I thought after all the beefy blues stuff I've been posting I might like to go back to my roots and look for some solo acoustic stuff - lo and behold in a folder marked 16/08/2016 I found 2 tracks I had laid down in April Media Productions studios in Plymouth. Really nice studio, great engineer and when I opened up the file in Logic I had a vocal mic, a DI and 5 (yes, 5!) acoustic mics to play with
After the session I thought my performance was a tickle below what I wanted (maybe a fraction too fast, teeny bit of magic missing, whatever, I'm a bit pernickety) so I never used it on the album and ended up recording the whole of Crazy Dancing Days in a tiny room at our house while it was being renovated. The room is now a downstairs shower room so I won't be recreating THAT sound again
Anyway, I hope you like it and as always, please share it if you like it
lyrics
Crazy Dancing Days
Dropped my first trip in the Lots Road, the colours rang, the music flowed
I felt a love of every kind, I can honestly say it blew my mind
I floated out in to the psychedelic night, London was ablaze with shimmering light
And the tumble of the coins, would give you the mystical lines
And the signs, of the stars that would tell you
The pathways to take, what choices to make
Well the stuff we were into then, looking back, it never ceases to amaze
Back in the crazy dancing days
Les Cousins, Soho was the place to be, for fiery young folkies just like me
The place would start at 7 o'clock, sometimes the queue was round the block
At 11 they'd close up and clean up and then, midnight it would start all over again
One night I played there, I went on at 3
Open D, A, G, acoustic mayhem, some young men
From Norway, in off the street, in their sleeping bags, fast asleep at my feet
And at dawn I walked home through the early morning warm summer haze
Back in the crazy dancing days
Now it's just a 60's theme for an ad
Or a Facebook page about the music we had
But for those of us who were there
With tie-dyed loons and flowers in our hair
It was a revolution, not a craze
Those crazy dancing days
I met a young man who'd run from home, a lady found him out on the streets alone
Typical city, way people meet, they wound up living at her flat in Beaufort Street
When I met them they were happy, together it seemed, she was 60 something, he was 16
Well the Fleet Street papers, they tried to blacken her name
And shame, but those were the 60's, no hurt no blame
And nobody cared, about the wrongs or rights of what they did with their nights
That odd-matched pair of love-struck castaways
In a career spanning over 50 years Keith has recorded multiple albums, played acoustic guitar on Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’
album, appeared at the first Glastonbury Festival in 1970 and gigged solo all over the UK and Europe.
A legendary live performer he has had a resurgence in popularity since ‘Crazy Dancing Days’ was released in December 2016 and ‘Life,Life’ in 2019...more