Back on November. 7th, the British art-rock duo Field Music announced that their sixth studio album,“Open Here”, which will be released February. 2nd via Memphis Industries. On Tuesday, they shared the first single, “Count It Up.” The song uses a deceptively fun Devo-esque synth lead and strutting cadence to soundtrack a series of entitlements that the listener should consider when taking stock of his or her privilege: “If you can go through day to day without the fear of violence, count that up / If people don’t stare at you in the street because of the color of your skin, count that up / If your body makes some kind of sense to you, count that up.
Taken from the upcoming album ‘Open Here’ (out 2nd February 2018)
This live album was recorded in Sunderland and Croydon, places where the band had a strong following, during January and September 1970. Although only two tracks, namely ‘The Hunter’ and ‘All Right Now’, could be used from the Sunderland show, producer Andy Johns did use a lot of the crowd noises from that gig between tracks, to create a virtually seamless live experience.
Interestingly, the final song on the album is actually a studio recording, and is one of four they did before splitting up; the other three surfaced on the ‘Highway’ album. One of the pleasures of this album is that the original recordings were clearly not altered in the studio. Everything is heard as it happened on stage. And what it proves overall is that Free were a masterful live band.
‘Free Live!’ is a fine representation of how good the four were when in this environment and the enthusiastic crowd response is utterly authentic and sets the atmosphere for the whole event.
Because that’s what this album is…a true event. Capturing FREE at their peak.
In the pantheon of blues-rock there has never been a band that burned so brightly, was more commercially successful and made so much great music in so comparatively short a period of time as Free. They are probably best known for their 1970 signature song, ‘All Right Now’ but theirs is a rich deep catalogue, surprisingly so given their comparatively short career.
Free disbanded in 1973 and lead singer Paul Rodgers became the frontman of Bad Company along with SimonKirke on drums. In 2004 Paul Rodgers worked with Queen offering a different take on Freddie Mercury’s vocals for the band. Bass player Andy Fraser formed Sharks and wrote ‘Every Kinda People’ that Robert Palmer covered, while the brilliant lead guitarist Paul Kossoff formed Back Street Crawler and then tragically died from a drug-induced heart failure at the age of 25 in 1976.
The Lake Poets are about to head out on Winter 2014 Tour of the UK – Dates & Info:
2.12 LONDON // 3.12 LEICESTER Musician // 4.12 SUNDERLAND // 5.12 – YORK // 7.12 DARMSTADT // 8.12 HALDERN // 9.12 COLOGNE // 10.12 BERLIN // 11.12 HAMBURG
the new Lead single from début EP ‘Honest Hearts’.
I watched a superb duo called the LAKE POETS last night at the Tramlines Festival in Sheffield Martin Longstaff a multi instrumentalist takes the vocals while his partner in the band plays some wonderful pedal steel giving a haunting backdrop to their songs please check out more from this band http://www.thelakepoets.com the new ep is out now
THE LAKE POETS, is Martin Longstaff a multi musician from Sunderland Tyne and Weir, Spellbinding and heartbreaking, Honest Hearts is taken from the new EP of the same name A song about going through hell and just keep on going beautifully quiet and quite devastating
The Fat Angel Sings 