Category Archives: Bach

Aspects of Love from Buffy Sainte-Marie

Buffy Sainte-Marie was (and continues to be) one of the great North American singer-song writers of the post-war era, but she never achieved the recognition accorded to others of her era such as Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell.  According to her … Continue reading

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The Incredible String Band

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

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)

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

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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