Showing posts with label James Blake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label James Blake. Show all posts

Thursday, 27 June 2013

Willy Mason

Joe writes: Tonight I went to see Laura Marling play Secret Music, the debut music event from the people behind Secret Cinema. I have been waiting for someone to take the Secret Cinema concept and apply it to a gig, but actually the most magical elements of the night were the musical performances. Laura and her guitarist popped up without warning and duetted on a cover of Springsteen's Dancing In The Dark (which Springsteen apparently wrote for The Ramones but ended up keeping for himself). The night ended with a full gig from Laura - incredible - she just gets better and better.

But before all that was Willy Mason.

Of course he did Oxygen, this generation's Imagine, the song that should have saved the world:



And he closed with a great song called Tic Tac Toe, written by his father. This is a hit song for someone (why not Willy?):



And finally, here's James Blake singing a song written by his father. Power to the dads:

Wednesday, 16 February 2011

just found out The Wilhelm Scream is a cover

Joe writes: The best hook on the Kanye West album turned out to be written by Mike Oldfield.

Now the best hook on the James Blake album turns out to have been written by his dad.


Call me old-fashioned but I value songwriting and I'm disappointed to discover James Blake's hooks are written by other people (including CMYK which samples Kelis but isn't on the album).

I still bought the album on vinyl but I wouldn't have without his dad's and Feist's contributions.