Με φόντο τα ακινητοποιημένα καράβια στα λιμάνια και στα ανοιχτά του Περσικού, ακούμε αυτό το μικρό podcast. Ο Αμερικανός μουσικός της φολκ Eric von Schmidt ερμηνεύει το κλασικό blues ‘Gulf Cost Blues’ (Clarence Williams) περισσότερο γνωστό από την original ερμηνεία της Bessie Smith. Περνάμε σε Weather Report και ένα κομμάτι (‘Port Of Entry’) από το Night Passage του 1980 – η εξωγήινη performance του Jaco Pastorius είναι το highlight εδώ. Και κλείνουμε με David Bowie σε μια “εξωτική, θαλασσινή περιπέτεια με άρωμα Άπω Ανατολής” σύμφωνα με τον ίδιο : ‘Red Sails’ από το τρίτο μέρος της βερολινέζικης τριλογίας, Lodger. 🔴 🔴 Against the backdrop of the immobilized ships in the ports and offshore in the Persian Gulf, we listen to this short podcast: The American folk musician Eric von Schmidt performs the classic blues ‘Gulf Coast Blues’ (Clarence Williams), best known from Bessie Smith’s original recording. We then move on to Weather Report and ‘Port of Entry’ from their 1980 album Night Passage — Jaco Pastorius’s otherworldly performance is the highlight here. And we close with David Bowie in an “exotic, seafaring adventure with the scent of the Far East,” according to himself : ‘Red Sails’ from Lodger, the third part of his Berlin Trilogy.

00:00 Gulf Coast Blues 04:30 Port Of Entry 09:36 Red Sails

GOLF COAST BLUES
Got the Gulf Coast blues, baby
That’s why I got to sing this song
Got the Gulf Coast blues, baby
That’s why I got to sing this old song
Well, I’ve been away too long
I’m going down to Melbourne
Baby, but Shaky Richard’s gonna be my crew
We’re on the Okeechobee River, baby
When the storm winds gonna blow
Noah said to me
We ain’t gonna reach that Gulf of Mexico
Then we have seen the Okeechobee
Thought it was a sea
Thought I heard my baby
Calling after me
Yes, that Caloosahatchee River
Don’t need no compass, baby, got nostalgia
It’s been an old rum bottle, baby
Be my compass till I die
Did you ever see the sun shining
On the Gulf of Mexico?
Did you ever see the sun shining
Over Mexico?
Then you know just where I know
Eric’s bound to go

RED SAILS
I feel a bit roughed up, feel a bit frightened
Nearly pin it down some time
Red sail action wake up in the wrong town
Boy, I really get around
Thunder ocean
Thunder ocean
Red sails take me
Make me sail along
Red sails, and a mast so tall
Red sails
Red sails
Do you remember we another person
Green and black and red and so scared
Graffiti on the wall kept us all in tune
Bringing us all back home
Red sails
Thunder ocean
Red sails
Sailor can’t dance like you, ooh, yooou
Ahh, red sail
Red sail action
Red sail
Some reaction
Action boy seen living under neon
Struggle with a foreign tongue
Red sails make him strong
Action make him sail along
Life stands still and stares
The hinterland, the hinterland
We’re gonna sail to the hinterland
And it’s far far, far far far, far far far away
Its a far far, far far far fa da da da-da da