We’re in the money!
SOME of us, I guess, were just born lucky. This morning I received the following email: Dear Sir/ Madam, Please forgive me if my request is not acceptable by your … Continue readingWe’re in the money!
Author: Alan Ashworth
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Jonathan Wilson: Magic Everywhere
Excellent track from the album Gentle Spirit, which was released in 2011 but sounds as if it could have been made 40 years earlier.
Modest Mouse: We Missed The Boat
Not my usual sort of thing but I really like the 2007 album this is from, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank.
Rickie Lee Jones: The Horses
One of RLJ’s best, from the 1989 album Flying Cowboys, produced by the great Walter Becker of Steely Dan, RIP.
Keith Whitley: I’m No Stranger to the Rain
Great song – and what a mullet!
Joni Mitchell: Trouble Child
Live version of classic cut from her 1974 album Court and Spark.
Death on the job
ACCORDING to the Bible (Romans 6:23), the wages of sin is death. According to a French court, however, the wages of sin is also a nice fat payout. Incredibly, appeal judges … Continue readingDeath on the job
Nick Lowe: Switchboard Susan
The great former Brinsley at his punning best – ‘when I’m with you I get an extension’. From his 1979 album Labour of Lust.
Evan Dando: All My Life
Wistful beauty from the Lemonhead’s first solo album Baby I’m Bored, released in 2003.
Nico: The Falconer
Possibly the most beautiful thing Nico https://am-records.com/2018/08/13/the-unique-nico/ ever did was the passage in the middle of this song, beginning at about 2.48. From the 1970 album Desert Shore.