Damn Planet Rock, they keep playing songs that I then need to own. Last night they played something that was out of kilter for them, not what I would call rock but it was amazing by a guy called Ryley Walker and it's not even released till tomorrow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55I8CvHH1U4
I heard this in my head, on vinyl through valves so I have just ordered the LP.
It has that John Martyn feel, a bit of Steve Mason: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CQZEFzHikA.
I guess this is the continuation of the singer/songwriter that has been having a renaissance over the past few years. I am not a fan of Ed Sheeran but he has certainly raised the profile of the one man band, not least because he keeps releasing songs remarkably similar to well known hits of yesteryear. If you're going to do that at least make it something more obscure but on the plus side it means you know that it is a tried and tested formula before you even release it, after all, it's already been a hit once. I do sound like I'm running him down but I would actually rather have 100 Ed Sheerans than a manufactured, auto tuned, plastic androgynous doll coached by Simon Cowell, the man that takes looks and markets them as talent, who takes a song and wrings the soul out of it before releasing it as a sanitized version of what he knows will sell.
Music to some of us is about life, to others it is about fame and to the more callous and less respectful, it all about the money. I have no idea if the Ryley Walker album will be good or not but I am more than happy to invest the cost of an album in him to find out. I love music, it is about life and love and feelings, it stirs me in ways that nothing else can, it shapes my moods and a new song excites me like nothing else. Even now, I get that feeling that I can't do without a song, like being a child and needing it immediately, I still get that with music. I have no idea how I am going to live without "The Roundabout" but then I guess it is due out tomorrow.
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