LIVE24SEVEN // Motoring, Sport & Entertainment B E V B E VAN’ S - CD P I C K S MAY 2 0 1 7
Bev Bevan shares four of his favorite CD’s for our listening pleasure, enjoy the May fab four...
The May fab four...
The Move – Magnetic Waves of Sound (Esoteric) This is the final release in a series of CD box sets collecting together just about everything that my old band The Move have ever recorded. As with all the others – Move, Something Else From The Move, Shazam and Looking On – this box set is beautifully presented, with a well-written and nicely illustrated booklet, plus a sixties-style psychedelic poster.
CD One is essentially a ‘Best Of’ collection; 21 tracks that include all of our ten hit singles, such as Night Of Fear, Flowers In The Rain (the first official record to be played on Radio 1), California Man and Do Ya (the only Move single to make a dent on the American charts).
The real bonus in this set is the accompanying DVD, again featuring 21 tracks, most of which I had never seen before, from British TV shows Top of the Pops and Colour Me Pop and German TV programmes Beat Club and Beat Beat Beat.
Fascinating stuff…well I thought so!
Alison Krauss – Windy City (Capitol) Sweet-voiced Alison Krauss is best known for her multi Grammy award-winning 2007 album Raising Sand, which she recorded with my dear old friend Robert Plant. She has also recorded several albums with her band Union Station as well as solo albums. This brand new release features her gentle, laid back vocal style on ten cover versions, some well-known and some that were new to my ear. Amongst the better known songs are her lovely re-workings of early sixties Brenda Lee favourites All Alone Am I and Losing You and John Hartford's Gentle On My Mind and Eddie Arnold's You Don't Know Me.
Of the lesser known songs , I particularly enjoyed her singing Willie Nelson's I Never Cared For You and Roger Miller's River In The Rain.
Rock and Roll Music – The Songs of Chuck Berry (ACE) The recently deceased Charles Edward Anderson Berry was born in San Jose, California in 1926 and celebrated his 90th birthday last year by releasing an album of new songs!
He was almost 30 years old when he began writing and singing about Young America in the mid-50s, his first hit being Maybelline in 1955. He may have been old enough to father some of the kids that bought that record, but Chuck knew how to write stuff that teenagers could identify with. Debate still rages about who is or isn't the greatest rock and roller of all time, but there's no doubt about who was the greatest rock and roll songwriter – that accolade belongs to Chuck Berry.
Here are 24 mixed genre interpretations of songs from the Poet Laureate of rock and roll. Highlights include: Little Queenie by Jerry Lee Lewis; Brown Eyed Handsome Man by Buddy Holly; Too Much Monkey Business from Elvis Presley; and Rock And Roll Music by The Beach Boys.
Joe Cocker – The Life of a Man (Sony) On December 22nd 2014, Joe Cocker died of lung cancer at his home in Crawford, California with his wife Pam at his side. He was 70 years old. This 18-track ‘Best Of’ CD represents a fine overview of Joe's remarkable career. It kicks off with what is arguably the only cover version of a Beatles' song that is head and shoulders better than the original – With A Little Help From My Friends. Other stand-out songs include his unique takes on Many Rivers To Cross (Jimmy Cliff ), You Can Leave Your Hat On (Randy Newman), Feelin' Alright (Dave Mason) and Summer In The City (The Lovin Spoonful). There are also two fabulous live recordings of Cry Me A River and Delta Lady, both from 1970. The previous year my old band The Move played four nights at the legendary Fillmore West in San Francisco, opening for Joe Cocker and his band. He was truly brilliant on every night and is much missed.
See Bev Bevan Appearing Live In Your Area. / 144
In ‘Stand Up And Rock’ on May 2 and 3 in Weston Super Mare, on May 10, 11, 12 and 13 in Redditch, on May 18 and 19 in Nottingham and on May 21 and 22 in Wakefield. Also at the Dorridge School of Music charity concert at the Birmingham Symphony Hall on Sunday May 7th.
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