Lisa Germano: Puppet
Driving, Velvetsish number from her 1993 second album, Happiness. Lisa went solo after several years playing violin for John Cougar Mellencamp.
Author: Alan Ashworth
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Grateful Dead: Dark Star
For anyone self-isolating this Saturday morning, here’s 23 wonderful minutes of the Dead in 1969.
John Hiatt: Since His Penis Came Between Us
I know it’s not long since the last Hiatt selection but I couldn’t resist this one, with John channelling his inner Loudon Wainwright III.
Eels: If I Was Your Girlfriend
Live version of the song by the artist currently known as Brown Bread.
Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!
THIS hymn was written specifically for Trinity Sunday, which is the first Sunday after Pentecost, which in turn is 50 days after Easter Sunday. It seems a shame not to … Continue readingHoly, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!
Laura Veirs: Wandering Kind
No apologies for returning to the lovely Laura. This is from her 2007 album Saltbreakers, and very good it is too.
Ian Dury: Reasons to be Cheerful (Part 3)
Who else could rhyme Hammersmith Palais with the Bolshoi Ballet?
A Jackson Browne study: Part Two
IN the first part of the Jackson Browne story, we left our hero having completed his brilliant second album, For Everyman, living in the Los Angeles house where he grew up and contemplating … Continue readingA Jackson Browne study: Part Two
Frank Zappa: RDNZL
From the brilliant Helsinki concert of 1974, captured on You Can’t Do That etc Volume 2.
Keith Whitley: Miami, My Amy
A good example of the clever lyrics that helped make country music a dominant force in the Eighties. By the end of that decade the magnificently bemulleted Whitley had drunk … Continue readingKeith Whitley: Miami, My Amy