"Folksy postpunk: Ebba Forsberg"

Many a voice have been raised to the fact, that 80s postpunk
owed more to Scots' and Appalachian folk than to expected
RnR/RnB. In case, This Mortal Coil/ Cocteaux rendering of
Buckley Sr 'song of siren' (see end of snub).
Seem to be still going strong, these similarities. Here's
Sweden's great Ebba Forsberg, freely Fairporting & doing
Sandy Dennies as good as ever 06-09

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn2vxZbXZ80
(boy you owe me)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KU7UVMqkzY (keep it plain)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofFQYJ8qLqA    (most of all)
well, of course she also has her past/ her 'førflutande'. Which
at end of last century was rather on klubbin' side
(well, I'm on a diet- but to hell with it)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y75abyXAXQU (cold like hell)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMor2We-Pgs   (committed)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpglCsmET4w   (angelina)
about 05 she joined folk-politico Mikael Wiehe for subsequent
Dylan and Cohen projects 'på svenska', further strengthening
modal-tonal 'folk' strain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K1ikjLqhCI  (har ar det)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXfAcNv9ajI
(allra minst en morgon/one too many mornings)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asA6_tJAffk
(må din vilja ske/if it be your will)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EdHaW2ctjA
(bare om min elskade ventar/ if only my true love)
Swedish showband/dansband- style was ever open for the
right folksy-cowboy tune. No wonder 'only my true love'
stays staple diet on that scene for forty+ years. Pinko
dansband Nationalteatern's version from 73 may be the
better known? (see furter down)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvtqEbbadzU
(ta min vals/take this walz)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKjqrkR2EC0  (johnna)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt_ewcztHZk  (sparv)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GEPrBb5VkE
(bare om min alskade) Nationalteatern
just love that Brecht'ian dansband vocals!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mUmdR69nbM
this mortal coil (siren's song)
have vivid memories of This Mortal Coil at Expressen
(or was it Venstres Hus?), Oslo 81 or 82. Just Liz Fraser
and that lean 4AD guy on keyboards. My main problem
is that no one else recalls. I may have been daydreaming,
but those dreams rarely came with pints and sig butts?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b49YfsjXw5E
tim buckley (siren's)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMTEtDBHGY4
for good measure...Buckley Sr on prog Monkees' 68 show

Jug bands proto-RnB

Memphis and upper Miss. jug bands of late 20s, were another important lead to chicagean RnB/electrifies blues of 40s. Really kinda vaudeville act reaching out to ragtime dancing, their use of drone bass (jug or stove pipe in didgereedoo-style) is pointing towards late 40s Fender'd bass lines of Muddy and Wolf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwo6HVTacYs whistler's foldin' bed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXcvfgGKIVg whistler's tiger

now, Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers (of 'walk right in' hootennanny fame) are to me j.b. par exellence. Cannot find'em on YT, but I suspect Whistler's J.B. are them. Nice late 30s reconstruction of 'tiger', poss. LoC/Charters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2mvaIsl6FE mjb kc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ove3rtdU9Wc mjb mov'dat'ding

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTriKbYl-pk mjb cc habit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH6ZpWMR2co mjb insane

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY5J2TA11HA mjb stealin'

If Gus Cannon's hardly on YT, Will Shade is. Will's Memphis Jug band, that is. Lasted longer (longest?) of the memphis groups- even incorporating our Joe&Minnie of later Hamfats fame.

'stealin' is of course the Dead song, group starting out as revival jug band in 62 (cannot recall name).

Must admit not having played any J.B. out, as such. But the occational Jim Kweskin Vanguard 7" has surfaced

Memphis minnie proto-RnB

After break up with spouse Joe McCoy, Memphis Minnie commuted between home town and Chicago for nearly two decades - finding audiences as well as financial funding for further recording work. In this aspect we're all grateful to Great Lakes' boomtown of late 30s, enabeling this remarkable femme artist to develop her personal strand of RnB


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH8_WH5aRqo kissin' in the dark early 50s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSno_4LhXOQ killer diller late 40s both late period outings, easily reaching back twenty years to Memphis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lzDXIo4nWg crazy cryin' 1931

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhis33IOXN0 hoodoo lady mid 30s most prob. ChiTown, though

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZm__okfkmA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQwGhSiEMzE rader see'im ded 1938

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiRoNuw5x4M me&my chauffeur 1941 maybe her best known song?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uv6_xkPDG8 you is one black rat late 30s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkUp2AQKEFE down by riverside

Hamfats' proto RnB

Gettin' Harlem Hamfats' songs thrown in among younger 50s 60s RnB tunes, are such treats!

