Author: Alan Ashworth

Two tracks for the price of one to cheer up a miserable Monday morning; from her excellent 1993 debut album Exile in Guyville.

Appropriately enough for a Sunday morning, the band that inspired the wonderful Innocence Mission to change direction.

Staying with the American theme for another day, this is Megan Hickey from her first LTC album, released in 2003.

Last in Matt’s short season of Texas tunes, for which many thanks. He says this is a ‘laid-back 1979 version of a song by Susanna Clark, wife of legendary Texan … Continue readingJerry Jeff Walker with Carole King: I’ll Be Your San Antone Rose

Approaching the end of Matt’s Texas season now. He tells us: ‘Nelson cut this jazzy tune for his little-known 1968 album of songs about his home state, Texas In My … Continue readingWillie Nelson: Dallas

No 5 in Matt’s country suite. He says: ‘This plaintive rodeo song was a 1983 hit for the honky-tonk crooner from Poteet, Texas.’

Sez Matt: ‘The singer and cowboy poet cut this western swinger for his classic 1976 LP, Lone Star Beer and Bob Wills Music.’

Matt says: ‘The South Texas-born singer was missing home when she wrote this bluegrass-flavoured number in 1987.’

No 2 in Matt’s Texas set. He describes this as ‘a rollicking 1962 version of the Bob Wills favourite by the king of the country shuffle’.