This week on Just Released with Bill Riner & Brandon Stewart:
“Betty said she prayed today,
For the sky to blow away,
Or maybe stay…”,
“River Man” – Nick Drake (1969)
As history has shown, tribute albums can be fraught with problems. Too often, the artists have used their ‘tribute’ as a platform for their own talent with little regard for the original work. Sometimes, those artists are stylistically mismatched, resulting in worthless novelty. Such pitfalls were never about to beset the latest tribute to the works of the fragile English Folk music legend, Nick Drake. Drawn from live performances in Melbourne and London, intimately recorded by Drake’s original producer Joe Boyd (a record man in the truest sense), ‘Way To Blue’ is a fitting tribute to a young artist who departed the world in 1974 (aged 26) with mere clutch of albums as his enduring legacy.
It wasn’t exactly planned this way but the theme of intercontinental activity is prominent in this edition of JR. As well as the Nick Drake tribute, we have the new album from Tuareg guitarist, Omara ‘Bombino’ Moctar who took his music from Niger to Nashville to record his album, ‘Nomad’ with Black Keys’ frontman, Dan Auerbach.
Then there’s one of Australia’s finest guitarists, Bruce Mathiske, playing an instrumental homage to Morocco, to where he’d ventured on his first overseas trip. ‘My Life’ is his 17th (independently released) album and to simply suggest that Bruce is ‘good’ at what he does really is the stuff of understatement.
And there’s even more guitars: America’s Kaki King, a regular visitor to our shores and set to return for another national tour next month, has an impressive new album of instrumental music called ‘Glow’ which we preview this week.
We’ve seen some big names touring Australia just recently, mostly thanks to the festival season over Easter but one of the lesser-known bands which also made a great impression was Grace Potter & The Nocturnals. This week we revisit their latest album, ‘The Lion The Beast The Beat’.
While things were unusually quiet on the Comeback Trail this week, Australian diva, Renee Geyer boldly arrived through the front door. Later this month, Renee will release her new album ‘Swing’ and we have a preview of it for you in this edition.
Renee Geyer: “Baby Please Don’t Go” (preview from the album, ‘Swing’)
Kaki King: “Great Round Burn” (from the album, ‘Glow’)
Bombino: “Amidinine" (from the album, ‘Nomad’)
Luluc: “Things Behind The Sun” (from the album, ‘Way To Blue: The Songs Of Nick Drake’)
Shane Nicholson: “Rider On The Wheel” (from the album, ‘Way To Blue: The Songs Of Nick Drake’)
Grace Potter & The Nocturnals: “The Lion The Beast The Beat”/”Stars” (from the album, ‘The Lion The Beast The Beat’)
Bombino: “Her Tenere" (from the album, ‘Nomad’)
Bruce Mathiske: “Destination Morocco” (from the album, ‘My Life)
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