Oh, Go on Then ...

 

I felt a little bit guilty yeaterday when I teased you with the above picture but offered no music by the band Colourblind James Experience here.

Time to make amends.

Originally from Rochester, New York and laterly San Francisco the band led by Chuck Cuminale (aka Colorblind James) were active from 1978 to 2001

They shot to prominence in the UK in October 1998 when the preformed sessions for both John Peel and Andy Kershaw and for a while their song Considering a Move to Memphis was everywhere in Indie circles.

They then disappeared about as quickly as they had appeared

I have four songs by them in my Music folder including the one mentioned above and here they are;

Colorblind James Experience - Considering a Move to Memphis

Colorblind James Experience - A Different Bob

Colorblind James Experience -Fledgling Circus

Colourbling James Experience - Dance Critters

I- Pod Playlist - Colorblind James Experience

 

Today's post was supposed to be the last in the I- Pod Playlist series. That was until I had discovered that I had missed one off my list

Colorblind James Experience is the title of a Playlist featuring colours. Therefore there will only be a picture of the band but no music by them.Sorry.

Still there were plenty of good ones to choose from.

Let's start with a catchall namely All My Colours by Echo and the Bunnymen.

You could say the some for The Men They Couldn't Hang and The Colours but they restrict themselves to the Red, the Blue and the White.

The album Young America by The Poems was first released in 2006. Drew raved about it on Across the Kitchen Table but it was only on the re-release by Past Night From Glasgow that I was able to appreciate it in all it's glory. The vocals on Blue Eyes Coming come courtesy of Kerry Polwart, sister of Karine.

Contact in Red Square is a track on Blondie's second album 1978's Plastic Letters. I've only ever had it on vinyl so had to source a digital copy. Not sure if Blondie counts as a colour.

The 18th and final Playlist Mind Your Language will feature next time round.

Echo & the Bunnymen - All My Colours

The Men They Couldn't Hang - The Colours

The Poems - Blue Eyes Coming

Blondie - Contact in Red Square

Oh Danny Boy

 

In yesterday's Surinamese post I commented that one of the songs selected had a passing resemblance to the traditional Irish folk song Danny Boy.

This in turn had me going down a Danny related rabbit hole.

There are probably hundreds if not thousands of recordings of the folk song Danny Boy which I have just discovered was written by an Englishman Frederic Wetherly as opposed to an Irishman. Few if any will better the version by Johnny Cash on American IV:The Man Comes Around.

The first musical Danny which sprung to mind was the Dundee band Danny Wilson who contribute The Second Summer of Love to this post.

Not to be outdone The Ramones pitch in with Danny Says. You can't go surfing if it's twenty below. Fact.

Daniel Wylie was the lead singer of the Cosmic Rough Riders. He has also recorded some solo albums and Make Love to the World is the opening track on Ramshackle Beauty.

Tracyanne Campbell (Camera Obscura) and Danny O'Keefe (Crybaby) got  together in 2018 to record the imaginatively titled album Tracyanne & Danny. I think that O'Keefe is may favourite song from the album.

I'll spare you anything from our cover star. Kneel and say an Ave there for me!

Johnny Cash - Danny Boy

Danny Wilson - The Second Summer of Love

The Ramones - Danny Says

Daniel Wylie - Make Love To The World

Tracyanne & Danny - O'Keefe

Blog Country 142 - Suriname

 

Similar to Blog Country 140 Aruba Suriname is a former Dutch colony .Under Dutch rule it was subjected to slavery to harvest the sugar plantation.It is the smallest country in South America in terms of both population (632,638) and territory It gained independence in 1975

Right, now that's out of the way let's have some music.

Lets start with Saramaccan Sound who are duo of brothers namely Dwight Sampie and Robert Jabini – who write and perform flowing acoustic songs sung in Saramaccan, the language from the Americas with the most African elements. 

There song is Some Kind of New Beginning which sounds not unlike Danny Boy.

Dropati is considered by many to be the mother of modern day Baithak Gana  a form of music originating in Suriname described as a mix of Hindustani folk music with further Caribbean influences. Manikdar Jhabeeya is such a song

I can't find much about Kater Kerma other than he is 37 and his genre(s) are hip hop and rap .Don't let that put you of as Paana is not unpleasant 

John Eduard Touwslager (December 21, 1968 – June 9, 2005), better known as Papa Touwtjie, was a  Surinamese reggae  artist and rapper. He is considered one of the most influential reggae artists in Suriname.As a result of a family dispute, he was shot by his brother and died of his wounds in June 2005. Here he is with Santa Boma

Conchita Leeflang is the daughter of Frank Leeflang  who was the Minister of Internal Affairs and Justice and temporary Prime Minister of Suriname. Even stranger she had a relationship with Kid Rock which lasted about a year. Now she is mostly based in the Netherlands .Her offering is I Brake.

This one turned out to be much harder than I first thought. The next one is likely to be even more tricky .

Sarmaccan Sound - Some Kind of New Beginning

Dropati - Manijdar Jhabeeya

Kater Kerma - Paana

Papa Touwtjie - Santa Boma

Conchita Leeflang - I Brake

Por Vida - A Tribute to the Songs of Alejandro Escovedo

 

From 2004 Por Vida is a 20 track 2x CD on Or Music and is a tribute to the songs of Alejandro Escovedo.

It is essentially a fundraiser following his collapse from Hepatitis C complications in 2003 with health insurance not affordable to the majority of ordinary people in the US.

Alejandro is a universally respected Americana singer song writer as the stellar tracklist highlights with the great and the good lining up pay their respects.

Here is the blurb from the Americana bible No Depression.

I've gone for three of my particular favourites - Lucinda Williams, The Jayhawks and Son Volt

I'm pleased to say that the great man is still going strong as his discography demonstrates.

Lucinda Williams - Pyramid of Tears

The Jayhawks - Last to Know

Son Volt - Sometimes

Saturday Shuffle 143

 

Firstly apologies for my no show yesterday. Real life got in the way followed by a dose of the dreaded lurgy.

We start this week's Shuffle with Thorns the final track on Weirdo the third album by Carla J Easton from 2020. We parted company around then as her music was getting too poppy for my liking.

A band you could never get tired of are The Cramps. They have graced the Shuffle a few times previously but never with Can Your Pussy Do the Dog.

Likewise XTC are no strangers to this place who produced consistently good songs such as Generals and Majors

They will only be happy if the Saturday Shuffle retuns next week

Carla J Easton - Thorns

The Cramps - Can Your Pussy Do The Dog

XTC - Generals and Majors

Dwight

 

Every couple of years or so I feel that I have a moral obligation to point you in the right direction when it comes to the music of Dwight Yoakam.

As you can see from his discography he has released 17 studio albums from 1986 to 2024. That's a lot to get your teeth into.

I'll make it more easy for you. You only really need the first five albums all of which are absolutely essential. You do not require to go beyond 1993 There may be the occasional semi decent ones here and there thereafter which are worth a listen, but not many .

For further proof I refer you to my ICA from JC's place back in April 2018.

I think a track from each of the five is in order.

I will return in a couple of years to repeat this message. Think of it as a public service.

Thank you.

Dwight Yoakam - South of Cincinnati

Dwight Yoakam - Readin', Rightin' Rt.23

Dwight Yoakam -Buenas Noches From a Lonely Room (She Wore Red Dresses)

Dwight Yoakam - Sad,Sad Music

Dwight Yoakam - Two Doors Down

All you'll ever need here