Category: A’s Track of the Day

Not sure when this was recorded but Lindley is looking pretty ancient. Still playing like a dream though.

From the 2007 Various Artists album A Tribute To Joni Mitchell, this take by Sufjan of the popular Court and Spark song is remarkable for how different it is to … Continue readingSufjan Stevens: Free Man in Paris

This is from Burnt Weeny Sandwich, which was recorded before Hot Rats but released after it, in 1970. It’s good.

From one of my favourite albums of all time, the sublime Discover America, released in 1972.

Two old favourites get together for some jolly hokum.

This is a great record. Title track of their 2011 album.

From his 2002 album My Ride’s Here, Wozza’s story of a farm boy turned ice hockey goon. One of his biggest fans, the talkshow host David Letterman, provides guest vocals.

A lot of Ry’s later work is pretty embarrassing but this, from 2018’s The Prodigal Son, is an exception.

‘Where the skies are all clear and the dolphins do play; And the cold coast of Greenland is far, far away’ . . . a fisherman’s heaven.

Lovely stuff from Ian Matthews on the 1971 album In Search of Amelia Earhart.