Jack Hudson - video clips

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: GUEST,Carole Newbery?
Date: 08 Apr 15 - 08:12 AM

Belated Happy Birthday.

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: Capo da Monty
Date: 30 Mar 13 - 05:03 PM

Glad to hear he made it Al!
Hope there will be many happy returns!

CdM

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 30 Mar 13 - 05:01 AM

Jack's just celebrated his 70th birthday.

I'm sure he'd love to hear from his many fans.

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: GUEST,Rob Hunt
Date: 29 Mar 13 - 09:59 AM

I knew Jack in the early 70s he was brilliant then & from what I`ve just heard on you tube he still is. After 48 years of performing I have just retired & am revisiting my musical roots. There have been a few sad moments but also some happy ones like finding Jack on you tube. Bloody fantastic.

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: Capo da Monty
Date: 08 Jan 13 - 05:57 AM

I'm sure JODY will do her best.

Daughters can be very persuasive as I know from personal experience!

CdM

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: GUEST,No Fixed Abode
Date: 07 Jan 13 - 05:37 AM

We added this to Facebook and wow!! thanks all, lets hope Jodie gets him to add some more!!

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: GUEST,No Fixed Abode
Date: 06 Jan 13 - 04:58 AM

Just watched the video of Jacks performance and as ever the "feel" is still there, lovley to hear him playing and singing. A great start to 2013. Thanks Jodie! and please put up some more videos!!!

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Jan 13 - 03:49 AM

She Likes to go Walking on youtube.

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 07 Feb 08 - 03:20 PM

Jack's HUGE talent has already stayed hidden far too long.
How deaf are they who will not hear?

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Feb 08 - 01:28 PM

Three things that cannot stay hiden for long....

the sun
the moon
Jack's tallent

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: Irene M
Date: 06 Feb 08 - 02:53 PM

I have finally got BBCi to work and listened to the session.
Excellent. I really recommend you hear it before it falls off the "Play Again" list.

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 05 Feb 08 - 02:17 PM

Just listened to it on 'play again'. Excellent peformance from the Maestro. Thank God that at least the Scots have open minds and good taste.

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: Capo da Monty
Date: 04 Feb 08 - 06:15 PM

Brilliant show!!
And I was there!
If you missed it live try "listen again" on BBC Radio Scotland's Iain Anderson show. Only available for the following week though.

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 02 Feb 08 - 09:04 AM

I was listening to it on a tv channel, and I did a dvd recording with no picture - if you have no luck elsewhere John.

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 02 Feb 08 - 05:55 AM

Is there a replay thingy on BBC Radio Scotland? I was out strutting my stuff and needed to sleep when I got in. :-)

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: GUEST,no fixed abode
Date: 01 Feb 08 - 09:15 PM

Just listened to Jack's performance on listen again, stunning! strange that the Scots can appriciate him but in his native country there seems to be a reluctance...... perhaps we should call him Mc Hudson.

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: GUEST,No Fixed Abode
Date: 01 Feb 08 - 09:12 PM

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 01 Feb 08 - 04:46 PM

refresh

Channel 930 if you've got cable tv

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: Capo da Monty
Date: 30 Jan 08 - 06:41 PM

Just to refresh and follow up 14fret's earlier post.

Friday 1st February 22.30-00.30

Jack is guesting on the BBC Radio Scotland live broadcast from Celtic Connections hosted by Iain Anderson.

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 13 Jan 08 - 10:12 AM

Heres a couple of songs from John, as he's not in Gainsborough:-

http://www.bigalwhittle.co.uk/johnkellyharmoniumhero/

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 13 Jan 08 - 05:23 AM

Yep - we chopped up a load of them bloody 'armoniums! :-)

When are you coming to Gainsborough agin, you old reprobate??

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: Harmonium Hero
Date: 12 Jan 08 - 05:55 PM

Firewood? You 'ad bloody firewood?

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 12 Jan 08 - 04:45 AM

Bike clips! Luxury! I never even knew what a bike was, used to ride a wooden scooter that me dad knocked up in the coalhouse from bits of firewood.

Try telling that to t'kids o' today, they'd never believe it!

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 11 Jan 08 - 02:36 PM

Video clips eh!

When I were a lad we was lucky if we could afford bike clips. We used to dream of having bike clips, in case we ever got a go on a real bike.

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 11 Jan 08 - 06:48 AM

"so Jack could be a TV star"

Tony, Una, didn't you watch 'Phoenix Nights'? :-) :-)

Keep us posted re Celtic Connections please?

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: GUEST,no fixed abode
Date: 10 Jan 08 - 06:46 AM

WOW! What a line up.

It is great news that Jack has been chosen to perform amongst such distinguished company. I know that his concert is going to go out live on BBC radio Scotland and the show may be recorded for TV broadcast so Jack could be a TV star!

See WLD good things come to those who wait…despite the indifference of those who seek to control what people hear.

