Tag Archives: John Jenkins and the James Street Band

John Jenkins And The James Street Band, Trying My Best (To Get Away From You). Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

When we find that moment of pure genius, we should embrace it fully and without reservation.

We can fully understand what it is like to be on the cusp of outrageous brilliance, and even seeing genius in someone else is never beyond our grasp; but when it comes our own way, when the parade of virtuoso performance is acknowledged as coming from our own endeavours, we may be reluctant to nod in approval for fear of being appraised as arrogant, over confident that the feeling captured will last an eternity; instead we should thank the stars and shout with damnation at the negative emotions, “Trying My Best (To Get Away From You)”.

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(363 words, estimated 1:27 mins reading time)

John Jenkins And The James Street Band, Looking For That American Dream. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

So few of us follow through on our broader dreams, content, satisfied with forever imagining what life would be like if only we had the time, or the will, to create the conditions in which we could be happy, or at least proud of being the person we want to be. It is not necessarily our fault, the cosmos conspires, fate lends a hand, and there is always a million chores to be done, perhaps by looking for our dream, holding the vision as if it were made of gossamer or the thin veils of intricate spider’s webs, we are reassured that we have at least given our life meaning.

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(428 words, 1 image, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

John Jenkins And The James Street Band, Looking For That American Dream. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision rating 9/10

Growing up in the shadow and aftermath of World War Two, especially in a period dominated by what can only be described as endless beige and cultural desolation, it is no small wonder that most people in Britain looked across the Atlantic and fantasised about a better life; bombarded by the latest films, television programmes, advertising and consumerism, a place in which the skies seemed endless blue, in which the mantra of being anything you want to be is achievable caught the imagination and made arguably the vast majority understand that they were Looking For That American Dream.

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(409 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

John Jenkins And The James Street Band, Day After Day. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

To be able to reflect upon life, to look upon the world and your place within it and understand that you can at least alter, mend, see through the course of revolution, then that is the point where you can look the clock in the eye and say that Day After Day you did your utmost to see Time as the way to beat injustice and social flaws that seem to creep back into our lives like a swarm of Ants finding a crack in the skirting and leaving their footprints over the forgotten dust of rhythm and rebellion.

John Jenkins And The James Street Band, Day After Day. E.P. Review. full post

(451 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)