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The Rin Tins - One More Roll of the Dice album review

Looking back, The Rin Tins first full length album called One More Roll of the Dice brought some driving gypsy rhythms and lurid dark folk tales. Swing jazz met gypsy jazz on this album by The Rin Tins. This album helped Bristol's finest purveyors of folk become a mainstay in folk music and in gypsy jazz. One can see why The Rin Tins have been dubbed as Bristol's finest purveyors of folk.


The song Astro Toad explained the admiralty and leadership of former Royal Navy Captain James R Cook when he was captain of the ship HMS Endeavour. Astro Toad also  told the story of how the HMS Endeavour ship coasted the world from 1768 to 1775. Captain James R Cook has the affectionate name of “Captain Jim” which is used throughout the song.

The HMS Endeavour was commissioned by the admiralty of the Royal Navy to follow a comet that was flying way on out to sea. The Royal Navy needed a man with a steady nerve to go and take a look. The Royal Navy found him in the shape of Captain James R Cook. What The Royal Navy told Captain James R Cook was, “Tail that trailblazer, Jim, keep your eyes on the skies. And don’t let up until it’s good and gone then come on home when it dies.”

The comet led the HMS Endeavour on a crazy path in circles around the globe.Hop-skipping over Iceland like a glittery Astro Toad. Captain Jim said, “Don’t let it get away!” He told his crew, “Boys, don’t give it a chance. ‘Cos if you take your eyes away we could well end up in France.”

Then the fireball vanished like a bullet from a gun. And from the sea mountains appeared where before there had been none. Captain Jim said, “Trim the sails. I need earth between my toes. I wanna explore that foreign shore and see how far it goes. Get ready to way anchor when we’re nestled in yonder bay. I want a ready camp on the beach by the end of the day.” No sooner had he said this, they hit the barrier reef. It tore a hole the size of a mole and they were stuck for 7 weeks out in the sea.

The botanists had a great time. One discovery after the next. They brought back samples every night and set them up on the deck. Captain Jim after said 49 days, “This one’s for you, my happy two. Cos you’ve both done such a stand-up job. I’m gonna call this Botany Bay. We’ll head home now with many tails, each one as tall as trees. And thanks to us this land’ll become the new home of the free.”


The title track One More Roll of the Dice is about a gambler who had been a very lucky man because he knows the game of gambling. The track uses a notable 5|4 section after Verse 3.
 
Folk say the gambling man is a lucky man by trade. The end of his career arrives when his luck begins to fade. Once he was an important man that guided by the hand of god. Rivals marveled at his good fortune and the golden road he trodded down. He knows to gamble is a sin, but thats just the trade that he is in. His written fate is a work of love. Sure as every breath he breathes, he knows the sun shines just for him.

But every coin has two sides. What goes up must come down. And happy endings were not made for those who test the ground. Each triumphant flourish of cards brings women to his side. At first sign of a wilting hand they all turn and hide.

However the cards have turned their back on him and the dice have turned cold. It would no longer seem that fortune favours the bold. The doors one by one all close and the options become few. But that’s the price that you pay when you pick the life you choose. He says, “Just give me one more roll of the dice. Come the end I’ll pay the price. After all it’s a vice.” He stands again on his own two feet and wipes the dirt from his eyes. He reaches out for Lady Luck. He leaps and trusts to fly.

Conviction is the mark of men when the game gets rough. You can do again what was once done and call the devil’s bluff. Isn’t it true you take a chance when you decide to have a dance? With a fellow who looks smug, but how do you know he can cut the rug?


The Lumberjack Convention was a touchy song which discussed the business politics of the wood industry/timber industry. The Lumberjack Convention takes places at a lumberjack convention which lumberjacks are attending.
    
Lumberjacks had a lot to say at the lumberjack convention meeting up in the bunkhouse. Lumberjacks had to discuss their rate of pay. The boss is bringing in machines that work as hard as 10 strong men. It's not a matter of maybe. But simply a case of when. No one knows what'll become of the hard workin' lumberjack. He's goin' home to Scandinavia and he's never coming back.

