Songlines at 50

The 50th “Collector’s” edition of Songlines, the London-based world music bi-monthly, is currently gracing the news-stands, with several special features capturing my attention, including a couple of genre-defining short surveys – 50 Great Moments In World Music, and 50 Years of World Music – and the mag’s selection of the 50 top world albums.

Making this issue a must-buy is the high quality cover-mount sampler CD, with tracks by Music for Grown-Ups faves like Ali Farka Toure, Youssou N’Dour, Khaled, Fela Kuti and Nustrat Fateh Ali Khan.

I normally only look at Songlines after its leafing through its competitor fRoots, but this (recommended) issue will force me to take more interest in future.



www.songlines.co.uk



Gerry Smith

Neil Young and the Chrome Dreams II DVD

Having been a long-time Neil Young fan, I guess I’m in for the duration. After all, his back catalogue is one of the richest in rockpop.

But, though I’ve dutifully bought the last few studio albums, I’ve hardly listened to any of them. Greendale (2003), Prairie Wind (2005) and Living With War (2006) have disturbed my hi-fi a mere once or twice each. If I want to listen to shrill preaching, I can go to a nasty little church.

But the trio of heritage dadrock releases - Live At the Fillmore East (1971>2006), Live At Massey Hall (1971>2007) and Greatest Hits (2004) – have fared rather better. They remind me why I like Young.

Chrome Dreams II (2007) sounds as if it’ll get some play, too. But I’m bemused by the Chrome Dreams II de luxe release. Disc 2 has the album repeated in “DVD” format; the DVD pictures are stills of cars in Young’s garage.

What’s he up to? Should someone tell him that tape/slide presentations had become redundant 35 years ago?

Wakey, wakey, Shakey.



Gerry Smith

Mags go under: No Depression and Resonance follow Straight No Chaser

Music magazines, especially specialist niche titles, are feeling the pinch.

Hot on the heels of the demise of London-based urban mag Straight No Chaser comes news of two more casualties. No Depression, the alt-country/Americana bi-monthly, has announced it’s to close its doors following the May-June issue, after 13 years of playing a lead role in fostering the emergent genre.

And Resonance, the stylish NW coast-based champion of hip pop culture, is closing after 14 years of documenting cutting-edge indie rockpop, film, books and the visual arts.

But why are music mags going t*ts up like this?

Simple. Reduced CD sales because of free digital downloads means record labels reduce adverting spend. Competitive discounting by online retailers and supermarkets mean small music retailers close down, reducing distribution outlets. And web sites (like this) supply free news and views which people used to buy in magazines.

Serious fans of grown-up music will miss all three fine magazines.



Gerry Smith

This Week's Music for Grown-Ups on Radio/TV

Your exclusive listening/watching guide … thanks to compiler Mike Ollier:

Radio For Grown-Ups

Tues BBCR2 22.30 ~ 23.30
* Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan: Dance

Fri BBCR6 21.00 ~ 22.00
* Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan: Laughter - Big Joe Turner, The Maytals and Gene Chandler

Fri BBCR3 22.30 ~ 23.30
* Jazz Library: Rex Stewart - the essential recordings of the cornet player

Fri BBCR3 23.30 ~ 01.00
* Jazz On 3 - Spindrift in concert

Sat BBCR2 20.00 ~ 21.00
* Mark Lamarr’s Redneck Music (3/4) - the relationship between country and rock ‘n’ roll.


TV For Grown-Ups

A Friday night repeatfest on BBC4, but they are good shows and if you haven’t seen ‘em, you should!

Fri BBC4 19.30 ~ 20.00
* Transatlantic Sessions - repeat for the sessions recorded at Strathgarry House

Fri BBC4 20.00 ~ 21.00
* Legends: Al Bowlly ~ The Very Thought Of You - more excellence in the Legends series with a repeated profile of the pre-war popular crooner.

Fri BBC4 22.00 ~ 23.00
* Emmylou Harris’ 10 Commandments Of Country - yet another repeat, but a worthy one as Emmy and her crack band take us through some superb country/bluegrass songs.

