Kevin Ayers - Whatevershebring
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Artist: Kevin AyersEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2003-06-16
Music Label: EMI Import
Soundtracks:
- There Is Loving/Among Us/There Is Loving
- Margaret
- Oh My
- Song From The Bottom Of A Well
- Whatevershebringswesing
- Stranger In Blue Suede Shoes
- Champagne Cowboy Blues
- Lullaby
- Stars
- Don't Sing No More Sad Songs
- Fake Mexican Tourist Blues
- Stranger In Blue Suede Shoes (Early Mix)
Free Music Notes for Whatevershebring
Free Music Review: Fresh Ayers
Hit: 5 Stars
Just returned from a fortnight in the Ould Sod and despite any number of memorable sights and sounds what I seem to recall most vividly is scarfing down a huge bowl of porridge early one fine morning while the serenely wayward tunes on Whatevershebringswesing billowed up out of the jambox. Talk about yer full Irish breakfast! And this followed by a brisk walk down Dun Laoghaire Pier with a 99 from Teddy's our post-breakfast reward. Here's another suspiciously pleasant consequence of Kevin's combination of trippy baritone and sheet music, later that day on the morning presided over by Hairy Ayers I read in full, twice in full as a matter of fact, Donald Barthelme's stupendously fanschmabulous short story, Me and Miss Mandible. This Don B immediately struck me as a feller well worth a further look see. Then I read Chablis and am in no doubt whatsoever about the dude's bona fides. Chablis is a masterpiece of comic brevity, a compact and sturdy story built for speed and indeed crafted around the sheer exhilaration of synaptic snap and crackle. Plus the dog the baby wants in Chablis is named Michael which is almost as good a name for a dog as Desmond is in Pynchy's Vineland. I have an inkling I am going to try and memorise this entire story for future reference. If Donald Barthelme's sentences were shoes Tom Waits himself would wear a pair in a heartbeat. Chablis is a right crafty little gem along the same lines as Kevin Ayers' own brand of perfection on any song you care to mention on his wonky little plate of rock candy here. Ayers might well be something of an acquired taste but positively no kidding this hirsute English song and trance man is chockablock with a soothing sort of soul for those with the lugs to tune him in and hear him out. I'd go so far as to recommend almost any of his witty and wacky albums but this third solo effort here, circa 1971, had me noddingly succumbing to some seriously high-toned nostalgia. Sandymount Strand, 3 in the AM. A wooden bench with the water audible and the moon of all things--the big bleeding blooming moon--eye-wateringly bright against the darkness of the sea. Home on me holidays. I'd just bought the Kevin Ayers album second-hand in the George's Street Arcade the day before and due to a mix-up with another record the dude in the shop felt so bad he lent me the loan of a little homemade cheroot from his own personal stash for me troubles and there I was at the end of the following day reclining happily on a seat on the macadamed promenade along Sandymount Strand with the whole of Dublin Bay stretched out before me in the moonlight. Later and later it got but I lingered on just generally digging the lapping of the tide and the moon on the water and the Pigeon House in the distance blinking on and off. Not totally inappropriately either I was singing happily over and over again that catchy calypso chorus to Kevin's own Caribbean Moon:
Hey Caribbean moon yellow, yellow
Caribbean moon yellow, yellow
Caribbean moon yellow, yellow
Caribbean moon shine all night
Well of course then it wasn't all that much longer before I was Singing a Song in the Morning:
Singing a song in the morning
Singing it again at night
I don't even know what I'm singin' about
But it makes me feel I feel alright
Yeah yeah
Makes me feel I feel alright
Chronic jet lag or some such irreversible neural damage precludes further coherent comment but let me leave yiz all with a last lump of lyrics, this time to a particular favourite Ayers track, Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes--funny fantabulous how some songs stand spectacularly well the test of time. You really have to hear the groove on this track too though--The Velvet Underground go to Canterbury:
STRANGER IN BLUE SUEDE SHOES
I walked into this bar
And the man refused;
He said, "we don't serve strangers
In blue suede shoes;
We don't give credit, and
We don't give way--
We have to think about what the people might say...
Uh, you know what I mean..."
I said, "sure, man."
Oh, he gave me a smile that was sickly and wet,
And I offered him one of my cigarettes.
He took it, afraid that he might appear rude,
Then proceeded to sell me some second class food.
Nice guy - meet 'em everywhere...
He said, "my oh my, I have suffered too long,
And this cigarette seems to be very strong;
I don't make the rules
I just get what I take
And I guess every rule was made to break.
You can take what you like, it won't hurt me
Cause I'm just working for the company."
From the green cigarette, he took a long drag,
And said, "I think I'll pick my travelling bag.
I'm tired of cheating, and wasting my head
And filling the boss's bags with bread.
I want to get out in the sun and rain,
And feel the wind on my skin again;
The world is large, and I've got time yet.
And, by the way, thanks for that cigarette...
Thank you very much.
You know, I feel like a new man
Yes I do, I don't know why;
I'd just like to say
Thank you very much (indeed)
It's a beautiful day
I think I'll be on my way (right away)
I'd just like to say
Thank you very much.
Yes, I'm getting the hell out of here
Yes, I am - bye, bye.
That's the end of the message
Thank you very much.
Bye bye..."
Whatevershebring Poster
Digitally remastered and expanded reissue of the Soft Machine member's 1971 album including four bonus tracks: 'Stars', 'Don't Sing No More Sad Songs', 'Fake Mexican Tourist Blues', and 'Stranger In Blue Suede Shoes' (Early Mix). This release was Ayers' third solo album in as many years after leaving Soft Machine in 1968. Though not as popular or prolific as his former SM mate Robert Wyatt, Ayers' musical output has kept him a perennial favorite to Prog and Art Rock fans for four decades. Guests include Mike Oldfield and David Bedford. Harvest.Pop Music CDs
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