Music

The Commitments with Mustang Sally - they were brilliant .

Frith wrote:Came across this Chinese Folk Song. It's amazing, beautifully sung and the images are stunning.

I'm not sure if it is folk or modern....or both.
Pretty girl, pretty song.
Not really to my taste.

I love the music from the film O Brother, where art thou? And I'll Fly Away is my favourite. Comes in just ahead of Down in the River to Pray.

Ricky!

You'll be amused to know that my English Dad was a country music fan. All the way from good old Slim Whitman to the present day. He also loved bagpipe music and Irish songs. Had collections of "Lps" from Bing Crosby to folk bands. Used to go to the "pictures" when he was a kid and watch the old western heroes on Saturday morning specials, along with something he called "the Green Archer." John Wayne films he never missed. Loved that line: "Get outta here, and don't bleed on mah land!"

We used to get hauled off to the drive in on a Saturday night after he came home from a very English game of bowls. We went to the late session at 9.30 p.m. where we saw all the Trinity movies, the Clint Eastwood jobs and all those spaghetti westerns where the whores were beautiful and had compassionate hearts and the heroes were all deep, silent and mysterious men who rode into town, shot all the bad guys and rode out again, leaving broken bones, broken hearts and the smell of cordite. And all this under an African moon, for me. In the good old days when crime wasn't there and the night was just full of insect noises and dark tree shadows. We used to go home through the empty city sometimes and stop for a hot-dog before buying the Sunday papers at about 1 a.m. and coming home to read them accompanied by a cup of tea.

Some traditional "Boeremusiek" especially created by the people who came to be known as the Afrikaners of South Africa in which they utilize the old "squashbox", or concertina, in various ways to make "dansmusiek" (music for dancing). Enjoy!

And the fabulous Soweto String Quartet: