h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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As far as I know, there's only one photograph of me on the internet, and only Trout has ever found it.
It'll stay that way if I have anything to do with it

Pin

Now there's a challenge

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Seen one seal, seen 'em all, I say. Bit of variation in blotch patterns and shading, but that's it.


Pin, try allcelticmusic dot com . (Not that Paul Mounsey's music is 'all celtic'.) They list each track separately by the look of it.

If you like it, try the title track too. It was difficult choosing a track from the album.

Came across a song with the first line "Careful budgeting allows you to enjoy the fruits of a lifetime's work". Unfortunately there seems no chance of a download version.

Want some hillbilly music?

Do I sense a Hayseed Dixie track coming up?

Should go quite nicely with my earlier suggestion.

B

Actually, I was thinking of something more like Grandpa Jones.

Gloom, despair and agony on me......
Deep dark depression, excessive misery.
If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all...
Gloom, despair and agaony on me.

Well, I've got Drunken Lullabies, and I like it, and I've got Soul Sacrifice, and I like it. The latter is a deep-past song of my own, in fact, quite forgotten but now happily remembered.

So - a Hillbilly thingy is OK. Please propose one.

Waz - will do. Ta.

(I'm a bit short of Scots at the moment. Both the specimens I've worked with in recent years have upped and left this summer. Mind you, one was from Midlothian and the other from Dumfries, so 'nuff said. Hardly proper Scotland at all. It's like calling New Englanders Americans...)

Short of Scots? I won an Andy Stewart in a draw, I'll look up a track...

Waz (an improper Scot from Kisumu)

Mike Scott is Scots surely ...... now there's a man and a half..... waterboys mucic ought to be essential

and the antony & the johnsons cd .... now that's special....

You must have "Where's me jumper?" by Sultans of Ping FC.

vv belated Happy Birfday , big party next year then?

Ta,

Oddly enough, I don't. But I'll go try and find it.

Next year? Yeah, s'pose...it's just so old though, innit?

Tell you what. I'll have a party every day next year *except* my birthday.

Reflexions of my life
by marmalade.

Occasionally in life you hear a track that makes you think what was that, I must here it again here are a couple that have given me that reaction.

Lemady by Jim Moray (you might have trouble finding a copy as it was on his debut ep I Am Jim Moray)
Anywhere on this Road by Lhasa

I've had a few of those. The only one I've never tracked down (and I'm not sure I want to) was the backdrop to 18 months working in Finland in the early 80s.

It seemed to come from every jukebox. It was called 'Spanish Bars'. It's still etched into my brain, and the chorus went :
Sometimes I feel like you're not with me
When I see those wild horses in your eyes
Somewhere in the distance, I can hear guitars
I know she's dreaming...of Spanish bars

I can even remember it emanating from the radio of a hire car that we'd moments before accidently ploughed into a snow-bank.

Thanks for the suggestions, btw

Pin, I've been trying to think of a typical hillbilly selection that you might be able to locate. I rejected country and went for the traditional bluegrass, which is much more representative of the region. Here are my suggestions. Hope you can find one of them. All of them have been recorded my many different artists.

Shuckin' the Corn by Lester Flatt
Crazy Creek by Bill Keith
Fisher's Hornpipe by Wyatt Rice

As a last resort you could always hunt a copy of Orange Blossom Special or Foggy Mountain Chimes.

Thanks Hyp

Verm has been diligently saving Coke-bottle labels, each one currently bearing a free iTunes download.

She just issued me with my ration for last week (she gets through a lot of Coke).

Let's see if we can find some bluegrass...

Pin (please don't think I'm not saying that I'd only download such stuff if I happened to have a free voucher or two)

Oops. The double-negative there was presumably Freudian

Free vouchers indeed. Bluegrass is good enough to pay for!

Glad you are home safe and sound. ?

re: Post 21. If you stand on tip-toes on an orange crate, you can just see Pin doing likewise dressed as a wine water behind some pocket-people.