The Band – The Band
This record. It just gets you in the feels! I discovered them in my teenage years – this was souped-up, folk turned up to 11. Made by such fantastic musicians too: Levon Helm's singing and his drums, Garth Hudson on the organ, Robbie Robertson's guitar, just fantastic. And everyone singing together, that feeling – it's so hard to describe.
Is it spiritual? Well, Mam and I weren't religious, but some songs, like the gospel song, 'Oh Happy Day'… you sing that together, it's like you want to peel yourself open. There's a pattern to all these albums, I've realised: it's about meaning it, being together, but being an individual within a collective, and writing that, singing that, in your different ways.
Baker's Dozen
Songs Are Powerful Things: Marry Waterson's Baker's Dozen
Songs Are Powerful Things: Marry Waterson's Baker's Dozen
Jude Rogers
, October 18th, 2017 07:10
Marry Waterson might have been born into a folk dynasty but that didn't stop her becoming a biker. With a new LP out and her mother and uncle's Bright Phoebus LP recently reissued, she guides Jude Rogers through 13 favourite LPs from The Beatles to The Band and Billie Holiday