A compendium of musical delights by Alan and Margaret Ashworth
Classic piece of misery from Yoakam’s 1993 album This Time. It features in two movies, Chasers and the excellent Red Rock West. Sorry if you get a tedious advert first; … Continue readingDwight Yoakam: A Thousand Miles From Nowhere
Brilliant, swampy, let-there-be-drums classic by Jenkins, the band leader who first hired Otis Redding to sing in his group, the Pinetoppers. Taken from the 1970 album Ton Ton Macoute.
Hard to imagine anyone sounding less like a real wild child than this 1958 release. Iggy Pop was still singing it 60 years later.
Lovely sitar-led track from Ian’s 1969 album Matthews’ Southern Comfort https://am-records.com/?s=matthews+country
From the 2007 album Raising Sand. I love the fact that, after singing like a grown-up all the way through, Planty can’t resist a few Led Zep-style whoops as it … Continue readingRobert Plant and Alison Krauss: Please Read The Letter
From the 1996 album Singing The Storm, with Savourna Stevenson and the brilliant Danny Thompson.
Zevon on vocals, David Lindley on lap steel, what’s not to like? From Wozza’s 2003 farewell album The Wind.
A CORKER from the odds-and-sods album Hoy-Hoy, released two years after the death of the irreplaceable Lowell George. https://am-records.com/2018/11/05/pipe-down-elton-we-cant-hear-lowell-george/
NOT my usual sort of thing, I’ll agree, but good fun none the less. From the 1991 album Daydream Nation.
Beautiful, mournful song from the 2002 album Sea Change.