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One More Cup of Coffee - Bob Dylan, featuring Scarlet Rivera on the Violin and also the vocals of Emmylou Harris

Gaie,

17:30 ramorra, 大象传媒 Radio Scotland


Check it out!

:o)

TUESDAY



Pure shoo-in, by the way!

Talk to Me, Fiddle -


Keep it Country!

superb, SG - thank you, will do, and I see before it's the one I missed with Paul Jones and Tom Morton.

then after that GIO will be playing one of these to round off my evening's listening

- Bela Fleck &the Flecktones

- Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (John McEuen & Earl Scruggs banjo)

Sometime Around Midnight - Airborne Toxic Event - (Anna Bulbrook, viola)

Sorted.

Andrew Bird:



Imani Coppola:

Michael Doucet:

At last this has turned up on youtube. think it's Chuck Fleming on violin. My favourite version:

#7

It's been there since last year.


>8-D

I thought the idea was that the programme formed a supergroup?

So far we've auditioned a whole load of guitarists but not picked one - have abandoned the idea of having a bass player in favour of a string section - in which we better pick a cellist because it can substitute for bass ( a bit)...

Let's aim for the top!

Yo Yo Ma - The Lady Caliph from one of my favoutite albums "Yoy Yoy Ma plays Ennio Morricone" - check it out on Spotify, truly epic.

A string section - what better than I'm Still Standing - The Vitamin String Quartet it's a joyous performance!

Of course, my old hero, Jack Bruce plays cello too Smiles & Grins from Harmony Row - Jack on imperious form.

regardez youse

henri

Paul Buckmaster for his work with Bowie, Elton John and lots more. Including this cracker:

10,000 Maniacs - Jezebel


Anthony Thistlethwaite of the Waterboys:

Waterboys - A Pagan Place

Bad feeling about todays show... Every Picture Tells A Story just like JP on TOTP's "Maggie May" set.

Christ deliver me and the show from Duelling Banjos also!

#9

You're right. The new year has come in with the farcical whimper of yet another retreaded theme which has already broken down. Pick a string section? I'd have more fun with the toothache.

An' if you've got to be sure to play the Foggy Mountain Boys!

Facebook has some issues needing addressing..............I'm no' that fussed - I ken am a minger. whatevers. aye.

Till now..... all I can come up with is BRATSCH (gypsy band) with Dan GHARIBIAN playing bouzouki on a song titled 'Sanke Mena Palikari' [album: 'Transports en commun']

George Martin was pretty good at knocking a string section together - the obvious one is Eleanor Rigby - but since we didn't hear it last night how about:

While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles - Love Album, strings arranged by George Martin

regardez youse

henri

#9

Henri,

Bass is ramorra. Then pianists. (Size doesn't matter).

#11

Otto Matic,

I suppose a pluck is out of the question?

C'mon, get real - which one of you would be happy when the ultimate guitarist was chosen and it wasn't your own personal favourite?

I thought of the 3 'guitar' programmes we've had recently this was much better than the others. I'd like to see what overlaps there were, mind, and throw them out in favour of the doggedly and bewilderingly discounted Joe Bonamassa, Bert Jansch and Richard Thompson. But there more genuine candidates IMHO than in the previous programmes.

A wee suggestion re themes - why don't they put up a blog page exclusively for theme suggestions on which we can put down ideas when they occur. A virtual jotter.

Strings:

Tiny World - Seth Lakeman

or maybe

Feather in the Storm - Seth Lakeman

would be appropriate since that's what I feel like right now with the roof rattling once again. Gonnae STOP PLEASE!

and with the trend for collaborations such as Frightened Rabbit and Archie Fisher, James Grant or Paolo Nutini and Fraser Speirs I can see Aly Bain having a guest spot in the GIO band

The Hangman's Reel - Aly Bain

#19

Lots of fallen trees and structural damage in Glasgow. Lorries are on their sides on the M8 and M74.

Make tea now, before the power is cut off.

two more suggestions from Chris in VEIGY-FONCENEX
'Now is mine' by K's CHOICE because you can hear a cello; and 'Nothing to lose' by John WETTON & Eddie JOBSON [Eddie playing the electric violin]

#19 Gaie, you're correct... the supergroup notion was never going to work but Henri does have a point, guess the maxim 鈥淚f you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticise it鈥� stands. Reckon we're all gettin' strung along this week!

