Prob not. Still on twitter, mind. Or not, as the last tweet suggests.

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As a mere dilettante in african musics, but a love for Mapfumo stemming from having once seen him live in Harare, this is a name I didn’t know, but will now investigate. Thanks for drawing this to my attention.

Tuesday Two Step: Spade Cooley from Swinging’ the Devil’s Dream, fab western swing from the 40s.
Reynard the Fox; Sweeney’s Men from The Ballad of Sweeney’s Men, excellent irish trad as it moved from arran jumpers […]

I think one thing we can probably agree, mind, is that, whatever else he is/was, power pop was not it……..

Arf…

At least it is still there. For a while there was a Brum outpost, a beacon on Broad Street. Now it is a gentlemans club. Finnish jiving* or some such.
*Witty play on words. Sorry about your sides.

This is the artist who, more than anyone else, drew me into the old Word blog, staying mainly in and along for the ride. I thought I was the only person who had ever heard of him, let alone like him, going to […]

In.

Before, maybe, but he certainly began during, usually asking for a large voddy and lime, in a pint glass, from any willing audience member.
Doesn’t he look young and ruddy cheeked here.
(And to think I have […]

I found it much more fun than the Copeland one. Lenny Kaye on guitar on friday. Odd choice? We’ll see.

I bloody love angostura bitters: lovely in a tonic water if you are giving hooch some time off for bad behaviour. (NB, it is actually pretty alcoholic in its own right, were you to have a full glass of it, rather […]

Jagger Richards, Richards Jagger, easy mistake…..

Uplifting stuff. And don’t Walsh and Perry look fit and healthy?

Jangle-bearing newbies on the block Bennett Wilson Poole have a nice powerfully poppy bent about ’em.

It’s in the car as I write, a delightful jangle.

I agree, as a Jack White disbeliever, just thought Raconteurs would hit more bases.

Byrds/8 Miles High: I confess that was my first idea, but the lack of a discernible country influence ruled it out.
Fairport made greater headway with trad.arr. than their own stuff, hence the choice. What would […]

Well, courtesy Brendan Benson, who has his own stuff as well, I would include the Raconteurs, who have some new “dropping” soon….

O well, the band liked the review on their FB page so that was nice.

Fairportiest Fairport? Has to be Matty Groves.
Byrdsiest Byrds? I’d go for Mr Spaceman, as it encapsulates harmonies, 12 string jangle and the country undercurrent always lurking even way before Sweetheart.