Solo @ The Dragon

The Abbey Road zebra crossing
(Photo: Simon Meeds)

Oh dear, only one person turned up to the Dragon Folk Club session last week. To be fair, with some core members away, it wasn't entirely unexpected, but it would have been nice if some of you could have kept Colin company for the evening. You see, when Colin is alone at a session he goes a little rogue and tends to sing well known songs that he would only usually bring out one or two at a time at our sessions, and when you hear what he's been doing you "sorta, kinda" wish you had been there - or at least that's my usual reaction.

Because they are so well known I could easily have picked videos for the playlist (see the "a selection" link below), which featured the original, or otherwise expected, artists, but that would have been too obvious, so I've treated it like one of those albums that bring together a variety of artists to do covers. Some of them are well known, others less so, but I think it's worth a watch and a listen. Just don't expect any "proper" folk music.

On the first side of his "album", Colin featured songs from the Beatles' repertoire including, in my mind, some lesser well known ones as well as some of my favourites. On side two he went for mostly Americana with a few gems from our side of the pond thrown in for good measure. I hope you enjoy this approach for a change. Well done Colin!

Normal service will be resumed this Friday when there will be a session despite it being Good Friday. There is officially no theme, but if you have anything appropriate to Easter or to any other anniversaries you can find going on then I'm sure it will all go down well. As usual, anything goes as long as it's acoustic.

Now listen to a selection of songs sung during this session.

(Number of people present - 1 of whom 1 performed)