#18 Okay Scotch, you've forced my hand... was keeping this for a tweet later today.

Simple Symphony, Op. 4:II, Playful Pizzicato - Benjamin Britten G.I.O. please!





















p.s. What I'd really like to know is how Henri gets away with his criticism?

banana loafs and chocolates

loaves

The Low Anthem - - Jeff Prystowsky on double bass

Led Zep - - John Paul Jones mandolin

#18, #22




What was it advertising?

Gaie how about David Lindley on Violin. Again someone who can play an incredible list of instruments and on many great records. Here are two:

Jackson Browne - Before The Deluge or For A Dancer

Bruce Springsteen - Come On (Let's Go Tonight)

On Alison Again.....

I was one of the people who championed a "usual suspect" I know, but was it really, really, really necessary to play "Since You've Been Gone" yet again??

Tuesday


"Rasputin" - Boney M (Olli V盲nska - violin)

Gaie - you forgot about providing cd's.

#31

Ah ah!!
Blog Headline:
"Maclean feels position as GIO Pet threatened by excessive sweetening"


:)

I'll always be teachers pet - I like k d lang. Move along........

听
Everybody likes kd lang. It's your obsession wi' yon Morrissey bam that makes you Bryan's favourite.


>8-D

Bring on some cello

Hobo's Lullaby - Arlo Guthrie



Just up from checking the boat. 73 knots gust recorded on the wind meter......


DC

#35

It'll be aw that black bun.

#28 yes indeed, that's a great shout, Norrie.

#34. I don't. She has the same effect on me as Rufus Wainwright. All minor and moany. Well the two songs I've heard are anyway.

#27

# 27

Just back having done Hurry Bros. out of a call-out fee at the Mother in Law's.

Was it not in celebration of the Royal Bank of Scotland's former chief executive having his pension topped up?

#34 of course!

What am I thinking about? Other strings = The Leisure Society.We've had 'Cars'

If God Did Give Me A Choice - The Leisure Society utterly brilliant, not religious, anthemic - clever song (inevitably) about the inability to walk away from being involved in the music/songwriting business.

Strings = the brilliant Nitin Sawhney - Homelands a truly gifted musician and arranger, can turn his hand to anything - truly stunning. Homelands is 6:00 - though the soulful Broken Skin or Sunset would be good alternatives.

Strings = The Penguin Cafe Orchestra - The Ecstacy Of Dancing Fleas

eccentric and mental, radio freindly, though.

Je T'aime - Mais Non Plus - The Ukulele Orchestra Of Great Britain unquestionably, the coolest, unsexyest interpretation of this classic.It'll cheer us all up, Bryan.

The Doobies go Bluegrass: Steamer Lane Breakdown - the Doobie Brothers

that'll do.

henri

Oh.. and Bob Dylan does a really country Blue Moon with some excellent violin playing from the unpopular 'self portrait' album - this is a standout track.

I notice f***book have also gone for The Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain.

regardez youse

henri

couldn't do worse than ...

The London Punkarmonic Orchestra, demonstrating their mighty strings credentials on ...

'Gary Gilmore's Eyes'

#34, #37


Y'all ain't listened to her songs!


;o)

or should that have been could?

doesn't really mater I suppose ... has as much chance as WE have of ever hearing from Mars Bonfire ever again!

I think we'll be the judge o that ..

43 that is ... blasted real time ...

If it's Mandolins and other non-guitar stringy things we're after then surely we're in need of some Hayseed Dixie. Top choices:
* Whole Lotta Love
* Walk This Way
* Hells Bells


Agree with the Love Album suggestion, and of course Eleanor Rigby (any danger of the version from Give My Regards to Broad Street?) You really ought to end with
* The Beatles - Good Night
as not only does it have a lush string section arrangement, but it has a harp too

#44 it would be a lot simpler if MMFC just stuck to the one name wouldn't it?

;-)

#44

see 11, 13, 22 & 38

#49 Outed... happy now? L.O.L.

It's been the longest Theme suggestion in the history of GIO, Alter Egos! Apologies if it's already been done. Who are the performing artists to use stage or screen personae both to entertain audiences and or to explore new identities for themselves?

...indeed we could have a theme based on suggestions from the many identities of our very own bloggers. I will admit to being - Joan Armatrating....