Kathleen Edwards: Six O’Clock News
From the 2003 album Failer. She got a bit mushy in later years but this is on the money. Could even be Crazy Horse backing her (but it isn’t).
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Traffic: Glad/Freedom Rider
Always enjoyed the instrumental Glad, from 1970’s John Barleycorn Must Die album. Here’s a live version I’ve just found.
A-levels made easy
THERE is a classic moment in one of PG Wodehouse’s golf stories when a player who has missed a putt claims he was distracted by the beating of a butterfly’s … Continue readingA-levels made easy
Steely Dan: Jack of Speed
Highlight track from their 2000 album Two Against Nature. This is a live version. RIP Walter Becker.
Rickie Lee Jones: I Won’t Grow Up
A live version of the delightful song from the 1954 Broadway musical Peter Pan. Rickie Lee first recorded it on her 1991 album Pop Pop.
Steve Earle: Guitar Town
Irresistible number from the Texas twangster. This is the title track of his 1986 breakthrough album.
Espers: Cruel Storm
Good stuff from the Philadelphia band who have clearly listened to a great deal of late-sixties English folk. This is on their third album, Espers II (sic)
Happy Slappy
LAST week we examined the career of Blondie, who sold forty million albums worldwide. Today we have another female-fronted band, but this lot would have been chuffed to sell forty thousand. … Continue readingHappy Slappy
Michael Nesmith: Some of Shelly’s Blues
Terrific song by the ex-Monkee from his 1973 album Pretty Much Your Standard Ranch Stash.
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Brompton Oratory
I’m not usually a fan of the lugubrious Melburnian but was won over by this mystical beauty from the 1997 album The Boatman’s Call. A good one for a Sunday … Continue readingNick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Brompton Oratory