Rating:
Verdict: Hypnotic blues
One of the few positives of a lockdown now happily coming to an end has been its impact on pop s most restless souls.
With tour plans in tatters, artists from Taylor Swift to Van Morrison have simply stayed in and made new music. Continuing his late-career purple patch, Paul Weller is now joining the club.
It s only ten months since he last topped the charts with his 15th solo album, On Sunset, but he s used his enforced isolation to good effect, capturing ideas on his phone and adding piano, guitar and vocals in his home studio before getting his band to play their parts remotely.
U2: The Virtual Road, a series of four concerts broadcast
for 48 hours only.
U2: The Virtual Road also marks the first time that three of these concerts – Slane, Red Rocks and Mexico – have been made available digitally.
The first concert will broadcast on St. Patrick s Day, March
th 2021.
U2 Go Home: Live From Slane Castle celebrates the band s return to the legendary Irish concert site on September 1
st 2001 for their first performance on the banks of the River Boyne in over twenty years. And in an exclusive YouTube performance,
Dermot Kennedy will open the show with a solo performance recorded last week outside Los Angeles.
But Weatherly will perhaps be best remembered for 1973’s Midnight Train To Georgia, which reached No 1 in the US and the top 10 in the UK charts.
R.I.P.: The legendary songwriter wrote songs for Ray Price, Kenny Chesney, Kenny Rogers and so many others: https://t.co/v9Bp0qpD4S Taste of Country (@TasteOfCountry) February 4, 2021
Following his death, Knight, “the empress of soul”, paid tribute on social media. “I’m missing Jim Weatherly already. He was about life and love. Neither One of Us and Midnight Train – I remember him getting his Grammys for those,” she wrote.
“We were just made for each other. We grew our lives together. I’m gonna miss him terribly and love him always.”
Gladys Knight has paid tribute to Jim Weatherly, the country music singer-songwriter behind her biggest hit Midnight Train To Georgia, following his death at the age of 77.
Weatherly died of natural causes at his home near Nashville, Tennessee, music publisher Charlie Monk told the Tennessean newspaper.
He was a prolific songwriter also responsible for hits including You’re The Best Thing and Neither One of Us, both for Gladys Knight & The Pips.
âIâm missing Jim Weatherly already. He was about life and love. Neither One of Us and Midnight Train - I remember him getting his Grammys for those. We were just made for each other. We grew our lives together. Iâm gonna miss him terribly and love him always.â Gladys Knight (@MsGladysKnight) February 4, 2021