STR Mixtape – My Life Will Soon Come Back

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1. The Small Faces – Hey Girl
2. Gandalf – You Upset The Grace Of Living (2:09)
3. Homegas – Bulldozer Blues (04:38)
4. Fifty Foot Hose – The Things That Concern You (08:45)
5. Wizz Jones – Pictures (12:10)
6. Ultimate Spinach – Pamela (16:28)
7. Six Organs Of Admittance – Lisbon (19:24)
8. Wilco – Pieholden Suire (22:12(
9. Churchills – Take A look Around You (25:17)
10. XTC – Grass (28:00)
11. Sun Kil Moon – Salvador Sanchez (30:44)
12. Procol Harum – Pilgrim’s Progress (37:04)
13. Spiritualized – Cheapster (41:29)
14. Pink Floyd – Any Color You Like (43:54)
15. Tapes’n'Tapes – Crazy Eights (47:20)
16. The Who – Won’t Get Fooled Again (50:31)

Bert Janch and John Renbourn were the swinging London singer/songwriter movement ambassadors to the world. Hanging around the London Soho and playing constantly in the leading folk club of the time – Les Cousins, they gained reputation as admirable icons of acoustic guitar players and stunning songwriting. They both released couple of albums and built their names, but the impact of joining forces with Terry Cox, Jaquie McShee and Danny Thompson to form Pentangle was surprisingly huge.

Pentangle helped spreading the word of British folk to the world outside the British island. Playing sold out shows, for seven years in a row, the world began to listen, and the small and humble British folk circuit that started in Les Cousins had continued few years later to gigantic shows in the Carengy Hall.

Both Jansch and Renbourn were raised on their big brothers’ knees – Davey Graham and Wizz Jones. The last two were there couple of years before and were slightly older, and their influence on a generation of musicians cannot be diminished.
You can suspect that Al Stewart, John Martyn, Paul Simon, Ralph McTell and others wouldn’t become serious musicians if it wasn’t for the Graham/Jones revolution, that was followed by the torch holders Jansch/Renbourn.
That young generation slowly became famous outside the UK, built careers, sold at least one mega-album and became a perfect example  for excellent singer/songwriters.
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About a year ago, I was addressed by the Jemsite and they asked me to write a piece about my musical influences.
So I did. And here it is:

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It was a cold morning in Camden Market, when I entered a local CD shop and browsed through the shelves and the CDs on the display. The year was 2003. I left my homeland Israel to live in London for some time, and to see what life would bring me.

I had a cheap Epiphone acoustic guitar, which I took with me for the lonely moments, and my Rickenbacker bass, that came all the way with me, in order to find a psychedelic rock band, join them, get signed, make records, destroy hotel rooms and live a John Bonham lifestyle, including the fancy cars.
What I didn’t know, was that I’d be in for a big surprise and what they’d call – a lifetime changing moment. That moment happened when I saw, Bert Jansch’s first album on display. He was sitting with a guitar in hand, looking at the occasional consumer in the shop. He had been staring at them  like that since 1965, the year it was released.

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Good morning!
This week’s mixtape turned out to be pretty groovy. Not bad for someone who spends his entire day sitting on a chair.
Anyway, at some point I got into to it so much, so I went along and abused thee Can song, and dared to call it a remix. But it’s nothing more then a strange delay actually

In anyway, enjoy

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Nothing to say in particular about this mixtape

except for go on – press the play button here, or right click + save as

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And here’s the track list.

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