What Are You Listening To At The Moment?

[stumpy]

Charles Lloyd and Lucinda Williams, Vanishing Gardens cd. Jazz sax and a country-ish singer doesn't look like a good idea, but it works really well.

Also heard Mike Peters of The Alarm do an acoustic set in a music shop in Edinburgh on Monday. Never a huge fan in the 80s, but he was in good form and the new Alarm album's pretty sound.

[stumpy]

This Mortal Coil's first album, It'll End In Tears. Odd sort of a band, as far as I can mind they only really existed in the studio and were made up of musicians on the 4AD label. Their cover of Song to the Siren still gets me after 35 years.

And yet another live Neil Young album, Songs For Judy, recordings from a 1976 US tour. He's someone that could do with some quality-control, especially some of his more recent stuff, but this is him on top form.

[Bobbyian]

Do any of you listen or watch Radio paradise on the net ? I think it is a good alternative to regular radio...
whats your views?

[stumpy]

Listening to the Long Ryders, "Psychedelic Country Soul". It's their first since 1987 and well worth the wait. Didn't Sid Griffin the singer play the Pentland, back when Wildcat was putting on gigs?

[stumpy]

The new Dylan album. Have listened to it a few times and like it, not sure how it compares to his other stuff yet.

One of the few good points about living in the Deep South is that music shops are open again. Edinburgh's lost a few over the last couple of years: Coda (retired), Record Shak (passed away), Hogshead (closed, but now selling online) and now Unknown Pleasures (not reopening after lockdown but

staying online

). There are still a few open for old fools like me who don't stream or buy on the internet, but who knows for how long?


I still miss Shearer's in the Arcade!