17 hours ago Allman Brothers Band: In memory of Duane and Whipping Post Exactly 49 years ago today, on 29 October 1971, a long-haired motorcyclist was making his way through the Georgia town of Macon when he was…
Oct 21 Gaz Brookfield: The Old Normal and other new lockdown songs When Covid19 first struck and lockdown imposed, the West Country folk guitarist Gaz Brookfield – a type 1 diabetic more conscious than most…
Oct 19 Between The Wreck and a hard place: all aboard the Rescue Train What do you do in times of Covid19 if you are a musician in a rock band? Rishi Sunak might suggest you retrain as a delivery driver…
Oct 2 In praise of songwriters: Rumer and the art of interpretation Nearly 20 years ago the music journalist Max Bell was invited to a gig of a London-based folk-indie band La Honda in the cafeteria of a…
Aug 27 Isle of Wight 50 years after: the enduring majesty of Baez and Cohen If you can remember the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival, you weren’t really there. That follows, does it not, because the whole crazy, chaotic…
Jun 14 Marvin Gaye: Abraham, Martin and John. Not forgetting Bobby If the last few gruesome weeks in Britain and America have taught us anything it is that both countries are governed by small men, men who…
May 22 Robert Jon & The Wreck: Tired Of Drinking Alone Every now and then a band comes along that blows your socks off. Robert Jon & The Wreck are that band for me and this track – from their new
May 20 Suzanne Vega: Gypsy and a cherished Glastonbury memory Many of us have a song that evokes a particular time, place or person: that anthem from your youth, or a slushy tune shared with a first…
May 3 Gillian Welch: The hush and the hurt of I Made A Lovers Prayer There is more to the harmonica than meets the lips, to the extent that a careless student of the instrument might blow some serious money on
Apr 13 Thom Yorke: Last Flowers When the panic swept through England, the scale was measured in loo roll. The supermarket rush for toilet paper evoked the run on Northern…
