https://open.spotify.com/album/0x5HHvCJis3kkZL86Z4Ld8sounds pretty good to me!
― niels, Saturday, 14 April 2018 09:02 (six years ago) link
The Newton-John album is really lovely.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Saturday, 2 June 2018 18:33 (five years ago) link
yes, one of my favorites this year, not familiar with anything else she's done (hardly any of the Newton-John songs either) but loving the melodies, the energy/spirit of it
― niels, Sunday, 3 June 2018 10:10 (five years ago) link
Always liked her, but just now wallowing in nostalgia and connecting with my inner '90s indie rocker by listening to the Blake Babies' Sunburn and then Hey Babe, Become What You Are, and Only Everything. What a great run that is. If she had come up in the '60s she would've been a famous Brill Building hitmaker.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 23:19 (two years ago) link
still love her so much
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 23:19 (two years ago) link
John Strohm has been publishing these great Blake Babies tour diaries on Facebook, check it out for sure if you are a fan
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 23:54 (two years ago) link
I would but I'm not on Facebook. If they were anywhere else...
― Josefa, Thursday, 7 April 2022 00:01 (two years ago) link
gimme a few
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Thursday, 7 April 2022 00:07 (two years ago) link
good news, it's actually on Wordpress not FB
https://johnpstrohm.wordpress.com/2022/03/31/blake-babies-tour-diary-excerpts-pt-1
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Thursday, 7 April 2022 00:08 (two years ago) link
Oh cool, thanks!
― Josefa, Thursday, 7 April 2022 00:11 (two years ago) link
1988-1990 was such an interesting period, when the American Underground of the mid-'80s had made its impact and grunge was bubbling up, and everyone was influenced by similar things but taking those influences off in different directions.
― Josefa, Thursday, 7 April 2022 00:19 (two years ago) link
Thought I actually did read something John wrote on FB, but maybe it was just a link to the Wordpress.
― Came Here to Roll the Microscope (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 April 2022 00:37 (two years ago) link
correct
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Thursday, 7 April 2022 01:09 (two years ago) link
I played her newest album Blood the other day, mostly out of goodwill and nostalgia, and even though my personal tastes have shifted from what I was listening to twenty years ago I'm amazed that after nineteen albums she's still writing such strong choruses.
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 7 April 2022 08:01 (two years ago) link
Thank you for that link, sleeve.My gf was telling me about someone who lives in her friend's building the other day and I realized at some point that she was talking about Freda Love Smith. Neither of them knew that she was in Blake Babies.
― When the Pain That You Feel is the Bite of an Eel, That's a Moray (Old Lunch), Thursday, 7 April 2022 10:34 (two years ago) link
!
― Came Here to Roll the Microscope (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 April 2022 12:50 (two years ago) link
Haha I keep waiting to run into her around town. I feel like it’s inevitable!!
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 7 April 2022 13:29 (two years ago) link
Her = Freda (not Juliana though that would be awesome too)
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 7 April 2022 13:30 (two years ago) link