#Nic Jones

[blackmensuited]

[sivavakkiyar]

[doomandgloomfromthetomb]

Nic Jones - Kenilworth Folk Club, Warwickshire, England, April 1973

Another rare Nic Jones transfer via taper Tony Rees. I love these little snapshots — any imperfections in the recording are more than made up for in the warm folk club ambiance: murmured conversations, hearty singalongs, clinking glasses, etc. And Nic is casually brilliant, of course, his ridiculous guitar work sounding effortless, his un-amplified voice ringing out over the crowd.

Nic says: It’s like doing a jigsaw puzzle. It’s interesting to do, in the same way as passing exams is worth doing, but I personally don’t want to sit there, 10 hours a day, practicing a ridiculous riff just so somebody’s going to gasp in a folk club. To me it’s as ridiculous as an Olympic swimmer bashing up and down 50 lengths of pool everyday just to knock 0.2 of a second off, to say he’s faster than some other bugger. I don’t see the point of it. There are a lot of musicians who spend hours practising, but for what? They’d do better going out and getting drunk and getting a bit of experience and letting that show in their music. Someone like, for instance, Derroll Adams or Alex Campbell, their music lives far more than any technician’s does because they’re experienced in living. They’ve had more emotion in their lives. Their voices are like sacks of nails, or a bag full of sandpaper or something, but they live. It’s a sound that’s got emotion, feel, it’s got sensitivity, it’s got humanity in it, whereas technical singers are flat, boring, uninteresting people who have been sitting in some cobwebby attic somewhere, just twiddling their fingers all their lives. They’ve not done anything really.

[a3poify]

Things I have dreamed about:

- ranking all the steely dan albums

- one of my friends keeps stubbing out joints on my bed and i can't get her to stop

- Nick Cave was in it that's all I can remember

- watching a documentary about Sunscreen MacLean, the first man to ever play in the WNBA

- theresa may and michael gove had a big argument in Parliament where they screamed and swore at each other

- i interviewed black country new road shortly after isaac left and accidentally shouted out Matt from black midi instead

- i walked to tesco while listening to Nights by Frank Ocean and i arrived there perfectly at the beat switch

- thom yorke came to my house with the new radiohead album and challenged me to walk across my garden in less than 20 seconds (extremely possible task in real life) or he'd take it away and i couldn't make it

- am i good enough friends with sufjan stevens to add him to a Discord server

- drake releases a song and everyone unanimously agrees it is the worst one ever made

- i'm in the room with the cross from the National Accident Helpline ad https://youtu.be/lXFbLMy9tjU

- i was in the playground near my house and had to rush home to do an listening party of Dangerous by Michael Jackson

- Nic Jones's Baby Einstein songs

- Jordan Peterson was my Computer Science teacher at uni where my class was from 1am-3am

- Simpsons brand chips and salsa cause me to hallucinate a Simpsons-animated video for The Cinema Show

- i owned Yanqui UXO on vinyl

- i did a sick pogo stick trick and broke my legs

- 100 gecs show at the soft play area i went to as a kid

- my parents bought a horse and it lived in the house with us and then it headbutted me into a wall from behind

- jason lytle vs deontay wilder world title fight

- I was walking down this street in Hastings and I saw Martin Kemp from Spandau Ballet collapsed on the path, covered in blood, after falling and hitting his head on a railing. Me and my family carried him home and as soon as we got him in he started vomiting everywhere which caused me to projectile vomit specifically on a pile of magazines in my bedroom. Everyone kept calling him Tony Hadley.

[boatmediatourney]

🚢Boat Song Tournament🚢

Round 1B, match 5

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[alwaysalreadyangry]

And as I watched your body fall I knew that really you had won For your grave was not the earth But the reflections of the sun

[mywifeleftme]

258: Nic Jones // The Noah's Ark Trap

The Noah's Ark Trap Nic Jones 1977, Trailer

His performing career cut short in a traffic accident at age 35, his back catalogue entombed in legal wrangles, Nic Jones enjoys the legend of a musician more often spoken of than heard. Jones’s final album, 1980’s Penguin Eggs, is one of the small handful of true masterpieces of the English folk revival, a maritime journey through traditional song driven by Jones’s percussive, slapping fingerstyle guitar and curlicued vocal melodies. It’s also the only one of his records that’s stayed more or less in print since its release, meaning that it has completely overshadowed the rest of his catalogue (outside those collectors with the cash or pluck to track down the increasingly pricy original editions anyway).

As a listener who has obsessed over Penguin Eggs for years, I was shocked to find an unpriced copy of 1977’s The Noah’s Ark Trap in a local shop and, after some haggling with the good-natured proprietor, walked out with it for a song. I’d heard it a few times back in my music blog .rar downloading days and I recall liking it, but since I’ve had an actual copy for my table it’s steadily grown in my estimation to the point I’d rank it the near-equal of its more celebrated younger sibling. The LP contains a similar mixture of lengthy story songs (“The Golden Glove”), bawdy cautionary tales (ode to cum “The Wanton Seed”), blazing fiddle reels (“Miles Weatherhill”), and aching ballads (“Ten Thousand Miles,” perhaps the most moving thing he ever recorded). As on Penguin Eggs, Jones plays with minimal accompaniment (six of ten tracks are solo endeavours), giving the music a lonely grandeur, like a bard narrating the sunset of an age. These are songs of ancient heritage, and while Jones’s style bears the marks of the contemporary revival (and particularly the influence of Martin Carthy) he makes no concessions to pop. There is only this man with his pure and earnest voice, the guitar he’s poured the work of a lifetime into mastering, and visions of forests and green pastures that will endure till the rocks melt and the seas burn.

258/365

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My heart, it lies on him

[waltricia]

Polin // Bridget Jones/Mark Darcy parallels?

[browsethestacks]

Jessica Jones

Art by Nic Klein

[blackmensuited]

[sivavakkiyar]

Nic Jones, Ballads & Songs

genuinely a shame this isn’t in print anymore. The selection, the arrangements, the guitar work are all phenomenal and magical

[extraordinary-heroes]

Artist Showcase: Nic Klein (Marvel Works)

[disneytva]

Disney is releasing a new short series named "A Piece of My Mind" where they showcase various Disney Television Animation creators talking about their shows and the main source of inspiration.

The first episode centered around Natasha Kline with Primos is slated for this Friday during the premiere of Zombies: The Re-Animated Series this was revealed via EIDR.

Other "A Piece of My Mind" shorts centered around Aliki Theofilopoulous with Zombies: The Re-Animated Series, Ryan Gillis with StuGo, Dan Povenmire, Jeff "Swampy" Marsh with Phineas And Ferb and Hamster & Gretel, Nic Smal, Lucy Heavens with Kiff, Noah Z. Jones with a NDA - Disney Channel series and The Houghton Brothers with Big City Greens are being planned.

[alwaysalreadyangry]

having a great time listening to the Bandoggs album - which as far as i know was only ever released on vinyl & cassette (and the cassette was only in spain). a folk ~supergroup from the late 70s, i love them so much

Oh the crew are asleep and the ocean’s at rest And I’m singing this song to the one I love best