Faces: Cindy Incidentally
AFTER a couple of strange ones, back to rock and roll perfection with this live rendition of the early-70s Faces favourite. Thanks to one of our doughty readers, who pointed … Continue readingFaces: Cindy Incidentally
A compendium of musical delights by Alan and Margaret Ashworth
AFTER a couple of strange ones, back to rock and roll perfection with this live rendition of the early-70s Faces favourite. Thanks to one of our doughty readers, who pointed … Continue readingFaces: Cindy Incidentally
I HAVE loved this track ever since I heard it on a review album copy in 1976. There is something about the feel and the bassline that makes me happy. … Continue readingDaevid Allen and Euterpe: Wise Man in Your Heart
NOW this really is a weird one. Wazmo (real name Larry Grennan) from Chicago, emerged in the new wave of the late seventies and was notable mainly for wearing two … Continue readingWazmo Nariz: Deeply
Lovely solo effort by the Big Star man. Taken from the 1980 album Bach’s Bottom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VabvVUH0hoQ
I think I can guarantee that you won’t have heard anything quite like this. From the 1974 album Desperate Straights, when Virgin Records let their artists do what they liked, … Continue readingSlapp Happy/Henry Cow: The Owl
This wasn’t enough to turn me vegetarian but it certainly made me go for only free-range pork. From Wyatt’s 1986 EPs collection.
Inspired combination of Captain Beefheart’s Dropout Boogie and Apache by the Shadows from Edgar ‘Out, Demons Out’ Broughton. Single came out in 1970 on the Harvest label.
From the later work of an underrated guitar star, creator of the pioneering instrumental Rumble. This is a live clip from 1975. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zBhViJYO9M
Great stuff from the 1973 album Baron von Tollbooth and the Chrome Nun. Our Gracie at her best.
Where Ray Winstone, top geezer of the betting adverts, got his elocution lessons. Eric was one of the first artists signed to Stiff Records, along with Ian Dury and Nick … Continue readingWreckless Eric: Whole Wide World