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"You can lead a horse to guitar, but you can't make it sing"

I know. Atrocious. Must be getting past my prime. Time and tide.

OK - in spite of the lack of encouragement for this sort of thing, I'm seeing it as a shoo(finally figured out it's not about footwear)-in for the stripped down acoustic version of
Everlong Foo Fighters
I know at least 1 other blogger who likes it. He also knows about time and tides.

Or..........

S&G & Gypsy Kings would be great too if stripped down isn't the preferred option. No' fussy.

"The knacker's yard suddenly seemed like a better option".

OK, you hold his head & I'll pull the guitar out of his nose....

Thursday:

New faces - The Rolling Stones

Guitar playing at its best




DC

#3 Class! ;o)

'Question' - Moody Blues

'Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?' - Bryan Adams

#7 is that a caption or a song suggestion?
BTW Julie - loved your pants song. Highlight of the night.

'Dead Hearts' by Stars...lovely song from a band from Toronto.

Going Home - Bert Jansch

Going to California - Led Zeppelin (Jimmy Page)

In Scandinavia - Runrig (Malcolm Jones)

Hey Hey - Eric Clapton

Around the Bend - Joe Bonamassa

and if you're going to play Anji it would be nice to have the man who wrote it - Davy Graham, especially since Bert Jansch will already have been slotted into the playlist, see above.

here's a few suggestions:

On The Border - Al Stewart
Saturday Night, Sunday Morning - The River Detectives
While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles from the 'Love' Album
Just The Smile - Rory Gallagher
Too Long At The Fair - Bonnie Raitt
It Don't Matter To Me - Bread
Redemption Song - Bob Marley
Tin Man - America
Tangled Up In Blue - Bob Dylan
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away - The Beatles
Sacro Illiac - 10 CC
Enjoy The Ride - Morcheeba
Wild World - Cat Stevens
Cowgirl In The Sand - Crosby Stills Nash & Young ( from 4 Way Street)
My Friend the Sun - family
If You Could read My Mind - Gordon Lightfoot
Meet Me On the Corner - Lindisfarne
If You Leave Me Now - Chicago
Alone Again Or - Love
Me and You and a Dog Named Boo - Lobo

The Lobo track is a bit out of character with the rest, I guess, but I've always loved it - I don't know why, it just makes me feel happy

reagdrez youse

henri

"Awww... don't look so sad - England didn't really lose to Ireland in the cricket world cup today... it's all just a bad dream..."

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I reckon Bowie fits the bill perfectly for this theme, Bowie and/or Ronson giving it laldy on the acoustic. Several songs that really fit Moonage Daydream, Bewlay Bros, John I'm Only Dancing. But this is a theme for a bit of:


Soul Love - David Bowie

or

Queen Bitch - David Bowie

or from also featuring Bowie / Ronson:

Wagon Wheel - Lou Reed

THURSDAY


Lemme give you a list of the musicians featuring on this recording;

BONNIE-VOCAL, ACOUSTIC SLIDE GUITAR, FOOT

CHARLIE MUSSLEWHITE-HARMONICA

That's all, folks!


- Bonnie Raitt

#12 if there's one thing worse than the Smiths for making me fall asleep, it's cricket



I see you agree Scotch

This is another theme which has mysteriously transmuted from "Acoustic Guitar Heroes" to "normal songs" so forget John Fahey and Leo Kottke

Hanging On The Telephone - Blondie - There's a little strumming deep in the mix

Caption


"Nag, nag."

Happy to second HH and Tin man (#11)

The Killing of Georgie - Rod Stewart
Is it enough I luuv you - Stacey Earle
Stay - Sugarland
Desire - Ryan Adams
Alone - Heart (live cd)
Falling slowly - Swell Season
Run - Snow Patrol (Radio 1 Live Lounge version)
Lyin' in the arms of Mary - Sutherland Brothers and Quiver
Greenville - Lucinda Williams
A world of our own - the Seekers
On and on - Steven Bishop
Forever young - Audra Mae

Joe
Linlithgow

#16

DC,

Cry me a loch.

Tim Buckley - Dolphins

Preferably from Dream Letter 1968 Live.

Charm Clyde Doc

Caption

"I suppose a pluck is out of the question..."

Glen,

We're playing nearly anagrams again.

