Check this video out — Rolling Stones – Dead Flowers (Sticky Fingers) – Original version
A fantastic weekend of music in Norway at the down on the farm festival…. The mighty Steff from Ireland Chooglin from minnesota…the wonderfull james hand from nashville… not to mention the one and only Stan Ridgeway, and True west. and many many more…. the best moment for me was the whole lot of us jammin ‘dead flowers’ at the aftershow party on saturday night complete with double bass and trombones.
I’ve been thinking alot about this song this weekend.
Thinking about belonging and how we all need that and want that sense of belonging to something…and how when you try to write a song, very often you are trying to capture that sense of longing .. longing to belong. I think Leonard Cohen does it so beautifully in this song.
This song got me through my mum leaving when i was five and a half.
I don’t know where music is going right now… but i hope it is in the direction of Ed Harcourt.
The first song, which included the vocal genius of the opening act, The Langley Sisters, was like a modern day Cohen number, heavy with masculine truth. And words, lifted by beautiful female harmonies…gorgeous…
He also invited some great friends and guest vocalists up on stage to perform various songs and collaborations with him, and I leave thinking that what I like best about the concert… aside from his brilliant band and songs… is his openness to music and how it is created .. and his ability to portray that to an audience.
Sadie
What is forgiveness?
People talk about it as an act… something you do, like going to the shops or making a cup of tea…
People ask to be forgiven as if you have a choice – as if it is a tap you can switch on or off…
I say forgiveness is a place.
A place you arrive at when you have fully realised and processed whatever it was that needed to be forgiven.
It is a beautiful, peaceful landscape you suddenly find yourself in after a very long hard drive.
Sadie
Check this video out — Toots & the Maytals 54-46 was my number.
I’ve just seen the genius that is Toots and the Maytals…
Saw them last year at the forum and this year in a smaller venue but it was the same. From the minute Toots walks on stage there is Love in the room.. and you are swept up into a frenzied state of unity… words and music… mingle and merge into one pulsating beat and you go into a trance lke state.. you are transfixed by Toots Hibbert… by his energy… by his Love … by his sheer force of being.. and yet it appears effortless on his part, I think because, for him that love and that unity and that power is always there. It is a pool that he can tap into at any time… and it is called Reggae Music.
Been playing at a Bob Fest at the Torrianon in Camden tonight…
An open night for Bob musician freeks to come and play his songs in honour of his birthday…. my head is full of his words and melodies …sung with such love and reverence in such different ways..
.. by so many different people. and this is what music is all about … celebration and unity.. connecting .. hearing a line that makes you think ‘yeah! i know that.. i understand what that feels like’.
“you do what you must do..
and you do it well.
I do it for you a honey
baby can’t you tell”
happy birthday Bob
I’m sorry for the things i said
i wasn’t thinking straight
theres a muddle in my head
i thought
how could i ever be enough for you?
when its so hard for me to trust
you see….
