Well lets see...................... Dylan, Prine, Quo, Faces, Rolling Stones, Pogues, Chas 'n' Dave, Johnny Cash, Bert Jansch, Ralph Mctell, Steve Earle, Jethro Tull, Mandolin and Fiddle and Acoustic guitars and some Electric guitars and open C tuning and other similarsuchlikethings.....!
Sounds Like
Dylan, Prine, Quo................perhaps? or perhaps not? you got the ears man!
Dave Sutherland born in London. In the nine years since he started struggling his way through the few chords he knew down the London pubs, Sutherland’s learned to pick guitar like a wizard, paid his dues as support act to Glenn Tilbrook and Bert Jansch (who produced his debut), toured the US and recorded two albums.
This is his third, delivered in a slightly nasal honeyed sandpaper voice that variously bears traces of Dylan (on the opening title track, a marvellous song about former cop confined to a wheelchair after a shooting) Roger McGuinn, John Prine, and, for the real 70s obscurists among you out there, Jimmy Stevens (and if anyone knows what happened to him I’d love to hear). With the banjo driving bluegrass stomper Candyman (that’ll be drugs then), waltz time swayer
Dead In Her Head, folk-blues shuffle Sugar Babe
and lost love song Where Are You Now?
it’s amply evident that he’s steeped in a rootsy mixture of American country-folk and Celtic, but as
Happier Blue and the frankly quite brilliant I Don’t Play With The Rolling Stones And She Don’t Sing The Blues
(a title Shel Silverstein would have killed to have written) reveal, he’s also more than capable of kicking up the folk-rock dust too.
The album’s laced with a reflective melancholy - even on
Going Down To Georgia’s tale of a guy (a fugitive?) who’s gota gun to a hostage’s head - that finds perfect expression in the closing From The Vauxhall Tavern ...to the Deptford Broadway
with its lines ’where we stood now stand houses when they levelled all the land," its cascading mandolin accompaniment and a feel that’s best described as Martin Stephenson if he were Don McLean.
It’s barely been off my player since it arrived, its unassuming acoustic simplicity, imaginative arrangements and Sutherland’s warm vocals and beguiling melodies making him the most welcome surprise discovery of the year so far. And, just for the ’where are they now?’ Brigade, please note the credits list Annabel Lamb on backing vocals.. Right, now to track down the other albums.
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A bit of advance notice - MondayMonday proudly presents Rún and Steven Finn and more at The Wilmington Arms, Clerkenwell on Monday 7th December
Rún collect and arrange old folk songs written in the ancient language of Erin. So far, thanks to Nora from Donegal, they have a nice wee collection of well-known ditties and are now adding to their repertoire with some unusual old forgotten songs from the province of Ulster. Rún are five fantastic lassies who perform four-part vocal arrangements of old Gaelic songs like ’An Cailín Rua’ (the red-haired girl), ’Casadh an tSúgain’ (twisting the hayrope) and ’Bo Na Leath Adhairce’ (the one-horned cow). Rún is the Gaelic word for ’secret, wish or love’ (cf. rune). See http://www.myspace.com/runceol ..
Steven Finn’s ears were filled with the music of Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Johnny Cash and old time country music. Aged 15 he began teaching himself the guitar, learning songs like Leadbelly’s ‘Bourgeois Blues’ and Charlie Daniels’ ‘The devil went down to Georgia’. On hearing Bob Dylan songs Finn started to write his own words and in doing so found a lifelong passion for Jazz and Folk Blues, a getaway car he could drive. See http://www.myspace.com/stevenfinn for more details
at The Magnolia, 211 Lordship Land, East Dulwich, London SE22 8AH Telephone : 020 8299 4116
An intimate warm-up to the 3-day event in the small upstairs room at The Magnolia featuring the great Miller Anderson (accompanied by Kris Gray) with The Broadkasters, Dr King & Nervous Jonty Atkinson supporting.
