Sufjan Stevens: Pink Moon
My favourite male artist of the 21st century covers the incomparable Nick Drake. What’s not to like?
Author: Alan Ashworth
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Laura Veirs: Turquoise Walls
Lovely song from her 2020 marriage break-up album My Echo.
Lindisfarne: Meet Me on the Corner
This was written by the group’s leader Rod Clements for their 1971 album Fog on the Tyne. The single reached No 5 in Britain.
Richard and Linda Thompson: For Shame of Doing Wrong
Not the Pour Down Like Silver track but a later version recorded and produced by Gerry Rafferty. Interesting.
Television: Days
Alternative version of the song from the Adventure album. Tom Verlaine’s vocals are a bit croaky but the playing is nice.
Bob Dylan: Idiot Wind
Live 1976 version of one of his greatest songs, from his greatest album Blood on the Tracks.
Lisa Germano: A Guy Like You
From the odd but compelling 1994 collection Geek The Girl.
When doctors were our friends
IT is more than two years since my doctor at the health centre in Clitheroe retired. I still don’t know if her replacement is any good, or indeed what he … Continue readingWhen doctors were our friends
Robert Wyatt: La Ahada Yalam
Strangely beautiful cut from the 2003 album Cuckooland.
Ian Dury: There Ain’t Half Been Some Clever Bastards
Einstein can’t be classed as witless . . .