Jan 5 Bert Sommer: Jennifer's journey from oblivion to Woodstock folklore Sharon Watts in Beacon, New York The name Jennifer has ‘muse’ written all over it. Just ask Kurt Weill, Little Richard, Tommy Tutone, Don...
Dec 14, 2020 Man Without A Soul: Lucinda gives the Trump era a fiery send-off Ian Malin Don’t worry it will soon be over. For those of us still standing anyway. The year the music, and pretty much all entertainment,...
Dec 3, 2020 Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band: Janey Needs A Shooter Chris Hewett Those of us who have spent the best part of 50 years surfing the mighty swells of Bruce Springsteen’s music – or, just occas...
Nov 29, 2020 Elliott Smith: Pretty (Ugly Before), soundtrack to a troubled soul Tim Woods There are different ways for musicians to be successful. The most obvious is through the charts: No1 singles or albums that go ...
Nov 10, 2020 The Grateful Dead: The spirit of Brokedown Palace lives on Andrew R McGaan in Chicago One of the Grateful Dead’s most beautiful songs, both musically and lyrically, is a love song, a sermon, and a...
Oct 28, 2020 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, 2020 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, 2020 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, 2020 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, 2020 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…
