Showing posts with label Folk Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Folk Music. Show all posts

Friday, May 15, 2020

30 Day Song Challenge - Day 15



A song you like that's a cover by another artist.

Leon Rosselson is an amazing songwriter but he can't sing for shit. Thankfully, Dick Gaughan can sing and his version of Rosselson's 'Stand Up For Judas' is brilliant:



Monday, November 12, 2012

Standing in Another Man's Grave by Ian Rankin (Orion Books 2012)




“Bert Jansch was dead, too. Rebus had seen him play a few solo gigs in Edinburgh down the years. Jansch had been born in the city but made his name in London. After work that evening, alone in his flat, Rebus played a couple of Pentangle albums. He was no expert, but he could tell Jansch’s playing from the other guitarist in the band, John Renbourn. As far as he knew, Renbourn was still around – maybe living in the Borders. Or was that Robin Williamson? He had taken his colleague Siobhan Clarke to a Renbourn/Williamson concert once, driving her all the way to Biggar Folk Club without telling her why. When the two musicians stepped on to the stage – looking as though they’d just roused themselves from armchairs by a roaring fire – he’d leaned in towards her.

‘One of them played Woodstock, you know,’ he’d whispered.”