Joni Mitchell: Night Ride Home
Title track of her 1991 album and one of the best of her later songs.
A compendium of musical delights by Alan and Margaret Ashworth
Title track of her 1991 album and one of the best of her later songs.
Having been in this position many times when I was lodging in West Ken, I find this resonates.
Live in London, 1971. Keef swigs from a bottle of something that’s not lemonade, and orft we go.
I HAVE written previously about some of the wonderful and talented people I worked with in Fleet Street, including Gordon Greig, Lynda Lee-Potter, Nigel Dempster and Keith Waterhouse. Obviously, the Daily Mail also had its share of … Continue readingHeroes and villains of Fleet Street
Colvin sings Tom Waits – a fine combination indeed. From her 1993 covers album.
From his debut album in 1970, Ry’s rattling version of the Blind Willie Johnson classic.
From Brucie’s 1972 debut album Greetings From Asbury Park NJ, this was a late addition after Columbia Records chief Clive Davis deemed the other songs not commercial enough, and marked … Continue readingBruce Springsteen: Spirit in the Night
STONE walls are very common round here, some of them proper traditional dry stone, some with a bit of mortar in the centre and some with mortar throughout, like a … Continue readingWithin these walls
Wonderful slice of 70s nostalgia from the Land Before #MeToo.
From the Last Waltz concert in 1976, Mac Rebennack in good voice.