Tag: acoustic music
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“Kingdom Coronation”… A new video ‘celebration’
“Kingdom” 1976. A song from the album by the folk jazz group Dando Shaft. Eight original songs and three trad. arrangements. This song was written just about fifty years ago. Late ’73 through to ’75 Jenks and Coopz were on the road playing pubs and clubs around the UK. They were given the opportunity…
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Martin Carthy – Scarborough Fair (15/11/22)
The art of the Folk Song intro. Martin is a musical treasure. During a trip to Ireland to perform at a TV awards do, Martin and Eliza Carthy performed a few songs at a private, unadvertised gathering for a friend, Dan McDonald. Here is a song – with long introduction – from Martin, from his…
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Quiet Riot “Bigger Bombs”
The only studio recording of the Coventry band Quiet Riot. “the other night”, Thursdays at the Freemasons Tavern. Many great nights. “The Bomb Song” was recorded at Woodworm Studios in 1983. Writen by Dave Cooper it features Dando Shaft members Mart Jenkins, Kev Dempsey and Ted Kay as well as Rob Armstrong, Bub’s White,…
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“Just Like Anything” Jackson C Frank
Thanks to David Trinder for images Personal Memories Dave Cooper is a founder member of 70’s Folk Jazz group Dando Shaft. and created this video. Here he sings a version of the seminal Jackson C Frank song. “I had a personal and mystical association with Jack. At the age of 17 he inspired me to write…
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Folk Songs 1
Price: [MP3 $8.99] (as of – Details) This is the first in a series of four albums recording all 80 of the folk songs in English that Ralph Vaughan Williams arranged for voice and piano or violin. 57 of the 80 songs have not previously been recorded in these arrangements, so there is a good…
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Dave Cooper sings Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
Dave Cooper sings Smoke Gets In Your Eyes Dando Shaft guitarist Dave Cooper croons through an old standard at luthier Rob Armstrong’s house in Coventry, October 2006, on one of Rob’s guitars.” This is one of my all-time favourite lyrics by Otto Harbach with a classic Jerome Kern melody. From an evening with the beloved Maartin…
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Martin Jenkins – Sweet Mother Earth (with help from the boys)
Always here with us. At this time we remember..Our friend Martin Jenkins . Thanks to his loving son Ray Jenkins for this arrangement of “Mother Earth” Beautiful. Source
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“September Wine” The acoustic music of Dando Shaft
Source “Mystic Minstrels by the fire blowing their best for everyone…” “September Wine” The acoustic music of Dando Shaft. Our invocation to the autumn season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Early exploration of asymmetric time signatures. How effortlessly Jenks’ vocals flow in 7/8 one of the great singers of the folk revival.
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Dando Shaft-Cold Wind
From The Dando Shaft Anthology This is for people’s personal enjoyment only. “The six-man Ice Team for The Coldest Journey will be confronting amongst the most inhospitable conditions on the planet, operating in near permanent darkness and enduring temperatures as low as -90°C. Below is an overview of the conditions and terrain they can expect to…
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John Martyn – Small Hours (1978)
John Martyn at Reading University singing Small Hours from ‘One World’ 20/10/1978 “A guy walks out, sits down, and announces, “I’m the warm up band.” We started booing. Then he starts playing through Floyd’s surround sound in an open air stadium. When he’s through we were shouting for more. This guy single-handedly blew a few…
