Today’s #TuneTuesday theme is #BanjoYay - songs featuring the banjo. 🪕
I thought about posting something by the excellent Punch Brothers, but whilst heavily mandolin based, wasn’t sure which, if any, tracks had a banjo on. So, one I know definitely did was Schaeffer's Jig by #TheIncredibleStringBand
The next album SpaceAce submitted to this project is the second studio album from Scottish psychedelic folk band The Incredible String Band, number 487 in The List.
For those who have seen my toots particularly around January, you may know that I’m a huge David Bowie fan. Around when he left us, I came across the list of 25 of Bowie’s favorite albums (as told to Vanity Fair in 2003), saved the list on my desktop, and added a few of the albums to my playlist/collection. However, after having to retire the ol’ laptop, I sort of forgot about that list, at least until yesterday, when I randomly put on Tucker Zimmerman’s wonderful Ten Songs by Tucker Zimmerman. And then, when I sat down today to take a listen to SpaceAce’s next submission, lo and behold, within a couple clicks around to look it up, there that list was again.
While I’d have loved to hear SpaceAce’s comments on this album, we’ll have to make do with Bowie’s:
O.K., here’s the album with the trippiest cover. Color’s all over the place on this one, a real eye dazzler. Probably executed by the art group known as “the Fool.” Pretty much locked into a time capsule for many years—it’s uplifting to find that this strange assortment of Middle Eastern and Celtic folk-mystic stuff stands up remarkably well now. A summer-festival “must” in the 60s, myself and T. Rexer Marc Bolan both being huge fans.
We’ll listen to the debut album of this band later down the road, as it’s also in The List. But, for now, in memory of our dearly missed friend (and Bowie), let’s raise a glass and take a listen together.
#1001OtherAlbums #1960s #folk #folkMusic #psychedelic #psychedelicFolk #Scotland #SpaceAce #SpaceAceSunday #TheIncredibleStringBand
aujourd'hui je réussite avec ce morceau
"The Circle Is Unbroken"
par le groupe " The Incredible String Band "
