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All of Laura Veirs’ albums are superb but ‘July Flame’, now in its 10th Anniversary year is one that I keep coming back to.
All the songs on this album work seamlessly as a whole. Slightly eccentric (and great) instrumentation and beautiful harmonies behind Laura’s lovely voice and guitar.
And great cover art by Carson Ellis.
My watercolour portrait of Lucy, one of our NHS heroes, which I gave to her yesterday, on her birthday.
Many thanks Lucy and also thanks to Tom Croft for the inspiration.
Not a great deal to be really happy about at the moment, but if I wanted to cheer myself up for 43 minutes and 59 seconds then this would be my choice…..It makes me feel so young!
Little Richard Wayne Penniman: December, 1932 - May 9, 2020
Bob Dylan posted:
“my shining star and guiding light back when I was only a little boy. His was the original spirit that moved me to do everything I would do,”
Just as everyone else. Looking forward to a time when we can spend time with our family and friends.
Artists for the NHS auction is now open so please place a bid to raise funds to feed our frontline NHS workers.
I’ve donated my little Captain Tom painting to the Gallery Different Charity Auction.
No commission and 100% of the proceeds going to our NHS workers.
Info at: gallerydifferent.co.uk
Working on a portrait of Lucy, a good friend of my daughter and an NHS key worker. This was of course inspired by the portrait painter Tom Croft’s initiative: ‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’.
Using Zoom and an iPad; I haven’t worked this way before but we’ll see how it goes.
‘Songs for a Tailor’ was the first solo album by the much missed multi-instrumentalist and incredible bass player ( of Cream ) Jack Bruce, who died in 2014. Great songs with surreal lyrics by Pete Brown with Jack Bruce’s amazing vocals and recorded with a great band……I still have my original copy from 1969 which I still love, as much as the 19 year old me did.
The subject of my painting ‘The Great Divide’ is The Band who produced probably my favourite album of the late 1960s/early 1970s, eponymously entitled ‘The Band’ (aka ‘the Brown Album’ )
This record has all the magic of the ‘old weird America’ (as described in the book ‘Invisible Republic’ by Greil Marcus ) seamlessly incorporated into 12 original songs that sound like they were written a century earlier.
I never tire of listening to it.
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