I should investigate that. Thanks Alan
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on: February 19, 2026, 09:13:55 AM
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| Started by Alan2 - Last post by Ian_ | ||
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I should investigate that. Thanks Alan |
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on: February 19, 2026, 09:12:31 AM
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| Started by Alan2 - Last post by Alan2 | ||
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Nick Drake : The Making of Five Leaves Left (Island 4LP, 2025).
Only the second time i've played this right through, and i know now it was a sound investment. The album of course i'm familiar with - if you listen to an LP at intervals for 50 years that's how if goes. But what this box gives us is a sense of Nick the artist at his best, and a full, complex person. Scant though they are, there are moments when he speaks in the studio, even laughs occasionally, though not without reserve. It sounds cliched i know but his really is a tale of the tragic decline and loss . We must be grateful for what he left for us |
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on: February 18, 2026, 07:39:59 PM
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| Started by Will S - Last post by Chris from Fieldtown | ||
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A couple of reflections - one, working with Swarb might have put him off forever… I do think about this quite often. Swarb adored Richard, but Richard definitely seemed to hold Swarb at arm's length. I think Swarb was just too much for him. So often he'd work with Peggy, DM, and Simon, but noticeably no Swarb. Using another fiddler with those guys would have looked to much like an obvious snub, and I think that may have been a big reason for him not doing so very often. Turning to John Kirkpatrick's box was a canny way of sidestepping the issue. Jules That could be a good explanation of why Swarb didn't turn up too often on RT's work but on the other hand RT's work on Siddyburn is fantastic. He obviously took the project very seriously and put in the graft to work out the amazing guitar parts which help make this a wonderful album musically. |
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on: February 18, 2026, 07:29:16 PM
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| Started by Will S - Last post by Adam | ||
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As I'm listening to Dream Attic for the first time in years, I'm reminded that on the recordings for that album his band included a violinist (Joel Zifkin). I can't think of many other albums or tours where he has included a fiddler in his line-up. I remember when the BBC left the TV Centre they recorded a concert of him with Swarb (though I don't think that has ever been released), but can anyone else remember him working with a fiddler? How bizarre; I was also listening to Dream Attic the other day for the first time in years! I really enjoyed it, and it might be the last RT album that I really like every track, maybe because its got a nice full sound. |
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on: February 18, 2026, 04:44:56 PM
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| Started by Will S - Last post by Yorkshire Chris | ||
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These probably belongs here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeLDg-KWWQk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thyAzIzh4r0 Fab! Thanks for pointing me in the direction of these David. Beautiful stuff. Swarb's glance at Richard at 2.59 in Sloth... |
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on: February 18, 2026, 04:39:06 PM
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| Started by Will S - Last post by RobertD | ||
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Let's not forget that after Swarb huffed off out of the 2009 Barbican show, RT went and played solo with him very soon afterwards... These probably belongs here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeLDg-KWWQk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thyAzIzh4r0 Fwiw I too have often thought about RT 'not working with' Swarb. But actually, if you think about it, where would he fit in on something like Hand of Kindness? And then it becomes FC. Also personalities...two very very different approaches to life? Having played both recently I wondered about the longer explanation of how Fairport ‘not’ Convention got together for Smiddyburn/Flittin’. Probably from a Cropredy reunion thing but still curious |
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on: February 18, 2026, 02:39:51 PM
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Tonight, 9pm 'til 11pm : Scattering The Roots with Dan Ogus...two hours of the finest folk, roots, blues, etc...plenty of etc...
I've been sifting through my cavernous vaults to bring you some excellent music both new and vintage every Wednesday evening from 9pm 'til 11pm. The next show goes out tonight, 9pm 'til 11pm (after Express FM Country), featuring the following artists : Patti Rothberg, PJ Harvey, Patty Griffin, Robert Plant, Ian McNabb, Lisa O'Neil, Kitty MacFarlane, Warren Haynes, Grateful Dead, Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit, Fleetwood Mac, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Be Good Tanyas, Vikki Clayton, Mike Edel, Levi Lowrey, Sarah McDougall, TM Schiller, Fairport Convention, Karla Hutton, Seth Lakeman, Dave Swarbrick, Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot... Listen tonight, 9pm 'til 11pm on Portsmouth's Express FM, on DAB and online here : https://www.expressfm.com/programmes/scattering-the-roots/ |
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on: February 18, 2026, 01:37:01 PM
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| Started by Will S - Last post by ColinB | ||
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I think Electric is one of the gaps in my RT collection. I was thinking more of times when he has consistently used a fiddler on a tour or an album, rather than odd appearances. He seems to have done that more with squeezeboxes - John Kirkpatrick in particular. I don't think I've seen him on any tour with a fiddle player in his backing band so it's an instrument he seems to prefer having in the studio rather than on the road, the exception being the Dream Attic live recordings when he had Joel Zifkin in his band. And since Pete Zorn's sad passing he's pretty much stuck with the trio line-up of guitar, bass and drums. |
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on: February 18, 2026, 10:22:01 AM
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| Started by Alan2 - Last post by Ian_ | ||
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on: February 18, 2026, 09:57:00 AM
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| Started by Alan2 - Last post by davidmjs | ||
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New single from Jack Sharp's band The Thorn. Psychedelic folk-rock, man! https://thethorntheband.bandcamp.com/track/of-the-birds This is good. I really rate that - excellent. What do we know of Naomi Randall? |
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