At the lumberjack convention, Ol' Nelson took the stand. Not many folks have been in this game as long as this old man. Ol' Nelson the wise high-climber said, “The problem here is economics. If we stay here in the brave new world, we’re gonna end up dead. The solution, boys, is to head back home to where our pappys logged ‘cos over there nothin's changed. But here we're treated like dogs.”

The decision was almost made to all jump on the next boat home after they collect their pay. But the only man wanting to stay was Tommy the whistle-punk. He cleared his throat and stood up from his seat upon the bunk. He then said, “I built my house with my own two hands and I only just bought my truck. I don't got no reason to go. But I sure wish you boys good luck.” Many of the lumberjack were teary eyed because Tommy was a popular fella and no one could say goodbye. Tommy said, “Don't worry 'bout me. Just spare a prayer for me when you get home again. I'll keep blowin' whistles. Though these machines don't want to hear. I’ll be fine and dandy alone. So don't you fellas fear.”

And so after the convention each lumberjack went their own way. Each one knowing this was the end of the lumberjackers day. No one knew what ever became of Tommy the whistle-punk. The last time they saw him he was waving from his bunk. He never gave the slightest word about his future plans. So no one knows what ever became of the very last lumberjack man.


The Scuttle Shuffle was a song about a new dance craze called “The Scuttle Shuffle”. The Scuttle Shuffle is an upbeat swing jazz song with an extremely fast tempo. You’ll notice that with the beats. Also pay attention and you’ll notice that bounce the guitar.

Once upon a time in a far away town,  the people came from miles around to gather together in the town hall and celebrate the summer ball. The last 10 years were such a bore. The summer ball had become a chore. The time had come and everyone knew to wiggle a hip to a different tune.

A stranger came through the door. A silhouette in the light from the lane came with him. He brought a brand-new jig which was something the girls would really dig. No one knew him. He was alone The receptionist hung up the phone. His steely gaze scanned the room as a distant wolf howled at the moon. He did a new dance called The Scuttle Shuffle. He did The Scuttle Shuffle.

This man said, “I’ve just come here from the beach past the lighthouse beyond your reach. I met a man there lost in a trance. And for 5 days he taught me this dance. We built a fine in the sand and danced to an invisible band. Together he and I brought the thunder. As a nearby crab was filled with wonder.”

As he finished his tail to the crowd after he stopped dancing, the music began loud and proud From then on nothing else would do. They could wiggle this jig to any tune. After that night nothing was the same. After that night everything had changed. Men and women, young and old. Repeated this story as it was told.


5/5*****!!

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Formidable Vegetable - Permaculture: A Rhymer's Manual album review

Permaculture: A Rhymer's Manual by Formidable Vegetable is one of the most woke electro swing albums with a sense of environmentalism and climate change awareness. There is also a sense of social consciousness with songs such as songs that search for a solution to reduce environmental waste such as No Such Thing as Waste, Small & Slow, Energy, and Limits. Songs such as Oil and No Such Thing as Waste call for more environmental sustainability. You also have songs such as Get Together which call for racial integration. Formidable Vegetable - Permaculture: A Rhymer's Manual was the most woke electro swing albums of 2013 and is still relevant today.

The album revolves around permaculture. A call to action for these trying times. In an increasingly chaotic and destructive world, Permaculture is one of the best tools for designing community-scale solutions for regenerative global change. Find the skills you have and use them now with others to build the community we desperately need.


Small & Slow is an environmentally conscious electro swing song of theirs which showcases the issues of the Earth’s environment issues. Or this case fossil fuels. Formidable Vegetable suggests that people seek alternatives for fossil fuel in terms of alternative energy sources. The song urges environmental sustainability.

In the future when there’s no more fossil energy. How we gonna feed the masses? And have enough for you and me? These are environmental issues that must be dealt with. The solution is to seek alternative energy sources instead of using fossil fuel since we are running out of fossil fuel. Formidable Vegetable suggests that people seek alternatives for fossil fuel in terms of alternative energy sources. We have got to quit our oil addiction that’s hurting Planet Earth.

Formidable Vegetable thinks there’s a small and slow solution. Don’t create no pollution with small and slow solutions. Make it small and slow. Bigger isn’t always better. Faster don’t make you stronger. If we keep going the way we’re going, we won’t be around for much longer. The dream of unlimited growth is just a popular delusion.

