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« Reply #520 on: March 27, 2014, 07:50:36 PM »

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 »

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  Sad
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« Reply #522 on: March 27, 2014, 10:32:20 PM »

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 »


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  Sad



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 »



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  Sad



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 #525 on: March 29, 2014, 10:02:10 AM »




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  Sad



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 #526 on: March 31, 2014, 02:14:43 PM »

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« Reply #527 on: April 01, 2014, 11:24:54 AM »

Frankie Knuckles - one of the originators of "house". Only 59...  Sad
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« Reply #528 on: April 07, 2014, 09:35:37 AM »

Jesse Winchester at 69 RIP
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« Reply #529 on: April 07, 2014, 09:43:50 AM »


Jesse Winchester at 69 RIP


Really heartbroken at this news. My wife and I loved him from his first album RIP Jesse Winchester.  Cry
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When 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 »

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 #531 on: April 08, 2014, 01:24:24 PM »


Jesse Winchester at 69 RIP

Not sure that he has died yet, he is very ill, but still clinging on

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2014/04/07/jesse-winchester-gravely-ill/7414733/
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« Reply #532 on: April 08, 2014, 11:30:08 PM »



Jesse Winchester at 69 RIP

Not sure that he has died yet, he is very ill, but still clinging on

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2014/04/07/jesse-winchester-gravely-ill/7414733/


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« Reply #533 on: April 09, 2014, 02:09:25 AM »

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 »

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 »

Apparently Jesse Winchester is dead according to the Grauniad
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/apr/12/jesse-winchester-musician-songwriter-dies
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« Reply #536 on: June 19, 2014, 10:49:41 PM »

So Gerry Goffin has died...

RIP Gerry
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« Reply #537 on: June 20, 2014, 08:44:16 AM »

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 »


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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They were pretty dam' hip in their day. Will You Love Me Tomorrow alone, does it for me.
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« Reply #539 on: June 20, 2014, 10:15:40 AM »

Yup,-still - one of my heart-stoppers...
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