Whereas the previous Field Guide was focusing on Watkins' vocal work and tracks released under his own name, this follow-up looks at his activities as ‘hired gun’!
Geraint has done loads of work as a studio musician, providing keyboards (both piano & organ) and/or accordion contributions.
No surprise then that the majority of the tracks here concern 50’s style Rock & Roll/Rockabilly and Cajun/Zydeco!
From well-known artists such as Dave Edmunds, Nick Lowe, Paul McCartney, and Rory Gallagher, to somewhere over the years lost ones; Racing Cars, Juice On The Loose, Diz & The Doormen, and Laverne Brown…
Rockabilly revival bands - Crazy Cavan And The Rhythm Rockers, Stray Cats, The Shakin' Pyramids, and Matchbox - all made good use of his piano pounding skills.
Other performers preferred his accordion skills, among them Gerry Rafferty, Freddie Steady's Wild Country, That Petrol Emotion, and John Wesley Harding.
No surprise then that the majority of the tracks here concern 50’s style Rock & Roll/Rockabilly and Cajun/Zydeco!
From well-known artists such as Dave Edmunds, Nick Lowe, Paul McCartney, and Rory Gallagher, to somewhere over the years lost ones; Racing Cars, Juice On The Loose, Diz & The Doormen, and Laverne Brown…
Rockabilly revival bands - Crazy Cavan And The Rhythm Rockers, Stray Cats, The Shakin' Pyramids, and Matchbox - all made good use of his piano pounding skills.
Other performers preferred his accordion skills, among them Gerry Rafferty, Freddie Steady's Wild Country, That Petrol Emotion, and John Wesley Harding.
I hope you enjoy this ramshackle (but surprisingly coherent) compilation!
Last post of the year, complete with a new banner proudly making our combined stand against AI!
ReplyDeleteHaving written this don't be surprised if our last banner for 2025 will read: Fully AI Operated...
And of course the link: https://mega.nz/file/jAVXwZaa#8WzuMSKqeWwsIxIdL1euSbDtamRjWin9JywRWIzcdbc
Question: How do you feel about AI generated music?
IT'S GREAT!
DeleteCREATIVITY IS TOO MUCH TROUBLE!
THANK GOD WE CAN FINALLY GET RID OF IT!!
RI IS TOO UPSETTING!
Thanks for posting music from Geraint Watkins. One of the great unknown talents. I have a couple of his solo records and have seen him in several bands (Edmunds, Nick Lowe, Van Morrison and Mark Knopfler. Was fortunate enough to meet and speak with him a couple times. A more humble human you'll never meet.
ReplyDeleteAI-generated what?? You mean Spurtify? (yeah, not a complete Luddite, I know what you meant . . . ). Just another fancy word for bullshit. --Muzak McM.
ReplyDeleteBesides AI and thinking are antitheses.
DeleteCan AI generated music be as bad as children with no talent forced to play the violin? Will the masses stand up and walk out of an elevator, bank, etc. shouting r,aising the fist, This is No Hank Williams? Or don't we know where the combination of AI generating embellished with a human touch is happening now? I have been wondering, the last twenty years, about how flat music has become. I do not worry about AI in music or pictures. It is there and will become an integral part of retelling stories, and messing with the here and now. The questions for me are there. No denying. AI transforms truths. Computer says no brought to a new level.
ReplyDeleteWhen you like music, and when it gets known to be AI generated, you don't like it anymore?
I think with billions of people, there will always be loads of smart-asses using it for fun. Maybe claiming to have a clean Beatles in Madison Square Garden tape. The Joy Division tour in America registration, The last words of Kurt Cobain surrounded with sweet violins, carrying him off to heaven.
Thanks! Geraint Watkins is a new find for me.
ReplyDeleteGlad you like him Berni, don't forget to check out our first Geraint post!
DeleteKoen: Here's how I feel about AI Music. Did we learn NOTHING from all those TERMINATOR movies?
ReplyDeleteWe're finished if they solve the mystery of the CAPTCHA!
More Geraint music is always welcome, and is recommended listening for when the Femmebots come for you.
Actually an AI already solved the Captcha hiccough. The AI contacted a human on an on-line jobsite & through some social engineering, convinced the person to solve the CAPTCHA for them (bad eyesight, luddite, some excuse!!!). The hired human solved the CAPTCHA for the AI & that was it, in like Flynn.
DeleteI'm just waiting for the first total-AI blog. All AI generated material: music; write-up review; album artwork; fictitious critic quotes; phony chart ranking; even band tour dates. April Fools all year round.
Thanks Koen for the Geraint (or is it???)
The last time I looked I think I was human, but nowadays, who seriously knows?!
DeleteThe music industry is so completely different from what it used to be...
ReplyDeleteI just read an article about Spotify: 'Last spring, a Swedish newspaper published a story about a little-known hitmaker named Johan Röhr, a specialist in tepid, soothing soundscapes. As of March, Röhr had used six hundred and "fty aliases (including Adelmar Borrego and Mingmei Hsueh) to release more than twenty-seven hundred songs on Spotify, where they had been streamed more than "fteen billion times. These numbers make him one of the most popular musicians in the world, even though he is not popular in any meaningful sense—it’s doubtful that many people who stream his music have any idea who he is.'
Hey...Have a Healthy and Happy New Year ahead.
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