Author: Alan Ashworth

From her last album of original tunes, 2007’s Shine.

Suggested by Andy Marshall, this is from her 2004 album The Tigers Have Spoken. Backing vocals are by her trusty pardner Kelly Hogan.

This little sweetie is from Burnt Weeny Sandwich, recorded before Hot Rats but released later, in 1970, when Zappa had dissolved the Mothers of Invention for the time being.

From the 1975 album Unrequited, this is a song about his baby son’s enthusiasm for his mother’s milk. Ironic, really, that camp-as-a-row-of-tents Rufus Wainwright turned out to be anything but … Continue readingLoudon Wainwright III: Rufus is a Tit Man

The old Leftie’s take on Dylan’s Subterranean Homesick Blues, with guitar assistance from Mister Paul Weller. Taken from the 1997 album Shleep – blimey, it’s 24 years old already.

Lowell George at his best. From the band’s third album, Dixie Chicken, in 1973.

Folk-rock version of the rousing hymn which Er Indoors wrote about here https://am-records.com/2019/01/02/to-be-a-pilgrim/ two years ago. From the fascinating British compilation Dust on the Nettles.

Probably my favourite track from their third album.

The accompanying film is pure magic.