Amongst George’s originals, Cheek to Cheek (written with Van Dyke Parks) is a delightfully playful twist of Latino country and Twenty Million Things is one of the most tenderly sweet love ballads you could ever hope to hear. There’s a handful of gorgeous covers, including his then-lover Rickie Lee Jones’s jazzy Easy Money and an outrageously slinky version of Ann Peebles I Can’t Stand the Rain. George really indulges all his musical obsessions on Thanks I’ll Eat It Here, a masterpiece of bohemian soul and RnB. Little Feat in their 1970s prime had a reputation to rival The Band as purveyors of a funky, soulful Americana of virtuoso musical skill. The guitarist and singer from Little Feat has become a rather forgotten figure, perhaps because he only made one solo album before his death from a heroin overdose in 1979, aged 34. Oddly, this album was treated as a gimmick at the time, when what you’ve got is an all-time great pioneer playing loose, funky blues with some of the greatest rockers in the world. But whenever the supergroup kicked into gear, the mood would change. Aged 60, the Wolf was in ill health, drinking heavily, and was surly and uncommunicative. But because the Stones were otherwise engaged on the first day of recording, Ringo Starr stepped in with Beatles’ associate Klaus Voormann on bass, cutting a funky version of Willie Dixon’s I Ain’t Superstitious.Īt various points John Lennon, David Bowie, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger dropped by. Chester Burnett, aka The Wolf, arrived in London in May 1970 for a week-long super-session led by guitar hero Eric Clapton and the Rolling Stones rhythm section of bassist Bill Wyman, drummer Charlie Watts and piano sideman Ian Stewart. ![]() When you first learn that this album even exists, it seems an impossibility: legendary blues veteran Howlin’ Wolf in the studio with members of Cream, The Rolling Stones and the Beatles. Title track Diamond Day was used in a TV advert for T-Mobile 17 years ago, at a time when mobile phone ads were all about whimsy. Bunyan quit music, only to return for two more albums in 20. ![]() These songs, again like Drake’s, were produced by Joe Boyd and featured string arrangements by Robert Kirby. The delicate songs on Just Another Diamond Day came about a few years later when Bunyan travelled to the Hebrides by horse and cart with a boyfriend to join a commune planned by musician Donovan, as you do. Back home, she was introduced to the Rolling Stones’ manager Andrew Loog Oldham and her first single, in 1965, was penned by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards (and featured Jimmy Page on guitar). ![]() Born in South Tyneside in 1945, the teenage Bunyan travelled to New York and discovered Bob Dylan. But, like Drake, she sang fragile folk music and sold precious few albums on their release. Calling British singer Vashti Bunyan “the female Nick Drake” does a disservice to her unique sound.
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