Just Another Diamond Day - Vashti Bunyan (1970)
It is somewhat odd, probably, how much music I discover because it’s in a movie or a TV show, or even a commerical. I could make a pretty interesting list of just artists I’ve stumbled into this way.
Vashti Bunyan kind of built a career rennaissance on this effect. She’d released several records, and then retreated from the music business when she couldn’t find much commercial traction.
In the 21st century, reissues and the internet and the “aeviternity effect” of people’s listening not being bound by time or place led to a renewed interest, and those dusty record store finds started gaining new momentum.
Her track Train Song was the title music to a short-lived but excellent spy show called The Patriot (it also featured in True Detective season 1, but so did a million other tracks I loved so it hadn’t registered), which is where it crossed into my consciousness. That got me interested in several albums of excellent 60s folk rock that had languished without much of an audience for decades.
Tracks I Liked
Where I Like To Stand - a fantastic tune anyone with a heart should probably hear.
Come Wind Come Rain - sing-song-y in the best possible way
