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Erja Lyytinen - Another World

Erja's latest album arrived in the post at the week-end. She's moving into more rockier territory at thee start of  the album, but gradually bringing it down to a heart-wrenching Bluesy acoustic ballad, Break My Heart Gently driven along by guest Sonny Landreth (who also powers Wedding Day like a locomotive. Opener, Snake In The Grass has some great guitar cross-play with Jennifer Batten (formerly with Michael Jackson).

The (fantastic) album artwork, very reminiscent of the current Marvel Universe trend hints strongly at a "proggy" mood and to be fair, there are  hints of Sci-Fi and eco subject matter (and the title track, Another World is a building "Space Oddity"), but this is an album more for looking ahead and to new horizons. It's certainly brought some new fire out of Erja.

Great Friday song... My friend Boscoe's favorite guitarist..

https://youtu.be/V_ONyukSLqA

The only song I've known of Eric Clapton"s  before meeting Joe  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxPj3GAYYZ0 that what Eric Clapton means to me

Rory Gallagher - Blues (2019 compilation)

Spent a very pleasent 3hrs and a couple of whiskeys last night enjoyiing this new 3-disc set of “outtakes” from Rory’s back-catalogue. “Outatkes” they call them… many a band would use them as proper cuts and be well proud. You’d wonder why, after all the recent re-issues of yer man’s 15 albums and a 5 disc set of radio stuff recently released this would be necessary but 50 years after the first Taste album and 24 years on the 14th since his passing, that not reason enough?

Rory was very controlling over what he deemed good enough for his albums, or what worked best, but that’s not to do down these tracks as picked by his brother and son for this collection. I don’t know how many have previously appeared on the countless bootlegs, but here they are, pristine and on the Chess label,  which Rory no doubt would have approved.

The collection is in 3 “themes”; Electric, Acoustic & Live, so take your pick. Listening closely to the acoustic disc, there’s one certain guitarist from Leicester who comes closest to the feel and technique Gallagher had, only he sings too nice… bet no-ones been accused of that for a while…The Live disc really explodesfrom the speakers and as for Rory’s slide prowess, if I had to pick a current comparison, for me Troy Redfern’s your man; not as a copyist,  but for the feel.

Anyway, that’s my twopennworth; even if you’ve got shelves of Rory Gallagher, you need to make room for this.

Jimmy Barnes - My Demon  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eswIs-6CuY

To Love Somebody by Janis Joplin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX-OkV_2z8A

Really getting into the back catalogue of Hey Negrita (Curse of Lono, as was)… Rounding the set off with The Buzz Above and the sublime We Are Catfish albums.

Lucy Zirins - Unfound (2019)

Have to thank my buddy John on t'other forum for “unfinding” this one for me as without his casual mention last week, it would have slipped by, and for the first studio output from Lucy since 2015, that would be a serious omission.

While most women bluesy singers seem to have their sights on Etta or Janis, Lucy remains seemingly focussed on Joni Mitchell, with a side-order of Leadbelly, and why not? On this latest offering, she’s also upping the stakes by adding more texture, recording as a trio with James Knight (drums & bass) and Pete Billington (piano & keys). Opener One Long Goodbye is by far the most commercial & radio friendly cut I think I’ve heard Lucy do, yet still retains her “soul”, while the extra backing makes Right Side of Wrong and Stuck In Motion comparatively “rowdy” and the background drone to The Fall wouldn’t be out of place on a Clannad album.

So hard to find the prime cut on this album; Hold Back the Night maybe..? The piano led Unfound and Back To Sleep, or do you go where the titian-tressed songstress is at her most beguiling, the simplistic, acoustic cuts like Clean Condition or Don’t Look Back maybe Close To The Wire..

Deceptively charming, chilled music with heart; has to be a 90% for me (and that’s without the bag of sweeties…).
https://youtu.be/qJCmV_NbKi4