Author: Alan Ashworth

One of the old fella’s best. From the 1972 album Naturally.

Ten sweaty minutes from the Rorster. I just wish he’d put a bit more into it.

I know I promised a short season of Kenny Everett’s clunkers yesterday, but they are so terrible I think they deserve a proper column. Instead here’s a tune I used … Continue readingJohn Dummer’s Famous Music Band: Nine by Nine

Commencing a short season of songs that featured on Kenny Everett’s World’s Worst Record Show, a 1978 K-Tel collection of total stinkers. It’s the middle one here that made it … Continue readingRaphael: Light My Fire/Goin’ Out Of My Head/Something

Three for the price of one from the Toddster on an old Whistle Test. I remember being impressed when a former colleague said his son was named Todd. ‘After Todd … Continue readingTodd Rundgren: It Wouldn’t Have Made Any Difference etc

‘They’ve got the shapely bodies. They’ve got the Steely Dan T-shirts.’ Brilliant cut from 1973’s Countdown to Ecstasy featuring Rick Derringer on slide guitar.

From the truly wonderful 1998 album Marc Ribot and the Prosthetic Cubans. What a great guitarist he is.

I was reminded of this sweet song from the Sunflower album when a grey wagtail took a stroll over our conservatory roof the other day.

Slightly unexpected cover of the New Order song by one of the queens of New Country.