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Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 22 July 2012 CE
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Edited Jul 22, 2012, 09:36
Re: Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 22 July 2012 CE
Jul 22, 2012, 08:08
I have been mainly on iPlayer reliving last Sunday's Prom performance of Debussy's Pelleas & Melisande (which was magical btw) but these got an airing ....

Leggo Dub
Thanks for the tip on this one. The cut is oddly toppy with an untypical trebly attack to the bass. A very musical set of dubs though even if there are places when listening through headphones where it literally sets my teeth on edge. If you have a soft spot for the early Sly & Robbie work with Grace Jones and their Black Uhuru dub album then you will really like this.

Paice Ashton & Lord - Malice in Wonderland
Dug this out in the wake of Jon Lord's passing. This project was probably three years late in coming. If they had come along with Streetwalkers a few of years earlier it might have been different but arriving in 77 it was never going to be easy in terms of getting the media excited. Sounds surprisingly like Patto and also a bit like Sharks. Worth a few listens and a cut above the average mainstream rock release of the era but probably not an investment for anyone other than a DP completist.

Free - Highway
This was a bravely folkish (folkish in a Rod Stewart kind of a way), mature and laid-back record after the big break through with All Right Now. Doubly so given that Andy Fraser was still only 19 when the original four split and the others were not much older. This is a much better record than its place in their short and tortured history would suggest. Fans of mid period Traffic should like this.

Don't Explain - Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa
This is far less subtle and naively airy than Highway but is right on the button as far as classic soul-rock interpretive singing goes.I am not a Bonamassa fan but he mainly stays in the middle ground of the music most of the time while Hart wails her heart out. Although there is one Page/JPJ-esque monster riff along the way this album very much occupies a Joplin, Holiday, Elkie, Etta, Frankie Miller kind of space. Admittedly it is a covers record so we are not dealing in deeply personal / confessional territory but she hits the spot for me more often than any of the wounds 'n' all Amy W records. The fact that there isn't a Mark Ronson faux retro production makes all the difference. Would love to hear her make a record with the current / final Crowes line up. It's not trying to be clever and it doesn't do the musclebound, modern American, come-faced blues rock thing either. I am not hearing anyone with a bandana.
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