Millie Jackson: Leave Me Alone
Latest contribution to Isolation Week here on Radio A & M.
A compendium of musical delights by Alan and Margaret Ashworth
Latest contribution to Isolation Week here on Radio A & M.
Continuing the virus theme: good job I’ve got a few cases of Corona in store. By the way, did you know supermarkets are having to sell it off cheap because … Continue readingCrowded House: Isolation
Topical, huh? From the 2003 album Transverse City. First in a short series of songs about being cut off from the world.
I was watching Ozark on Netflix and it reminded me of this lot.
Not a huge fan of Seger but I have to admit this one’s good. Here are two live performances more than 40 years apart, 1978 and 2019.
Guy was over 70 when he played this with Verlon Thompson in Tennessee in 2012. It comes from his 1975 debut album Old No 1. He died in 2016, RIP.
Driving, Velvetsish number from her 1993 second album, Happiness. Lisa went solo after several years playing violin for John Cougar Mellencamp.
For anyone self-isolating this Saturday morning, here’s 23 wonderful minutes of the Dead in 1969.
I know it’s not long since the last Hiatt selection but I couldn’t resist this one, with John channelling his inner Loudon Wainwright III.
Live version of the song by the artist currently known as Brown Bread.