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Norah Jones – review

Posted in Uncategorized on 12/11/2023| Leave a Comment »

Review of Norah Jones at Bath Forum on Friday 19th November (LINKED HERE). A great concert. Read the review.

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Accentuate the Positive

Posted in Uncategorized on 05/11/2023| Leave a Comment »

I haven’t done many album reviews recently, but I’m making an exception for Van Morrison’s new one, Accentuate the Positive. (LINKED). I’ve put it on my Around and Around site, not here. I’ll migrate the album reviews over there eventually. It’s very detailed on the sources of the 19 classic cover versions.

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Stateside-Dunhill

Posted in Uncategorized on 05/11/2023| Leave a Comment »

My exhaustive, not to say exhausting labours on Around and Around reach the Stateside-Dunhill label (FOLLOW THE LINK). It was the short-lived (1968-1970) outlet for the US Dunhill label and produced several classic albums. Apart from Easy Rider OST, Mama Cass, Steppenwolf and Three Dog Night it released two almighty ‘lost masterpieces’. They were ‘Sunshower’ by Thelma Houston (which Jimmy Webb rates as his best recording) and ‘Wolfking of LA’ by John Phillips.

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Barbie- review

Posted in Uncategorized on 02/11/2023| Leave a Comment »

Review of ‘Barbie’ (FOLLOW LINK TO REVIEW) at shorter than my normal length. Comments welcome. It was an ironic and kitsch visual delight, and with great dancing. I still can’t work out who they saw as the audience though.

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