Welcome to the RPM Record Club Seven Day Soundtrack, week ending Friday 14th July 2023. It's looking like a wet and windy weekend here in North Yorkshire, so best hunker down with a brew and this week's 7DS....over to....
"I spent some time with a couple of rock 'n' roller friends last week. Here's some songs that accompanied our BBQ."
Wake Up Little Suzie by The Everly Brothers -
Johnny B Goode by Chuck Berry -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKCt8ssC7cs
Tutti Fruiti by Little Richard -
"Here's my 3 for the week. Best wishes to all as ever."
Born To Run by Emmylou Harris - "No, not that one."
In The Red by Tina Dico - "Class act seen several times at Norwich Arts Centre some time ago."
Since I Fell For You performed by Bonnie Raitt - "Favoured female singer doing a great job with an old standard."
"I went to the Opening Concert of the Dereham Blues Festival last week. A young man named Ross Stewart was support. A very accomplished blues guitar player and singer who we hope will have a great future. He was accompanied by members of the Shunters – the Norfolk Blues Society’s house band. The main event was Danielle Nicole, a power house from Kansas City. True Blues from the heart but not enough light and shade for me. Her set needed a few slower numbers to give the audience a chance to recover and perhaps a slightly shorter performance. However, how lucky are we to have this at a small market town in Norfolk!
On the weekend I managed to check out 9 venues and all performers were excellent musicians and singers. My personal favourites were The Shunters, the Cruisers and Cold Sweat. I’m definitely be going again next year and perhaps making both days.
My 3 choices this week all played at the Festival."
Higher Ground performed by the Ross Stuart Group -
The Shunters Blues Band at the Dereham Blues Festival -
The Cruiser Blues Band at the Dereham Blues Festival -
"Wotcha folks. I am flagging... We just got back from a cultural few days away in Derbyshire at the Buxton International Festival. Which was a hoot. I loved it! We went because Jeremy Deller was speaking this afternoon at the opera house, (fab venue) and he was everything a mad professor should be.
We even went to listen to a programme of music by a String Quartet. Beethoven, Benji Britten, and Schubert, Surprisingly Britten won! Gorgeous stuff.
I might come back to Jeremy Deller’s work with the Fairey Brass Band in future, (unless Jayne goes for it this week) but for the moment, a track that I was listening to last week pre festival…."
Clear Water by Meshell Ndegeocello -
"A track from a festival performer… who appeared with a fabulously talented 8 piece band who were so good that the time flew by far too quickly (Their cover of Bowie's life on mars was far better than the original)."
Wishbone by Zoe Kyoti -
"And one I heard played on the radio on the way home…"
Chicken and Biscuits by Colt Ford -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF108IhXi_A
"We will sleep well tonight…. have a great week, folk!"
"More this week from Kieran Kane, Brennen Leigh, and in a selection that links thematically with those two and with Tim's comment last week on Born in The USA, Bruce."
This Dirty Little Town by Kieran Kane - "The bonus here is contributions by Emmylou and Lucinda."
Running Out of Hope, Arkansas by Brennen Leigh -
My Hometown by Bruce Springsteen - "More proof that there's not a duff track on his 1984 album, even though the title track was open to misinterpretation by idiots who paid no attention to what the lyrics actually said."
"Best wishes"
"Hi RPMers, hope you are all fit and well. Here are three tracks from albums I've played in the past week..."
Fibonacci's Number by If -
Gethsemane Again by Al Stewart -
There, There My Dear by Dexy's Midnight Runners -
"Hi folks. Hope you're all well.
I'm volunteering at Tropical Pressure festival by Porthtowan this weekend, weather's not v tropical; howling winds + driving rain. Lots of fab music to keep us warm.
My 3 are 1 that's been a recent ear worm + 2 from the line up this weekend.
Cheers!"
Inconvenience by the Au Pairs -
Nalingi Mobali Te by Juanita Euka -
Clavelito Colorado by Luzmira Zerpa -
"Hi RPMers, hope all is good. Here’s my 3 this week." . ..
The Happiest Times I Ever Ignored by Hayden Pedigo -
Snake Sideways by Do Nothing -
Meet the Star by Guided By Voices -
"All hail RPM, and thank you!"
Runnin’ by Frazey Ford -
Across the Great Divide by Kate Wolf -
No Telling (What A Love Song Can Do) by Linda Thompson -
"I've had a bit of a Ramones fest this week after turning up 3 Ramones DVDs in the local charity shop; End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones, Ramones Raw and It's Alive 1974 - 1996. They're a band I've liked for a fair while and who I've always viewed as being a rock 'n' roll band with Beach Boys overtones who just play very fast.....so, not a punk band, in other words."
Blizkrieg Bop by Ramones - "Here's the first track from side one of that 1976 debut LP...which pretty much sums up the band in a tad over 2 mins. Of course, Dee Dee's "1,2,3,4" count-in became an iconic Ramones live signature, so I've gone with this live version as this is missing on the album version. The short length of their songs was also a trade mark. Blitzkrieg Bop is timed at 2mins 12 secs on the LP.........the entire album was all over 56 seconds shy of half an hour, comprising 14 songs in total."
White Riot by The Clash - "Oh look.....where have you heard that count-in thing before....? Joe Strummer states in the documentary End of The Century: The Story of the Ramones, that without the Ramones there would have been no Clash. Members of both the Clash and the Sex Pistols attended the first UK appearance of the Ramones at the Roundhouse in London in July 1976."
R.A.M.O.N.E.S. by Motorhead - "Crossing genres?.....but then Motorhead always played rock 'n' roll according to one Ian Kilmister and were never a heavy metal band....here's Lemmy's tribute to his friends."