Fri BBC4 23.00 ~ 23.35
* Emmylou Harris at the BBC - a selection of appearances Emmy has made over the years

Fri BBC2 11.35 ~ 12.35
* Later With Jools Holland - Andy Fairweather-Low with Chris Barber and his band are the ones to tape and watch later this week… Ha - so that’s why it’s called ‘Later’!

Coffee bar chain to release new Dylan influences compilation

A well-known chain of foreign-owned coffee bars is to release Artist’s Choice - Bob Dylan, next week. The new CD assembles 16 tracks of the type Dylan has played on Theme Time Radio Hour, by musicians of the Stanley Brothers, Junior Wells and Billie Holiday vintage.

But, as with its Dylan Live At The Gaslight 1962 CD release, the “global” coffee bar company doesn’t supply online outside the US/Canada. How terribly quaint!

I assume the new CD won’t be available from local coffee bar outlets, either - I failed to find any evidence of the Gaslight CD in its central London branches last year.

I’d start to boycott the chain if I hadn’t been doing so for years. I never darken the doors of their coffee bars. Not for any ideological reasons, though – I just can’t bear to drink coffee from grossly oversized mugs, or to sit amongst serried ranks of shiny happy customers with too much time and money to waste. I choose to waste mine in Caffe Nero or Coffee Republic.


Gerry Smith

Billy Fury – Liverpool’s foremost poprocker for grown-ups

The Beatles: Liverpool’s foremost poprockers for grown-ups, yeah?

Naaaah: not even the foremost 1960s Scouse beat band (The Searchers, if you’re wondering).

No, Music for Grown-Ups’ favourite Scouse poprocker, by a country mile, is Billy Fury, best known for a slew of hit singles like Halfway To Paradise, which elevated the classic Goffin-King ditty into pop art.

Until recently, though, Fury’s rich legacy was hidden, thanks to a confusing multiplicity of sub-standard compilation albums. Whenever I’ve attempted to play The Collection, a disappointing album in my collection, I’ve quickly switched it off, wondering why I ever thought so highly of Billy Fury in the first place.

Pap like covers of Hippy Hippy Shake and Glad All Over are not where it’s at, pretty baby. Fury was a powerful singles artist, but what’s been available hitherto have been compilations juxtaposing a few singles with filler.

Thankfully, Fury’s catalogue has now been massively improved by His Wondrous Story: The Complete Collection, a high quality compilation which has been in the Anglo album charts for weeks. It’s a complete collection of Fury's singles, for the first time on a single CD.

Play.com is selling it for £8.95 delivered – bargain of the month, I’d say.



Track List

Halfway To Paradise
Maybe Tomorrow
Margo
Colette
That's Love
Wondrous Place
A Thousand Stars
Don't Worry
Jealousy
I'd Never Find Another You
Letter Full Of Tears
Last Night Was Made For Love
Once Upon A Dream
Because Of Love
Like I've Never Been Gone
When Will You Say I Love You
In Summer
Somebody Else's Girl
Do Really Love Me Too
I Will
It's Only Make Believe
I'm Lost Without You
In Thoughts Of You
Run To My Loving Arms
I'll Never Quite Get Over You
Give Me Your Word
Love Or Money
Devil Or Angel
Forget Him



Gerry Smith

Asda supermarket keeping me out of HMV

I used to be a habitual HMV customer – and a strong advocate of the retailer on this site - but I gradually kicked the habit. Because, while CD prices have been plummeting from online suppliers and supermarkets, HMV’s prices look stubbornly high.

I was reminded of the gap last weekend after leaving my local HMV branch empty-handed (again), after recently visiting Asda, Wal-Mart’s English subsidiary.

Sample price comparisons of product currently interesting me were startling:

* Morrissey Greatest Hits De Luxe: HMV £19, Asda £14

* Van Morrison Best Of v3: HMV £13, Asda £5

* Morrissey Who Put The M in Manchester DVD: HMV £18, (has been widely available elsewhere @ £5)

* Led Zep DVD: HMV £30, (has been widely available at Asda and elsewhere @ £13)

HMV might well manage to turn round its ailing chain, but until its prices are back in line with the marketplace, I won’t be contributing.



