tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6246801426821066145.post1459036696343951031..comments2024-01-31T20:45:40.520+00:00Comments on Slow Lane Shuffle: Music lives onRachel Foxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11803852725693518924noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6246801426821066145.post-50625685638415322772012-11-04T11:11:43.270+00:002012-11-04T11:11:43.270+00:00I'm trying to think of an English musician/per...I'm trying to think of an English musician/performer who might stand alongside Marra... who writes in that vein, performs in that way... no-one jumps to mind. He was often compared to American Randy Newman and certainly that rings fairly true. He made songwriting sound easy, did lovely things with a piano. I don't think Newman rests his keyboard on an ironing board though (a Marra signature move!).<br />xRachel Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11803852725693518924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6246801426821066145.post-6522186866267423582012-11-04T10:16:52.391+00:002012-11-04T10:16:52.391+00:00Another Scottish secret too well kept. It's am...Another Scottish secret too well kept. It's amazing just how much of the very best English music comes from Scotland!Dickhttp://patteran.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6246801426821066145.post-80130078501761438432012-10-31T08:32:53.145+00:002012-10-31T08:32:53.145+00:00Yes... but I think that was in some part his choic...Yes... but I think that was in some part his choice. He did go to London when he was younger and worked as a songwriter for a while but from what I got from a radio interview with him on Scottish BBC a while back he just didn't want to work like that - he wanted to do his own thing in his own way. And though he wasn't widely known outside this area he was hugely popular round here - very busy, always working (he was a visual artist too though I've not seen his work in that field). Also he had a family (his kids have a band called the Hazey Janes) and he was involved with all sorts of community arts and music projects. He chose his place in the world really I think.<br /><br />And when you read what it takes to be more widely known... I was reading an epic profile of Bruce Springsteen the other day... here<br /><br />http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/07/30/120730fa_fact_remnick?currentPage=all<br /><br />well, that just isn't for everybody. <br /><br />xRachel Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11803852725693518924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6246801426821066145.post-48640033244499901672012-10-31T03:39:50.775+00:002012-10-31T03:39:50.775+00:00"wheelbarrow off Kilimanjaro" - brillian..."wheelbarrow off Kilimanjaro" - brilliant. Sad he wasn't more widely known. Rachel Fentonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10046917627054462214noreply@blogger.com