Name: Where The River Bends - a musical poem [Ray Wills lyrics Mike Guy music] by Taffman
Duration: 2 min 37 s
Description: This is my first musical collaboration with an old friend Raymond Arnold Wills (The Dorset Gypsy Poet), I slightly rearranged Ray's poem & musically arranged & recorded the song. Hope you enjoy our efforts.

This is my first musical collaboration with an old friend Raymond Arnold Wills (The Dorset Gypsy Poet), I slightly rearranged Ray's poem & musically arranged & recorded the song. Hope you enjoy our efforts.

Where The River Bends - a musical poem [Ray Wills lyrics Mike Guy music]

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Lush and ECC Records brings you the ”Music Will Not Be Cancelled”  series of deep ambient mixes for these troubled  times. 

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Produced by Simon Emmerson, Richard Evans, Nick Luscombe, Simon Richmond. Composed and performed by Midori Komachi (violin), Clive Bell (shakuhachi), Ríoghnach Connolly (flute and vocals), Rose Doonan ( vocals ), Simon Emmerson ( guitar and cittern ), Richard Evans ( bass, mandolin, keyboards), Ged Lynch ( drums and percussion ), Simon Richmond ( keyboards ), Nick Luscombe ( soundscapes) 


Produced by Simon Emmerson, Richard Evans, Nick Luscombe, Simon Richmond featuring Midori Komachi, Clive Bell & Ríoghnach Connolly

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Hey Joe - Songfacts

(writer: Billy Roberts      Original performance (this version): Steve Waller & Friends ).

In 1974 I had the great good fortune to be introduced to a musician, songwriter and bandleader of exceptional talent and presence. His name was Steve Waller and he was born and bred in Brixton in South London. He came from a family of entertainers and could play superbly in many different styles, from Stevie Wonder to George Formby and everything in between. He was a great singer and a great guitar player, he could turn his hand to almost any instrument and he was also a very good songwriter and arranger. But for me his most special talent was that – in addition to this – he could lead and direct world class musicians on stage, live, with no rehearsal, to deliver some of the best live music it was ever my pleasure to listen to. And he made it all look so easy. He was well known amongst the sessions music circuit and he achieved some fame, mainly when he shared the lead in Manfred Mann’s Earthband in the 1970/80s. But really he should have received more recognition and reward as the great musician he was, in his own right.  He aspired to be a jazz musician. I went to see him once playing with the Harry Stoneham Trio, a well known jazz ensemble. It  seemed to me he didn’t quite fit with that kind of jazz, and really I thought he was more special than that, because if the essence of jazz is to take existing musical forms and play around with them, then Steve was breaking great ground with his own fluid band set up and the music they were making.  As the 1970s moved into the 1980s, the changing musical landscape left him with a solid local fanbase but without the same chance at mainstream recognition. He continued to work professionally as a musician until he passed away too young in the year 2000. I shall always remember him as the great (and humble) musician and bandleader that he was.

One of the songs Steve adapted was ‘Hey Joe’, which had become well known through Jimi Hendrix achieving his first chart success with it. Steve took the song c1973 and reimagined it in a reggae style. I had loved ska (and then reggae) since it invaded the UK in the mid 1960s as part of the Mod culture, and Steve had really nailed it with his arrangement. We all urged him to get a record deal and get it out on the streets but nothing ever came of the idea. And so I kept the song in my head as best I could all these years until now, when I decided to set it out as best I could, albeit with my own style as I’m a different singer and player than Steve was. I’ve tried to capture the dynamics of it as though it was being played ‘live’. The only bit of the arrangement I was unable to tackle was the brass section work that would have happened over the middle section (from memory it was the brass section from the band Gonzalez that used to oblige, when they were in town and guesting at one of Steve’s musical ‘love ins’ / gigs).

Anyway, I hope you like it and please share if you do. Big thanks are due again to Paul ‘Family Man’ Jennings for his great work on the bass guitar. Shimmy & Shake helping out on backing vocals. Oh and there is now a Wikipedia listing for Steve Waller (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Waller) and a growing number of film clips on youtube where – even if the quality is not good – you can get an idea of who he was and the way he sang and played.    

Mike O’Neill, 19th June 2020

Reimaginings

Hey Joe (Reggae Arr Steve Waller)(The M.O.B.)

Hi
It is what it is, Mr Blue Sky
Dedicated to my father in law who has just passed away.
All done on the Yamha  Genos Keyboard except the choirs.
They are a mixture of Olympus choirs and Sampletank 4  mixed choirs.
I sampled the fire hydrant sound by tapping the stem of my speaker stand , obviously made of metal.

Where The River Bends - a musical poem [Ray Wills lyrics Mike Guy music]

Taffman

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