Hindustan Times
As I write this, with a cup of coffee next to the keyboard, I have on my computer’s speakers Keller Williams playing 10 songs with minimal accompaniment—just a piano. It’s the perfect audio complement to a sunny morning in Feb when it’s not yet as hot as Delhi can get nor too chilly. Read more
(3 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, February 23, 2013 at 7:12 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged Althea, argus48, Attics of My Life, ballads, bass, Bird Song, bluegrass, Breathe, Brokedown Palace, Buzz, Can’t Come Down, Dance, Deadhead, Download Central, Dream, drum machines, Folk, Freek, Frightened Rabbit, Grass, guitars, He’s Gone, Home, indie band, Jazz, Jerry Garcia, Keller Williams, Keys, Laugh, live phrase looping, Loop, Music, Odd, Pedestrian Verse, percussion, piano, Pick, Quietly Now!, reggae, rock, Row Jimmy and Touch of Grey, Sanjoy Narayan, Scott Hutchinson, Scottish brogue, Selkirk, Sing The Greys, Spun, Stage, synths, Terrapin Station, The Grateful Dead, The Midnight Organ Fight, The Winter of Mixed Drinks, Thief, Twitter, Wharf Rat
Sometimes it takes a re-issue of old albums to rediscover a musician that you’ve been out of touch with for a while. So it was with me last week. When a couple of re-issued Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds albums landed up, re-mastered and with bonuses such as DVDs in tow, I revisited Nick Cave and after the first couple of tracks on the re-issued Dig, Lazarus Dig!!! (originally released in 2008), I wondered how on earth could I have let so much time elapse before I re-heard Cave’s music. Read more
(4 votes, average: 4.25 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, November 17, 2012 at 6:06 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged A Thing Called Divine Fits, argus48, author and actor, Babe, Blues, Bob Dylan, Britt Daniel, Dan Boeckner, Dig, Divine Fits, Download Central, garage rock, gothic band, Grinderman, Grinderman2, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, I’m On Fire, Jazz, Jim Sclavunos, Lazarus Dig!!!, Leonard Cohen, Martyn P. Casey, New Bomb Turks, Nick Cave, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Nocturama, pop-rock, punk, Sam Brown, Sanjoy Narayan, songwriter, Spoon, The Birthday Party, The Death of Bunny Munro, The Road, Tom Waits, Twitter, Viggo Mortensen, Warren Ellis, Wolf Parade
The first time I heard some jazz and instantly liked it was when at the home of a much older friend, I heard an album called Witchi-Tai-To. The year was 1976 or ‘77, I think, and I was in Calcutta, a city where the jazz scene was still vibrant with–besides an annual jazz festival and quite a large number of aficionados of the genre–several people, like my friend, who had great collections of jazz albums that were from off the beaten track. Witchi-Tai-To was an album from the Jan Garbarek-Bobo Stenson Quartet, a Scandinavian jazz band with Garbarek on tenor and soprano saxophone, Stenson on the piano, Jon Christensen on drums and Palle Danielsson on bass. Read more
(7 votes, average: 4.43 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, September 8, 2012 at 5:52 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged argus48, Bobo Stenson, Bobo Stenson Quartet, Bop-Be, Danny Johnson, Download Central, Festival jazz di Antibes, Fort Yawuh, Four Women, Jan Garbarek, Jazz, Jefferson Airplane, Jon Christensen, Keith Jarrett, Music, Nina Simone, Palle Danielsson, Paul Motian, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Rena Rama, Sanjoy Narayan, Sleeper, The Grateful Dead, The Koln Concert, Twitter, Witchi-Tai-To
Mud Morganfield and his half-brother “Big Bill” Morganfield play the blues. Sometimes they play together. I have a live recording of the two playing at the Chicago Blues Festival, doing songs such as Mannish Boy, Nineteen Years Old and Forty Days and Forty Nights, all songs that you can instantly recall as being standards sung by blues legend, the late Muddy Waters. No coincidence there because both the Morganfields are his sons. Remember Muddy Waters’ real name was McKinley Morganfield. Muddy died in 1983 but his two sons in their 50s–Mud’s the older one—keep his trademark Chicago blues sound and legacy alive. They play gigs. They cut records and have a considerably big fan following among blues aficionados. Read more
(6 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, April 28, 2012 at 4:06 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged "Big Bill" Morganfield, Adam Cohen, Afrobeat, Apostrophe, argus48, Bob Dylan, Cat Fishing, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Chicago Blues Festival, Damien Marley, Dark Star, Dark Star Orchestra, Dhani Harrison, Download Central, Dweezil, Dweezil Zappa, Few Dead, Forty Days and Forty Nights, Frank, funk, Funk Is Dead, Grateful Dead, Jakob, Jazz, Jazz Is Dead, Jeff Buckley, John Lee Hooker Jr., Loose Lucy, Mahindra Blues Festival, Mannish Boy, McKinley Morganfield, Mud Morganfield, Music, New Speedway Boogie, Nineteen Years Old, Rufus Wainwright, Salsa and Samba, Sanjoy Narayan, Scarlet Begonias, Sean Lennon, Shakedown Street, Son of the Seventh Son, St. Stephen, Stella Blues, The Motet, The Wallflowers, Twitter, Zappa Plays Zappa
