Oh yes. That stuff was released in the UK at the time. I bought "Ready, Willing and Able" when it came out in 1967. Might even have reviewed it for the local paper, on which I was a trainee reporter ("cub reporter", we call it here). You might or might not know that years later it achieved considerable popularity with the Northern Soul crowd.
Ah. The capitalism of pain. And the band plays on.
The folk revival has been on my mind since seeing Molly Tuttle perform in Detroit last May; she’s technically bluegrass but the folk messaging is there. In my circle, the revival began in February 2020 when I witnessed Yola at the Scoot Inn in Austin. In 2021, Amythyst Kaih released Wary + Strange and my ears found a new feminine folk sound full of pride and defiance… not wallflower commentary from the sidelines. Then I dove into my post-Cowboy Carter obsession with Rhiannon Giddens and Ruthie Foster.
The revival has not only begun, but has taken root in different forms. And it seems black women are leading the way, which shouldn’t be surprising. I can’t wait to hear the Detroit-tinted folk sound you speak of.
with the reissue of Spacek's Spaceshift in rotation, this post kinda illuminating it as psychically similar to the idealized future folk hoped for here, to me. Some Nourished By Time stuff strikes the same vein also maybe? Thanks for putting us hip to Daudi Matsiko 📝
I suggest you go onto Bandcamp and listen to a spoken word album by David Bridie called "It been a while since we last spoke". Good stuff is being made. Unfortunately not enough.
So your dad was Jimmy Holiday, of "Ready, Willing and Able" with Clydie King? Wow...
Yes, solid guy, glad you've heard some of his music
Oh yes. That stuff was released in the UK at the time. I bought "Ready, Willing and Able" when it came out in 1967. Might even have reviewed it for the local paper, on which I was a trainee reporter ("cub reporter", we call it here). You might or might not know that years later it achieved considerable popularity with the Northern Soul crowd.
Here for that new folk conception ❤️🔥
Ah. The capitalism of pain. And the band plays on.
The folk revival has been on my mind since seeing Molly Tuttle perform in Detroit last May; she’s technically bluegrass but the folk messaging is there. In my circle, the revival began in February 2020 when I witnessed Yola at the Scoot Inn in Austin. In 2021, Amythyst Kaih released Wary + Strange and my ears found a new feminine folk sound full of pride and defiance… not wallflower commentary from the sidelines. Then I dove into my post-Cowboy Carter obsession with Rhiannon Giddens and Ruthie Foster.
The revival has not only begun, but has taken root in different forms. And it seems black women are leading the way, which shouldn’t be surprising. I can’t wait to hear the Detroit-tinted folk sound you speak of.
with the reissue of Spacek's Spaceshift in rotation, this post kinda illuminating it as psychically similar to the idealized future folk hoped for here, to me. Some Nourished By Time stuff strikes the same vein also maybe? Thanks for putting us hip to Daudi Matsiko 📝
prayer fuel
https://open.spotify.com/track/4JloP4xX2xCkLCvVtXc5ri?si=16ede852acf844fb
Beautiful and thoughtful! Love!
I suggest you go onto Bandcamp and listen to a spoken word album by David Bridie called "It been a while since we last spoke". Good stuff is being made. Unfortunately not enough.