You Were Never Much Of A Dancer [LP]

Gwenifer Raymond - You Were Never Much Of A Dancer [LP]

In her own words .... When I was about eight years old a pretty formative thing happened to me ... my mum bought me a cassette tape of Nirvana’s Nevermind. Being so young I'd had no real interest in music prior to that, but I did have a ‘My First Sony’ cassette player that I used to listen to audiobooks. Anyway, I put the tape in, pressed play, and what I heard blew my little 8 year old mind. I don't know what it was about that wall of sound that so captured me, but I spent many hours hyperactively running around the house with headphones on, volume at full blast, and Nevermind on repeat. It was either for Christmas or my birthday that year, that I asked for a guitar. I spent all my teenage years playing either guitar or drums in various punk and rock outfits around the Welsh valleys, but around that time I was also getting seriously into older stuff, Dylan, The Velvet Underground and the like. Through those cheap compilation CDs you could get then, I found that a common influence amongst these guys was pre-war delta and country blues, as well as Appalachian music. Eventually I stumbled upon Mississippi John Hurt, Skip James and Roscoe Holcomb, and they became the holy trinity of musicians I so wanted to able to play like. Eventually, I tracked down a blues man in Cardiff who could teach me and it was in studying these guys that I was introduced to John Fahey and the whole American Primitive thing. A1. Off To See The Hangman, Part I (0:57) A2. Sometimes There's Blood (4:45) A3. Idumea (2:42) A4. Off To See The Hangman, Part II (4:45) A5. Face Down Strut (1:35) A6. Laika's Song (1:48) A7. Oh, Command Me Lord! (2:13) B1. Sweep It Up (2:04) B2. Requiem For John Fahey (3:04) B3. Dance Of The Everlasting Faint (4:26) B4. Bleeding Finger Blues (1:58) B5. Sack 'Em Up, Parts I And II (5:41) B6. It Was All Sackcloth And Ashes (3:24)