So that’s what they sound like, that’s nice. Was familiar with the name but never heard them before. There’s something of Tim Buckley about it.
Karen Dalton. Didn’t think anyone had ever heard of her, but then a few weeks ago I turned on the radio and there was a programme about her on Radio 4. Couldn’t believe it.
A party in a farm house, miles from anywhere on a beautiful summer’s evening.
I fond Tim Buckley’s Song to the Siren almost unlistenable compared with Elizabeth Fraser’s interpretation. His original is too mannered and harsh. But I can see what you mean about how he sounds like Tom Yapp.
Talking of mannered and, in this case, just plain odd but wonderful,
Tim Buckley can be something you either love or like. I like some of it but others (like the London '68 show) I find heavy going. Now didn’t Elizabeth Frazer have a fling with Jeff Buckley, or were they just friends. At least in TMC’s version the words are just about recognisable 
Ah Scott Walker, yes quite bonkers. I only know his first solo album. Could be moving into Jaques Brel territory here, and I still don’t know what I make of him.
A bit of Elizabeth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpLt4LB2pVU?
and just some Massive Attack
A couple of goodies from one of the greatest albums of the sixties…
Prog folk…
And here they invented (folk) rap…
Mr Fox only released two albums and both are truly excellent.
And I used to have both, and The Shipbuilder. Sadly no more. The Gypsy name checks just about everywhere in the Yorkshire Dales.
I think the first Mr Fox album manages to be probably the most pagan sounding album I possess, purely from the feel and sound, not the lyrics. They really tapped into something when they were recording it.
Think it was the Yorkshire moors. I have some recollection of a review, not sure which album it was, but it made allusions to them being the equivalent of Black Sabbath for the folk scene (or something along those lines). Their material wasn’t exactly jolly ploughboys and bonny milkmaids. Mr Fox is a pretty nasty character on the first album. The Shipbuilder isn’t a happy little tale either, with the lady having a fling with the shipbuilder, and the lord taking his revenge by fixing the builder into the body of the ship as an extra plank. Far removed from ‘Hark! The village wait.’
Interesting. Something of Terry Riley in there.
Cant remember this lot being hugely well known until Ian Curtis died. Don’t think they would have existed without Can. It was a kind of full stop for the '70s, before the (almost) musically barren '80’s (yes there a few things, Cocteau Twins spring to mind).
Joy Division are one of my all-time favourite bands. I’m a huge fan of their music, and the emotions in which Ian Curtis’ songs conjure up for me.
‘Atmosphere’ will be played at my funeral.
Love Joy Division…loathe New Order.
Karen Dalton, a great voice. First Mr Fox track will have to hunt that album down, sounds like a French band Sandrose.
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