Mick Jagger: Memo from Turner
FROM the soundtrack of the 1970 crime movie Performance, this features brilliant slide guitar by Ry Cooder. Personnel also includes Randy Newman on piano. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCoCgB3eIU4
Author: Alan Ashworth
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Something Incomprehensible
SUNDAY’S edition of Radio Four’s Something Understood will be the last to be recorded. In future, the BBC will use the slot to repeat programmes from the show’s 24-year back catalogue. The … Continue readingSomething Incomprehensible
Cowboy Junkies: Leaving Normal
IT’S been a long time since I’ve seen the high planes of ExpectationAnd I’m way past the lowlands and the deserts of Failure and DoubtAnd the last time I passed … Continue readingCowboy Junkies: Leaving Normal
Fish Heads by Barnes & Barnes
EARWORM alert! I heard this song some time in the 1980s on an Old Grey Whistle Test new year special, and it’s been on my brain ever since. Addictive and … Continue readingFish Heads by Barnes & Barnes
Lemonheads you win
THERE are many groups named after foodstuffs – Cream, Hot Chocolate, Orange Juice, Bread and the Cranberries to name but five – yet I can think of only one inspired … Continue readingLemonheads you win
Silver Threads Among The Gold
Resophonic guitar mastery recommended to me by Bill Dalton https://am-records.com/2019/03/11/bill-the-conqueror/
A Jackson Browne study: Part One
THE adjective ‘precocious’ could have been invented for Jackson Browne. At an age when most of us were still worrying about acne and failing to revise for exams, he was … Continue readingA Jackson Browne study: Part One
In touch with the Feelies
THIS week’s choice will never feature, I’ll wager, in anyone’s top ten of rock and roll heroes. They wouldn’t even be in my own top hundred. But the three albums … Continue readingIn touch with the Feelies