>8-D

The long faces at the audition meant that Babs went back to the day job

Chuck and Trigger were the first to take advantage of California's newly liberalised civil partnership statutes

Mr Ed? Is that you?

Neigh.

No darling, when I said "I feel a bit hoarse today", I was referring to my singing voice

What on earth is 'normal songs'? An excuse to bypass any possibility of introducing some cracking tunes to people who might even enjoy them?

*sigh* and *sigh* again.

undaunted she pressed on blindly

Solid Gone - Rab Noakes

go on, Bryan, you said some nice things about Rab Noakes not that long ago and this is superb

Peter, Paul and Mary reunion given thumbs down by critics

Thank goodness they cut my ears off.

CAPTION..........clean shaven man to woman with guitar............'nice horse, where'd ye find him?'
woman with guitar to man.......'i found him wandering through a glesca' housing scheme....so i wrote a little song'.
man to woman with guitar......'what have you called the song?'
woman with guitar to man.....'the famous mr. ned'

open the cage and let the BYRDS out................
'my back pages' ( this song is dedicated to all GIO'ers who might look into the mirror and see their youthful past!!!)
'chimes of freedom'
'mr. tambourine man'
'mr. spaceman'

and on the theme of birds..........

'sparrow'............simon and garfunkel


and if your stuck for a song you could always try 'come up and see me' (make me smile)........although i still think that song needs uillean pipes to fill that split second pause (must be a musical term for that)..near the end.......

cheers frae the dale (from a part of the city where you never see a wanderin mr. ned)

After Thursday's 'normal' songs you'll wish they had.

#34 refers to #32


#33

No' even in Gartnavel?

>8-D

Big seconds for Rab Noakes but I'd request Don't keep passing me by from The River Sessions

However, I've requested that song four times already to no avail whereas my suggestion of New Faces by the Rolling Stones has only been requested three times so I'll stick with the Stones to make it equal no-plays


When I said I wanted a black beauty to make up our folk trio, I had Gladys Knight in mind...!!!



DC

Caption

'I'm gonna write a song. what's your horses name'
'it's no got wan'
'Hmmmm'

Caption


"How did Ah get saddled wi' these two bams?"

While driving home from work last night and listening to a cd I noticed it was 6:12pm and so switched over to the radio to listen to GIO. Unfortunately my ears were assaulted by the strangled tones of morrissey. Quick as a flash, I managed to return to Kathryn Tickell. I twice tried the radio again but it was still playing! Later on, CynthiaPlastercaster came over and told me that Bryan had indeed given a MORRISSEY ALERT, so fair dinkum and thanks for that, Bryan. Had I tuned in two minutes earlier I would have been spared. However, this still leaves a problem. If you must play morrissey, and it would appear that you must, could you please make the MORRISSEY ALERT a feature of the programme giving the exact time it will come on and the exact duration of the track. I鈥檓 sure a lot of your listeners would greatly appreciate this.

Still The Same / Bob Seger and the Silver bullet Band

If you don't have it then.....
Lush harmonies. Real feelgood stuff.
When I still Have Thee / Teenage Fanclub

Also
I Still Do / I am Kloot
Diamonds and Rust / Joan Baez
Pinball / Bryan Protheroe
Lost / Anouk
Keep it loose keep it tight / Amos Lee
Dolphins Make me Cry / Martyn Joseph
Love You More / Raccoon
I Just don't think I'll ever get over you / Colin Hay
Reason to believe / Tim Hardin
Journey / Duncan Browne

Rodrigo y Gabriela - 'Stairway to Heaven'

Some people may see this as sacrilege but I think it is brilliant!

#10,Big second for "Going to California",Gaie.You know that there's a Joni link, of course."A Queen without a King,they say she plays guitar and cries and sings"refers to her.Would also love to hear Jefferson Airplane's "Embryonic Journey",two minutes of exquisite 12 string by Jorma Kaukenen.Pat Metheny's "Facing West"is another beauty and what the hell,you cant have great acoustic guitar moments without Joni so either "Chelsea Morning"or the beautiful plangent guitarwork on "Amelia"my favourite Joni song,Cheers,Willie Bartke

A gray bilge rod, Rio

Paul Weller - 'Wild Wood'

Tonight we are going to cover a Supertramp number, right Mr Horse?
That's right... it's called 'Give A Little Bit".

#17 - Glen - #30 - Gaie - How disappointing. Why would they do this?


