Welcome to the RPM Seven Day Soundtrack, week ending Friday 2nd May 2025...summer is a-coming in and winter's gone away; it's the May Day edition. Over to...
"Spending the last week or so in Albania, I had intended to share some Iso-Polyphonic music with the RPM fraternity as a thank you for all the recent great listening. However, I got sidetracked at the Bukowski bar in Gjirokaster, where the soundtrack is non-stop blues from Chicago and beyond."
Baby Face Leroy with My Head Can't Rest Anymore -
Robert Nighthawk with Black Angel Blues -
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson with Lonesome Train -
https://youtube.com/watch?v=GYjbQ7wZLaw&si=F4C8v8e7MN6DnJHm
"That's All Folks."
"Three tunes by three women from me this week. Thanks, as always, for your tunes."
To Be A Rose by Jenny Hval -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E5918QP394&list=RD6E5918QP394&start_radio=1
Just Like That by Bonnie Raitt -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Skd0XR3twCA&list=RDSkd0XR3twCA&start_radio=1
Dublin Street Corners by Zoé Basha -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LzT6HHQ5GU&list=RD9LzT6HHQ5GU&start_radio=1
"Hi RPMers. Very sad news with passing of Mike Peter’s. I saw The Alarm many times. He will be much missed."
Unsafe Building by The Alarm -
Tomorrow by The Alarm -
Chimera by The Alarm -
"Hi RPMers, hope you're keeping safe and well. It was sad to hear the news about the passing of Mike Peters. We had tickets to see him last Saturday but the tour was cancelled earlier this year due to his ill health. A man of courage and spirit. R.I.P.
Here are three tracks that I've listened to this week..."
An Elegant Chaos by Julian Cope -
Isadora by East Of Eden -
Vampire Slayer by Royal Sounds -
Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush by Traffic -
Don't Make Waves by The Byrds -
"We saw Megson last week and as usual they were superb. (The baby that they had with them when they played the Elsing Village Hall gig was manning the Merch Stand) They just get better and better. Although the new album is superb I know it is the last game of the season tomorrow! So this seems appropriate..."
The Longshot by Megson -
"Music this time is a tricky hornpipe, something from a live gig, and a seasonal fave...."
President Garfield's Hornpipe performed by Dick Glasgow - "This week's tune session homework is this testing little number which I've been playing over and over. At least we seem to be playing it in G and not Bb which seems to be the accepted proper key...and which would be a chuffing nightmare"
Mansion On The Hill by Alabama 3 - "Those highly entertaining A3 people stopped off in York for a gig at the Crescent Community Venue of mostly early material. Most excellent."
Hal-An-Tow performed by Shirley Collins & The Albion Country Band -
"Got to have THE May Day song and istead of Oysterband's reved up remake, here's the rather super Albion Band version with the perfect vocals of Shirley Collins."
'Til Next Time...