been together for 12 years.

Hopefully Fi will have the same smile on her face and is looking after Bonnie well.

Not up for saying much but will play two key songs from our wedding album, the first was the song we chose for our first dance and the second song Fiona always thought said it all

To my soul mate

Love always

Gilbey

xx

“But For Now” – Jamie Cullum

“At Last” – Etta James

At last
my love has come along
my lonely days over
and life is like a song

Ooh, yeah, yeah
At last
the skies above are blue
My heart was wrapped up in clover
the night I looked at you

I found a dream
that I could speak to
A dream that I
can call my own
I found a thrill
to press my cheek to
A thrill that I have never known
Ohh, yeah, yeah

You smile
you smile
Ooh and then the spell was cast
And here we are in heaven
for you are mine at last

 

Sunday Jazz – Body and Soul

I feel drained today so here is the great Django Reinhardt with something for the Body and Soul.

“Body and Soul” – Django Reinhardt

Saturday Soul – The Jackson 5

 

 

For obvious reasons it seemed appropriate for this week’s Saturday Soul to be Michael Jackson related so here is a Motown Nugget from The Jackson 5

“I Found That Girl” – The Jackson 5

 

To buy the music of The Jackson 5 click HERE

 

Fiona Friday – Jeff Buckley

As I have often said in the past Fiona just loved the voice and music of Jeff Buckley.

She would therefore have been bowled over this week with the release of a previously unreleased Buckley track which has been chosen as part of the soundtrack to the film “My Sister’s Keeper”

It is another epic cover version this time of a song by Elton John and Bernie Taupin which first appeard on the 1975 album “Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy”

“We All Fall In Love Sometimes” – Jeff Buckley

Wise men say
It looks like rain today
It crackled on the speakers
And trickled down the sleepy subway trains
For heavy eyes could hardly hold us
Aching legs that often told us
It’s all worth it
We all fall in love sometimes

The full moon’s bright
And starlight filled the evening
We wrote it and I played it
Something happened it’s so strange this feeling
Naive notions that were childish
Simple tunes that tried to hide it
But when it comes
We all fall in love sometimes

Did we, didn’t we, should we couldn’t we
I’m not sure `cause sometimes we’re so blind
Struggling through the day
When even your best friend says
Don’t you find
We all fall in love sometimes

And only passing time
Could kill the boredom we acquired
Running with the losers for a while
But our Empty Sky was filled with laughter
Just before the flood
Painting worried faces with a smile

To buy the Soundtrack click HERE

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To buy the music of Elton John click HERE

Bruce Springsteen

I have given up my ticket for the Springsteen gig at Hampden Park on the 14th July as this now clashes with our first home pre-season friendly with Partick Thistle, which given the recent circumstances is not a game I want to miss.

All my friends will have a great night if the set list below is anything to go by.

Springsteen always adds in a special request from the audience which explains below the unusual rendition of a Christmas classic during the searing heat of June in the USA!

Bruce’s epic (3 hour) Bonnaroo set-list:

Setlist:
Badlands
No Surrender
My Lucky Day
Outlaw Pete
Out In The Street
Working On A Dream
Seeds
Johnny 99
Youngstown
Raise Your Hand
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
Growin’ Up
Thunder Road
Waitin’ On A Sunny Day
The Promised Land
The River
Kingdom of Days
Radio Nowhere
Lonesome Day
The Rising
Born To Run

Encore:
Hard Times
10th Ave Freeze Out
Land Of Hope & Dreams
American Land
Rosalita
Glory Days
Dancing In The Dark

Check out Q’s World Exclusive: Behind-the-scenes photos from Bruce Springsteen’s current world tour.

It Might Get Loud

 

Who hasn’t wanted to be a rock star, join a band or play electric guitar? Music resonates, moves and inspires us. Strummed through the fingers of The Edge, Jimmy Page and Jack White, somehow it does more. Such is the premise of It Might Get Loud, a new documentary conceived by producer Thomas Tull.

