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« Reply #520 on: March 27, 2014, 07:50:36 PM » |
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Not sure where I should have posted this but, it's 14 years ago today that Ian Robins Dury passed away. 14years!!
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« Reply #521 on: March 27, 2014, 08:12:24 PM » |
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I don't know that any of you would have heard of him but Coventry singer songwriter Rod Felton died yesterday. He was one of the first folkies I ever came across, at Brinklow Wurzel bush folk club, he was a very funny man and a very good song writer and guitarist, in a band called the Modern Idiot Grunt Band with Rob Armstrong guitar maker. I only got to see him do a few floor spots and some small festival spots but it made me wish I had been around in his younger years when he performed a lot more in Coventry and surrounding areas, he was a real character, there are some you tube clips but they don't do him justice. I wish he had recorded his songs on CD  |
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« Reply #522 on: March 27, 2014, 10:32:20 PM » |
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Sad news indeed. Rod was a familiar site when I first started going to folk clubs around cov.
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« Reply #523 on: March 28, 2014, 06:55:56 PM » |
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I don't know that any of you would have heard of him but Coventry singer songwriter Rod Felton died yesterday. He was one of the first folkies I ever came across, at Brinklow Wurzel bush folk club, he was a very funny man and a very good song writer and guitarist, in a band called the Modern Idiot Grunt Band with Rob Armstrong guitar maker. I only got to see him do a few floor spots and some small festival spots but it made me wish I had been around in his younger years when he performed a lot more in Coventry and surrounding areas, he was a real character, there are some you tube clips but they don't do him justice. I wish he had recorded his songs on CD Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't 'Rod's Song' on Shelagh McDonald's first album about him? |
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« Reply #524 on: March 29, 2014, 08:59:14 AM » |
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I don't know that any of you would have heard of him but Coventry singer songwriter Rod Felton died yesterday. He was one of the first folkies I ever came across, at Brinklow Wurzel bush folk club, he was a very funny man and a very good song writer and guitarist, in a band called the Modern Idiot Grunt Band with Rob Armstrong guitar maker. I only got to see him do a few floor spots and some small festival spots but it made me wish I had been around in his younger years when he performed a lot more in Coventry and surrounding areas, he was a real character, there are some you tube clips but they don't do him justice. I wish he had recorded his songs on CD Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't 'Rod's Song' on Shelagh McDonald's first album about him? I believe so  |
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« Reply #525 on: March 29, 2014, 10:02:10 AM » |
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I don't know that any of you would have heard of him but Coventry singer songwriter Rod Felton died yesterday. He was one of the first folkies I ever came across, at Brinklow Wurzel bush folk club, he was a very funny man and a very good song writer and guitarist, in a band called the Modern Idiot Grunt Band with Rob Armstrong guitar maker. I only got to see him do a few floor spots and some small festival spots but it made me wish I had been around in his younger years when he performed a lot more in Coventry and surrounding areas, he was a real character, there are some you tube clips but they don't do him justice. I wish he had recorded his songs on CD Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't 'Rod's Song' on Shelagh McDonald's first album about him? I believe so Lovely song - -I always wondered if it was about a real person. |
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Frankie Knuckles - one of the originators of "house". Only 59... |
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« Reply #528 on: April 07, 2014, 09:35:37 AM » |
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Jesse Winchester at 69 RIP
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« Reply #529 on: April 07, 2014, 09:43:50 AM » |
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Jesse Winchester at 69 RIP
Really heartbroken at this news. My wife and I loved him from his first album RIP Jesse Winchester.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA0CowCWtgwWhen I first met Elvis Costello, Jesse Winchester was his favourite artist along with Dylan and the Band. Listen to the sound/production of the track above if proof were needed. Costello briefed the engineer on his first album to try and duplicate that sound. |
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« Reply #530 on: April 08, 2014, 11:49:10 AM » |
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Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith - guitarist.
As well as writing the tune that gave him his nickname, he wrote "Feudin' Banjos", and successfully sued the studio that used a (renamed) cover version on the Deliverance soundtrack.
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« Reply #532 on: April 08, 2014, 11:30:08 PM » |
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« Reply #533 on: April 09, 2014, 02:09:25 AM » |
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Saw Jesse Winchester for the first time just a few months ago. Absolutely amazing, intricate guitar playing (while singing, of course) and he never once looked at his guitar. Basically had my mouth open the whole show.
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« Reply #534 on: April 09, 2014, 06:39:44 PM » |
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Here's a nice example of Jesse Winchester never looking anywhere but at the audience, on Elvis Costello's "Spectacle" program: http://youtu.be/5uKGWpqnS8E |
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« Reply #535 on: April 13, 2014, 12:26:06 AM » |
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« Reply #536 on: June 19, 2014, 10:49:41 PM » |
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So Gerry Goffin has died...
RIP Gerry
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« Reply #537 on: June 20, 2014, 08:44:16 AM » |
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Goffin/King may not have been the hippest writing team, but they were up there with the very, very best. RIP Gerry Goffin.
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« Reply #538 on: June 20, 2014, 09:50:42 AM » |
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Goffin/King may not have been the hippest writing team, but they were up there with the very, very best. RIP Gerry Goffin.
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« Reply #539 on: June 20, 2014, 10:15:40 AM » |
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