Hosted by Miller Anderson - the great lost British rock voice (who fronted the Keef Hartley Band at the Original Woodstock festival 40 years ago)
THE HALF-COCKED WOODSTOCK FESTIVAL
Hosted by Miller Anderson - the great lost British rock voice (who fronted the Keef Hartley Band at the Original Woodstock festival 40 years ago)
3 days of Live Music and Record Fayre
27th, 28th, 29th November '09 in 2 south London venues
Saturday 28th November '09
at the Half Moon, 10 Half Moon Lane, Herne Hill, London SE24 9HU Telephone : 020 7274 2733
Afternoon Session : 12.00 noon til 5.00 p.m. £5.00 entry (money back with vinyl purchases of £5.00 from Jailhouse Records who will be selling at the accompanying 'Dream Machine' Record Fayre)
Miller Anderson Jonty Atkinson Dr King Steve 'Boltz' Bolton Butch & Femme Gabriel Mesh Archie 'Zoo Kid'
Evening Session : 6.00 p.m. til 12.00 midnight. £10.00 entry (money back with vinyl purchases of £10.00 from Jailhouse Records who will be selling at the accompanying 'Dream Machine' Record Fayre)
Miller Anderson (with Kris Gray) East of Ealing Dave Sutherland Siobhan Parr The Broadkasters Steve Morrison
Hosted by Miller Anderson - the great lost British rock voice (who fronted the Keef Hartley Band at the Original Woodstock festival 40 years ago)
3 days of Live Music and Record Fayre
27th, 28th, 29th November '09 in 2 south London venues
Sunday 29th November '09
at the Half Moon, 10 Half Moon Lane, Herne Hill, London SE24 9HU
Telephone : 020 7274 2733
Afternoon Session : 12.00 noon til 4.30 p.m. £5.00 entry (money back with vinyl purchases of £5.00 from Jailhouse Records who will be selling rare & collectable vinly at the accompanying 'Dream Machine' Record Fayre)
Miller Anderson
Jonty Atkinson
Dr King
Joe Wooley Sasha Adamcewski
Evening Session : 5.30 p.m. til 10.30 p.m. £10.00 entry (money back with vinyl purchases of £10.00 from Jailhouse Records who will be selling rare & collectable vinyl at the accompanying 'Dream Machine' Record Fayre)
Miller Anderson (with Kris Gray)
The Coal Porters Big Joe Louis Fran McGillivray & Mike Burke The Hine Brothers
Just a reminder that Clerkenwell's best Monday Night Folk Night will next be taking place on Monday 2nd November, featuring: Chris Sarjeant and Emma Scarr,plus floor spots and more
Emma Scarr has been active on London’s live scene for approaching two decades. A proficient performer on guitar, fiddle and banjo, in recent years she has concentrated on song craft.
Chris Sarjeant has been recently described as,".a very major addition to the British Folk Scene.." by BBC Folk-musician of the year Tom McConville who added that his guitar work is "...impeccable.."
Dave Sutherland is playing at Hoopers Bar, 28 Ivanhoe Road, Camberwell SE5 on Saturday 10th October 2009 - FREE entry 8.00 pm til 11.00 pm (bar stays open til 12) - Dr King supports
Today I like to inform you, that you can read and watch interviews with your favorit country stars in Enlgish, German and French at http://www.CountryHome.de/Interviews .
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Christian
Editor & Journalist for Country Music Christian Lamitschka An der Pfingstweide 28 61118 Bad Vilbel Germany Phone: ++49 6101 544613 Mobil: ++49 171 6903352 Ch.Lamitschka@t-online.de Info@CountryMusic-Magazin.de www.MySpace.com/ChristianLamitschka
Tune in and turn on. Episode 18 features the long awaited return of Ben Folke Thomas, from his hidden island lair to continue his evil plans to take over the world, an interview with, performance by, exclusive album track play, and give away, by noir-folkists 'Juniper Leaf', and many more goodly musical gifts to be bestowed upon you dear listener by the noble Lantern Players.
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hello dave mate, great fun to play with you again over the weekend, we had a blast. you were proper good again. hopefully see you soon out and about. say cheers to andy for us, he was the boy.
dave, thanks for coming to our lewisham peoples' day gig hope you having a great summer - big steve and craig say HI!! x kc i am enjoying listening to your tracks!
Just had to let you know that I am touring Scotland this August ( Edinburgh, Aberdeen, and Glasgow). and I invite you come on down and catch a show. All the shows feature Scottish singer/songwriter Yvonne Lyon. So come on out and say hi, it's been great connecting through MySpace.I very much look forward to meeting you in person. See you in August! -Ryan Donn www.ryandonn.com
Aug 5th, Edinburgh, Cabaret Voltaire-£10 , Doors 7pm.
Aug 6th, Aberdeen, Cellar 35, Doors 8pm, Tickets £5 at the door.
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Please submit your artist news and events to CountryHome Forum to help your artists to get well known better in Europe. If you do not have the time to submit your artist news and events by yourself, please send it me to: Ch.Lamitschka@t-online.de and I will submit them by myself to CountryHome Forum.
I know that many artists from North America don't have their music videos uploaded to German video websites. The most popular websites are MyVideo.de and ClipFish.de. That means your European audience does not have the chance to find them.
I understand that most of you don't speak German and are not able to upload videos because of the language barrier. If you would like me to upload your videos to the German video websites, please let me know.
Thanks
Christian
Editor & Journalist for Country Music Christian Lamitschka An der Pfingstweide 28 61118 Bad Vilbel Germany Phone: ++49 6101 544613 Mobil: ++49 171 6903352 Ch.Lamitschka@t-online.de Info@CountryMusic-Magazin.de
