No Dagmar news but here's some stuff to do with Peter Blegvad. [by the way :
If you're a member of the Blegvad list then please pass this onto them (I've
lost almost all of my saved email addresses) - thanx]

PB's Amateur site has been updated! at : http://213.38.36.164/

And below is the review of "Choices Under Pressure" from the ReR records
site (I imagine this is written by Chris Cutler but I don't know for sure).
Quite up front about it all really!

BLEGVAD, PETER: Choices Under Pressure £12 - RES 143CD
A hard one. Peter calls this an acoustic retrospective - it was rushed
through to coincide with the official release of his wonderful book. There
are two new songs here, the rest are lite revisitations of old material,
with John Greaves and Danny Thompson variously on basses and Jackko Jakszyk
playing guitar, precussion, keyboards and some other things. So, an easy
listening Blegvad, with the edge shaved off, though I'm sure a lot of people
will like it. Reservations: because I consider Peter to be a great talent,
my disappointment is based, I guess unfairly, firstly on comparisons with
existing versions of these songs, some of which, like "King Strut", "That'll
Be Him Now" and "Daughter", really lose out, and secondly on the general
toothlessness of the whole enterprise. I have to ask: why? These aren't
radical revisions (such as Dylan is a master of) and they aren't solo
singer-songwriter versions either. I'm afraid, as the title suggests but
doesn't excuse, the why answer seems to be: in order to have some product to
market with the book. But that's just me - and I'll bet mine is a minority
view. It's just that from Peter I expect much, much more.



Regards,
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PhilT
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