Category Archives: Bach

The Incredible String Band

Posted on 18/11/2013 by dougaj4

The Incredible String Band was a late 1960’s/ early 70’s musical group often categorised as “psychedelic folk”, and dismissed as a peculiarity of the era of no great interest beyond that. That is a pity, because the two key members … Continue reading →

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Unchained Unchained Melodies and Unchained Guitars

Posted on 01/10/2013 by dougaj4

The Telescoper has a link to a short YouTube clip of the original and excellent version of The Unchained Melody (subsequently made famous by the Righteous Brothers), which led me to a slightly less conventional version: And at the suggested links at the … Continue reading →

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Martin Simpson and Danny Thompson (1/47 from Graham Bell’s Danny Thompson collection)

Posted on 09/09/2013 by dougaj4

A variant of the traditional song Matty Groves, Little Musgrave tells the story of a young man paying the price for a brief tryst with a noble woman. This version recorded live at the Oxford Folk Festival of 2008 features … Continue reading →

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Deletionists vs Inclusionists

Posted on 19/08/2013 by dougaj4

Port Macquarie is a small Australian coastal town just up the road from me (360 km, according to Google), which has a fairly undistinguished Presbyterian Church: This church used to have its own article in Wikipedia, but the Wikipedia deletionists … Continue reading →

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Lift Humour

Posted on 15/08/2013 by dougaj4

I recently received an e-mail link to this comedy sketch set in a voice recognition lift in Scotland: which reminded me of this Woody Allen sketch from nearly 50 years ago: It seems that neither voice recognition technology nor humour … Continue reading →

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