Music

From Burkina and Ivory Coast

by Eddie 03.08.2009

I’ve come across a couple of good pieces from West Africa today.  Jayne Chuter has just returned from a Wycliffe Engage Trip to Burkina Faso and has written a fascinating account. Well I am back safe and sound in England now. We had a remarkably smooth and unproblematic month, thanks to all your prayers: nobody [...]

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10CC Live

by Eddie 29.04.2009

We went with a friend to see 10CC live in High Wycombe last night. In truth, it was only about 2CC as there was only one original member of the band on stage. Graham Goldman started off the show playing songs he had written for other groups including the excellent For Your Love which he [...]

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Walking Man

by Eddie 02.03.2009

It’s been ages since I posted a music video and I thought it was time to do another one. Seasick Steve is normally very raucus, but here he shows a much more sensitive side. Even if you don’t like the blues, this is worth watching for the embarassed look on the face of the girl [...]

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Tukuleur: Africa

by Eddie 30.12.2008

I saw this on TV tonight and loved it. The words say so much about why I love Africa and its people. Sorry, but I can’t provide a translation if you don’t follow the French. [youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=f1Vvx3WdYOo[/youtube]

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Once in Royal…

by Eddie 15.12.2008

This Christmas video from our friends Kent (last seen, working on a laptop somewhere on the M40) and Valerie Anderson deserves a wide audience. [youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uCruPcJbW0o[/youtube]

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U2: I believe in Father Christmas

by Eddie 12.12.2008

I’m very much of the opnion that, when it comes to the pop charts, the golden age for Christmas songs was the early to mid 1970s. One of the most powerful songs of the era was Greg Lake’s anti-Christmas song ‘I believe in Father Christmas’ which  I once used as the base for a Christmas [...]

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I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing

by Eddie 15.08.2008

I’ve been hobbnobbing with Ethnomusicologists this week. I gave a short devotional talk for the Ethnomusicology and Performing Arts course that is being held here at the moment and then my friends Rob and Lois Baker were around the office after their return from Benin. I’m always fascinated by the work that ethnomusicologists do and [...]

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Bo Diddley RIP

by Eddie 03.06.2008

For any rock and roll fan of my age the news of Bo Diddley’s death at the age of 79 comes as a great sadness. He didn’t have much direct impact on the pop charts, but his influence on other musicians is huge as you can read in this BBC tribute. That strange square guitar, [...]

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Larry Norman (1947-2008)

by Eddie 26.02.2008

Back in the 1970s when I became a Christian there was hardly any Christian music scene – but there was an American guy with long blond hair and a raunchy guitar playing style called Larry Norman. OK, the eschatology of I wish we’d all been ready (probably his most famous song) has never really reflected [...]

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Chris Whitfield

by Eddie 09.09.2007

Sue and I went to a gig at the Talking Heads in Southampton last week. One of the acts was a guitarist called Chris Whitfield and he is absolutely brilliant. He doesn’t have a recording contract yet, but he one day he will. You can listen to a few songs on his MySpace page and [...]

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