Dan Walsh – Every Day Is A Better Day

A few weeks ago Dan Walsh played at the Hare and Hounds on one of @moseleyfolk‘s Lunar Society events.  I heard he was great but I missed it as I was at Symphony Hall for the excellent Transatlantic Sessions.

Last night though I caught some of his fine banjo playing, accompanied by Will Pound on harmonica on Moseley’s own, Janice Long’s, Radio 2 show.  It’s available on iPlayer for a week the next week.
During the show they let slip that they will be playing at the Moseley Folk Festival in September.  Hardly surprising, but good news.   First sneak peak at any of the line-up I’ve been able to glean.

This is my favourite track from his quite excellent album, Tomorrow’s Still To Come.

Field Music – Them That Do Nothing

Sometimes you pick up on a track or an album, purely on it’s own musical merits with no knowledge of who the band are, or what they are about.  The recent album by Field Music, Measure, is one such occasion.  I know nothing about this band or what they’ve done before.  I just know that I’m enjoying getting into this album.  I may go take a listen at some of their earlier stuff, but for now let’s see how I get on with this.

Johnny Cash – Redemption Day

I bought a CD today for the first time in ages.   This year I’ve been using my Spotify subscription a lot and not buying CDs.  It’s saved me quite a bit of money over what I’d normally spend.  Given that previously I may well have been the sort of person keeping the music business afloat by buying CDs, I’d say the music industry is screwed regardless of the payment model.

Anyhoo, the CD I bought was the final posthumous Johnny Cash album – American VI:Ain’t No Grave.  I think it’s supposed to be an album about death but it just doesn’t seem to have the sort of weight I’d associate with such a claim.  It’s not as solemn and poignant as earlier Rick Rubin produced albums such as American IV: The Man Comes Around.

It is a good album though and I think a few more listens and it’ll grow more on me.

The Sheryl Crowe (nearly wrote Cheryl Cole there) cover, Redemption Day is my favourite track so far.  It hasn’t cropped up on YouTube or Spotify yet but when it does I’ll update with a link.