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Wednesday, October 18, 2023

The Last Show -- My Sweet Home

 

A little over three years ago, I featured a song by a band known as The Last Show(ザ・ラストショウ)led by Koichi Matsuda(松田幸一)and Ritsu Murakami(村上律)which had been active during the late 1970s. "Blue Lonesome Lady"(ブルー・ロンサム・レディ)from their 1978 2nd album "Last Show 2" is a lovely country tune that could have made its way to the Grand Ole Opry, and according to their J-Wiki article, all three albums that they've released are extremely hard to track down.

That apparently even applies to their January 2010 album "Ieji ~ My Sweet Home"(家路)which was released after getting back together in 2008 and doing concert gigs. Despite the fact that it's been quite a few decades, the title track doesn't sound any different from how they sounded back in the 70s. Written by Kenji Kadoya(門谷憲二)and composed by band bassist Tetsuzo Kawai(河合徹三), it's a folksy country tune about a couple of good buddies from a gang and how they've enjoyed each other's company over the past few years. Wouldn't mind hearing some more of the old-school stuff in the 2020s.

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