It Might Get Loud isn’t like any other rock’n roll documentary. Filmed through the eyes of three virtuosos from three different generations, audiences get up close and personal, discovering how a furniture upholsterer from Detroit, a studio musician and painter from London and a seventeen–year–old Dublin schoolboy, each used the electric guitar to develop their unique sound and rise to the pantheon of superstar. Rare discussions are provoked as we travel with Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack White to influential locations of their pasts. Born from the experience is intimate access to the creative genesis of each legend, such as Link Wray’s “Rumble’s” searing impression upon Jimmy Page, who surprises audiences with an impromptu air guitar performance. But that’s only the beginning.

While each guitarist describes his own musical rebellion, a rock’n roll summit is being arranged. Set on an empty soundstage, the musicians come together, crank up the amps and play. They also share their influences, swap stories, and teach each other songs. During the summit Page’s double–neck guitar, The Edge’s array of effects pedals and White’s new mic, custom built into his guitar, go live. The musical journey is joined by visual grandeur too. We see the stone halls of Headley Grange where “Stairway to Heaven” was composed, visit a haunting Tennessee farmhouse where Jack White writes a song on–camera, and eavesdrop inside the dimly lit Dublin studio where The Edge lays down initial guitar tracks for U2’s forthcoming single. The images, like the stories, will linger in the mind long after the reverb fades.

It Might Get Loud might not affect how you play guitar, but it will change how you listen. The film is directed and produced by An Inconvenient Truth’s Davis Guggenheim, and produced by Thomas Tull, Lesley Chilcott and Peter Afterman.

Copyright 2009 Sony Pictures Classics.

Visit www.itmightgetloud.com

 

New Music – The Trashcan Sinatras

“In the music we make in love… in the music we rise above…”

These are songs of love… various aspects of love… the love of a lifetime, the fleeting love, love as a life force, the beginnings of love, the aftermath of love.

Our journey started in the summer in Glasgow where we began to make friends with these songs of love. Every week we would gather in a room behind the Bay Horse Tavern on the south side and the songs would unveil themselves. In the winter we traveled to New York City with a plan to record the songs live.

It was a wonderful experience. Frank, Paul, Stephen, John, Grant, Stevie and Jody… all gentlemen and lifelong friends… abroad in the fine city of New York, with songs of love to sing. We hope you enjoy listening to the fruits of our journey.

With love,

The Trashcans

Track Listing:

1. People
2. Easy On The Eye
3. In The Music
4. I Hung My Harp Upon The Willows
5. Prisons
6. Should I Pray (Feat. Carly Simon)
7. Morning Star
8. Oranges and Apples
9. The Engine
10. I Wish You’d Met Her
11. I Can’t Stand Tomorrow *
12. I Just Don’t Know How *

* Special Limited Edition Bonus Tracks

This Special Limited Edition release features 2 additional songs not on the main or Japanese release.

It includes specially commissioned artwork featuring personal notes and photos from the band and award winning designer Emlyn Firth. These document the inspiration, journey and recording of this incredible album and the thought processes behind the artwork.

Each album will be packaged in an individually numbered digipak, in a custom-made paper slip case. This will be a strictly special limited edition, with a pressing of just 2000 copies.

And just in case you need another reason, pre-order and get a free copy of Wild Mountainside, while stocks last.

From www.trashcansinatras.com

“People” – The Trashcan Sinatras

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Cover Story – Beck & The Velvet Underground

Beck has announced he’s to start a new online covers project featuring some big name friends including MGMT, Devendra Banhart and Jamie Lidell.

They’ll all be part of a new section/project called Record Club on his soon to be revamped website. The idea behind the project is that Beck ropes in some of his musician friends to record a cover of an entire album in one day. To make sure they capture an immediate, live feel there’ll be no rehearsals or arrangements done beforehand.

The covered album will then be slowly released online with a song a week being uploaded to Beck’s website and the websites of the musicians involved each record. The first album announced for the project is The Velvet Underground and Nico. Covering that in 24 hours without rehearsal, not something you’d imagine many musicians would do on their day off…

Source www.q4music.com

“Sunday Morning” – Beck

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To buy the music of The Velvet Underground click HERE

Here is the original.

Blue Monday – John Lee Hooker

The time is just right for some John Lee Hooker and as the track below says……………………..”How Long”

“How Long Blues” – John Lee Hooker

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Perhaps it serves me right to suffer.