Three Thousand

 

Today's post is number 3,000 in a blog that has been running since I started it in September 2012. Inspired by other blogs, I thought that I could do the same and that someone might be interested in what I have to say. Over the years, I've joined a community that now means a lot to me. One of the highlights was certainly the meeting of several bloggers in Glasgow a few years ago and hopefully it will be the same in Bristol in June.

I thought long and hard about what to post today and went for the beginning. The name of the blog is borrowed from a song by the Fellow Travellers. The Fellow Travellers and their singer Jey Loy Nichols appeared out of nowhere in the middle of the year and didn't let us go for a summer. 

They brought us a previously unheard-of combination of folk, country, reggae and dub that had never been seen before or since. The music exudes serenity and in the best moments everything is reduced to wishes for a few good times. Jeb Loy's voice certainly takes some getting used to, but it suits these songs like no other. The music was written about at the time: The Fellow Travellers' songs are folk and country songs in dub. They speak of loneliness, loss and sadness, of melancholy states, pleasurable and on the verge of cheerfulness. They hit that sweet spot more precisely than any other music I've heard so far. There is nothing more to add.

The Fellow Travellers - A Few Good Times

The Fellow Travellers - Train Of Tears / Blue Train

The Fellow Travellers - Blues For Texas / Dub For Texass

The Fellow Travellers - Just A Visitor