A compendium of musical delights by Alan and Margaret Ashworth
AT the end of part one we left the Shawn Colvin story with her 1993 marriage to Richard Thompson’s sound manager Simon Tassano seemingly having brought stability to a life dogged by … Continue readingShawn Colvin – a survivor’s tale part 2
A live version from 2010 of the track which originally appeared on the Muy Divertido album ten years earlier. Always good to see a band enjoying themselves on stage.
JB wrote this beautiful song when he was 18 in the late 1960s but it wasn’t until the 2014 album Standing In The Breach that he recorded it with a … Continue readingJackson Browne: The Birds of St Mark’s
Concluding our guitar season, the troubled Texan musician/actor with the title track of his 1986 debut album. I actually prefer the twangy guitar on the original, so here it is … Continue readingSteve Earle: Guitar Town (Live)
I recently featured a version of this by Tom Petty and the Artist Formerly Known As Shortarse. Here’s the bloke who wrote it, with a Who’s Who of rock and … Continue readingGeorge Harrison and Friends: While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Five excellent minutes from the 1972 collection White Light.
From the 2002 album Margaritaville. And here’s a later version.
Love song to six strings from the 2005 album Prairie Wind. I’m getting near to the end of my guitar season so if you’ve spotted any glaring omissions, let me … Continue readingNeil Young: This Old Guitar
THE name Tom Waits is synonymous these days with a gravelly, world-weary voice described by one critic as seeming like ‘it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in … Continue readingTom Waits – the gruff with the smooth
Lovely stuff. Live version of the song from 2009’s Some Days The Song Writes You.