BAP KENNEDY

Blabber n Smoke on Raving For Bap, the new tribute EP

15/12/2017

 
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RAVING FOR BAP, the new Bap tribute EP has been reviewed by Blabber n Smoke (A Glasgow view of Americana and related music and writings)

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NB Ordering info etc is also on Bap's Home Page


Bap Kennedy tribute EP to raise money for cancer charity - Americana UK

13/12/2017

 
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RAVING FOR BAP, the new Bap tribute EP has been reviewed by Americana UK .
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Ordering info etc also at Bap's home page​


A Special Way To Celebrate a Wonderful Life at Christmas. - No Depression

13/12/2017

 
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​RAVING FOR BAP, the new Bap tribute EP has been reviewed by No Depression.
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NB
​Ordering info etc is also at Bap's 
home page​


"Raving for Bap" tribute EP now available

13/12/2017

 
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Original cover art by Kenny McKendry
RAVING FOR BAP, the new Bap tribute EP is now available in 10" vinyl or download
Featuring  original cover art Kenny McKendry and sleeve notes from Stuart Bailie.

All profits will go to Marie Curie.​

(Support links below)

"Raving For Bap" sleeve notes, from Stuart Bailie

We miss Bap Kennedy. There was a tone in his music that will not be replaced. It was an authentic part of the man and there was a grain in his voice that related like Hank Williams, Townes Van Zandt or Gram Parsons. Fathoms of blues. Untold stories between the cracks in the words. His lyrics hinted at the deeps but he wasn’t inclined to put it all out there. You had to trust Bap, and we did.
 
I used to see him perform with Energy Orchard at the New Pegasus in north London, 1988. They were a displaced Irish band in a fusty venue on Green Lanes. When they played, the venue was busy and most of the people there were also immigrants with cracked histories, sad eyes and a bit of drink in them.
 
But they were uplifting nights because Energy Orchard had the songs and the chops and Bap rallied all the souls when he sang about the waterways and the passage out. These were sentimental tunes about the beautiful girl and the leaving of Beechmount and the cost of a livelihood across the Irish Sea. Paul Brady and Christy Moore were writing those songs also, but that did not lessen the ache. And of course there was the ultimate touchstone of ‘Astral Weeks’, Van Morrison’s album about the roving condition. Bap sang ‘Walk In Love’ in a simpatico style. He was searching a direction home but ‘Hard Street’ was essentially a tough passage.
 
Energy Orchard channeled it well for a time and then Bap lit out alone for Nashville and the essence of Hank, the Hillbilly Shakespeare. The connection was well met and ‘The Way I Love Her’ was proper, lovesick blues. Steve Earle was helping out and Nanci Griffith sang a while and the wells of melancholy fetched up many good songs. ‘Lonesome Lullabye’ was rough comfort. He also co-wrote with Van, sang with Shane MacGowan and there was beat literature in ‘Moriarty’s Blues’, a treatment on the ever-rolling Neal Cassady.
 
Bap did make it home and into a profound relationship with Brenda Boyd. He started to slough off layers of reserve, sang about space travel and the rescued Chilean miner Jimmy Sanchez. He was happily realised as an artist and a man in love. The cancer came and he blogged about his lot with great poise and honesty. His fans put his music all over social media and the guy came to appreciate how many people were listening and believing. We lost Bap much too soon, but the music offers a deal of consolation.
 
Brian Bell and The Raving Beauties understand this. Their recordings have a lift and stylistic verve, but the original heart still pushes blood through those chambers. Such a songbook, and doubtless many other artists will visit it over time. This is a beginning, of sorts.
 
Stuart Bailie

SUPPORT LINKS:
To pre-order 10” vinyl
To download 
To donate (via Raving For Bap)
To donate (via Marian’s challenge)

From Brighton Magazine: Raving Beauties Celebrate Music Of Bap Kennedy In Aid Of Marie Curie

13/12/2017

 
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RAVING FOR BAP, the new Bap tribute EP is now available in 10" vinyl or download
Click here to read a report from Brighton Magazine.

​NB - Ordering info etc is also at Bap's 
home page​


BBC Arts Show features Raving For Bap (tribute EP)

2/12/2017

 
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Brian Bell was interviewed this week about on the BBC Arts Show about RAVING FOR BAP, the new Bap tribute EP.
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All profits will go to Marie Curie.
  
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