Gerry Smith

Stunning rock photography in Birmingham

Birmingham’s Snap Galleries has an exciting season of rock photography coming up:


1. Art Kane - Visionary Portraits 1958-68 now on show

2. Eric Meola - New Bruce Springsteen photographs

3. Elvis Presley from 1956 by Alfred Wertheimer

4. Lawrence Watson - Britpop icons and more

5. Art Fairs in London and Harrogate in March 2008

6. Bob Dylan from 1966 by Barry Feinstein - next exhibition

Snap Galleries Limited, Unit 7 - Ground Floor, Fort Dunlop, Fort Parkway, Birmingham B24 9FD. Tel: 0121 748 3408/from US: 011 44 121 748 3408.

www.snapgalleries.com




Gerry Smith

This Week's Music for Grown-Ups on Radio/TV

Your exclusive listening/watching guide … a warm welcome back to compiler Mike Ollier:


Radio For Grown-Ups

Mon BBC R2 20.00 ~ 22.00
* Mark Radcliffe: shorn of fellow talking head Maconie, Radcliffe is a much more inspirational broadcaster, with some excellent guests this week. Tonight it's maverick Grammy winner Steve Earle and on Thursday Noddy Holder reviews the TV for the week. Bound to be more insightful and humorous than my attempts.

Mon BBC R2 22.00 ~ 22.30
* Big Band Special: Tribute to Joe Zawinul

Tues BBC R2 22.30 ~ 23.30
* Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan: Food

Thurs BBC R2 23.00 ~ 23.30
* The Music Club Presents: Patti Smith talks us through her career. In half an hour?

Fri BBC R6 21.00 ~ 22.00
* Theme Time With Bob Dylan: ??? Glad to see that the Beeb keeping on top of things in my absence. Oh, they haven't ... .

Fri BBC R3 22.30 ~ 23.30
* Jazz Library: Abdullah Ibrahim: choosing highlights from his own career, the South African pianist.

Fri BBC R3 23.30 ~ 01.00
* Jazz On 3: Dave Liebmann and Evan Parker in concert from the Vortex, London

Sat BBC R2 20.00 ~ 21.00
* Mark Lamarr's Redneck Music (part 2): I've never liked him as a comedian, but he's becoming a fine radio presenter ~ his regular shows on RnR and reggae are a delight, as he reins in his ego and puts on his music fan hat. Probably a trilby. Here, he journeys to America's backwoods to find the birthplaces and inspiration of some of the forefathers of country music; tonight he features Jimmie Rodgers and Hank Williams



TV For Grown-Ups

A bonanza on ITV4 this week, though you'll need a recorder.

Weds/Thurs ITV4 22.00 ~ 00.20
* Quadrophenia: One of my favourite teaching aids; the brilliant Phil Daniels' Jimmy tears up Brighton to a marvellous soundtrack. Watch and see a litany of future TV/film stars in early roles. One of the best English films ever made, all about growing up and identity.

Weds/Thurs 00.50 ~ 02.00
* The Who ~ Live In Boston: Concert film from 2002

Thurs/Fri 00.20 ~02.40
* The Kids Are Alright: Who doc.

Fri ITV4 22.00 ~ 23.00
* Marc Bolan ~ 20th Century Boy: Tribute to the Elfin one

Fri/Sat & Sat evening ITV4 01.00 ~ 02.40
* This Is Spinal Tap: A rockumentary, if you will, of '80s HM group's disastrous US tour. 11 out of 10.

Fri/Sat ITV4 00.45 ~ 02.05
* The Clash: No other details, I'm afraid.

Fri BBC4 19.30 ~ 20.30
* Legends: Jacques Brel ~ Ne Me Quitte Pas: Repeated profile, but none the worse for it.

Fri BBC4 20.30 ~ 21.00
* Brecon Jazz Festival: Fusion

Fri BBC4 22.00 ~ 23.00
* Caledonia Dreamin': The emergence of Scotland's Postcard Records

Fri BBC4 23.00 ~ 23.35
* Edwyn Collins: Home Again: Profiling one of Postcard Records' brilliant singer/songwriters, this doc follows Ed's rehabilitation from a brain haemorrhage and his struggle to produce a new album.

Fri BBC2 11.35 ~ 00.35
* Later With Jools Holland: Here's hoping he doesn't play piano on Steve Earle's songs.

