I just got to your post today (waiting, inexplicably for VMs LATEST Latest record project, Move On Skiffle, three weeks late!). It's a shame how lockstep the music critics, so-called, uniformly panned Van's LRP1! I saw him perform several of these songs, at Cesars Palace last October, and they kicked a$$, and they were rousingly applauded. The whole LRP1 was... Three Chords and the Truth! And funny as hell!
Sorry for the delayed response. Your reply got buried in a slew of other emails. Life happens. I'm sort of with you on my own response to the Skiffle songs that were released. I still am waiting for my hard copies of the new record (I ordered vinyl + CDs, since I like the sound of the former, but the portability of the latter). I have been streaming what I can squeeze in on drives, mostly. But since I'm semi-retired, I don't have a commute (PTL!). But when I have recently listened, I've been liking it them more, and like some of my favorite recordings, sometimes it just takes a while for records to grow on me. Dylan's late period masterpiece, "Time Out of Mind" was like that for me, for example. Now, 25 years hence, I just paid a couple hundred bucks for the 10-LP limited edition bootleg release featuring that record's session recordings and a fine remix of the original, which still stands the test of time. Go figger!
I just got to your post today (waiting, inexplicably for VMs LATEST Latest record project, Move On Skiffle, three weeks late!). It's a shame how lockstep the music critics, so-called, uniformly panned Van's LRP1! I saw him perform several of these songs, at Cesars Palace last October, and they kicked a$$, and they were rousingly applauded. The whole LRP1 was... Three Chords and the Truth! And funny as hell!
Sorry for the delayed response. Your reply got buried in a slew of other emails. Life happens. I'm sort of with you on my own response to the Skiffle songs that were released. I still am waiting for my hard copies of the new record (I ordered vinyl + CDs, since I like the sound of the former, but the portability of the latter). I have been streaming what I can squeeze in on drives, mostly. But since I'm semi-retired, I don't have a commute (PTL!). But when I have recently listened, I've been liking it them more, and like some of my favorite recordings, sometimes it just takes a while for records to grow on me. Dylan's late period masterpiece, "Time Out of Mind" was like that for me, for example. Now, 25 years hence, I just paid a couple hundred bucks for the 10-LP limited edition bootleg release featuring that record's session recordings and a fine remix of the original, which still stands the test of time. Go figger!