From: Sue Cavendish [suecavendish_at_blueyonder_dot_co_dot_uk]
Sent: 17 April 2010 12:08
Subject: NetRhythms & RECORD STORE DAY 17th April

Hello Everyone - Welcome back to NetRhythms

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RECORD STORE DAY Saturday 17th April
Remember your specialist Record Shop when you were (much) younger? I'm imagining that you were hooked on folk and blues music in the 1960s. In London we had those wonderful vinyl emporia in Soho. There was a fabulous shop in South Moulton Street with the latest bootlegs hidden behind the counter for those who knew what to ask for. The Swing Shop, Streatham, had all the blues imports from France and USA. Every one had a town with one of these - treasures troves staffed by those who later could have featured in Nick Hornby's book and film, 'High Fidelity'.
Many stores are still flourishing but hundreds more have gone now. Digital downloads get the headlines but vinyl is sneaking back into the specialist shops. Hopefully there will always be those who enjoy looking for and finding their music in the racks, attracted by cover artwork and music played over the shop's sound system. For us, the album packaging, artwork and liner notes, and the experience that one gets when opening a new CD and putting it into a sound system is a magical one. May the gods of music - and we the "punters" - preserve those shops that remain and their brave and possibly crazy owners who keep music real and alive. www.recordstoreday.com

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JOE BOYD writes to us about the tribute concert for KATE McGARRIGLE he is organising on June 12th - as part of Richard Thompson’s Meltdown at London’s Royal Festival Hall. Her family and other well-known guests will sing her songs. "I know, it’s the day England plays the USA in the World Cup, so we’ll start it at 4.30 so someone’s iPhone doesn’t reveal an England (or American! it’s possible) goal while Emmy Lou Harris is singing Mendocino, Linda Thompson performs Go Leave or Martha Wainwrtight does First Born Son.". Tickets went on sale on Thursday but quickly SOLD OUT.
www.southbankcentre.co.uk/meltdown

Joe reminds us that "the BBC filmed our recent Way To Blue tribute to Nick Drake's music and is broadcasting the concert this weekend. It features performances by Vashti Bunyan, Lisa Hannigan, Teddy Thompson, Robyn Hitchcock, Krystle Warren, Green Gartside, Scott Matthews, Harper Simon, Neil MacColl, Danny Thompson, Zoe Rahman and Kirsty Almeida - with Robert Kirby's and MD Kate St John's arrangements."
Below are UK broadcast times. Not available online, I'm afraid and no immediate dates for BBC America. The Songs of Nick Drake: Way To Blue will tx on BBC Four this Friday (16th April) at 9pm. Sun 18 April 23:45 - BBC Four
Mon 19 April 2100 - BBC HD

More MELTDOWN events at Royal Festival Hall including:

Richard Thompson's Cabaret of Souls - featuring Danny Thompson Friday, June 11, 2010 - 19:30 With a score written by Richard Thompson and Danny Thompson and staring Harry Shearer (The Simpsons, Spinal Tap), Cabaret of Souls is a musical chronicle set in Hell.
Seasick Steve
Monday, June 14, 2010 - 19:30
Seasick Steve performs a special show at Royal Festival Hall as part of Richard Thompson's Meltdown.
Ollabelle
+ Emily Smith
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 - 19:45
Purcell Room
New York's Ollabelle come to London to perform as part of Richard Thompson's Meltdown (a NetRhythms favourite - includes Amy Helm, Levon's daughter) www.southbankcentre.co.uk/meltdown
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These are the REVIEWS - APRIL 2010

John Hiatt - The Open Road (New West)
Jackie Leven - Gothic Road (Cooking Vinyl) Ralph McTell - Affairs Of The Heart (Leola Music) Eric Bibb - Booker's Guitar (Telarc Blues) Meg Hutchinson - The Living Side (Red House) Natalie Merchant - Leave Your Sleep (Nonesuch) Brooks Williams - Baby O! (Red Guitar Blue Records) Sting - If On A Winter's Night (Deutsche Grammophon) Nancy K Dillon - Roses Guide To Time Travel (Rose Rock) Lou Rhodes - One Good Thing (Motion Audio) The Living Sisters - Love To Live (Vanguard) Groanbox - Livingston Sessions (Groanbox) Paul Brady - Hooba Dooba (Pee Bee/Proper) The Cottars - Feast (Rounder) The Avett Brothers - I And Love And You (American) Bill Frisell - Disfarmer (Nonesuch) George Jones- The Great Lost Hits (Time Life) LindisFans - Dreams Enough To Share (Own Label) Tori Sparks - The Scorpion In The Story (Glass Mountain) Jamie McClennan - In Transit (White Fall Records) Lowri Evans - One Way Ticket (Osmosys) Eamon Friel - Smarter (Thran Records) Dala - Everyone Is Someone (Campus Music) Scott McKeon - Trouble (Provogue) P-A-U-L - Gunshot Lullaby (E&E Entertainment) Mitch Laddie - This Time Around (Provogue) Stefan Schill - Don't Say A Word (Provogue) Robinson - England's Bleeding (Palawan) Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou - Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou (Loose) Sparrow And The Workshop - Crystal Falls (Distiller) Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can (Virgin) The Martin Harley Band - Drumrolls For Somersaults (Villainous) Graham Landi - Halfway Home (Little Onion Head) a Barney Bental - The Inside Passage (True North) She & Him - Volume Two (Double Six) New Lost City Ramblers - Always Been A Rambler DVD (Arhoolie Foundation) Pokey LaFarge & The South City Three - Riverboat Soul (Free Dirt) Jim Moray - A Beginner's Guide (Niblick Is A Giraffe) Mama Rosìn - Tu As Perdu Ton Chemin / Brûle Lentement (Voodoo Rhythm Records)
Bellevue Rendezvous - Salamander (Journeyman) Damien O'Kane - Summer Hill (Pure Records) The Three City Four - Smoke And Dust (Fuse Records) Yvonne Lyon - Ashed And Gold (Own Label) Carrie Newcomer - Before And After (Rounder)
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At the end of the month we'll be mailing out the latest TOURS. Don't forget to let us know? www.netrhythms.co.uk/listings.html

Love, Sue

Sue Cavendish
www.NetRhythms.com