Massive Attack to curate Meltdown, the music festival for grown-ups

London’s South Bank Centre has just announced that Bristol band Massive Attack are to be Artistic Directors of its 15th Meltdown festival, to be held Saturday 14 - Sunday 22 June.

Massive Attack follow a run of directors from the top echelons of music for grown-ups, including John Peel, Scott Walker, David Bowie, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, Morrissey and Patti Smith.

Emerging from the Bristol club scene in the late 1980s, Massive Attack are innovators; they’ve worked with collaborators as diverse as Tricky, Portishead, Liz Fraser, Sinead O’Connor, Mos Def and Damon Albarn.

Meltdown, the highlight of London’s summer music scene, is almost guaranteed to offer an outstanding programme of gigs for grown-ups, far more engaging than all the contemporaneous summer festivals in muddy fields catering for kiddy campers (of all ages).

Meltdown takes over all 21 acres of South Bank Centre - including the riverside, Royal Festival Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall - for nine days of concerts, DJ sets, talks, films, and visual art.

Watch this space for the line-up for Meltdown 2008. You’ll have to book quickly, though - demand for Meltdown festival tickets is always high.




Gerry Smith

Free! Music for grown-ups on air in the next seven days

Over the next seven days, I hope to catch/record these tempting TV/radio broadcasts:

(Wed 13 Feb – nothing)

Thursday 14 Feb:
1400 Focus on Berlin, inc Bach’s B Minor Mass - BBC Radio 3

Friday 15 Feb:
2030 Brecon Jazz - BBC4
2100 Legends - Edith Piaf – BBC4
2230 Jazz Library – King Oliver - BBC Radio 3
(to Sunday): Smiths Weekend - MOJO Radio

Saturday 16 Feb:
1800 Live from the Met – Puccini’s Manon (Karita Mattila)- Radio 3
1910 The Culture Show – inc Moby – BBC2

(Sun 17 Feb – nada)

Monday 18 Feb:
(to Friday) 2045 Composer Of The Week – Verdi - BBC Radio 3
(to Thursday) 2230 Artist Focus – Susan Graham, mezzo - BBC Radio 3

Tuesday 19 Feb:
2230 Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour – Food - BBC Radio 2
2330 Jason and Iyare’s A-Z OF Street Music 1/6 - BBC Radio 2




Gerry Smith

You heard it here first: #1 Amy Winehouse

Congratulations to London chanteuse Amy Winehouse on her success in landing a fistful of Grammys on Sunday night.

The jazz-inflected pop vocalist has long been a favourite of Music for Grown-Ups.

Here’s what we said long before she became a global sensation:



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Amy Winehouse: music for grown-ups

If you’re reading this outside the UK, the name Amy Winehouse will probably be new you – the word is that she has yet to be promoted overseas.

If you’re in the UK, you can hardly have escaped Ms Winehouse. Back To Black, her chart-topping second album, her colourful lifetyle, and triumph at last week’s Brits awards, have made her the best-publicised English pop persona since, er, Oasis.

Back To Black, the new album, released before Xmas, has already stacked up 700,000 sales. Frank, her fine debut album, was nominated for the Mercury Prize in 2003.

A fine, ballsy, songwriter, an authentic soul/jazz/r&b voice, and on-stage charisma, Winehouse is a massive new talent. Lovely tone. Fine range. Convincing actress. And – bonus – she swings.

But, because she was cross-promoted to the supermarket market with a bunch of less talented Brit “jazz” singers at launch, I’d dismissed her along with the rest of the wannabes. Mistake. Amy’s the first pop star to have made me pay serious attention for many years.

Music for grown-ups? From a boozy, potty-mouthed, loose-lipped 23 year old? You bet. Best check out Amy Winehouse - rapido!


Gerry Smith

Oh Vienna! Part 2 – Lieder at the Musikverein

Though generally willing to try any type of music, I’ve always resisted Lieder – classical German song. Far, far too grown-up for my taste.

But visiting Vienna last week, I was disappointed that the legendary Staatsoper was given over to the appalling middlebrow Opernball – the annual schmaltz waltz meets celebs’ night out. Opera had been banished from one of the world’s great houses, for the duration.

