2 days ago Songs Of The Week 2020: Take 3 When Rosanne Cash sings ‘Deliver me from tweets and lies’, there can be only one person she has in mind. But her timely new track, Crawl…
Aug 30 Songs Of The Week 2020: Take 2 Rhiannon Giddens always sings passionately about racial and social injustice, from slavery to civil rights. Now she takes on the gaslighters
May 16 From Aretha to Nina via The Czars: My top 50 greatest cover versions Cover versions can be divisive, among bands as well as fans; I recall Graham Nash fleeing The Hollies over their decision to record an LP of
Apr 27 Boss class: My fifty favourite songs by Bruce Springsteen Inspired by a recent Guardian piece by Alexis Petridis, listing the best 50 Bob Dylan songs, here is my (very subjective) top half-century…
Apr 17 Songs Of The Week 2020: Take 1 In My Room: a perfect title to describe the humble songwriter’s location of necessity during the global shutdown. From their rooms they've…
Feb 17 Oddball's Coming Home: 10 leftfield songs about sport A 1968 single by Townshend, Daltrey, Entwhistle and Moon, and a relative flop which peaked at No25, Dogs is about greyhound racing, beer…
Dec 29, 2019 Songs Of The Week 2019: Take 2 We all need a harmonious new year after the dissonance of 2019, and who better to provide a message of hope and empathy than The Secret Sis…
Jul 31, 2019 Dolly, the Cameroon connection and the power of storytelling Cameroon’s Bamenda Highlands is a vibrant, verdant region awash with life. Rust-red tracks cut through mountainous forests that brim with…
Jul 8, 2019 Songs Of The Week 2019: Take 1 The Boss takes a quiet slip road off E Street, transporting me back to Friday night treats in the late 50s-early 60s watching cowboy films…
Dec 27, 2018 Songs and gongs of 2018 Our final Song Of The Week of 2018 is an encore from Anderson East's album of that name, the southern soul ballad This Too Shall Last…
