Suzanne's latest album is up there with her very best.

I'm with you on Linda Ronstadt. I bought 4 of her early albums when there was a cheap offer on Amazon years back, but they never really grabbed me.

Suzanne Vega, on the other hand...

A lot of Linda Ronstadt and Suzanne Vega.

I'm still not sure that I understand the Linda Ronstadt phenomenon. Great voice but largely meat and potatoes cover versions of mostly very well known hits by other people. Just why was she so huge in the US? Her version of Randy Newman's Sail Away is hugely ill advised. The sweetness and lack of irony in her voice singing those lyrics is massively jarring. Having said all that, I do still find her an easy listen.

With Suzanne Vega I am revisiting some of the albums that I have not played so often down the years, Songs In Red & Gray, Beauty & Crime and Lover Beloved: Songs From An Evening With Carson McCullers.

Meet in the padded cell?  

So I see. Maybe musicians of their advancing years should arrange to meet somewhere safer than a ledge. But meet on the park bench doesn't have quite the same ring to it.  

 

The Manfreds....Paul Jones and Mike D'Abo

Quite a bit of discussion on this already in FC Chatter

MrsB tells me she heard on the radio this morning that RT has had a fall and broken some ribs so has had to pull out of festivals over the next few weeks.

Quick look on social media and he's cancelled his appearance at the Gate to Southwell fest. Eliza Carthy and her band will be playing instead. Fingers crossed he's recovered in time for Warwick.

Get well soon Mr T.

Tim Minchin.

A good friend who is a wheelchair user is taking me. I get in free as companion/carer.

I know nothing about  TM but every time i mention the upcoming gig  people's faces light up and they tell me I'm lucky to be going.

That's an odd pairing, isn't it? How many other people have toured with their replacement in a band?

Jules