- Christy Moore

Girls With (Acoustic) Guitars - Wynonna


We need an Accordion theme to make up for this travesty! (Or normal songs with accordions in the background.)

;o)

#46 @ ya senga..........i hear what yer sayin'. the problem with that theme would be 'all roads lead to auchtermuchty'.(no, i don't know how that one goes)..........but i haven't heard anything as good accordion/acoustic as mark knopfler and phil cunningham on 'a piper to the end'


cheers frae the dale

Both acoustic guitar duets: ~

SEE ALL THE PEOPLE from BE GLAD FOR THE SONG HAS NO ENDING by THE INCREDIBLE STRING BAND

SOHO from BERT AND JOHN by BERT JANSCH AND JOHN RENBOURN

Solo: ~

SEVEN BLACK ROSES from THE TUMBLER by JOHN MARTYN (I know you鈥檝e got this 鈥榗os you played it before)

BEESWING from FINDING BETTER WORDS by RICHARD THOMPSON

PINK MOON from PINK MOON by NICK DRAKE

Here are some abnormal songs - or do I mean extraordinary?


Crow Jane - Stefan Grossman
Louisiana Blues - John Renbourn
The Brain of the Purple Mountain - Leo Kottke
Streamline Train - Catfish Keith
Big River - Dougie MacLean

and support for all at #48

Cavatina - John Williams (The Theme from the Vision On Gallery before this took over).


Whatever happened to all those paintings and drawings they were sadly unable to return? Presumably they are stored in a 大象传媒 warehouse vault somewhere. Might be worth a few bob some of them, even if you were simply to sell them back to their artists.
Have you got a number of someone who might know Bryan?

* Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
* Pink Floyd - Brain Damage
* Stealer's Wheel - Stuck In The Middle With You
* Traveling Wilburys - End of the Line
* Sting - Fragile (with the nylon strings)
* Gypsy Kings - Hotel California (from the Big Lebowski OST)
* Christy Moore - Ride On
* U2 - Party Girl

But most of all:
* The Shadows - Classical Gas

I'm sure there's some Fairport to follow... Richard Thompson being one of the world's leading exponents.

If you've got access to the MTV Unplugged series CDs, then there's a *great* version of
* The Cure - Boys Don't Cry
on it.

+1 on Tangled Up in Blue

#30

I guess it means: songs that were originally recorded with Acoustic Guitars in there, rather than ones that have a special Acoustic version (ie ruling out all the MTV Unplugged recordings)

#52

' Tonight the acoustic guitar is to the fore. So we could play Simon & Garfunkel, Amy Macdonald or the Gypsy Kings in a full band performance or something unplugged from Cat Stevens or Michelle Shocked? '

take your pick

Support for all (except Dougie MacLean - sorry) at #49 too.

Shurely Bryan will find it difficult to do another same old same old from this theme? Wait a minute, I forgot about Cash, Big O, C&W. Oh well, back to Kathryn Tickell.

How do we squeeze Blondie and Human League in?

#50... have you never seen 'The Deer Hunter' Adam? DeNiro and Walkern at their best....

Caption: ~

"I promise not to let anything come between us"

#47

Dale, try The Gotan Project: Tango 3:00.

Great accordian playing.

regardez youse

henri

PS I accept I am responsible and guilty of proffering a list of normal songs: but songs is what they play on GIO - and with great moderation.

Last night's theme, for example, was feeling sorry for yourself - and was tempered by playing some upbeat songs which may have been lyrically unhappy but were nevertheless lacking in true misery - de facto - a re run of sad lyric/happy song: many of them conveyed no sence of true misery at all, which undermined the theme somewhat but satisfied (presumably,in GIO's terms) the requirement for an entertaining drivetime programme.

Therfore, since I like the songs I've put up on my list (I feel certain some of the f***book and text requests are for things that are on maybe on theme but would never be listened to by the requester)and can claim they have something to do with acoustic guitar then I'm in with a half chance of hearing one of them, whereas, if I put up Paul Galbraith - a genius who has revolutionised the instrument - I've got no chance because it's not 'drivetime' music.