Life today seems pretty good. Like we came out on top. But Formidable Vegetable wonders how we’re gonna get down. We just gotta be careful we don’t drop.

Formidable Vegetable found a small and slow solution to our oil addiction that’s hurting Planet Earth with these lyrics below.

When we quit our oil addiction
How we gonna get around
Well I think there’s a small and slow solution, people
In this technology I've found

It’s called your feet
And they’re pretty good for getting from A to B
It takes a bit longer
But your legs come out stronger
And there’s lots of nice things to see

Formidable Vegetable encourages people to start their own gardens and grow their own food with these lyrics.

In your front yard
You can grow most of your food
In a space the size of your driveway
Doesn’t have to be huge

Plant a seed, watch it grow
It’ll feed ya, just let it go
Don’t want the pain of too much to maintain
So stay inside the right size

And take it slow
Make it small and slow
Who needs the green revolution
When you’ve got small and slow solutions


No Such Thing as Waste is an environmentally conscious electro swing song which encourages people to search for a solution to reduce waste in order to save the planet. Misusing water’s a disgrace. That old landfill is a disgrace.

These lyrics show how the members of Formidable Vegetable came up with their own solutions to reduce environmental waste in order to save the planet. What the members of Formidable Vegetable did was use ideas that have been round for years to live within its means to keep this planet clean.

Down the track, I found out that diesel cars can run on veggie fat
Bought a truck and hit the road, smelling like fish & chips
I rescued piles of wasted oil from the back of restaurants
I’d be a fool if I bought my fuel when there’s oil nobody wants
    
Now I get my things out of garbage bins and I compost every crumb
I save my seeds and eat my weeds and feed the leftovers to ya mum
Gonna build a house from the rubbish tip, gonna keep this planet clean
Reuse ideas that have been round for years to live within its means

When I was a little boy, I liked to catch the rain
While people all around my town watched it flow right down the drain
But cos our little shed in the bush wasn’t on the mains
The only water we had to use was in a tank caught from the rain

Moved to the city, rented a house, on my way to buy a bed
Saw one lying on the side of the road so I took that one instead
And I also found a fridge, a couch and a big old plasma screen
In the biggest pile of thrown out stuff that I had ever seen

Now we gotta refuse, reduce, reuse, repair, recycle
Refuse, reduce, reuse, repair, recycle


The song Oil is another environmentally conscious electro swing song of theirs which explains how out precious Planet Earth is running out of oil and how we need to seek for alternative energy sources instead relying on just using oil as the main source of energy. The song urges environmental sustainability.

Formidable Vegetable suggests that people seek alternatives for oil in terms of alternative energy sources because we are running out of oil. It’s going to be hard to live if we don’t find some alternatives to oil. Because pretty much everything we do uses oil. (Well nearly everything.) If we don’t find a solution, we won’t have them anymore. Because pretty soon will be no more oil.

Formidable Vegetable suggests instead of oil, coal, and uranium that people use clean and renewable resources to reduce Earth’s environment issues. The sun has heaps of energy. Make use of these kind of natural forces.

Why mine gas when you can make your own from the comfort of your throne with a methane digester? The future of energy is in predominantly biological processes. So be a clean and renewable investor. It’s time to do away with fossil fuels and just get back to the soil.

These lyrics are pretty woke, environmentally conscious, and are still relevant today.

We’re running out of oil
It’s going to be hard to live
If we don’t find some alternatives to oil
Because pretty much everything we do uses oil
Let me list some of the things made with oil

There’s computers, light bulbs, toothpaste
Cat food, dog food, our food
Microwaves, umbrellas, blankets, glasses, crayons
Fridges, pharmaceuticals, houses
Trucks and boats and planes and clothes
And roads and phones and shops and farms
And your auntie’s underpants

If we don’t find a solution we won’t have them anymore
Because pretty soon will be no more oil

We don’t need cars, well we didn’t in my day
Maybe now we do
But we could also walk, use bicycles and ride horses
Instead of oil and coal and uranium
Use clean, renewable resources

