Palmyra - Jolie Holland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSAVwl4wU7M Still emotionally drained after the superb Jolie Holland set at Komedia in Brighton on Sunday...
All The Love - Jolie Holland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aBkJGLyooQ Track by track, Jolie Holland strengthens her claim to be occupying a stool in that "joint in...
The Love You Save - Jolie Holland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHfx-vxa-mY Originally written and released in 1966 by Southern soul singer Joe Tex as a civil rights...
Your Big Hands - Jolie Holland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UP8eR6rw_M Ten reasons why you should see Jolie Holland while you have the chance: Up there with the...
Highway 72 - Jolie Holland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX1eAcjKwIE Highway 72 is California State Route 72. The road came into existence in 1964 when part of the original US Route 101 was renamed, but large parts of it have since been "deleted" or "decommissioned", presumably meaning bulldozed out of existence or no longer maintained and reduced to states of extreme disrepair, potholed underpasses that provide shelter for the homeless, a highways for the destitute. A bit like the roads of Sussex to
Haunted Mountain - Jolie Holland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxpJeGKL4Sg Last year Buck Meek, guitarist from Big Thief (see last post) combined with singer songwriter...
Shark Smile - Big Thief
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1QlOfYxykI The phrase "in the old days" more and more means "in the time before the internet". Times...
Smile - Nat King Cole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyHoohNyYkw Today is World Theatre Day, initiated in 1961 by the International Theatre Institute, the...
Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me ) - Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAoaVU3-ve0 When an artist starts out as part of a band, and then renames the band as them AND the band,...
Sebastian - Cockney Rebel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcc4aRKP0TM It's curious that, arguably the best composition by Steve Harley, who died a week ago today,...
