if music is the food of love ... no wonder I am overweight

so what's worse, collecting cd's or ukulele's?

let's face it, how many can you play at any one time?

Well I've decided to 'give my blog' a go .... and why not!

Hopefully I'll cover a few topics that may catch your attention,

we'll see how it goes over the coming weeks or so.

May Day... May day...

well I suppose better late than never.... so here is cd circle nos.4.

1. 'my way' aretha franklin
2. 'session man's blues' pete atkin
   
3. 'whispering grass' the inkspots
4. 'please read the letter' robert plant & alison krauss
5. 'john the revelator' blind willie johnson
6. 'tuva groove' ondar
7. 'the spirit of ray' mixplosiv
8. 'stay fly' (mano mix) captain planet
9. 'ruby love' cat stevens
10. 'won't you give him one more chance' solomon burke
11. 'whatcha gonna do about it?' doris troy
12. 'too much monkey business' chuck berry
13. 'a certain girl' ernie k. doe
14. 'mozambique' bob dylan
15. 'maximum bob' charlie dore
16. 'you gotta move' kongar -ol-ondar and paul 'earthquake' pena
17. 'i can't get next to you' al green
18. 'what you talkin about' kongar -ol-ondar and paul 'earthquake' pena
19. 'hamoye' tartit
20. 'funky weekend' the stylistics
    

for your ears only

well because Gordon of Moore needed therapy ... (he was nt in the first circle ) it seemed only right and fitting to send him a compilation for his own private use ... a one off ... a copy just for him ... made up of some tracks used on previous compilations and a couple of others that shoulda coulda 'made it'

and I think on reflection it's a canny mix ;-)

mind you he was advised to 'play it on shuffle'

and it included the following tracks ....,

1. angelique kidjo / voodoo child
2. phil upchurch / love is strange
3. joe strummer / mondo bongo
4. ismael lo / aiwa
5. pete townsend and ronnie lane / annie
6. beyonce and marvin gaye / baby boy sexual healing
7. jeb loy nichols / as the rain
8. john martyn / baby come home
9. sonny boy williamson / bring it on home
   
10. john lee hooker / chill out (things gonna change)
11. boozoo bajou / camoiux
12. tangle eye / chantey
13. marvin gaye / aint that peculiar
14. ramsay midwood / shoot out at the chinese restaurant
15. nitan sawhney / dead man
16. lee dorsey / get out of my life woman
17. nick lowe / only a fool breaks his own heart
18. howe gelb / paradise hereabouts
19. nina simone / four women
20. slovo / empires fall
    

so as I said on the last post "we all settled down in front of the television....,"

and after a hard day's work in the shipyard or from down the pit, we relaxed with a nice mug of tea and some bread and butter sandwiches and looked forward to the time in hopefully the not too distant future when all this back breaking work would be gone and we could have a television that we could record direct to and pause and play back when ever we wanted ...

but in the meantime this cd circle playlist 'hit the streets'

1. pugh pugh barney ...
2. hey boy / teddy bears stockholm
3. cocaine man / baxter dury
4. crioulo louco / edson x
5. that's the way i like it /ce marchent debout
6. summertime / billy stewart
7. still moving to me / toots and the maytals
   
8. that'll be the day / the bogart brothers
   
9. three cool cats / the coasters
10. let's make a better world / dr john
11. on the road again / istanbul blues kumpanyasi
12. just my soul responding / smokey robinson
13. duet / howie b
14. woman king / iron and wine
15. summertime / wass
16. boney was a warrior / jack shit
17. the joker / spearhead
18. pardon me (i've got someone to kill) /andre williams & the sadies
    
19. that's all folks / porky pig
    

and the music goes 'round and 'round

well as it's now May '08 and it's time for a 'new' circle cd I thought it best to put a list somewhere of what I had previously sent.

so let's start at the very beginning .... a very good place to start ..... 'cos when you read you begin with
A B C ...... and when you sing you begin with ......,



Cd circle number 1

1. slave to love / jimmy scott
2. she began to lie / christine & katherine shipp
3. glenmalambo /mac umba
4. baby come home /john martyn
5. chantey / tangle eye
6. camioux / boozoo bajou
7. it's all over now / the valentinos
8. ride on / little axe
9. hey joe / willy de ville
10. susie q / dale hawkins
11. i've got a woman / ray charles
12. nadine / chuck berry
13. surffin' / ernsest ranglin
14. see saw / don covay
15. hard to handle / otis redding
16. honeybee blues / the tao of groove
17. my culture / 1 giant leap
18. bring it on home / sonny boy williamson
19. blues jumped the rabbit / stefan grossman
20. mighty good road / kelly pace
21. madamoiselle le marsaille / mousse te le jouvents

and then we settled down in front of the tv and listened to ;-