DiS has a chat with one of our most beloved bands about their fantastic forthcoming album
Everything Ever Written. Before we crack on to find out more about Idlewild s eighth record, here s an exclusive stream of new song from it entitled Come On Ghost .
Once upon a time there was a band called
Idlewild (or as a certain pedigree of fan would have it
iDLEWiLD) they had cult-like obsessed fans and a proper character arc. They started the story as a scrappy Dischord-records-obsessed indie-hardcore four piece who fell in love with melody, wrote a couple of disjointed popcore masterpieces that made people shout “SHAPES!” really loudly at unexpected times (“SHAPES!”) went on a major R.E.M. binge that made them a sort-of-commercial property and the next-big-indie-thing, complete with proper ballads and emotive bits, and played Glastonbury as the sun set; still being spiky and brilliant live and shouting “SHAPES!” There was ‘American English’, ‘You Held The World I
Elmore James – Crossroads (1996)
Elmore James – Crossroads (1996)
1 Dust My Broom 2:54
2 Look On Yonder Wall 2:28
3 Mean Mistreatin Mama 2:38
4 Fine Little Mama 2:31
5 Got To Move 2:42
6 Rollin And Tumblin 2:28
7 Coming Home 2:24
8 It Hurts Me Too 3:17
9 Standing At The Crossroads 2:53
10 Every Day I Have The Blues 3:16
11 I Done Somebody Wrong 2:17
12 Pickin The Blues 2:39
13 Anna Lee 2:50
14 Sunnyland Train 2:14
15 One Way Out 2:21
16 The Sky Is Crying 2:45
Elmore James is known as the “King of the Slide Guitar.” He was inspired by the local performances of Robert Johnson to take up the guitar. It was, in fact, a number by Johnson ( Dust My Broom ) that became James’ signature song and laid the foundation for his recording career. First cut by James in August 1951, “Dust My Broom” contains the strongest example of his stylistic signature: a swooping, full-octave opening figure on slide guit