Hamfats, who? See, this was kinda blues&ragtime supergroup of mid to late 30s around Great Lakes - catering to growing Miss. expat community of Chitown and Detroit. Best known for their 'weedsmoker's dream' of later Peggy Lee and Benny Goodman fame http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyjW8FTGxbI weedsmoker's

and otherwise showing their revv'd up & modernized jug band style, freshly up from Memphis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2heVEC2djCE oh red

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqs-R0NptEc pitch boogie woogie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5iWPL4_hQ8 little girl

Hamfats' guitarist Joe McCoy may illustrate the musical trek of southern hire hands, from Miss. Delta- via Memphis in late 20s- and up to industrial North http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuQR9gboSAI

Joe & Charlie mcCoy evil woman blues (skip james/robert johnson hellhound-theme, really)

Joe left spouse Memphis Minnie behind, heading for richter pastures up North

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSeosDahbTw Joe mcCoy& Memphis Minnie pile driver blues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meo36F8-PCY Joe + Minnie levee breaks of later Zep fame

Minnie kept on own career in native Memphis of 40s and even early 50s, creating her very own version of
proto-RnB (of more later). While Joe/Hamfats' stomp became staple diet of Bluebird/Chicago type electrified blues of Washboard Sam/Big Bill during war years.

Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac's rendering of Willie John 'need your love so bad' was solid winner at Sommerlyst Ungdomsklubb (high school social club) diskoes in Tromsø 1968-69. Er,well, 'discoteque' not in modern sense- just us kids bringing along records and queing up behind premises' sole gramaphone.


'need' a steady floor filler as lasses always were looking out for real clingers . And 'need' a good'un at that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtmW2ek7WkQ&feature=related Mac 2.0* dubbing the shorter euro version -the one we first got hold of on Norw. yellow label CBS- even prior to even slower UK Blue Horizon 7"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_CV9cZhyi4&feature=watch-vrec later we found long versions on 'rose' and 'nun' compilation LPs. Well, maybe only on US 'rose', after all. 'nun' take may be 3rd or 4th shortie. Anyway, the prolong'd US version clocks in at fine six min. and has nicely enhanced reed and strings arrangements. Always thought these to be of Johnny Almond's, but recent info pointing to Mickey 'guitar' Baker? Mickey (or Johnny) may have lifted at least part of these from Nick de la Cara's (?!) arrangement of Sonny Knight's version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApZGQyY-MF4

Peter Green's solo leans on dry jazz guitar of John's original http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq4EByQ5AGc

West coast guitar style, to me. But recorded in Cincinatti 1955, so who knows.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LXk9zgSN6w&feature=watch-vrec Sonny Knight's 60s lounge lizard style is of considerable interest, might even be pointing towards scarce transgender-soul of Jackie Shane&kin?

Early Mac had Norwegian connotations, as drummer Michael F lived in Moss/Råde and later Bærum 55-63, following standard Norw. primary+secondary schools. Easter 1968 he returned with new group, dubbing 'moneymaker' on state telly as well as visiting old chums at Kolsås, Bærum.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP3wg8Q0ctY

Tired of Spencer's endless Elmore mannerisms? Sure, we all were after some time. So let's rather enjoy Mac 3.0 (with Kirwan) real live on New Year's eve 1968 in Paris. To my knowledge, they never issued Otis Rush 'homework' in any form. So the bigger the pleasure to present it here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13c1CeelzH4&feature=related speeded up Northernly, we might even be misled to say these days...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjapRXIpEBU and rush/homework in originalem, of course


*) Mac 1.0 with bassist Bob Brunning, who sadly died last month

"Chicagean Youngsters"

Quinton Joseph and Bernard Reed, chicagean youngsters that transformed
flat "rhythm section"to integral part of melody band. Joseph's flo&ebb
drum wavering and Reed's wall-to-wall bass filling in every wee
little tonal square of the song. In Carl Davis//Will Henderson/Eugene

Record Chi-stable 68-71, later turning to Phillie's greener pastures.

"can I change my mind" Tyrone Davis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyxKtz6Z07Q&feature=related

"turn back the hands of time" Tyrone Davis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdZoNiX8cJ8&feature=related

" take a change" Cruisers (Philly 68, but sounds darnwell as 'em)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GIvNvjDKEk

"wrong number" Lee Charles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX84kX8v1vg

"it's all over between us" Lee Charles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgqdbzS0JkU

"somewbody's changing my sweet baby's mind" Johnny Sayles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2_ZyU9sigM

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