We are so pleased for Jack and just know the people of Scotland are in for a real treat.

Good luck Jack from the both of us.

Tony and Una

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 09 Jan 08 - 10:25 AM

Looks like a very strong line up.
http://www.celticconnections.com/viewartists

Seems like our Jack will be keeping some very distinguished company.
Well done Scotland!
Does rather beg the question though...don't you think?

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 09 Jan 08 - 09:01 AM

THERE IS A GOD!

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: Capo da Monty
Date: 09 Jan 08 - 08:23 AM

That's great news indeed 14fret!
The official publicity from Celtic Connections says that Iain Anderson invites "the best Songsmiths" along to his live shows.
'Derbyshire's Finest' most certainly is.(imho)

I'm off to book my tickets now.
Anyone else thinking of going?

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: 14fret
Date: 09 Jan 08 - 07:10 AM

Jack has been booked for the Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow.
As guest on the Iain Anderson live broadcast concert on Feb' 1st.

Below are a couple of reasons/opinions why.

"He doesn't just cover a song but strips it back to the bare wood, finds new springs and re-upholsters the whole damn thing so that what you get is the song that Jack built.
He can write songs too, songs that are in every way the equal of those he loves."
Neil Dalton. (Review from Maverick magazine.)
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"Being English, then, and singing American and American-influenced material is a dangerous route to travel. Most don't pull it off. Jack Hudson does. In spades.
He is an immaculate interpreter of others' songs – highlighted tonight especially by 'L.A. Freeway,' the old Guy Clark classic - and no mean writer himself - his own 'Driftwood and Nails' displayed skill and craftmanship and searing emotional integrity. It stepped up to match the covers."
Rod Warner. (Review of live performance.)

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 09 Jan 08 - 06:27 AM

Hope you're right NFA, it's been wa-a-a-a-a-a-y too long coming!
John

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: GUEST,No Fixed Abode
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 08:49 PM

Wee little dummer......I feel your pain.....let it all out you will feel better for it! (Oh doctor!)

Good things come to those who wait....admittedly Jack has had to wait a little longer than manny others.

Well it seems that 2008 could be a very good year for Jack........If all goes well he will not be to bothered by the "self serving hypocrisy dressed up as idealism of a folk revival" types and all will be well in the garden.

Take heart now vengence!

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 07 Jan 08 - 09:06 PM

well yes but the self serving hypocrisy dressed up as idealism of a folk revival, that gets further and furter away from the tastes and common tongue of the English people. The fact that you can now to an English university and learn how to make music which has its hand in the public purse (for all these festivals that won't book Jack are subsidised)....

well its annoying! And whilst I feel sure that something like She likes to go walking will be a much loved and performed lyric in a hundred years time - I think its writer deserves some recognition and a decent income from his work in this life.

To work outside the system, in a composed and disciplined way - as Jack as - over decades now - takes more idealism than anybody currently on the mainstages of English folk festivals can possibly envisage or imagine.

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: GUEST,No Fixed Abode
Date: 07 Jan 08 - 06:51 PM

Al, Backwoodsman don't be so worried.......cream always rises to top!
Just taking a little longer than normal.

The video clip is serving Jack well, remember the world is a big fish and English folk clubs/festivals are very small but beautifully formed fish!

An old proverb

"Why push against closed doors when you can walk through open ones"

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 07 Jan 08 - 04:10 AM

Amen to that, wld.

I do both 'Driftwood' and 'She Likes To Go Walking', and they are two of, if not THE, best-received songs in my set. So I tell them who they're written by, and they say "He must be very good", and I say "Yes, he's the Maestro, you really should book him". They hardly ever do - they'd rather book the current faddy-same-old-same-old artists, or fashionable-newbie-kids-still-wet-behind-the-ears. More fool them. IMHO.

Sorry to sound so bitter, but fools piss me off.

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 06 Jan 08 - 12:51 PM

I don't know if you can get the album Stewart, but theres a terrific song of Jack's called 'She likes to go walking'. It may even be on the video clips.

It really does show what folksong is capable of. On one level its just about a woman who likes to stroll down by the sea,when her children are asleep, but in actual fact - its a wonderful exposition of how we all live and how we adjust as social animals to the curbs on our freedom.

The woman is existentially free, unlike the sea whose movements are controlled by the tides. but she chooses her home, because she loves her family, whilst still cherishing a dream of freedom.

It makes me so angry when I hear traddies sneer at navel gazing contemporary songs. Just because they are devoid of things to say about their own lives.

And it makes so angry when they exclude people like Jack Hudson from their festivals, and see no place for him in the folk process.

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: Stewart
Date: 06 Jan 08 - 12:20 PM

Thanks Guest.
It's always fun to discover a new singer with new music.
Give my regards to Jack.

Cheers, S. in Seattle

Subject: ADD: Driftwood and Nails (Jack Hudson)
From: GUEST,no fixed abode
Date: 06 Jan 08 - 06:55 AM

Hi,
   Jack is having problems with his computer so he has asked me to post the Lyrics to Driftwood and nails here for Stewart.
It is nice to see new people discovering Jack's music via youtube....


