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Dance, dance, dance to this radio-hoe-down tonight
It's Friday! It's about three o'clock! It's time to Boogie At Your Desk!
Friday afternoons need a little something. I think they need a Top Tune. Something to make you shuffle in your seat and, if possible, Boogie At Your Desk. I endeavour to fill this gap on occasional Fridays.
I'm not claiming that any track provided to enable At-Desk Boogying is one of the world's best or most profound pieces of music. It will, however, be a tune which makes me smile, and which has at some stage made me surreptitiously Boogie At My Desk.
Desks are not compulsory, of course. Feel free to boogie through your office, in your bedroom, round your lab, across your classroom, on the train - wherever you find yourself on a Friday afternoon.
If you like the track, go out and buy the album it belongs to - I'll try and recommend a suitable CD to purchase for any BAYD track.
Today you are invited to Boogie At Your Desk to:
The Broken Family Band - Honest Man's Blues
(This is a legitimate download from the band's own site.)
I first heard of the Broken Family Band a couple of years ago when, if I recall correctly,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
j4 rated them quite highly in her Glastonbury Festival write-up. I vaguely logged the name as one to keep half an ear out for, and promptly forgot.
Fast forward around 18 months, and I get given a home-made tape which contains a rather lovely track called Devil In The Details. Some prodding of the tape-maker reveals that this song is, in fact, The Broken Family Band.
Which is the point at which I finally cottoned on that The Broken Family Band are (whisper it) actually a straight-up country band. Their lyrics might be a little more full of twisty cynicism than is normal, but they're country. To the extent that their singing style makes you think they have southern American accents, even though they blatantly don't. And are from Cambridge.
The only album I'm familiar with is Welcome Home, Loser (off which the above track comes). I like it a lot. It's got soulful ballads, proper stompin' tunes, some very pretty guitars and the occasional funky bassline. And not that many of the tracks have banjos on. Promise.
There are a handful more downloads available on the band's website. Plus lots of dates of upcoming shows. (I'm going to see them tonight, and my plan had been to do this post a few weeks back, thus giving any impressed people a chance to join me. Sadly, the concert outwitted me by selling out extremely quickly.)
Friday afternoons need a little something. I think they need a Top Tune. Something to make you shuffle in your seat and, if possible, Boogie At Your Desk. I endeavour to fill this gap on occasional Fridays.
I'm not claiming that any track provided to enable At-Desk Boogying is one of the world's best or most profound pieces of music. It will, however, be a tune which makes me smile, and which has at some stage made me surreptitiously Boogie At My Desk.
Desks are not compulsory, of course. Feel free to boogie through your office, in your bedroom, round your lab, across your classroom, on the train - wherever you find yourself on a Friday afternoon.
If you like the track, go out and buy the album it belongs to - I'll try and recommend a suitable CD to purchase for any BAYD track.
Today you are invited to Boogie At Your Desk to:
The Broken Family Band - Honest Man's Blues
(This is a legitimate download from the band's own site.)
I first heard of the Broken Family Band a couple of years ago when, if I recall correctly,
j4 rated them quite highly in her Glastonbury Festival write-up. I vaguely logged the name as one to keep half an ear out for, and promptly forgot.Fast forward around 18 months, and I get given a home-made tape which contains a rather lovely track called Devil In The Details. Some prodding of the tape-maker reveals that this song is, in fact, The Broken Family Band.
Which is the point at which I finally cottoned on that The Broken Family Band are (whisper it) actually a straight-up country band. Their lyrics might be a little more full of twisty cynicism than is normal, but they're country. To the extent that their singing style makes you think they have southern American accents, even though they blatantly don't. And are from Cambridge.
The only album I'm familiar with is Welcome Home, Loser (off which the above track comes). I like it a lot. It's got soulful ballads, proper stompin' tunes, some very pretty guitars and the occasional funky bassline. And not that many of the tracks have banjos on. Promise.
There are a handful more downloads available on the band's website. Plus lots of dates of upcoming shows. (I'm going to see them tonight, and my plan had been to do this post a few weeks back, thus giving any impressed people a chance to join me. Sadly, the concert outwitted me by selling out extremely quickly.)
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