LondonLouis

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  • wersonstich escreveu:
    ontem de manhã
    forgotten Mr. Jack Bruce?

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  • jecat escreveu:
    15 dias atrás
    You summed up Lonnie Donegan so well on the Rock Island Line. I doubt the blues would be so big without Lonnie to kick us off. I heard his Midnight Special when I was 9 years old and I was hooked. Goodbye Uncle Mac, Lonnie, open the doors.

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  • Pat9156 escreveu:
    22 dias atrás
    Bonjour LondonLouis. Merci pour avoir accepter la demande d'Ami .Trés Heureux ! Trés bonne bibliothéque içi donc trés bonne Musique! Trés bon Dimanche dans la Joie et L'Amitié . Amitié .Patrice.

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  • den24pop escreveu:
    Mês passado
    i really like your page

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  • ghschilder escreveu:
    Mês passado
    hey loui nice voce By Marcia

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  • jimmy69041 escreveu:
    setembro 2009
    hey louis the Cocaine Habit song by the Memphis Jug Band sounds a lot like one I heard , recorded by Woody Guthrie, by the title of Take A Whiff On Me.

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  • jimmy69041 escreveu:
    setembro 2009
    Louis, I was referring to the to the song Shine by Louis Armstrong. I have heard Satchmo criticized for perpetuating stereotypes in his art and his demeanor. I don't see him as a kiss-ass at all. Shine is an effective and progressive political statement for it's time. That it may come across as scraping or apologetic is not incidental. Better to cloak your statement in humor, and be widely heard. To me, Shine is saying I am and I'm good with it, more than what I am. And Louis, if you are not yet convinced I don't know what I'm talking about, try this; I had said that Gene Vincent's cover of the tune was a travesty, It was in fact Frankie Laine's (thank-you tideghost).

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  • tideghost escreveu:
    setembro 2009
    LondonLouis, you might be interested in knowing I was able to buy "Don't You Rock Me Daddy-O" and "Cumberland Gap" by the Vipers from iTunes in the U.S. "10,000 Years" was not available, though. I also did some reading on skiffle and found out it's related to 1920s jug band music, which was recorded by such artists as (Gus) Cannon's Jug Stompers (who recorded the original version of "Walk Right In").

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  • jimmy69041 escreveu:
    setembro 2009
    calm down louis.... if you want to hear a travesty listen to the gene vincent cover of this tune

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  • ppomorski escreveu:
    setembro 2009
    Louis, I actually did go to London in August for about 9 days. I loved every bit of it, you are very lucky to have a chance to live in such an amazing city. I did loads of walking, visited most of touristy places except for Greenwich, the National Gallery and Science Museum and saw so much more - I tried to make the most of it and really see how people live there and how the everyday life goes on. It was really great to personally see why it is West London that is considered posh (some houses in Kensington and Chelsea are really lovely) and the East End much poorer (I usually ate in Whitechapel.) I saw the stadium being built in Stratford, tried the traditional English breakfast, had several strolls along the Thames, saw the financial centers of the City and Canary Wharf... all in all - I love London!

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Ageing music lover who had the luck to start listening to music at the time of Rock Around the Clock (OK, being honest, I do remember the pre-Rock era of "How much is that doggie in the window" and the likes of Frankie Laine - and disgusted aunts actually stopped me buying Bill Haley). Bought early skiffle records (the Vipers) and Sidney Bechet (who turned me on to trad jazz). The Beatles exploded in my second year at University, and only those who lived through this period can imagine the excitement as the Beatles went global, and were joined on a weekly basis by the Stones, the other Liverpool groups, the Animals, Motown, Phil Spector, Dylan et al - and a large part of the music which emerged in that 1963-5 period has remained eminently playable. Moving to Manchester in the mid-1960s, I shared a house with a guy called John Pilgrim, the washboard player from the Vipers(see above). He was one of the generation who had grown up in London's Soho in the 1950s, when people like Ken Colyer worked the Atlantic liners, bringing rare records back from New Orleans and New York. John had an encyclopediac knowledge of the jazz and blues scene. Since he was into the Manchester folk/jazz scene, I would regular return from a night out to find an elderly American blues singer or a folk group in my bed. People like Sonny and Brownie, Arthur Big Boy Crudup and Martin Carthy all passed through during this era. Later, in the 1980s, I filled in a lot of gaps with the incredible boxed sets which the Franklin Mint put out on Jazz (60+ Vinyl discs, put together with immense scholarship), the Band Era and Musicals. It was these collections which alerted me to relatively obscure talents such as the Claude Thornhill band and fun groups such as Bob Crosby's BobCats. Obviously, old timers like myself envy the ease with which everyone can now range easily across all musical boundaries thanks to institutions such as last.fm. As it is, I'm sitting here looking at a wall of shelves containing 1500 vinyl albums, which basically sum up my tastes from ages 25-35. I still miss the visual excitement of picking out one of the great album covers, pulling the disk out, lowering the needle and then browsing the album notes as the tracks played in the sequence the artists intended. Happy Days!
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Incidentally, just a note on why I'm hooked on last.fm, despite the fact that it has its rough edges (some misattributions of tracks, and the substitutions of inferior alternative takes). Obviously, if what one wants to do is spend a day sampling the output of a handful of artists, other sites allow you to do that much more freely.

However, I am naturally curious, and this is where last.fm comes into its own. Quite deliberately, I am using this site to delve into all kinds of musical strands, a lot of which I didn't know existed a couple of months back (try "Shoe Gazing" or, what I am playing as I write this, "Raga-Folk").

I quickly hit the 500 artist limit, beyond which last.fm's charts don't do rankings (though my library keeps expanding). Although I've listened to a lot of the established greats (Ellington, Armstrong, Dylan, Clapton et al), I've been randomly exploring the whole of my play list, paying most attention to artists in the lower half of it. I'll play the radio of any artist I alight on, often then going on to explore artists in their networks who catch my attention. In some cases, I pick on a tag and explor that (through the "play radio" option). Today, I've done this with "electronica" - which didn't grab me too much - and then with "raga-folk" which has brought a lot of new, talented guitarists to my attention.

I've poked around the playlists of "Neighbours", and I've also followed up links with people who have delivered particularly interesting shouts. Having taken out a subscription to last.fm (which is relatively cheap), I can fully explore their lists, and I'll sometimes play their radios too. (I'm aware that people who don't have a subscription have less freedom to do this, so I'm happy to sign up as a Friend - though my play list will sometimes seem to go in very strange directions)

All this means that for every four tracks I'm playing, I'm picking up around one artist I haven't played before. Obviously, there will be a proportion of rubbish amongst what I'm listening to. Following tags can introduce one to some very weird connections. However, whenever I start off with a serious artist, I am genuinely led to quality, if lesser-known figures.


Funnily enough, I haven't used last.fm's recommendations very much. However, I am seriously impressed with how last.fm works. It's continually bringing me to great music - some of which I've been aware or, but equally often, I've been delighted to discover.

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