And, here's another much requested, never played track with an all acoustic basis to it

Somedays - Paul McCartney

regardez youse

henri

#19

thanks for the 2nd for Tim Man - America - I requested it because it's one of America's best radio friendly tunes and because if selected, will spare us having to hear 'A Horse With No Name' yet again.

regardez youse

henri

Ooh ooh - how about

Also as forecast:
* Richard Thompson - 1952 Vincent Black Lightning
* Fairport Convention - Meet on the Ledge
* Fairport Convention - Fotheringay
* Sandy Denny -
and the inevitable
* Incredible String Band -
(and for ISB afficianados, )

Also highly wonderful Sandy Denny track
* It'll Take A Long Time

Embryonic Journey - Jefferson Airplane - This must be a "normal song", Willie, since they used it to close the final episode of Friends

4+20 - CSNY - A "normal song" from Deja Vu apart from Stephen Stills tuning all six string to the note D

I'm A Poor Boy, A Long Ways From Home - John Fahey - A master

Freight Train - Tommy Emmanuel - No acoustic guitar show would be complete without Freight Train

#55 I have a bossa nova version of "Dont You Want Me Baby".


#56 Have you ever seen Tony Hart and Morph play Russian roulette? Artist and Play Doh at their best.

Anyway, it was the Gallery theme before the Deer Hunter nicked it.

#62,I know,Glen.Hated that show though.You should hear what turns up in "Six Feet Under"Lets hope we get Jorma's two minute wonder tonight,Cheers,Willie Bartke

Actually we should have a bit of bossa nova on acoustic night. Have you got any faves Henri?


Especially as Carnaval starts tomorrow!!!









Memo to self: Pick up Carnaval mankini from dry cleaners.

Is this a Wizard of Oz reference or a sectarian epithet? Are you a Dorothy or a Dan?

#65

If you forget you can easily adapt an onion bag.

Nils Lofgren - 'Sticks and Stones'

From 'Acoustic Live' - it's live and acoustic, quelle surprise 鈽�

What about RAJAH DETHRONING the well known nearly anagram?

Another shout for
Martyn Joseph - Dolphins Make Me Cry

Also
Boo Hewerdine - Last Cigarette

#70 Great suggestions

#65,You're right Adam.We need some bossa nova to get in the carnival spirit on this cold March grey day. It looks like rain soon so could we hear Joao Gilberto's"Agua de Mar"(Waters of March)!Cheers,Willie Bartke

#67 would he notice the difference?



ehmmmm.... we don't need tae be telt

How on earth did I forget my fave Brooooooce song of all time:

* Springsteen - Atlantic City

#72

脕guas de Mar莽o.

It is a grey, rainy day here today. You're not a neighbour are you Willie?

#74 Pubescent singer

See big stern nut.

That's Entertainment: The Jam
Cocaine Blues: John Martyn (YES! I Know it will never get a play.....)
Rodney's Glory: Kris Drever
Arlington: The Wailin' Jennys
Volunteers: Mark Erelli
Last Of The Hobo Kings: Mary Gauthier
River Man: Nick Drake
Solomon Browne: Seth Lakeman

#77 Good nearly anagram, Scotch

Interests? I bungee.

#79

Thank you! Your #76 was my inspiration...

#66

neither: another simple example of too-quick typing:

It is, of course, Tin Man - America

#65: Astrud Gilberto's - Light My Fire springs to mind - believe it or not, there's a great Mccartney number called 'My Carnival' which is competely on the beat.

reagdrez youse

henri



regardez youse

henri

Super! Enscribe G 'n' T

Perturbing senses

#82


You'd've thought with all those years of practice he'd manage to sing more than one song in time to the music. Still, suppose of you get paid for it disnae really matter...

Bustier nurses.

Hayseed Dixie - 'Highway to Hell'

#82, #85

It's not a competition...

Representing cups

Kevin McDermott Orchestra - 'Mother Nature's Kitchen'

BRING ME THE ANAGRAM OF CAR GEAR 1, ADOLF

(OK, just a wee cheat...)

Deedle-ee-dee, Deedle-ee-dee, Deedle-ee-dee, bong!

It was DJANGO REINHARDT

HALLELUJAH!

#88 I don't really understand, but it was only a meant to be a silly wee joke

Who are the last group in the world you pick to exemplify acoustic guitar expertise?

Is there no theme which excludes Queen?

Queen again !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood - Santa Esmeralda

#95 F***book, that explains it.

The theme has been transmitted from "Acoustic Guitar Heroes through "normal songs" to "songs with a bit of strumming."

A trained monkey could play this stuff.

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