Santa, baby!!!
After collecting missed deliveries and notification slips going to my neighbours house, I am relieved to say that I have been truly blessed.
The Decemberists: We All Raise Our Voices To The Air
I love me some Decemberists. They played here a few years back and I was lucky enough to be sitting in the front row at Colin’s feet and I had a view very similar to this album cover. They played a lot of my favourites, covered one of my all time favourite Hoodoo Gurus songs and managed to squeeze in an abridged version of the album The Hazards Of Love as their first encore. It was an outstanding show and I’m looking forward to spinning this live cut.
Charles Bradley: No Time For Dreaming
I was also fortunate enough to see Charles Bradley perform at the Melbourne Zoo before he passed. The Screaming Eagle of Soul absolutely floored me that night with his presence and outpouring of love from the crowd and band made it a memory that will long stay with me.
I have come so close to buying both these albums at times but then usually FOMO got in the way and other, some notably less worthy albums made the cut before these did.
Thank you for your kind note too. I’m glad that we have a mutual taste in artists and you’ve selected two of your favourites.
Your name did appear on the note, which I won’t disclose here but it did not tell me your online handle. I could make some assumptions about who you are based on your name but as the old saying goes that would make an Ass of U and Mptions.
I wish you the merriest of Christmases, whoever you are. Thank you so, so much.
