Author: Alan Ashworth

A supposedly impromptu version of Montana adapted after a member of the audience requested the Allman Brothers’ Whipping Post. If Zappa didn’t arrange for that to happen, my arse is … Continue readingFrank Zappa: Whipping Floss

From the brilliant 1975 documentary Heartworn Highways. Stay tuned for an Off the Beaten Tracks about TVZ coming soon to a screen near you.

There are lots of Nesmith fans out there, I know, so here’s another of his prime cuts. This is a 1971 live version of the song from Nevada Fighter.

This is a bonus track from the CD reissue of If I Could Do It All Over Again I’d Do It All Over You. Maurice Haylett, I believe, was a … Continue readingCaravan: A Day in the Life of Maurice Haylett

Lovely version of the song from Pink Moon, one of half a dozen Nick Drake covers on his unjustly neglected album Nine of Swords.

Concluding Springsteen Season, one of several songs off the Greetings From Asbury Park album covered by the Manfreds. News subs on the Lancashire Evening Telegraph in the late 1970s used … Continue readingManfred Mann’s Earth Band: Blinded by the Light

Getting near the end of Springsteen Season. A live version of the song originally on the Nebraska album, covered by The Band on 1993’s Jericho.

I believe the Welsh wizard released this Springsteen number before the Boss himself. It was an outtake from the River sessions in 1979 and appeared on Edmunds’s 1981 album Twangin’.