Timmy Thomas Why can't we live together 1973

 Just heard this on Winchcombe Calling.

1981 by The Bad Detectives

 Digital album free download

This was an early visit to the studios by Frome's Bad Detectives. I like these songs.

 Our late friend Ivan flanked by Ed and Henry at the Elm Studios Paulton. They used the studio bass which was a Gibson hence the photo.

Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart Feat Sinead O'Connor Visions Of You 1992

 This was just on the radio. We bought this. Very good.

Sylvester You make me feel (mighty real) 1978

 Disco classic I just heard on Marc Riley. 

Ruby Johnson Weak spot 1966

 This popped up. I first heard it by the Detroit Cobras who did a fine version. Here

Brix Smith 2023 tour dates

 Here. They are playing Bristol Strange Brew on the 23rd of May. I think my daughter will be excited!

ASTEROID CITY Trailer (2023) Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson

 Celia sent me this. Looks great and if you are a Wes Anderson fan as my kids are you will love this.

Trip to Wells

 Went with my sister to Wells. Wells Museum has a room dedicated to Harry Patch.

Market day in Wells

Harry Patch

BBC Radio Documentary: Hoboing With Honeyboy.

Celebrating the original hobo, bluesman David "Honeyboy" Edwards, whose death in 2011, severed a vital link to the music, memories and imagination that infuses all blues music. American based music journalist and broadcaster Gianluca Tramontana conjures the "Wild and tangled forests, the broad, unhasting river flows, somewhere 'twixt Memphis and Tupelo", to the heart and home of Honeyboy. Honeyboy Edwards was among the first generation of pre-war Mississippi blues musicians that rambled the countryside playing juke joints, picnics, house parties: anywhere music was needed. He knew the first blues musicians to be recorded, such as Charlie Patton, and travelled with the founding fathers of blues music including Robert Johnson.

Honeyboy was one of hundreds of thousands teenagers hopping freight trains during the Great Depression. He travelled in search of work - to play music, but his weakness for gambling, wine and women often got him into trouble. After the war he settled in Chicago where his reputation as the greatest country blues musician took hold. Honeyboy's death in 2011 marked the end of an era, that lives in the hearts of music lovers around the world. His life story is mostly untold, but it's a crucial slice of American history that has been in the shadows. Tramontana hobos across the country - taking in Chicago, New York, Mississippi and the National Hobo Convention in Iowa - to understand the world and ways of a different type of American hero

The Birds (1963) trailer

 Here. This film came out 60 years ago today. Great movie. Loosely based on a Daphne du Maurier story. Wiki

Robert Jr. Lockwood.

 

Playing with Sonny Boy

One of the most underrated blues guitar players. Hear him on Spotify

From the wiki

Robert Lockwood Jr. (March 27, 1915 – November 21, 2006)^[1] was an American Delta blues guitarist,^[2] who recorded for Chess Records and other Chicago labels in the 1950s and 1960s. He was the only guitarist to have learned to play directly from Robert Johnson. Robert Lockwood was one of the first professional black entertainers to appear on radio in the South, on the King Biscuit Time radio show.^[3] Lockwood is known for his longtime collaboration with Sonny Boy Williamson II and for his work in the mid-1950s with Little Walter.

Read his interesting biography here. 

Lightnin' Slim - It's Mighty Crazy - 1954

 Lightnin' Slim sings and Lazy Lester on harp

Yo la Tengo performance on KEXP

 From a few days ago.

http://KEXP.ORG presents Yo La Tengo performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded February 16, 2023. Songs: Fallout Aselestine Big Day Coming This Stupid World Georgia Hubley - Drums / Vocals Ira Kaplan - Guitar / Vocals James McNew - Bass / Vocals

Hear their recent L.P. On Spotify

Bobbie Gentry Reunion 1968

 Just heard this song on the radio. 

Yo la Tengo Bristol

 This gig on the 13th of April it looks like we are going. See you there hepcats.

David 'Honeyboy' Edwards 1942

 Ace footage. Wiki on the man here

 Frome museum now but when I was younger it was the Frome literary institute or the Lit club. My Dad was a member and I went there with him a few times. You could play snooker there - my dad was in the table tennis team. It was like stepping back into the past.

Benny Spellman 10-4 Calling all cars

 Just heard this on Boss Radio 66. It's a good one. Allan Toussaint composition. Be a good one to cover. 

Roxy Music - Do the Strand 1973

 This album is fifty years old. Watch the OGWT performance of the Do the Strand. Susan bought this.