Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Nic Jones
Penguin Eggs
(Topic, 1980)
Folk voice and guitar's solid gold farewell.
Nic Jones' story has tragedy in it. On February 26 1982 a road crash that almost killed him ended his career, and since then a handful of archival releases have served to suggest what might have been. But listen to Penguin Eggs, his last 'new' recording, and it's hard to have woeful thoughts. Bound by stories of seafaring and work that begin in England and end in Australia, Jones' melodic, rhythm-rich guitar playing and heartfelt voice are intimate, like discovering someone singing in a pub, and give songs of fortune, love and labour startling immediacy. There's a fatalism about it but not harshly so; cheerful-sounding death song The Drowned Lovers, for example, is like a Tarot card come alive, while the sub-zero grimness of life for whalers is softened by warmth and companionship in Harry Robinson's The Little Pot Stove. That said, the crushing of worldly endeavour in Paul Metser's Farewell To The Gold is painful, as the prospector who gave up home and family tells himself, "It's no use just sitting Lady Luck blaming, I'll pack up then I'll make the break clean." It's hard not to think of Jones' own predicament here. But if you have to leave one record, make it as good as Penguin Eggs. Oh, and Dylan did this album's Canadee-I-O too.
Clive Prior
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 10:26 AM GMT 28/05/2010
Further Listening
Nic Jones - In Search Of Nic Jones (Mollie Music, 1998
Kate Rusby – 10 (Pure Records, 2002)
Bob Dylan – Good As I Been To You (Columbia, 1992)
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Farewell to the Gold was actually written by Paul Metsers. Harry Robertson did write The Humpback Whale and The Little Pot Stove - both on the album, which is indeed essential listening. Marvellous stuff.
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An absolute masterpiece. Wonderful and essential. The sound in vinyl (Three Black Feathers) is extraordinary.
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Jamie!
Changed the clanging inaccuracy.
Thanks for letting us know!
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Jan21 Omigosh, Niki couldn't you tell George W Bush was going to ruin America prttey much the way Mahathir ruined Malaysia? Boy you need to trust your instincts more & your intellect less! Anyhow no matter how terrible the nightmare, it's like NOTHING HAPPENED once you wake up!
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Jan21 Omigosh, Niki couldn't you tell George W Bush was going to ruin America prttey much the way Mahathir ruined Malaysia? Boy you need to trust your instincts more & your intellect less! Anyhow no matter how terrible the nightmare, it's like NOTHING HAPPENED once you wake up!
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