The Colorful Quiet: I Didn’t Know
Gentle stuff from Stephen Webster’s album Sounds of the Countryside.
Author: Alan Ashworth
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Football fans sing my name
AS A child, kicking a tennis ball interminably against a wall on the back street because I’d read that this was how Bobby Charlton honed his soccer skills, I used … Continue readingFootball fans sing my name
Skip James: Hard Times Killing Floor Blues
Another vintage clip; this one is from a 1967 German blues festival.
Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelli: J’Attendrai
Amazing period piece from who knows when. I saw an elderly Grappelli play Colne Municipal Hall back in the Seventies. This was much earlier.
Neil Young and Crazy Horse: Heading West
Another selection from the new Barn album. Great to hear the Horse still cranking it out in their inimitable rough and ready way.
Peter Gabriel and Robert Fripp: Here Comes The Flood
Complete with some truly scary tsunami pictures.
King Crimson: Cat Food
A real curio from German TV, 1970.
The best of Best
He was my idol as a child and these goals still send a shiver up my back.
Beck: Say Goodbye
From the excellent 2014 album Morning Phase. Love the backing, particularly the banjo.
Laura Cantrell: Two Seconds
One of her best; from the 2000 album Not the Tremblin’ Kind.