Warren Zevon: Numb As A Statue
Zevon on vocals, David Lindley on lap steel, what’s not to like? From Wozza’s 2003 farewell album The Wind.
Author: Alan Ashworth
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Little Feat: Over the Edge
A CORKER from the odds-and-sods album Hoy-Hoy, released two years after the death of the irreplaceable Lowell George. https://am-records.com/2018/11/05/pipe-down-elton-we-cant-hear-lowell-george/
Sonic Youth: Total Trash
NOT my usual sort of thing, I’ll agree, but good fun none the less. From the 1991 album Daydream Nation.
The Cakes of Wrath
FOR 40 years, the good ladies of the Women’s Institute have been washing their hands and putting on their pinnies to bake cakes and biscuits for the terminally ill patients … Continue readingThe Cakes of Wrath
Beck: End Of The Day
Beautiful, mournful song from the 2002 album Sea Change.
Faces: Cindy Incidentally
AFTER a couple of strange ones, back to rock and roll perfection with this live rendition of the early-70s Faces favourite. Thanks to one of our doughty readers, who pointed … Continue readingFaces: Cindy Incidentally
Daevid Allen and Euterpe: Wise Man in Your Heart
I HAVE loved this track ever since I heard it on a review album copy in 1976. There is something about the feel and the bassline that makes me happy. … Continue readingDaevid Allen and Euterpe: Wise Man in Your Heart
Jukebox Dury
TODAY’S choice has been described as a diamond geezer, national treasure, England’s greatest lyricist, working-class hero and a right pain in the backside. In a 2003 BBC poll of Great Disabled … Continue readingJukebox Dury
Wazmo Nariz: Deeply
NOW this really is a weird one. Wazmo (real name Larry Grennan) from Chicago, emerged in the new wave of the late seventies and was notable mainly for wearing two … Continue readingWazmo Nariz: Deeply
Alex Chilton/Can’t Seem To Make You Mine
Lovely solo effort by the Big Star man. Taken from the 1980 album Bach’s Bottom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VabvVUH0hoQ