Thursday 14 April 2022

They Wouldn't Know Freedom If You Salted It And Rubbed It In Their Eyes

One of the inevitable effects of a steady flow of good new music, as well as back catalogue reissues and rediscoveries through the blogosphere, is that it's very easy for great songs to be lost in the avalanche. Songs that I enjoyed but only played once or twice before the continuing influx of music pushed them further and further into the past.

Today's selection therefore rescues songs from the dim and distant past of 2012 (!) and brings them into the light again. A mix of original songs and cover versions, it's hard to believe that these songs are a decade old. The Jazz Butcher provide today's post title; sadly Pat Fish departed this life in October 2021. Another loss - Mark Hollis in 2019 - is celebrated with an affecting Talk Talk cover version by Duncan Sheik & Rachael Yamagata.
 
I knew the closing song would be A Case For Vinyl by Tim Burgess before I'd had a proper sense of the selection's running order. A co-write with Lambchop's Kurt Wagner, I think it's one of Tim's finest songs, both solo and with The Charlatans.  
 
No spoilers, but tomorrow's selection will be a little more uptempo.
 
1) Freedom At 21: Jack White (single / Blunderbuss LP)
2) Goodbye Kiss (Cover of Kasabian): Lana Del Rey (God Bless America mixtape)
3) Grasshopper Clock: The Corner Laughers (Poppy Seeds LP)
4) Do I Wait (Cover of Ryan Adams): Juliana Hatfield (Juliana Hatfield LP)
5) On Borrowed Time (Take 5) (Remix By BRM & Waterson): Billie Ray Martin (Five Takes (A Song About Andy) EP)
6) Last Of The Gentleman Adventurers: The Jazz Butcher (Last Of The Gentleman Adventurers LP)
7) Life's What You Make It (Cover of Talk Talk): Duncan Sheik ft. Rachael Yamagata (Spirit Of Talk Talk compilation)
8) Half Gate: Grizzly Bear (Shields LP)
9) Save Me A Place (Cover of Fleetwood Mac): Marissa Nadler (July / Demos & Covers limited edition LP)
10) A Case For Vinyl: Tim Burgess (single / Oh No I Love You LP)

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2 comments:

  1. Brian14 April 2022 at 17:54

    A couple of tough losses of musical heroes featured here. I don't know if you have been following the reissue program Fire Records has undertaken in recent years for the Jazz Butcher, but it has been amazing. They just wrapped it up.

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    1. Khayem15 April 2022 at 20:03

      Thanks, Brian. I have to confess that my knowledge of The Jazz Butcher is very patchy and mostly the Creation-era material. No good explanation for that as I've always enjoyed what I heard. Last Of The Gentleman Adventurers was a bit of a random purchase in that respect, though I'm intending to educate myself further. Sad that it's now a finite, complete body of work with Pat Fish's passing.

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