A compendium of musical delights by Alan and Margaret Ashworth
BACK in September we grimaced our way through Kenny Everett’s World’s Worst Record Show, a collection of 20 truly terrible tunes from the vaults, and I invited readers to provide their own … Continue readingA Christmas cringefest
Matt writes: This bleak yet beautiful song topped the country charts over Christmas 1973.
Matt says: The Blue Kentucky Girl’s as blue as ever on this song from her 1966 holiday album.
Our friend Matt says: A 1964 tearjerker from the number one Christmas album at our house.
From the 1977 album Islands. Tomorrow a series of country Christmas classics chosen by our friend Matt starts with a real humdinger.
A live tribute from 2010 with Mike Mills of REM standing in on vocals for the great Alex Chilton, who had died a couple of months earlier. RIP.
We started this lunar mini-series with the Stones, and we’ll end it with them too. Closing track from 1971’s Sticky Fingers.
Really getting into the country mood now.
BACK in March, which seems a very long time ago now, we left Jackson Browne grieving after the suicide of his wife Phyllis but experiencing unprecedented chart success with his 1976 album The … Continue readingA Jackson Browne study: Part 3
No relation to the J J Cale song from yesterday. A nice slice of Kentucky from Ricky.