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Cowboy Junkies : Renmin Park
In late 2008, my family and I were given an opportunity to spend three months in China. Renmin Park is a reflection of my family's adventure in China. It's a fictional love story about two people whose two worlds will forever keep them apart. It's a thank-you letter to an obscure city and the people who opened up their lives to five very strange strangers. It's a document about a bewilderingly complex culture that is, once again, experiencing a massive upheaval. It's another chapter in a band's ongoing twenty-five year journey. - Michael Timmins (March 2010)
Eleanor McEvoy : I’d Rather Go Blonde
Diverse Records are delighted to announce that a new Eleanor McEvoy studio album, entitled “I’d Rather Go Blonde”, is to be released on 25th September 2010. The album features eleven new songs, nine of which were penned by McEvoy, one by former Beautiful South man Dave Rotheray and, finally, there’s a cover of “Good Times” by Sam Cooke. “I’d Rather Go Blonde” is the eighth the eighth album in a twenty year career that has seen McEvoy establish herself as one of Ireland’s most accomplished singer / songwriters. Never one to shy away from the big issues, this album ...
Simone Felice : Live From A Lonely Place
This August will mark the limited release of Simone Felice – Live From A Lonely Place. Recorded at home (in the barn) just a few weeks after his heart surgery, this retrospective collection includes songs from the earliest Felice Brother days, Duke & King favorites, and the traditional Celtic waltz ‘Wild Mountain Thyme’ arranged by Simone. Naked as the day you were born, these stark recordings cut to the bone, revealing the essential brilliance of the songwriting, the poetry, like a ghost in the attic, like a wind at the door. For those of you that like a back story, Simone ...
Joan Baez : Gone From Danger
[audio:http://www.diverserecords.co.uk/wp-content/themes/dot_matrix_diverse/audio/reunion_hill.mp3|titles=Reunion Hill] The ability to serve as a lightning rod for artists whose talent complements – that is, completes, amplifies – your own unique abilities, that is a rare quality, indeed. It is a quality that came to Joan Baez very early in her career, and there are indications that it even preceded her career (her professional career). As early as her coffee house days in 1958 and ’59, learning her craft from friends, fellow travellers, old and new recordings, Joan’s instincts sharpened. She learned to draw from those sources who could heighten her artistry, and to introduce her audiences to music and ...
Chuck Prophet : Let Freedom Ring
[audio:http://www.diverserecords.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/08-Hot-Talk.mp3|titles=Hot Talk (from Let Freedom Ring)] Chuck Prophet shapes his restless career with inimitable subtle flair: a vivid parade of razor-edged one-liners camouflaged in a slack-jawed drawl, songs about heartbreak and everyman heroism, drenched in twisted lines of rude Telecaster. When the early stages of a financial melt-down coincided with a rare San Francisco heat wave in the summer of 2008, with the window open wide and Dwight Twilley, Iggy, Thin Lizzy and the Knack blaring out the hi-fi, Prophet wrote a collection of political songs for non-political people. Later, in April 2009, he journeyed to Mexico City, where, in the clutches ...
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Simone Felice solo show in Cardiff
This isn’t technically a Diverse Records show, it’s being put on by Balloon, a literary and music venture co-run by Matt from Diverse. Simone will be playing a solo set and reading from his novel. Support comes from Jeb Loy Nichols who’ll be doing much the same.
Tickets will be on sale soon. [...]
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Joan Baez : Gone From Danger out soon on Diverse Records
The ability to serve as a lightning rod for artists whose talent complements – that is, completes, amplifies
– your own unique abilities, that is a rare quality, indeed. It is a quality that came to Joan Baez very early in her career, and there are indications that it even preceded her career (her professional career). [...]
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Chuck Prophet gig looming…
Diverse Records are thrilled to be bringing Chuck Prophet to Wales for the first time in about a billion years. His album ‘Let Freedom Ring’ is being released on vinyl by Diverse in May (hopefully in time for the gig, there’s been a couple of delays), it was described by New York’s Village Voice [...]
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Chuck Prophet Update
The bad news is that Let Freedom Ring record has hit a few problems of late. Test pressings took ages to materialise and when they finally arrived last week we didn’t think they were up to scratch. We’ve asked the plant to repress them and are waiting new ones. All the artwork is finished and [...]
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Oohhh, It’s A Secret.
The Chuck Prophet album isn’t even out yet and it looks like we’re going to have another Diverse release to announce very soon. Keep checking the page vinyl fans!
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New title and new gig confirmed.
We can confirm that DIV021LP will be Chuck Prophet’s 2009 album Let Freedom Ring. Full details of the man himself can be found here and album details here. All Chuck’s previous albums have been released on vinyl so we’re glad to be able to put out this one on Diverse Records.
Chuck has also confirmed a [...]
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Diverse release schedule update.