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without doubt the best was saved for last … thank you to our audience last night you were outstanding .. it was best gig Radek and I have played at U Maleho Glena since we started there in September of last year .. thanks also to Ryan Bisio for his songs too .. we really have finished the year on a high 
Brilliant !!! Here’s to more of the same in 2012
Jamie xx
via my mobile – loove good technology
Silent Night
Star Of Wonder
Burning Bright
Over Yonder
Three Kings travel from afar
Heard the word, now here they are
Expectation
Hallelujah Day
Bethlehem
Deep December
New born laying
in a manger
no room for them at the inn
what a story to begin
a new dawn coming
Hallelujah Day
Hallelujah Day – change is coming
take away your darkest night
Hallelujah Day – now we step into the light
Church bells ring
voices singing
Hear the good news
that they’re bringing
King of Heaven born on Earth
behold the Virgin birth
Christus Natus
Hallelujah Day
Hallelujah Day – change is coming
take away your darkest night
Hallelujah Day – now we step into the light
Family, friends
gather round us
celebrate
the joy of Christmas
Hark The Herald Angels sing
Glory to the new born king
Jubilation
Hallelujah Day
lyric copyright Jamie Marshall 2011
… and heard a wonderful story from the host and his cousin about their 87 year old Grandfather.
Conscripted into the German army following the Nazi invasion of Poland in WW2 (he lived in a Czech village close to the Polish border) he eventually deserted, and joined the Allies to fight in the Italian campaign .. for some reason he ended up in Scotland after the war and played football for Glasgow Celtic for two years !!
Helenka (the most famous female singer in the Czech Republic) and me .. it’s not just my smile that’s fake .. I really liked her, she was the absolute opposite of all the negative things I have heard about her .. very friendly not at all diva-esque and down to earth
I have been trying to find a way to sync the updates in my facebook page to this blog but it’s proving very tricky.
If you’d like to follow what I have been up to .. I update on an almost daily basis .. and at least once .. then head over to
http://www.facebook.com/jamiemarshallmusician and join up there ..
Meantime I’ll keeps searching .. if any of my readers have a solution then I’d been happy to correspond with them
Take it easy
JM
July is another busy and very varied month with seventeen gigs in three different countries!
I have four shows with Věra including one in Bratislava, Radek and I are at U Maleho Glena three times for our weekly Wednesday night residency, and Dani and I play MoHo on Monday the 18th.
I also have a gig at the Roots and Blues festival being held in Teplice .. my first time playing there.
I’m back at the James Joyce in Prague too, twice in fact .. I really like that space to play in and the bar staff are great … and I make my annual pilgrimage to Šipan Island in Croatia to play a two week long residency.
This year I’ll play solo, but I’ll take my Boss RC20 loop station along with me to work some aural magic ..
For all my gig details including show start times and maps here
my facebook artist page has a new url –
http://www.facebook.com/jamiemarshallmusician .. easier to remember and quote
lovely people .. and great vibe in the room .. we only played two sets, the first one one hour long, the second close to one and a half hours completely unplugged, with us sat on bar stools in the room .
A friend of Radeks came to take photos too .. I only wish I had known beforehand … because I would have had a shave and worn a cooler shirt !
co-written with my long term friend Clive Gregson, this version was recorded live for a Radio Proglas session about 3 weeks ago .. it features Radek Hlávka on lead guitar.
The story behind this song is that I had the melody and chords but no lyric. I mentioned this to Clive who is now resident in Houston TX and he said he’d be happy to write a lyric for it .. so I made a low-res mp3 of what I had .. emailed it to him and about 2 weeks later the lyric arrived by email.
I think I changed two or three words to make the lyric scan better for how I sang it ..
listen/download here
