Scorsese's 'The Blues tonight, Jawbone, Nick Drake

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After being blown away by catching the fantastically exciting, mighty Jawbone, (www.dangblues.com) the one man band, bluesman extraordinaire from Detroit play the Buffalo bar here in Londontown on Tuesday night, then again his quite fantastic sesh at Maida Vale on Peely's show last night ... just can't wait to hear the roots of music like this, all the legendary bluesmen, all their stories too - tonight on BBC 4, the start of Martin Scorsese's series of 7 films on the blues:-

'Seven illuminating films about a musical genre that has influenced everything from rock 'n' roll to hip hop. Each programme is a very personal exploration of the blues by directors including Wim Wenders, Mike Figgis, Clint Eastwood, Marc Levin, Richard Pearce, Charles Burnett and Martin Scorsese. Think of it as a musical adventure...

Feel Like Going Home - Martin Scorsese
Thursday 15 April 9pm-10.25pm; rpt Friday 16 April 11pm-12.25am
A homage to the Delta blues that sees musician Corey Harris travel through Mississippi and West Africa, exploring the roots of the music. Includes archive performances by Muddy Waters, Son House, John Lee Hooker, Lead Belly, Taj Mahal and, in Mali, Salif Keita.

Also, can't wait to hear this new Nick Drake album coming out in May:-
PRESS RELEASE (March 19, 2004): On May 24th 2004 Island records will release 'Made To Love Magic', a 'new' album by Nick Drake - an album of rarities, remixes and a recently discovered song ('Tow The Line') that has never been released and has not been heard since it was recorded in 1974.

http://www.robinfrederick.com/ndpress.html

and coming in May on Radio 2, Brad Pitt on Nick Drake doc: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/r2music/documentaries/nickdrake/index.shtml

If anyone's itchin to hear the incredible Jawbone sesh last night on John Peel's show, you can listen in online:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/alt/johnpeel/index.shtml
 + Peely's got The Mountain Goats in sesh on the 28th of April : )

and Jawbone's just been signed to Blanche's label Loosemusic too, wicked news! : )  After catching Blanche supporting The White Stripes at Alexandra Palace recently, just completely fell for them, and their lp 'If we can't trust the Doctors' is one of my favest at the moment, just love it and can't wait to catch them at the Metro here in Londontown next Friday : )

Hope MMJ will be comin UKways again soon, after their awesome night at the Astoria recently, loved it! : )

ps:  caught the end of Jack Dee's TOTP2 last night, where he had his fave ever records, and caught Pulp : ), and then he ended with a vid of Neil Young, in the early days, playing Heart of Gold, siiiiiigggghhh, and Neil Young was just soooo sooo beautiful.  

[Oz]

A 'new' Nick Drake album with..... REMIXES?  :( :o :'(

Oh my god...

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Hi O, are you UK based?  cos on the 22nd May, the same day that the Brad Pitt on Nick Drake show on BBC radio 2 show goes out, BBC 4 are showing the Nick Drake documentary film 'A Skin Too Few', just can't wait to see that one! : )

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/music/features/nick-drake.shtml

ohh and oops, should have put this in my previous post, a wicked lil review of Jawbone from a Detroit paper for anyone interested:-
http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=5983

[Oz]

Nope, I'm from Holland, but I've seen that documentary before. It's very good!  :)

[wordawg]

I've seen that documentary and its really good.  I've been listening to Nick Drake for the past 30 years.  Is there a reason for this sudden upsurge of (well desrved) interest?  Anniversary of his death? Very talented man, lovely voice...haunting in fact.