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Song Review: I’m With Her - “Be My Husband” (Live, Backstage, June 20, 2025)

Talk about intimate.

Unmic’d, sans instruments and surrounded by fans in a backstage room at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, I’m With Her performed “Be My Husband” for the lucky dozens allowed to be there.

Standing in a circle, Sarah Jarosz, Sara Watkins and Aoife O’Donovan accompany themselves with marching shoes and hand claps as they sing Nina Simone’s desperate words:

Oh, Daddy/love me good

Someone thought to capture the spellbinding scene, but did so unobtrusively, perhaps in deference to his or her church-mouse quiet co-listeners. But when the trio hit the final note, the pent-up energy bursts forth even as the gathered throng parts to allow the musicians to exit.

Talk about intimate - and courteous.

Grade card: I’m With Her - “Be My Husband” (Live, Backstage - 6/20/25) - A+

6/26/25

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Ani Cordero - “Me Tumba” [I’m Devastated]

This Video is Dedicated To: Este video esta dedicado a:

Sandra Bland, John Crawford, Walter Scott, David Collie, Joseph Mann Terrence Crutcher, Sam Dubose, Sureshbhai Patel, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Sean Bell,  Rodney King, Ramarley Graham, Trayvon Martin, Emmett Till, Philando Castile, Alton Sterling, Rekia Boyd, Corey Jones

…Y un sinnúmero de personas conocidas y desconocidas … And to all the countless lives, both known and unknown

¡Tome Acción!  Take Action! BlackLivesMatter.com

(Translation to English on video & description) 

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Song Review - Hawktail - “Unless” (Live, 2024)

As Hawktail, fiddler Brittany Haas, bassist Paul Kowert and guitarist Jordan Tice have found the way to solo simultaneously without pulling their music apart.

Captured on professional video performing “Unless” at the 2024 Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival, the trio put its rare talent on display as the players coax melody out of three separate lines of aural thought.

This is classical music disguised as bluegrass: with Haas more violinist than fiddler, Kowert playing his bass with a cellist’s bow and Tice’s solos making steel sound like nylon. The result is quintessentially Hawktail; virtually impossible to characterize, yet familiar.

Grade card: Hawktail - “Unless” (Live, 2024) - A

6/20/25

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on the border to Bolivia

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walking on water

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Canadian Rockies biking

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King of Denmark birthday party

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Denmark 2025

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I need to get this album

The Swell Season - Great Weight

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What is success?

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded! ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Artist Catrin Welz Stein

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Happy Birthday Bernard Joseph "Benny" Gallagher born June 10th 1945 in Largs.

There's very little about Benny online, his working life started in the Glasgow shipyards as a marine electrician and in his spare time played bass guitar in local semi-professional beat group The Bluefrets, which featured Graham Lyle on lead guitar.

Gallagher's first published song was "Mr Heartbreak's Here Instead", which he co-wrote with Andrew Galt. This was recorded as a single for EMI-Columbia in 1964 by Dean Ford and the Gaylords,the bulk of which later became chart-topping outfit Marmalade.

In 1966, Gallagher and Lyle – who by now had forged a songwriting partnership – moved to London in search of a publishing deal. Both continued to hold down day jobs, Gallagher as an electrician and Lyle as a shipping clerk, while waiting for their big break. After an abortive contract with Polydor, which yielded one unsuccessful single, the pair joined the Apple record label of Beatles fame, writing songs for Mary Hopkin.

Gallagher and Lyle first saw success as members of McGuinness Flint, a vehicle for ex Manfred Man member Tom McGuinness. Gallagher and Lyle left to work as a duo. Gallagher was credited as Bernard Gallagher on sheet music copies of early songs such as these, but later shortened his forename to avoid confusion with golfer of the same name. Although now playig as duo the pair also spent a short time in Ronnie Laine's band Slim Chance, making several TV appearances on a couple of songs.

In 1976 Gallagher and Lyle finally hit the big time with the help of US producer David Kershenbaum who has worked with Cat Stevens, Joan Baez Elkie Brookes and Supertramp, his work Brookes and has yielded multiple Grammys and an Oscar nomination.

The stand out singles from their album Breakaway, , "I Wanna Stay With You" and "Heart on My Sleeve" both hit the top ten and made the charts in the US. Two more songs from the album spawned big hits in the States for Don Williams, Stay Young,and Art Garfunkel with the title track Breakaway. The duo's next album, Love on the Airwaves, also produced by Kershenbaum, went silver in the UK but yielded only one minor hit single, "Every Little Teardrop". Their final two albums, Showdown and Lonesome No More – the latter issued on Mercury – failed to chart.

Gallagher and Lyle split in 1980, leaving behind an unreleased ninth album, Living on the Breadline. A song recorded for this set, "A Heart in New York", subsequently became another hit for Garfunkel.

Gallagher kept a low profile for much of the 1980s, but re-emerged in 1992 as bassist with The Manfreds, a mixture of ex members of Manfred Man, although not enjoying chart success they toured the world for several years before Benny left in 1999. . During his tenure in the band, he co-founded and served as chairman of the royalties campaigning body PAMRA, which was set up to ensure that musicians received a fair share of royalties from recordings and performances. He then spent a year or so with one of my favourite groups Dr Hook before he embarked on a solo career as a singer-songwriter, touring the folk club and festival circuits.

In 2010, Gallagher reunited with Lyle for two concerts in their former hometown of Largs in aid of Haylie House, a residential care home in the town. They then did a couple of gigs "The Big Gig" at Glasgow's Barrowland nightclub, alongside Marti Pellow, Jim Diamond and Midge Ure and and the MOARE Festival in Faversham, Kent, which was headlined by former Average White Band man Hamish Stuart.

In 2012, Gallagher and Lyle undertook a sell-out tour of Scottish venues, under the banner of "The Homecoming Tour"; their 22-song set included all their British chart entries and both their US chart-toppers, since then they seemed o have been popping up all over place at Festivals and on tour.

Gallagher has lso released two solo albums on his own OnSong label: On Stage and At The Edge Of The Wave. The latter set includes "Tusitala", a tribute to Robert Louis Stevenson, the name coms from RLS's time in Samoa, meaning "teller of tales" - by the local villagers. Journalist and writer Tam Cowan has also used Tusitala as tribute, naming his house at Swanston on the outskirts of Edinburgh Tusitala.

Gallagher and his wife Diane have four children: Dillon, and Paul (twins) and Julian and and Claire (twins). Both Dillon and Julian work in the Music industry, Julian has written songs for the band Five, Kylie Minogue and a couple of The Spice Girls solo songs.

There's nothing really new to say about Benny, I don't know if he has maybe retired, he did give an interview to the local newspaer in Largs, the Largs & Millport Weekly News where he said how he is indebted to Sir Paul McCartney for his musical career.

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Glen Hansard - “Drive All Night (feat. Eddie Vedder and Jake Clemons)” (…

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Sturgill Simpson - Life Of Sin

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Thanks for the support.🤙

Have a great weekend.

This is Imelda May

Johnny got a boom boom

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Peter Gabriel   This Is Home (Dark-Side Mix)

‘It began with inspiration from some of the great Tamla Motown rhythm sections so we’re trying to recreate that in a modern way, complete with the tambourine and handclaps. The groove I like a lot, Tony Levin does a great bass part there.’