I picked up the Rick Wakeman 5 Classic albums set at the market yesterday, for not very much (together with a Jon Lord solo album). I only had the 6 Wives of Henry VIII before, and had heard Journey to the Centre of the Earth when he played it at Cropredy a couple of years ago, but was otherwise buying fairly blind.  I listened to Journey... first. That was OK.

Then The Myths & Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Oh. My. Word! Was it really as bad as it seemed on first listen? Logic says I should listen again to find out. Emotion says I shouldn't ever let anything like that near my ears again!  I mean, there are a few good tunes in there, amongst the dross, but the rest seemed like a bunch of ideas thrown together with no quality control applied.  What do others think? Should I try again, or just let it lie...?

This morning I have moved on to No Earthly Connection to see if that is any better.

No Scattering The Roots show tonight due to live coverage of Pompey v Sheffield United at Fratton Park, but rest assured, Scattering The Roots will be back at 9pm, Wednesday 21st October...

In the meantime, you can get your fix of folk, roots, blues, etc...plenty of etc... on Mixcloud, where you can find all editions of Scattering The Roots online for your listening pleasure.

Listen via the link here :

www.mixcloud.com/danogus1

My gut tells me that this isn't going to get funded.  I wonder if they have a Plan B?

The Kickstarter has been about 1/3 funded so far, with three more weeks to run, but seems to have stalled rather.  So if you were thinking of going in for this, but haven't got around to it yet, I'd encourage you to get onto the site and do what has to be done!

Seth Lakeman last night at the Exeter Phoenix.  First half was the whole of the Freedom Fields album, in celebration of it's 20th anniversary.  Then in the second half we got a run through of highlights from the rest of his career, from his first album right up to the most recent one, and he and the band (Benji Kirkpatrick, Alex Hart, Ben Nicholls and Cormac Byrne) really let rip.  They even got the usually pretty staid crowd up and dancing on a Monday night!  Definitely worth catching them if you can on this tour - they are on fire!

This Saturday evening, I'm taking my granddaughter to see "beabadoobee" at the Germania Amphitheater.

This is a British-Filipino singer songwriter whose genre is labeled "bedroom pop." Apparently, this refers to young folks who record and release their songs on Youtube. Laufey got her start this way, as well, I am told.

After serving as an opening act for little-known performers such as Taylor Swift, beebadoobee is undertaking her first headline tour of the U.S. I've listened to some of the songs, and they're quite pleasant. I'm hoping for a good evening, but I doubt she will top Bruno Mars.

Should be brilliant if it reflects his progress over the years.

Aziz Ibrahim and full band at the local 80 seat craft ale bar on Thursday. Only seen him several times acoustic before and on Ian Brown's whistle stop tour.

Seth Lakeman tonight in Exeter on the Freedom Fields 20th anniversary tour

Huw Williams turned up at the Brecon Folk & More club a few months ago. It's not a guest club so he just did three songs but it was nice to hear him again after so many years.