Songs You May Have Missed #307

27 Jan 2013 Leave a comment

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Richard and Teddy Thompson: “Persuasion” (2001)

This pretty tune has a pretty convoluted history. Written by Richard Thompson with keyboardist Peter Filleul as an instrumental for the 1991 film Sweet Talker, it originally sounded like this:

Tim Finn (of Split Enz and Crowded House) loved the melody and wrote words to accompany it, releasing his version as a British single (which is now unavailable so I can’t reproduce it here).

Then Thompson liked Finn’s lyric so much that he re-recorded it as a vocal version with his son Teddy. Not the typical writing process for a song, but the end product is a thing of beauty.

A performance from a Scottish TV show

See also: https://edcyphers.com/2012/10/06/songs-you-may-have-missed-187/

Songs You May Have Missed #306

26 Jan 2013 Leave a comment

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Caro Emerald: “Riviera Life” (2010)

Dutch jazz singer Caro Emerald’s fresh-sounding debut topped the album charts in the Netherlands for weeks, thanks in part to some remixes that kept her summer hit “Back it Up” on the singles chart from July till December. The album melds the old and new, with songs inspired by post-war jazz and cinema and spiked with slick modern dance-pop beats.

It might only be a matter of time before this lady has America dancing too.

Songs You May Have Missed #305

26 Jan 2013 Leave a comment

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Pure Prairie League: “I’ll Change Your Flat Tire, Merle” (1975)

Sweet country-pickin’ fingers indeed! A perky steel guitar solo accents the country rockers’ friendly poke at the legendary Merle.

See also: https://edcyphers.com/2012/03/27/songs-you-may-have-missed-65/

Songs You May Have Missed #304

26 Jan 2013 1 Comment

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John Vanderslice: “Keep the Dream Alive” (2001)

From Vanderslice’s second album. His songs are literate, his arrangements imaginative. Just discovered him, and I can’t wait to delve further…

 

Songs You May Have Missed #303

24 Jan 2013 Leave a comment

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Gran Bel Fisher: “Tonight” (2006)

As irritating as CD hidden tracks can be (especially the ones that play only several minutes after the conclusion of the listed songs) I can understand the reasoning for their existence in some cases. Although the unlisted track at the back end of Gran Bel Fisher’s Full Moon Cigarette is an album highlight, its sound and lyrical tone are too far removed from the rest of the album to fit comfortably anywhere else. And it’s too good to be a B-side.

See also: https://edcyphers.com/2012/02/05/songs-you-may-have-missed-4/

Songs You May Have Missed #302

24 Jan 2013 Leave a comment

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Dogs Die in Hot Cars: “Celebrity Sanctum” (2004)

I can’t believe this album is almost a decade old now. In 2004 Scotland’s Dogs Die in Hot Cars gave us something fresh by updating 80’s new wave, specifically the slightly goofy sounds of XTC, Dexy’s Midnight Runners and Talking Heads. If you like tuneful, not-too-serious pop that sounds just a little like the stuff from a few decades ago, I highly recommend you pick up their only album, Please Describe Yourself. Current CD price on Amazon.com: less than four bucks.

See also: https://edcyphers.com/2012/02/02/songs-you-may-have-missed-3/

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