billy
jenkins with the blues collective sadtimes.co.uk
Is this the site of the CD
- or is it the CD of the site!?
Read the biography
Billy's blues and band leading!
Sadness Sadness Sadness
Sad times is my life
Been together so many years
Sad times became my wife
Since the first night of our honeymoon
We’ve been alone together in the gloom
Sadness Sadness Sadness
Sad times is my life.
You hear what I say
I’m on sadtimes.co.uk........
©1999 Billy Jenkins
The musician is losing ground
in this DIY technological age. You're looking at the screen now and maybe
half listening to music. And a lot of that music is 'found sound', cut
and paste and machine originated.
The real musician has quietly
been shown the door. You might enjoy them safely within the cages of a
concert hall, regurgitating the only repertoire deemed safe - that which
contains revivalism, nostalgia and familiarity.
'Art' music, that deemed
non commercial and worthy of government support by way of the Arts Council,
not only has the above ingredients, but must also be 'culturally inclusive',
'educational' and above all - controllable.
Not only does the creative
musician have to compromise their artistic vision to suit 'funding criteria',
they also, to satisfy educational addendum, have to reveal (and thus weaken)
the mystery and magic of their art.
No wonder Billy plays and
sings the blues.
And one step on from the blues......
Billy Jenkins is an Accredited
Humanist Officiant approved by the
British
Humanist Association to conduct non religious funerals.
This sadtimes.co.uk
site is the logical response to this fascinating predicament and was the
inspiration of arts inventor, creator of The
Shed, photographer, maverick and a man who creates wonderous things
out of dichotomy - Simon Thackray.
The CD sadtimes.co.uk
- one of over thirty releases by Billy, was recorded and released in 2000
and still sounds like new.
Although this site is now
pretty much locked, it offers an excellent overview to Billy's blues music.
The Blues
Collective page now has a comprehensive biograpy and information about
all the band's recordings, recently updated to the end of 2006.
BILLY'S
BLUES LYRICS
You can reach the Billy
Jenkins and the Blues Collective office by
telephone on +44 (0)20 8691 8926
or
via the main
Billy
Jenkins site at www.billyjenkins.com
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