Category: A’s Track of the Day

For a while I dismissed Aimee Mann as just another rock chick, but there is so much more to her than that. This is from her excellent 1999 album Bachelor … Continue readingAimee Mann: Red Vines

From the most excellent 1987 album In My Tribe.

Irresistible lament for a cuckolded friend from the 1975 LP Unrequited.

After yesterday’s Bridget song, another oldster curiosity: The Skunk reprising his guitar work on the track from Steely Dan’s 1974 classic Pretzel Logic at an awards ceremony 42 years later. … Continue readingSkunk Baxter: Rikki Don’t Lose That Number

Don´t say we never take you to glamorous locations on sexy, star-studded A & M Records. Here we have the peerless Bridget performing at Hebden Bridge Trades Club half a … Continue readingBridget St John: Ask Me No Questions

One of THE great videos from the Sheffield smoothie, circa 1985. Palmer died of a heart attack in 2003, aged only 54.

Not the most innovative musically, but the Scouse jokers had some great ideas including inner-city mayhem spreading to Trumptonshire.

Live 1971 version of the song from the classic North Star Grassman and the Ravens album. RIP Sandy.

Early song by ‘Two Beers’ Veirs. It’s a mournful beauty. From the 2001 album The Triumphs and Travails of Orphan Mae. Through December Through DecemberProvided to YouTube by Redeye Worldwide … Continue readingLaura Veirs: Through December

From the Mission’s lovely 2004 album of lullabies Now The Day is Over. You’ll be asleep before it’s finished. https://am-records.com/2019/02/18/the-age-of-innocence-mission/