There’s nothing on TV and it is pouring with rain outside, so I’ve put on a bit of music: “Time (The Revelator)” by Gillian Welch.
I love the opening song from this album, the title track. The recorded song has Gillian singing and strumming her acoustic guitar, and David Rawlings playing lead on his 1935 […]
My parents gave me an ipod nano for my birthday. It is an adorable little device. Those people at Apple certainly know how to make some beautiful, user-friendly gubbins. I’ve loaded it with assorted tunes from my record collection and make great use the “shuffle” mode to play a constant random selection of glorious music. […]
According to an article by Robert Sapolsky, your openness to new types of music dies a death at about the age of 35. Thereafter you stick to listening to the same old stuff over and over again.
To my horror, I realise that this means I only have five years left! I’d better devote some […]
I spotted a meme over on meish.org called musical musings. It entails listing the first random twenty songs to play on your mp3 player. I don’t have an mp3 player proper. But my mobile phone can handle mp3s and I have a handful of tunes tunes on the sd card. So I get to play […]
I was browsing through my excellent local record shop at the weekend, when I spotted a new record by Eliza Carthy: “Rough Music”. Unable to resist the lure of a new Eliza Carthy record, I promptly spent some of my overdraft on it (nice bank).
It really is very good. Assuming you like traditional music, […]
Since getting a digital radio, I’ve discovered the joys of the BBC World Service. Before now, it was available to me only on the all but unlistenable AM. Now I can listen with pleasure to a crystal clear digital transmission.
Last night, I had it on in the background whilst wandering about the ‘net. Charlie […]