DRIFTWOOD AND NAILS
(Jack Hudson)

We shore up the past
with driftwood & nails,
that once were a part of some fine ship we sailed.
Into the sunset to write on the sky,
our name & all of the reasons, we came & passed by.
We sailed oceans new.
High seas against the bow.
Without one Bon Voyage, we lost sight of land, somehow.
All the good luck charms & roses thrown into the wake,
may as well have been prayers, for all the difference they make.

CHORUS
Every journey made with you
was across uncharted seas.
'tis of thee, those memories are made.
From a word to a kiss.
From silence to a scream.
To an answer just over the page.

I have packed suitcases,
Large and small.
Thrown some things in a bag, thrown the rest at the wall.
In turn I have blessed & cursed the winds of change
But driftwood & nails are all that are meant to remain.

CHORUS x 2…

Repeat 1st verse.


COPYRIGHT JACK HUDSON.

---

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODRB_ZY5PFQ&feature=plcp

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: Deckman
Date: 05 Jan 08 - 08:43 PM

I found Jack Hudson's voice, and style, to be very inspiring. He is a joy to hear. Bob(deckman)Nelson

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: Stewart
Date: 05 Jan 08 - 03:30 PM

"Driftwood and Nails"
Wow, what a beautiful song!
Could someone post the words here?
I couldn't get them all from the recording.
But I just love this song, and Jack does a fine singing of it.

Cheers, S. in Seattle

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 05 Jan 08 - 11:55 AM

Tony, your ears have been stunned by the beauteous and dulcet Irish tones of your fine lady! LOL!

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 04 Jan 08 - 05:09 PM

No Tony, not a fool....!
More of a unreconstructed nutcase.......I'm sure there are parts of Manchester where you fit in perfectly.

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: GUEST,no fixed abode
Date: 04 Jan 08 - 04:39 PM

sorry but my ears must be bad as I do not hear any accent! maybe I am a fool but when Jack performs I am lost in the song and the words and the emotions created.

my appoligies I am a fool.

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 04 Jan 08 - 06:31 AM

"If anything, it sounded fairly neutral with a very soft hint of Derbyshire vowels to me."

Yep, spot on IMHO.

I don't get this hatred of the 'phoney accent' bit - there are plenty of other singers around who sing in accents other than their own natural one, yet they're held as near-deities in the bright Firmament of Folkiedom. Example - listen to Martin Simpson's accent in the songs he sings which have their roots in the American South - not a hint of Scunny there, but plenty of 'phoney American'! Absolutely NOT a criticism of Martin's delivery, for the very good reason that, because of the origin and language of these songs, to sing them with a Lincolnshire, or for that matter, Derbyshire, or Fackin' Landon accent would be ridiculous.

Jack sings and writes great songs which are of a certain, American-influenced style, and he sings them in an accent which owes much to his own Derbyshire roots, but which is gently and sympathetically adjusted to make it suitable for the style and lyrics of the songs. WTF's wrong with that?

JMHO! :-)

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: alanabit
Date: 04 Jan 08 - 04:59 AM

Having read WLD's conmments for the past couple of years, I have finally seen the clip of Mr.Hudson. Yes, he is a very fine singer, player and writer. I didn't hear enough "phoney American" intonation to annoy me - and it would have, had I heard it! If anything, it sounded fairly neutral with a very soft hint of Derbyshire vowels to me. I haven't seen him onstage, but it certainly sounded as though your man was holding that audience.
It strikes me that he is in a position not unknown to many: His natural audience may not be in his homeland. If he can get in front of an audience, which feels he is singing about them, it will all happen for him. At the moment, no one can see the potential to make money out of that happening. I don't know what could bring that about - but I hope it happens.

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: GUEST,no fixed abode
Date: 03 Jan 08 - 12:53 PM

Hi CdM
       And a happy new year to you too! Sorry there is a slight delay with the DVD as there are developments afoot that may change everything.... cannot say any more as sworn to secrecy,

All should become apparent in the next few weeks.

Thanks

Tony

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: Capo da Monty
Date: 02 Jan 08 - 02:59 PM

Easter perhaps?

Happy New Year to all Jack's fans!

CdM

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: Capo da Monty
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 09:18 AM

Will the DVD be in the shops for Christmas, Tony?

Regards

CdM

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 26 Nov 07 - 03:43 PM

'the beauty of you tube is no one can block you getting at the truth so maybe Jack will have the last laugh?'

I am putting my faith in Video clips also. I have pretty much given up on the folkscene, but I thought to myself - perhaps I will become a cult - like a video of dancing earwigs, or something.

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson - video clips
From: Irene M
Date: 26 Nov 07 - 02:28 PM

Kat,
They get around, these Hudsons.
One of them had a socking great big bay named after him in Canada.