Entertainment For Lively Minds
The Transatlantic Sessions
Posted by renkadima on 25 September 2009 - 8:27pm.
Just had the great fortune to stumble over this gem on BBC4 - Martha Wainwright, James Taylor, Dan Tyminski, and a whole host of superb folk musicians - but am a bit dismayed to find that this is the third series.
When were the other two series broadcast and why didn't someone tell me?
A marvellous half-hour, regardless (and just what is it about the divine Miss Wainwright that makes me go all wobbly?)
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You can buy....
the CDs and DVDs on Amazon.
Here's one we've seen before -
That remains...
my favourite clip of all the ones ever posted here.
Mine too.
In fact I opened this thread with the intention of posting the very same link to this unalloyed moment of genius.
John Martyn with Eddi Reader
on "He Got All the Whiskey" is pretty special too
Martyn at his dirty, growly, slurry best. Great call and response stuff from Eddi R - although you have to put up with lots of boho - arm-waving antics from La Reader
Renkadima asks..
"(and just what is it about the divine Miss Wainwright that makes me go all wobbly?) "
The legs. Must be the legs.
There was once a picture in The Word of Ms W which featured her NOT exposing an unseemly length of trim thigh. I was most upset.
Darrell Scott/Danny Thompson/Kenny Malone
did a great version of the haunting "You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive"
on the Transatlantic Sessions - but can't find that one on You Tube.
It is on Spotify, however,
http://open.spotify.com/track/18nyJ8GVn7iNavd8u4ySPk
I saw Martha
in Austin last year and she was no more than 10 feet away - she definitely has the ability to make you go wobbly. Great voice too
Martha analysis
Everyone's right. It's difficult to ignore the legs (they are astonishing) but the voice and the charisma are also at spellbinding levels. She's a genuine modern-day 'it' girl.
Having spent some time in a tent with Martha*
I can confirm and agree that she has presence by the bucketful.
She's also spectacularly potty-mouthed and spirited when she feels like it. I had to feel slightly sorry for a dreadlocked trustafarian bloke with two youngsters who rushed them from the audience as she belted into her jolly hit song 'Bloody Motherf*cking Asshole'. He looked palefaced and obviously shocked, a refugee from Hampstead village who had brought Tarquin and Portia down to Glastonbury for a weekend of culture only to have been confronted by a mad Canadian banshee with issues to discuss in the basest of terms. Not something they encourage at the private school. Poor dear. Bit too real.
*OK it was in a big tent with 3000 others at Glastonbury.
Potty mouthed banshees
Can't get enough of them myself...
Funny you should mention Portia, a girl of my knowing of that name is the foulest mouthed vixen ever to walk the planet.
She is not unattrative to men and when a van driver leaned out to share his appreciation of her form one day - her response which made an anatomically unlikely suggestion with a liberal sprinkling of verbs and nouns starting with "f" and "c" - somewhat startled the said van man. All delivered in an accent which made Lady Di sound like a docker