#sunday with

[ecranimaginaire]

Sunday with Lesley Manville: ‘Champagne on a Sunday is always a treat’

The actor describes her pleasant laid-back day of rest with kitchen karaoke and friends

[inrumford]

in John’s head, they’re the same age - two songwriters discussing their craft - in Sturgill’s head he’s with an old man with stories to tell - I don’t know - 1 of the things I hate about life - that brilliance passes away - the mind is still eighteen but the body sez fuck you. I can just picture John walkin in front of a mirror - WO! who the fuck is that old dude! life is cruel in some respects - but it is life after all. any ways - I laugh and I cry - this is such a good listen/watch.

[inrumford]

Sunday with Anthony D’Amato...

When Anthony D’Amato was a junior at Princeton, he slipped a home-burned CD under the door of a professor — not a professor of music, and certainly no record executive. It was the door of Paul Muldoon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, critic and poetry editor of The New Yorker, who began to work with D’Amato. Five years later, the student is on the music scene, winning praise for folk-rock songs that demonstrate a plain, sometimes flip poetry of their own.

[inrumford]

Artist - Kendl Winter ( don’tcha just wanna give her a hug?) :-) Song - Centrifugal Forces

Kendl Winter - vocals and banjo Joe Capoccia - bass

Kendl Winter is a dreamer of dark clouds, has a drawer stuffed full of stolen socks, and picks banjo and guitar like a hillbilly in the Ozarks. Born in Arkansas and based in Olympia, Washington, Kendl performs as a solo artist with a loop pedal, guitars, banjos. She twists those instruments into captivating melodies, crossing into the realm of country music. Kendl writes and plays with various touring bands from the Pacific Northwest, including the Blackberry Bushes, the Pasties, Southern Skies and It's All Gotta Go. Her fourth solo album, (and first K release) Apple Core [KLP224], was self-recorded on a boat in the Puget Sound and a house on the west side of town. It features sweet and sad songs unique to Kendl's dark dream cloud with layers of harmonies floating over banjo, guitar, dobro and piano.

[inrumford]

"Lost on the River" Lost Songs The Basement Tapes Continued... I could never get enough of Rhiannon - here with Marcus Mumford and the angelic choir :) I hope we all get found…

Lost On The River #20 Written by Bob Dylan, Rhiannon Giddens and Marcus Mumford

The tears of a woman are hidden within As she moves from one to the next, her spirit grows thin And when she falls in love with one, it’s hard but it’s true But it’s oh so much harder when that man is you

I got lost on the river, but I got found I got lost on the river, but I didn’t drown

One stormy day I was out at sea The waves they rolled and tumbled over me I spied dry land and a tall pale tree I knew that soon that’s where I’d like to be

My sweetheart left me for another one And now I wait for the next rising sun

I got lost on the river, but I got found I got lost on the river, but I didn’t drown I got lost on the river, but I didn’t go down I got lost on the river, but I got found

[inrumford]

“Tell me what you seek out We’ll fumble in the dark and find it”

Sunday with Peter Katz…

WE ARE THE RECKONING

We are the meant to be, the sum of all that we’ve tried A tattered history but one with nothing to hide And our reality, stubbornly, will not be denied We are the enemies of the empty passing of time And all the energy that stays locked up inside We are the reckoning, reminding what it means to be alive Tell me what you seek out We’ll fumble in the dark and find it And clumsily now We’ll get to where we get And through our broken steps, we’ll make it We are the broken ones, we’ll take the stones that they throw And build a monument, so everybody will know We cannot be undone, we will become, the lights along the road Tell me what you seek out We’ll fumble in the dark and find it And clumsily now We’ll get to where we get And through our broken steps, we’ll make it We will make it We are the reckoning reminding what it means to be alive We are the meant to be, the sum of all that we have ever tried We are the reckoning reminding what it means to be alive Tell me what you seek out We’ll fumble in the dark and find it And clumsily now We’ll get to where we get And through our broken steps, we’ll make it We will make it

http://www.peterkatz.com/about/

“If you want to make something that’s like nothing you’ve made before, then you have to shake yourself up, go beyond what’s comfortable and known and let yourself feel disoriented, overwhelmed, even intimidated. Those moments, when you lose your bearings, when you’re forced to sink or swim, are the moments when you have an opportunity to rise to the occasion, to surprise yourself, to do the things you didn’t know you could do. That’s what making this album was for me, I’m so proud of the process, and I’m so proud of the result.”

