Sunday 26 April 2009

Sunday sounds

I'll be back with more Ted-related posts next week but in the meantime here are some sounds for your Sundays (and beyond).

First let's see what you make of English folk singer/songwriter Steve Tilston. Tilston is based up in the area of Yorkshire I was writing about in the last post (Hebden Bridge I think) and he really is very talented. He's been performing on the folk scene for years and some of his songs are performed by loads of other musicians (perhaps the song 'Slip jigs and reels' most of all). He's not famous outside the folk scene which I imagine is largely out of choice. Here's his website and here's his myspace page. Also here is a clip of him singing about the King of the Coiners (David Hartley of the 18th century Cragg Vale or Yorkshire Coiners...or counterfeiters...for the history start here):




There are lots of Tilston songs I like more than this one but this was the best clip I could find online. We have the cd 'The Greening Wind' and it is stunning so you could start off with that one if you think you might like him.

Over the Atlantic now and here's a song from Joan Osborne. We've always loved her 1995 album 'Relish' in this family and we were listening to it in the car yesterday. There are loads of great songs on it (my least favourite is probably the huge hit 'One of us'...I like it...just not as much as some of the others) but yesterday this one caught my ear the most. I didn't really want a live version but this is all I could find:




That's it for now. Hope you've enjoyed these and see you for more poetry in the week.

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7 comments:

Colin Will said...

Hmmmm. Sorry Rachel, but neither of these did anything for me. What would I rather listen to? Well, my two current favourites are Antony & the Johnsons The Crying Light, and Madeleine Peyroux's Bare Bones. And if you want to connect these two stunning but very different singers, seek out Antony singing the Leonard Cohen song If it be your will, and Madeleine singing Cohen's Dance me to the end of love. Sublime.

Rachel Fox said...

I quite like both of those you mention. I keep meaning to get hold of an Antony cd but not quite doing it.

The two clips I've put up here don't really show these two artists to their best advantage. The Osborne song, for example, comes over much more powerfully on the cd and we saw Tilston live last year or so and he was really, really good.

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deemikay said...

Pah... not only do I not get hotmail at work (I have to read on my wee, ancient phone) I don't get YouTube either... so I haven't watched/listened.

And as for names... Clarissa?

deemikay said...

Or Mariposa?

Rachel Fox said...

How anyone can use a phone for anything beyond the most basic txting is beyond me ('r u there yet?'). It can't be good for your eyes.

And those names are charming but maybe not quite me...And no-one else knows what on earth you're writing about! You know cliquey in-jokes are banned on this blog without full explanations. We is a public service here you know. Well, OK...maybe that's stretching it a bit...
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deemikay said...

Cliquey in-jokes will be no more... :)

I can read e-mails on my phone, but I can never bring myself to replying to them. (And I *always* spell words fully in text messages...)

Rachel Fox said...

U r vy gd. i txt lk a 4 yr old.
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