MP3: Laura Groves - Can’t Sleep (live)

A folkstress singing of big wide open emotions and about the sun falling out of the sky - she introduces you to her world with initial hypnotising harmonising but you gradually begin to understand her spell. And just as the diminutive Moroccon story-tellers can tell you hundreds of stories from their unassuming position cross legged in the corner of the market, Laura’s voice doesn’t so much surprise me as it much as it just requires appreciation and assumes your attention is there as it soars and surrounds every word she is convincing you of. Slightly stutterting; an imperfect flight full of loops and dives taking you somewhere from Joanna Newsom’s folk international terminal to a run down indie-pop landing strip where Belle and Sebestain are always asking arriving flights - “Hows the weather up there? The sun hasn’t shone for over a week here”.

You can also go and enjoy a song she released called “I am leaving” for a better impression than I can possibly offer in writing.

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Also:

In Sheffield? I suggest you go to Cool As Folk club night next Tuesday evening for Slow Club, Indigo Moss and some cool folk, anti-folk, country and Americana. it’s in the University’s “Raynor Lounge”.

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I’m constantly trying to make people realise that things change quickly - a post written on the hugely influential Daily Kos blog make us realise how little we are, and how quickly things can change…

“If the history of life on earth is viewed as the Empire State Building, all of human history is a dime on top. If the life of our planet is viewed as a year, every event in the history books has raced past in the last few seconds of that year…..

…Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., one the United States’ great historians, is less than two lifetimes removed from a world where the United States did not exist… It’s only two more life spans to William Shakespeare. Two more beyond that, and the only Europeans to see America are those who sailed from Greenland”

The entire article is worth a read

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I have decided it was time for a new look here. Little changes and tweaks will happen in the next few days to make this “mp3 blog” as easy to use and simple to read as possible.

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