“You know, if you break my heart, I’ll go,
But I’ll be back again…”
“I’ll Be Back” - The Beatles [1964]
Agreed, it’s not likely the first Beatles song you’d think of but it’s an early sign of how complex their compositions would soon become. “I’ll Be Back” has only two and a half verses, two distinctly different bridges and no chorus whatsoever. Here in the Antipodes (just as in the UK), “I’ll Be Back” appeared as the final song on the album, ‘A Hard Day’s Night’. In the USA, kids would catch up with it five months later on an album called ‘The Beatles ‘65’. Let’s face it, until The Beatles delivered their Rosetta Stone in the form of ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ in 1967, their UK albums and EP’s had been chopped, diced and generally bastardized for considerations that were more commercial than artistic. Nevertheless, a generation (and more) grew up with those records in the USA and in celebration of The Fabs’ conquest of North America 50 years ago this month all those pre-Pepper releases have been collected in a box. In this week’s JR, we open it up.
Also in this edition we return to the album ‘Any Old Love’ - just released by Brisbane band, Halfway. The critical acclaim that’s welcomed the album is warranted, as much for its sound, as for its distinctive (but never cloying) Australian imagery.
A different kind of Roots music this week comes to us from Mali via the Mojave with the just released album by the Tuareg Desert Blues musicians, Tinariwen. Now in exile from their Saharan desert home in northern Mali, the band recorded their new album, ‘Emmaar’ in the sparse Mojave Desert region of California.
Approaching Roots music from yet another angle this week brings us to the stinging Blues guitar of Joe Louis Walker whose new album, ‘Hornet’s Nest is released at the end of this month. Among the album’s original songs, Joe Louis Walker also pays tribute to his own roots with a version of the 1958 classic, “Don’t Let Go”.
Also covering a Rock ‘n’ Roll classic from that same era is South East Queensland chanteuse, Nadia Sunde. Her new independent album ‘Stoking The Fire’, includes a smouldering version of “Shakin’ All Over”.
One of the week’s major surprises comes from American musician, Beck. His music has taken some curious turns over the past two decades but his latest ‘style reinvention’ is as remarkable as it is different. Beck has used the word “healing” to describe the music on ‘Morning Phase’ and it’s certainly introspective in mood. You’ll hear a preview of Beck’s new album right here.
Halfway: “Dropout”/”Dulcify” (from the album, ‘Any Old Love”)
Tiariwen: “Emajer” (from the album, ‘Emmaar’)
Nadia Sunde: “Till The Wind Dies Down”/”Shakin’ All Over” (from the album, ‘Stoking The Fire’)
Joe Louis Walker: “As The Sun Goes Down”/”Don’t Let Go” (preview from the album, ‘Hornet’s Nest’)
Beck: “Morning” (preview from the album, ‘Morning Phase’)
The Beatles: “A Hard Day’s Night”/”I’ll Be Back” (from the box set, ‘The U.S. Albums’)
Tiariwen: “Toumast Tincha” (from the album, ‘Emmaar’)
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