The result is ‘We Are The Reckoning’, a striking new collection of 11 original songs from JUNO-nominated singer-songwriter and recently crowned Best Male Vocalist in the popular NOW Magazine Best-Of-Toronto 2014 reader’s poll (readership of ½ million) Peter Katz. After 3 successful national and international tours in support of his 2012 release ‘Still Mind Still’, Peter spent the better part of the past 2 years writing well-over 50 new songs while collaborating on some of them with an impressive list of co-writers in Los Angeles, London, and at home in Toronto (a new approach for Peter who had always typically written alone). His hard work paid off when he attracted the attention of co-producers Royal Wood (multiple Juno-Award Nominee) and Bill Lefler (Ingrid Michaelson, Cary Brothers), who signed on to help him turn those songs into Peter’s most sonically-rich album to date.

The 3 of them holed up in studio with Juno-award winning engineer Tim Abraham of The Hive, and, taking turns on different instruments, built up the musical-landscape that would become ‘We Are The Reckoning’. He also attracted an impressive list of guests to join him on the album, including rising Scottish star Rachel Sermanni, legendary lapsteel player Ben Peeler (Fleet Foxes, Jimmy Cliff, Wallflowers) and Felicity Williams (Bahamas) to name a few.

Over the past decade, Peter has seen his albums debut at #1 on the iTunes singer-songwriter charts; he’s shared the stage and studio with the likes of Academy Award Winner Glen Hansard (Once, The Swell Season), Juno Award-Winners The Good Lovelies, Polaris-Prize nominated Melissa McCelland (Whitehorse) and the Legendary Garth Hudson from The Band. He’s toured all over the world, regularly playing to capacity crowds, and has managed to build an impressive fan-base of loyal listeners, selling over 25,000 copies of his discs mostly from the stage, one show at a time. Never content to sit still for long, Peter Katz has his eyes firmly set on the future. “I’m in a different place than I was when I started 10 years ago. I didn’t really know what I was getting myself into and I maybe didn’t always put my focus in the right place. Now I know what this thing is, I know the relentlessness that’s required, I know it’s not a race, and I know that the music has to come first. I feel like I finally did that with this record. I took my time. I shook myself up, threw myself into unfamiliar territory and took some big risks. Now that I’m on the other side of it, I can see why it was the right thing to do, and I’m more excited than ever to share what we made.”

[inrumford]

All Them Witches are a neo-psychedelic, dark blues quartet from Nashville. They unapologetically use the music of earlier eras to forge a loose, spacy, hard rock sound of their own. While it is easy to pick out influences -- including Blue Cheer, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Mountain, Gris-Gris and Sun, Moon & Herbs-era Dr. John, and the electric Delta swamp blues of Junior Kimbrough -- it is much more difficult to pin them down due to a unique meld of crafted songwriting and spacious grooves.

Fronted by bassist Charles Michael Parks, Jr., the lineup is rounded out by drummer Robby Staebler, guitarist Ben McLeod, and Allan Van Cleave on Fender Rhodes, organ, and other instruments. Parks met Staebler while they were working at "a corporate hippie store." Staebler gave him some music he had been writing and playing with McLeod; it inspired Parks to jam with them. Staebler's pal, keyboardist Van Cleave, was also invited and All Them Witches were born.

-Thom Jurek AMG