Neil Young: Harvest Moon
Title track from his 1992 sequel to the Harvest album from 20 years before. And very sweet it is too.
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Quitters sometimes win
WITH the release of her fourth album Voyageur in 2012, Kathleen Edwards was on a career high. It made the US top 40 and the Canadian singer-songwriter toured incessantly to capitalise on … Continue readingQuitters sometimes win
Can: Moonshake
A hypnotic live TV performance from 1977 featuring the excellent Rosko Gee, formerly of Traffic, on bass.
Tom Waits: Grapefruit Moon
Nice song from 1973’s Closing Time, before he had his vocal cords removed.
Dennis Wilson: Moonshine
This is from his album Pacific Ocean Blue, released in 1977, six years before Dennis’s body was pulled out of said ocean. For many years it was unavailable but came … Continue readingDennis Wilson: Moonshine
Brian Eno: Silver Morning
OK, this one doesn’t have Moon in the title but it comes from the Apollo album, a soundtrack to the US lunar missions. And it’s lovely.
John Fogerty & Brad Paisley: Bad Moon Rising
Engaging new look at the song frequently misheard as ‘There’s a bathroom on the right’.
Genesis: Dancing with the Moonlit Knight
One of the highlights of the Selling England By The Pound album, here in a live performance from 1973.
REM: Man on the Moon
Strong live performance from 2003. From the album Automatic for the People.
Cooder’s Story: Part 3
LAST week I wrote in glowing terms about the band 10,000 Maniacs and their album In My Tribe. A few hours after publication I was surprised and delighted when an email pinged into … Continue readingCooder’s Story: Part 3