Ah london snow! pretty as a picture. alas my adidas sambas are not designed for this particular weather so i'm somewhat wet & bruised right now. Anyway, it's good to be back and i'm raring to go, will keep you posted on proceedings for the new record and hope to have some tracks to play yo very soon indeed! I'm playing an acoustic show on the 14th so come down, details on the site. Did you get yesterday's "A Song A Day" ? Ooh La La was written by (THE GREAT!) Mr Ronnie Lane when he was in The Faces, a super group of sorts that make a couple of cracking little records back in the day. I highly recommend a cheeky google search to kill the time at work tomorrow if you've not heard of them..(why on earth not?!) you know, when they'd tour, instead of paying to have a support band on the road with them they'd spend the money on buying a bunch of booze and handing it out free to the crowd before they went on stage so everyone (including the band of course) would be suitably plastered by the time the curtain dropped and so ready for a good time. What good sports they were; no myspace numbers or blog posts for them; get hammered, play rock 'n roll & have a good old knees up. happy days! I could go on taking about Ronnie Lane and the Faces for a while but i'm sure you've all got better things to do then listen to me harp on about rock 'n roll's golden age.
So in keeping with this moody winter weather, i thought a slice of something dark would do the trick for today's "A Song A Day" , now those at you that know me know i'm somewhat of an "avid" Bruce Springsteen fan so you should expect a few more of the Boss's tunes on this series of song exploration! I started it off, on the 26th of December with my own little rendition of "Darkness on the Edge of Town" (still available for you to download if you haven't already by the way!) and today's tune is also a title track from one his records "Nebraska". He recorded the whole album on a 4-track tape machine in his home and it still stands tall as one of the (greatest) most important "story teller" records according to this budding music journo! It' on the "A Song A Day" page and if you're reading this on facebook visit the site when you get a chance...
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