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Rose Cousins – The Benefits of Being Alone
Wonderful song, I actually prefer the reprise version. Directed by Shehab Illyas & Rose CousinsEdited & Coloured by Shehab IllyasProduced by Skylab Productions Exceptional Helpers: Breagh MacKinnon, Mo Phung, Tanya Davis, Hannah Emmet, Ashley Scriven & Margot DurlingExtra Extras: Zahara Illyas, Adrian Illyas, Kathryn Illyas, Luna & Mel StoneHair & Makeup by Fred Connors LYRICS it’s a breakneck Monday morningand I can take it slowpour cream into my coffee, fresh from off the stoveI replay my favourite saddest song to remember how it goesor pick up where I left off with last night’s episodeif you’re interested, I can tell you moreof the benefits of being alone each day I work…
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Kristin Andreassen “Crayola Doesn’t Make A Color For Your Eyes”
Kristin Andreassen “Crayola Doesn’t Make A Color For Your Eyes”
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For July 4th on Radio BluesFlac we have Betsie Brown’s choice of our First to Last album. Not once but twice.
Betsie Brown? Yes Betsie Brown, a lovely lady who knows her Blues and the Blues World knows Betsie. When asked to choose an album she replied “That’s easy” – “Howlin’ Wolf – The London Howlin’ Wolf Sessions” That she chose the album that introduced me to “American” Blues made me go all “Goosey”. But then I should not be surprised because Betsie and I once were accused of having a “Special Relationship”. Seeing as I have never met Betsie and we live on different Continents it wasn’t very special. We do have a lot in common though. Cuppa Joe, cuppa Earl Grey, Blues and an English education. Oh and she…
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Debbie Bond’s album BLUES WITHOUT BORDERS is Radio BluesFlac July Album of the Month.
With the myriad of issues troubling our world it can be a struggle for an artist to focus on just one of the many subjects available to reflect upon. For her fifth album, singer/songwriter, blues activist and founder of the award-winning Alabama Blues Project, Debbie Bond decided to tackle as many as she could. The ten original tracks on Blues Without Borders take on a wide array of topics from social justice, environmentalism, and equality to all the complications found inside that thing called love. Along with her collaborator and husband, keyboardist and blues harp player “Radiator” Rick Asherson, Bond began the project in the spring of 2020, tracking with…