Blue Moon Playlist Review Club - Season 2 - Episode 27 - Out on blue 6 - Gone Too Soon (pg 438)

[Coatigan]

Lyle Lovett - Bears

And it's got a banjo!

 

[Coatigan]

"Year of the Tiger" - Myles Kennedy

Not listened to much (if any) of his solo work, that could be today's adventure.

 

[RobMCFC]

Not listened to much (if any) of his solo work, that could be today's adventure.

I'd never heard of him before that album, and to be honest the bits I've investigated since were OK but not enough to make me listen again.

But that album - a concept album about losing his Dad in the 1970s - is fantastic both lyrically and musically.

 

[RobMCFC]

Updated playlist - 42 tracks so far:-

 

[threespires]

And it's got a banjo!

I think on Lyle Lovett's version it's actually a mix of mandolin and dobro but there's definitely banjo on the original by Steven Fromholz (and the better for it in my opinion but I've always liked Lyle Lovett's slightly laconic vocal delivery).

 

[threespires]

Love that song,we’ve got Bears that occasionally come on the community of our house in the States and by coincidence one was spotted yesterday, so I always sing that song to my wife.

A playlist theme of 'songs we do or did sing to/with our loved ones' might be revealing!

 

[Coatigan]

I think on Lyle Lovett's version it's actually a mix of mandolin and dobro but there's definitely banjo on the original by Steven Fromholz (and the better for it in my opinion but I've always liked Lyle Lovett's slightly laconic vocal delivery).

I stand corrected.

Although if we ever do get that banjo theme, this level of technicality may need a bit of leeway, with anything plinkety-plonkety counting.

 

[threespires]

I stand corrected.

Although if we ever do get that banjo theme, this level of technicality may need a bit of leeway, with anything plinkety-plonkety counting.

Sorry if came off as a pedant, my main point was it really should be a banjo.

Agree about any banjo theme, defo include mandolins and things like banjolines. I would even include this nutter..

Banjo Synthesizer. It’s Been A Long Time Coming.

If you’re like me, you’ve probably noticed an extreme paucity of the banjo in modern electronic music. Banjos in trance music? Zilch. Banjos in IDM? Zilch. Banjos in avant garde erotic …

www.synthtopia.com

 

[Out on blue 6]

Belle and Sebastian - Dog On Wheels

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

Jethro Tull: "Heavy Horses".

Or even One Brown Mouse. Liked his animals, did old Jethro.