Музыка и песни String Driven Thing / String Driven Thing

Record Label: Ozit Style: Rock

The classic early 70s STRING DRIVEN THING line up of Chris Adams guitar and vocals, Pauline Adams vocals and percussion, Colin Wilson bass, and Grahame Smith violin (Hammill/Van der Graaf) recorded on the Foxtrot Tour with GENESIS. Frontman Chris Adams has suffered a spontaneous pneumothorax (collapsed lung) and is rushed to hospital, where Doctors recommend that he take four weeks rest to let his lung reflate. But unwilling to drop out of the impending tour, Chris elects for the alternative treatment which, in his words involved "watching a brace and bit being used to drill a hole through my chest". 14 days later, and against doctors' advice, the band took to the Rainbow stage and, although understandably not being quite at their best, in the following gigs, including Manchester Free Trade Hall where this recently unearthed recording was made, the band performed sets with such stunning energy that multiple encores became the norm. Just listen to the 16 minute version of Jack Diamond Record Label: Ozit Style: Independent

Record Label: Ozit Style: Rock

Esoteric Recordings are pleased to announce a new edition of the classic 1973 album THE MACHINE THAT CRIED by STRING DRIVEN THING – re-mastered from the original Charisma Records master tapes. Formed in Glasgow in 1967 around the husband and wife CHRIS ADAMS and PAULINE ADAMS and JOHN MANNION, by 1972 the band had moved from their purely folk roots and had signed to CHARISMA RECORDS, recording their self-titled album for the label with new members GRAHAM SMITH (violin) and COLIN WILSON (bass, guitar). For their 1973 album, THE MACHINE THAT CRIED, the band was expanded further by the addition of drummer BILLY FAIRLEY. This record was arguably the finest ever released by the band, featuring such classics as ‘HEARTFEEDER’, the album’s title track and ‘SOLD DOWN THE RIVER’. This Esoteric Recordings reissue has been newly re-mastered from the original CHARISMA RECORDS master tapes and features two bonus tracks drawn from the band’s 1973 single and a booklet that fully restores all original album artwork with a new essay. Record Label: Esoteric Style: Rock

A limited edition release from STRING DRIVEN THING. The past is another country, as L. P. Hartley almost said and here Glasgow singer and songwriter Chris Adams does his best to prove him right. Adams, a Glasgow beat, hippie, rock star and producer once shared management and label with the likes of Genesis in the seventies. His band STRING DRIVEN THING graced the pages of Rolling Stone and the NME and almost made it big time. Since then he has occasionally resurfaced, has been big in Europe and has most recently grabbed his history by the collar and revamped his website amid acclaimed re-releases of his back catalogue. Here, on an album suffused with nostalgia, he digs into that past to produce a set that talks to the baby boomer years in much the same way as many of his American contemporaries have been doing as they revisit their own histories. Without the "trademark" violin sound that characterised the STRING DRIVEN THING's heyday this is an album of mature, reflective songs superbly played by a very simpatico band. The sound is warm, bluesy and rootsy with a southern flavour. One is reminded of recent releases by Gurf Morlix or Colin Linden (of Blackie and the Rodeo Kings). Adams' vocals have an attractive weathered quality and at times he approaches the gruffness of the late John Martyn or the idioxyncracies of latter Dylan especially on the final song "Love Dies." As mentioned, much of the album consists of reportage or impressions of Adams' formative years. Amid verbal nods to his heroes (including the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Van Morrisson and the Byrds) he recalls events in places as diverse as Glasgow, Dublin and New York. Adams lyrics are excellent throughout and one gets the sense that Adams has garnered years of experience, personal and as a fan and poured it into this record. The band, George Tucker, Andy Allen and Dick Drake rise to the occasion. Overall this is an excellent album. Like a fine wine it oozes quality and slips down easy and is all the better for being of a certain vintage. Record Label: Backshop Style: Rock