Required Reads

Thanks for stumbling upon my retirement project and labour of love, Here Comes The Song. Here you'll find the latest blogs from music fanatics about their favourite songs and the artists who wrote them. It really is about the music that moves us...

Oct 22, 2018

John Fogerty: Fortunate Son, the song, the memoir, the revival

One song defines the tempestuous musical times of John Fogerty. Not Proud Mary, Bad Moon Rising or Born On The Bayou, outstanding rock songs

Aug 11, 2018

Loudon Wainwright III: Liner Notes and The Swimming Song

The wonderfully whimsical work of Loudon Wainwright III began to infiltrate my consciousness in the mid-70s during repeated listenings to…

Nov 20, 2017

The Weight: Testimony to the artistry of Robbie Robertson

Bob Dylan’s prolific songwriting was always bound to have an impact on Robbie Robertson. As the lead guitarist in Dylan’s touring band, The…

Jul 8, 2017

Shawn Colvin: Riding shotgun with a Diamond In The Rough

Shawn Colvin named her 2012 memoir after one of two songs that had persuaded her she could fulfil her ambition of becoming a successful song

Jan 24, 2017

Rosanne Cash: Composed

Johnny Cash was not alive to see the product of the legacy he had bequeathed his eldest daughter Rosanne. The List was the title of Rosanne…

Jan 21, 2017

Elvis Costello: Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink

Has there ever been a musical autobiography so riven with guilt and self-reproach as this? Despite examples of evasion about certain episode