What to do? The next best choice was soprano Dorothea Roschmann’s Lieder recital at the Musikverein. I’d been mightily impressed by Ms Roschmann in several lovely Covent Garden performances. And I wanted to tick off the Musikverein, one of the classical world’s great venues.

But Lieder? Schubert? Schumann? Wolf? It could turn into a long night.

I needn’t have worried. Though struggling with a heavy cold, Roschmann, supported by pianist Graham Johnson, converted me instantly.

Great gig. I loved the show – two hours, entirely in German, with German programme notes. It was a belter.

It confirmed a central tenet of Music for Grown-Ups – music is music. Forget the packaging. Language is unimportant. Successfully evoking emotion is the aim and the sole criterion for judging performance.

Musikverein? A gas. Perfect acoustics. Though the small hall was only half full – 250 empty seats for a performance by one of the German repertoire’s greatest voices!

Weird. Perhaps the disparus were all cosied up at home, watching wall-to-wall Opernball on TV.



Gerry Smith

Morrissey mania for grown-ups

Following a very lucky break at the third, and what turned out to be the final, gig in Morrissey’s week-long London residency – Moz’s bad throat forced him to curtail then cancel the last three shows – I’ve been marvelling at the power of the Manc Miserablist’s PR machine.

With the new single released last Monday and the Greatest Hits album due next Monday, Morrissey’s everywhere: Russell Brand show on E4, Jools Holland and Culture Show on BBC2 …

The most visible press I’ve seen is the Smiths cover of the new (“March”) issue of MOJO. It advertises several articles about Mr Gloomy of Manchester. And MOJO’s sitting on the news-stand shelves right next to the Mozza cover on the front of the Feb issue of The Word.

The de luxe 2CD Greatest Hits and the new MOJO are must-buys for those who get it (and those wondering what all the fuss is about).



Gerry Smith

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Coming very soon - Morrissey Week in London!

Morrissey, one of the most revered of rockpop artists in his native land, returns to London next week with a six night residency at the recently reopened Roundhouse. Watch this space for the exclusive Music for Grown-Ups concert review - I’m due at the Wednesday gig.

I expect the setlist to include a sizeable selection of the songs on Greatest Hits, Morrissey’s first compilation from his post-1997 releases (track list below), due on 11 February. Plus some earlier solo material and the odd Smiths classic.

Greatest Hits (de luxe version) tracklist:

1. First Of The Gang To Die
2. In The Future When All's Well
3. I Just Want To See The Boy Happy
4. Irish Blood English Heart
5. You Have Killed Me
6. That's How People Grow Up
7. Everyday Is Like Sunday
8. Redondo Beach
9. Suedehead
10. Youngest Wat The Most Loved
11. Last Of The Famous International Playboys
12. More You Ignore Me The Closer I Get
13. All You Need Is Me
14. Let Me Kiss You
15. I Have Forgiven Jesus
16. Alma Matters

Disc: 2 – Live at Hollywood Bowl
1. The Last of the Famous International Playboys
2. The National Front Disco
3. Let Me Kiss You
4. Irish Blood, English Heart
5. I Will See You in Far-off Places
6. First of the Gang to Die
7. I Just Want to See the Boy Happy
8. Life is a Pigsty

Whooppee! I can hardly wait. Rave on, Mozza!


Gerry Smith

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Morrissey in London – pop for grown-ups


Last night’s Morrissey gig at London’s Roundhouse – his third in a six night residency – was pure pop for grown-ups.

The setlist was a mixture of recent and new solo material, with Irish Blood/English Heart, First Of The Gang To Die and Last Of The Famous International Playboys the standouts. The forthcoming single, That’s How People Grow Up, will justify careful scrutiny.

Mozza’s unique talent is pungent, wittily original lyrics, allied to an unmissable on-stage charisma: very few performers give good gig better than he. His rapport with the faithful is wondrous to behold.

Last night’s music was nothing to get excited about, though. Trenchant lyrics apart, Morrissey’s solo work sounds pedestrian to my ears: too little variety in melody, tempo or dynamics. No variation. No improv.

