Alabama Shakes Jools Holland Later Live

I hope it's a better show than last weeks lack of talent.

Steve,

Just seen them on iPlayer. What a voice and performance. One to watch!  I'll try to catch them again on Friday. I used to follow JH religioulsy but have been kind of "bored" with  the latest offerings from him and his "production/research team". It seems the ship has veered off its course and no one is in control of the helm.

KR

Tony

The Lp is on its way from Diverse. I enjoyed their performances on Jools great voice for sure.

Caught this last night. Agree Steve, thought Alabama shakes excellent and also liked Jack whites performance with his female band. Both albums now on order.

James

I started off liking Alabama but I ended up up with her voice grating on me.

Jack White - the saviour of rock n roll or overrated pretentious rubbish - I've never been sure to be honest.

Jools' show has been great for reinvigorating televised live music but it looks tired now.

Strat

Only one song from Grimes booo!

A much better show this week, no CDs ordered though.

I'm also in 2 minds about Jack White, he does like to study music and collect old "folk" stuff, interesting guy.

Liked her. Album worth a punt ?

James

Hear them being interviewed on National Public Radio (US). What sparked my interest was when the interviewer was comparing her to great blues singers such as Janis, etc and asked her who she thought see sounded like and her answer was Bon Scott. I was impressed that a 23 year old blues singer from Alabama even knew who Bon Scott was. Then I checked them out on youtube. I love their Led Zeppelin covers. The lead singer's day job use to be a US Post Service mail carrier.

Hi James

Grimes is worth a punt.  Check out http://pitchfork.com/news/4543...deo-grimes-oblivion/

Quirky female electronica (think Fever Ray but a bit lighter).

Cheers

Perfect timing Pixies. Just on Play.com placing my orders 

James

A comparison with Janis is stretching it a bit - I don't think any other blues singer quite compares. Or if they do then I've not heard them. I thought Alabama Shakes were fine on the JH show and it is always good to hear new talent coming through ..... even if it is not quite Janis standard (but then who could compare to that high standard) .... they are definitely worth a second listen: I'll try the YouTube ones you recommend.

Thanks - all the best, Guy  

I agree with many of the statements above.  I had not been

excited by a Jools nite recently, but friday nite was exceptional

for me.  Certainly Alabama Shakes were the highlight, I didn't

know Black and found his music quite exciting, but prefered

the male group.  I also thought Norah Jones was worth listening

to...I like her recent stuff.

California Jim

Btw...I will also add, on a contraversial note, that I have always thought

Joplin severely overrated.  I know that I am possibly alone with that

view, but even back when she was around I felt she was given undue

reverence primarily because she was white.  There have been many

black female Blues singers who are not on the Rolling Stones' lists.

Oh well...

California Jim

> .. I have always thought Joplin severely overrated.  I know that I am possibly alone ...

I'm guessing you mean Scott, surely not the wonderful Janis

We'll all have our musical preferences, for me Cheap Thrills and Pearl are two superb records that would do any artist proud - Janis was unfortunately on a self destruct course, which is so sad. I think she was quite intimidating (not a good thing in my book), but a great artist nonetheless ... 

Oh well some folk on the forum like Dire Straits so we can't all share the same taste - would be a strange place if we did

The Rolling Stone list is a bit of a joke really - I never understand the point of it. 

I don't think Richard Sinclair gets a mention and he has to be one of the best male vocalists ever. 

Where are Shirley Collins, Sandy Denny and Annie Haslam on the list? 
(should be the top three in my opinion FWIW) 

Not a magazine I think has any value to a music lover. 

Or do I mean I just don't like it. ... probably, it is all about opinions 

All the best, Guy 

I received the vinyl copy yesterday and it's rather disappointing, I could get the Janis comparison to some extent from the Later performance but not from the album.

Alabama Shakes are on tour in UK ATM.

I listened to the album on Spotify and thought it was worth buying. So I did.

I tried to listen to the CD on my main system last night and the production was terrible. I think it's the worst CD I've bought. I sent it back to Amazon.

I listened again on Spotify at maximum bit rate through my B&W computer speakers - now that I listen critically I can hear how bad it is on those too.

Regards

HUw

Well thanks for that, Huw...I had been tempted.  Sounds like

they are best seen live.

California Jim

I bought the vinyl and the sound/production is pretty poor. To be honest they sounded better on Jools Holland. Real shame.

Yes I think the bands often come across well on the JH show.

Last series, lykii li were good live, using  interesting things like megaphones and a melatron, so went and bought the album. Big disappointment, all their energy and talent throttled by the production.

Ray

Are we talking about Alabama Shakes still ?. Fearing the worst, it finally arrived this morning so i ripped it and had a listen. On a couple of tracks the vocals are a bit compressed but otherwise it's rather good. 

James