So much longing

http://www.myspace.com/jbcom

Have found that iTunes has 5 new tunes from the Glaswegian songstress Jerry Burns and bought them without hesitation. We lost our hard disc the other week and all our favourite songs. A fine balance between paying for a disc retrieval at £300 or a lot of work finding the missing tracks which cost even more on iTunes. Must remember to back everything up. Now I have a 1T external should be easier.

For those who don't know the lady [ and do not get confused with the male country singer Jerry Burns ] she writes and produces music of exceptional clarity and beauty with almost French chanteuse  qualities. Anyone who has heard her 1994 album 'Pale Red' knows that there is an artist who deserves to be heard far more widely and whose production has a longing and nostalgia that you want to hear more of. Which is a pity because 'Pale Red' and 'Angel' are 15 tracks only. Her fans have been waiting for years for this, barely 20 minutes. She's not to everyone's taste, my nearest and dearest do not see the point. There are no histrionics, no complexity, almost nothing there but bare understated piano riffs and strings and that voice that is  mellow single malt with a hint of IrnBru but pure lost love, madness and ecstasy that only Marcel Maljhoudi can come close to in ' Une jour Tu Verras' . Quelle domage.