Like the sun
It has heaps of energy
Beaming down for free
Feeding plants and trees
Make use of these kind of natural forces
And use clean, renewable resources

Why mine gas? Seems silly to me
When you can make your own
From the comfort of your throne with a methane digester
The future of energy is in predominantly biological processes
So be a clean, renewable investor

Use and value clean, renewable, clean, renewable
Clean, renewable services and resources
Once again
Clean, renewable, clean, renewable
Clean, renewable services and resources

It’s time to do away with fossil fuels and just get back to the soil
Cos let’s face it, it’s the end of oil
Yes, let’s face it, it’s the end of oil
We might as well face it
It’s the end of oil


Get Together was the electro swing call for racial integration in the country of Australia. Formidable Vegetable decided to make it happen with some inspirational collaboration on this song.
    
Formidable Vegetable sees you there on your own. They don’t know what you’re doing all alone. There’s not enough time in this life to be wrapped up in your own thing. Just doing your own thing and thinking bout your own thing while being wrapped up in your own thing.

Let’s get together. We need to make the connection and shed the illusion of separation. Everyone living on this land. We could make light work if we give each other a hand. Don’t matter where you’re from or who you are. We need some integration. No more segregation.

These lyrics call for an end to racial segregation and promote racial integration.

Everyone living on this land
We could make light work if we give each other a hand
Don’t matter where you’re from or who you are
Yeah, we need some integration, no more segregation
Yeah, we need some integration, no more segregation

Woah, one and one
Has more than two functions
We need to make the connection
Shed the illusion of separation

5/5*****!!

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Formidable Vegetable - Earth People Fair album review

Formidable Vegetable - Earth People Fair is one of the more woke electro swing albums with a sense of environmentalism and climate change awareness. Songs such as Grow a Garden, Dad's Dunny, and Plant Some Trees call for more environmental sustainability and better quality of life. There is also a sense of social consciousness with their songs. Formidable Vegetable - Earth People Fair was the most woke electro swing albums of 2019 and is still relevant today.

A call to action for these trying times. In an increasingly chaotic and destructive world, Permaculture is one of the best tools for designing community-scale solutions for regenerative global change. Find the skills you have and use them now with others to build the community we desperately need.


Let's Plant Some Trees is another environmentally conscious song which encourages people to grow trees for more environmental sustainability, better quality of life improvements, and better air quality.

Let's plant some trees that are nice, big, and shady that are all covered in leaves. They're good for the air. They're good for the ground. Formidable Vegetable just wants to see trees growing all over town. So let's plant some trees today. They'll bring everybody joy as they watch them grow.

These lyrics encourage people to plant trees.

Let's plant some trees
nice and big and shady all covered in leaves
They're good for the air
They're good for the ground
I just wanna see trees growing all over town
So let's plant some trees
Today

Let's plant some trees
Hip hip hooray
‘Cos they may grow much bigger than you some day
The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago
But the second best time is right now, so let's go!
Let's plant some trees
Today.

Let's plant some trees
For people we don't even know
Cos they'll bring everybody joy as they watch them grow
If you get down on your knees
And plant you some trees
Well they may still be here
In many hundreds of years
You could climb, you could hide
You could live right inside
Ride a high-line and fly
And feel the deepest of pride
So let's plant some trees
Today!


Trees Eat Us All is basically Let's Plant Some Trees. This is yet another one of their more environmentally conscious songs people to grow trees for more environmental sustainability, better quality of life improvements, and better air quality
    
These lyrics promote and encourage people to take care of their environment.

Though the problems around us are many
The answers come to us with ease
Take care of the land, your friends and your family
And remember to plant lots of trees

Yeah trees eat us all in the end
So plant one for me when I’m gone
Then if you hear that I’ve died
You can tell them they’ve lied
I’m just shading-out somebody’s lawn

The future is looking quite shady
Under all the ideas that you’ve grown
And to look out the window
At food in the ground
Gives us power to face the unknown


Grow A Garden is a song which encourages people to start their own gardens and grow their own food for environmental sustainability and better quality of life.

5/5*****!!

