Category: A’s Track of the Day

From their excellent 2009 album Lost Channels.

Day four of our ‘beast with two backs’ series. This is from Morris On, released in 1972, by Hutchings, Thompson, Mattacks, Kirkpatrick and Dransfield.

Folk songs about sex, part 3 (further suggestions welcome): From the 1977 album The Noah’s Ark Trap, criminally unavailable on CD.

More rudery, this time from the 1971 LP Angel Delight.

Kicking off a short season of folk songs about hiding the sausage, this 1976 piece of fun by June Tabor and Maddy Prior is also known as The Game of … Continue readingSilly Sisters: The Game of Cards

A little gem from Roy’s 1975 album Immigration Declaration. John Peel was a big fan. Me too. And that’s about all of us.

Live version of this charming song from the 1986 album The Queen Is Dead.

Most of Patti ‘Unpretentious’ Smith’s work leaves me cold but she occasionally hits the spot, as with this selection from 1996.

Superb song from the 1997 album Either/Or. Smith died in 2003, aged 34, from two stab wounds to the chest. The autopsy failed to determine whether he had been murdered … Continue readingElliott Smith: The Rose Parade

Lovely song from the 1974 LP Learn To Love It. Also covered two years later by Jimmy Buffett.