GUEST SPOT # 24 - KT Tunstall - 'Black Horse and the CherryTree'

GUEST SPOT # 24 - KT Tunstall - 'Black Horse and the CherryTree'

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KT Tunstall - 'Black Horse & the Cherry Tree' (live on Jools Holland 2008)

This week's guest spot from the delightful Mrs S: I've heard that her 12-egg carbonara has to be tasted to be believed! So I will be placing my order in advance please!!

So ... picture this attractive scene: Jon & I  collapsed on the sofa some considerable time after we should have gone to bed sort-of watching Jools Holland. I had just decided it was time to stop arsing about & actually go to bed when someone new appeared on stage and distracted me (not a tough thing to do.) The someone was a girl with a guitar and to be honest I didn't pay much attention because that was not extraordinary in itself. Still, I stuck around to watch, mostly because I still couldn't be bothered to go to bed.

benches at about 100lbs

I listened as one girl with a guitar, a tambourine and an effects pedal created layer upon layer within this amazing song and I was hooked. Actually having just watched it again I'm STILL hooked. That appearance on Jools Holland was her first on TV and obviously since then I've heard this song on the radio a million times and I've seen her do it live with a band but it's never been quite the same. Once the band was added and it got to sounding a bit more "slick" somehow it lost something.

KT Tunstall started out busking and is in my opinion still at her best left to her own devices with as little accompaniment as possible. Proof of this if proof could possibly still be needed:-

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GUEST SPOT # 12 - Des'ree - 'Mind Adventures'

GUEST SPOT # 12 - Des'ree - 'Mind Adventures'

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Des'ree - 'Mind Adventures' (1992)

Now you may have to bear with me here ...... I know that Des'ree is mostly known for the bland cobblers she produced in the mid 90s which was used to sell cars, sofas and probably piles cream for all I know. However, long before the gravy train rolled into town she produced an album which still numbers amongst my absolute favourites (ever.)

It is September 1991 and I have just arrived at my university halls in Sheffield. I don't know it yet but my time in Sheffield will be pretty pivotal for me. I will meet my husband, the friends I will take with me through life (whether they want to come or not) & I will work out what I want to do with my life. All this is not bad for 4 years ostensibly spent arsing about in pubs. I have a fairly crappy tape recorder with a propensity for eating all tapes that go anywhere near it & this tendency to shred music means I am running out of stuff to listen to. I give up on the tape player in favour of my less violent Walkman (Hah! Walkman - When's the last time you saw one of those?!) and start borrowing tapes from my neighbours. One of these tapes turns out to be "Mind Adventures" by Des'ree.

"one too many mind adventures"

Ideally you need some sun & warmth for this song, which meant that throughout my time in Sheffield it got an airing for about 36hours every June and then put back into safe-keeping ready for the next summer. Something about it has laid-back summery vibes all over it. I don't know whether it's her voice, the bass-line ....... No idea but it works and it's lush.

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