So his musos are in a straitjacket to start with. But this crew sounded dull anyway. And the sound, from stage left, 20 metres from the front, was muddy, too bassy, and Il Mozzo was too low in the mix.

Morrissey was my first gig at the refurb’d Roundhouse. Very impressive – it easily reclaims its traditional status as London’s premier rockpop venue. Big enough for a 2,000 stand-up audience; small enough for intimate communion.

Pity about the audience, though. They’ve had to stop smoking (Hallelujah!), but most still yak incessantly, sing along as if they’re in the bath, and shuffle backwards and forwards to the bars all night long, spilling expensive beer from plastic mugs over innocent bystanders.

All music venues, from the Royal Opera House to Ronnie Scott’s, attract more than their fair share of stiffs. But rockpop gigs are notoriously bad: fully 50% of last night’s Roundhouse crowd were boneheads.




Gerry Smith

Oh Vienna! Part 1

On my first trip to Vienna last week – Heaven only knows why it’s taken so long - I spent three days marvelling at the handsome Habsburg capital’s rich musical heritage.

Never mind the magnificence of the built environment – Vienna is a world-class city - or the divine legacy of key visual artists such as Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Otto Wagner, the Austrian capital is a strong contender for Music for Grown-Ups global HQ.

Everywhere you go, you’re reminded of its stature. Major venues abound – Musikverein … Konzerthaus … Staatsoper … Volksoper … And, round every corner you keep running into statues, squares, streets, plaques, and pavement memorials commemorating the great classical composers with roots in Vienna – Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, Schubert, Beethoven, Mahler, Schoenberg … the list is almost endless. Only Bach is missing.

And that’s not to mention Music for Grown-Ups favourite, jazzer Joe Zawinul.

No city has more musical resonance: Oh Vienna, indeed.



Gerry Smith

(to be continued)

Yet another Doors compilation?

The Future Starts Here: The Essential Doors is just hitting the shops. Some readers might share my puzzlement at the appearance of yet another Doors compilation.

The Future Starts Here comes hot on the heels of last year’s slew of highly praised reissues, which included a choice of three compilations, all called The Very Best Of The Doors.

The explanation must be that last year’s wonderful compilations weren’t released in the USA, and are now being rolled out in North America under a different name.

It’s all very puzzling for this Doors fan.


Gerry Smith

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The Doors – rock release of 2007

A very strong contender for rock release of 2007 has to be the 40th Anniversary compilation, The Very Best Of The Doors.

There are three versions: a single CD, in the supermarkets now; a better buy is the 2CD version; easily the best buy is the Limited Edition 2CD/DVD/book.

Both of the 2CD versions have virtually everything you need by the Doors:

Disc: 1
1. Break On Through
2. Strange Days
3. Alabama Song
4. Love Me Two Times
5. Light My Fire
6. Spanish Caravan
7. Crystal Ship
8. The Unknown Soldier
9. The End (full version)
10. People Are Strange
11. Back Door Man
12. Moonlight Drive
13. End Of The Night
14. Five To One
15. When The Music's Over


Disc: 2
1. Bird Of Prey
2. Love Her Madly
3. Riders On The Storm
4. Orange County Suite
5. Runnin' Blue
6. Hello I Love You
7. The W.A.S.P. (Texas Radio & The Big Beat)
8. Stoned Immaculate
9. Soul Kitchen
10. Peace Frog
11. L.A. Woman
12. Waiting For The Sun
13. Touch Me
14. The Changeling
15. Wishful, Sinful
16. Love Street
17. The Ghost Song
18. Whiskey, Mystics And Men
19. Roadhouse Blues

The packaging of The Very Best Of The Doors, with a naked torso shot of Mr Mojo Rising pointing at the camera, is stunning. If, like me, you already own all the audio tracks, the Limited Edition is worth buying for the booklet, DVD and the packaging alone. It’s available online for about £16, delivered. Bargain!



Gerry Smith

Ella profile on radio tonight – not to be missed

With tonight’s programme, the excellent Jazz Library series (BBC Radio 3, Fridays 2230 GMT, then for seven days afterwards on the web) reaches the mighty Ella Fitzgerald.

It promises to be one of the highlights of early 2008: not to be missed!

www.bbc.co.uk/radio3


Gerry Smith