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Saint John the Gambler - Five Miles to Vaudeville album review

Saint John the Gambler - Five Miles to Vaudeville is gypsy jazz album with a Vaudeville sound, vibe, and instrumentation. You can hear that old time vintage jazz sound as you listen to this album. Fans of the Vaudeville sound will definitely want to purchase and stream this album.


Saint John the Gambler explains how he’s got demons chasing him all over the place around town. I Got Demons I Got Demons is a horn and banjo driven old time jazz song with a Vaudeville sound and vibe.
    
If Saint John the Gambler was a knight full of chivalry and fight wearing shimmering armour on every side, he would take you by the hand across this wild wicked land. And in this place he will make his stand. Saint John the Gambler got demons chasing him around town. They’re closing in fast

Saint John the Gambler is going where the horse was born. Out in the desert with the dust and the bones. And he’ll travel that trail through the wind and the hail. He’ll meet you at the dusty doors of hell.

Saint John the Gambler found himself at the crossroad at night. One road said struggle and the other said strife. He sat down and figured which way to go. But then the wind picked up and let him know. Now he is headed to sea. There’s water as far as the eye can see. He’s got demons sailing after him.


Vaudeville Rag explained the history of Saint John the Gambler’s family.

The father of Saint John the Gambler used be a villain during the Vaudeville era that was known as a vaudevillian. His wife was his vaudeville bride who lived to see their sons grow up and then died at the age of 45. They raised 3 sons of equal height, equal strength, and grace. The youngest followed his vaudeville folks into a sudden grave. The second son lived to rue the day he burnt the snake berry tree for money grew upon the leaves which he would never see. And Saint John just lies here in wait for the bed to swallow him. All that he can offer now are the these words of his ancestry. Don’t die ragged. Don’t die sad. Don’t do the Vaudeville Rag.

His mother’s hands were coat hangers. Their mother knew no rules. The brothers three would crack the whip and drink the spit of humble berry roots when they were alive. They’d listen to the rhyme and listen to the roll. They’d listen to that vaudeville moan.

Saint John stares at people’s hands but they never look the same. And fish swim in barrels filled with water from the rain. He searches for lost meanings in the word of the Vaudeville Rag.


Lemonade Man is about a guy named Lemonade Man who spends his time at the lemonade stand where the lemonade girls come to lend a hand and the men spend their money as fast as they can.
    
Lemonade Man spends his time at the lemonade stand where the lemonade girls come to lend a hand and the men spend their money as fast as they can. But it’s him that the girls call the lemonade man. His baby works down at the lemonade stand where the men are full of pockets and hands. But they never raise a finger as they understand.

Everybody’s got a sweet tooth. That lemonade tastes so good. It’s the best lemonade in the town. Everybody wants to drink it down.

5/5*****!!

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Bazar et Bémols - Bazar et Bémols EP review

The EP called Bazar et Bémols - Bazar et Bémols uses a mixture of swing jazz and waltz music with a transfusion of French jazz manouche and reggae. The band is known for using their clever lyrics. Fans of jazz manouche and swing jazz will not want to miss out on streaming this EP. Insomnies (Insomnia) deals with the subject of insomnia.

5/5*****!!

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Bazar et Bémols - Le Fruit du bazar album review

Bazar et Bémols - Le Fruit du bazar uses a mixture of Chanson pop and swing jazz. This album uses more of an adventurous sense with songs such as Belle échappée and Le Ramoneur which use clever lyrics. Fans of Chanson pop, swing jazz, and jazz manouche will not want to miss out on streaming this album. The transfusion of French jazz manouche is remarkable of course. Les Artisans (Craftsmen) was a dedication song which payed homage and respect to all craftsmen. Insomnies (Insomnia) deals with the subject of insomnia.

5/5*****!!

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Orange Juice Click - Crazy Red album review

Orange Juice Click - Crazy Red has rap flows that are insane despite the extremely low quality. That’s one thing about Memphis rap that people love. For example you can hear echo of the room and static in Days Of Our Lives and Teach Em Somethin. Low quality beats set the vibe also. The digital hiss tears some people’s ears though. However it would be nice if this album were to be remastered since their album is so distorted.

4/5****!