Category: A’s Track of the Day

Welcome back to the Kraut proggers, live here in 1978. I have to say the keyboards player doesn’t look well at all – he’s terribly pale and those bags around … Continue readingGrobschnitt: Vater Schmidt’s Wandertag

One of the great traditional songs, also memorably performed by Richard Thompson among many others. Here Bert is joined by Rod Clements, a founder member of Lindisfarne.

Another selection from Bert at the BBC: Here he is joined by Johnny Marr and Bernard Butler in 2000. Sorry about the oleaginous Jools Holland.

From an exhaustive, eight-hour-plus compilation of Bert’s BBC performances which is repetitive but well worth exploring.

Back to Trinidad for this Allen Toussaint cover from 1972’s magnificent Discover America.

One of my favourite Dylan songs, and to think it was dropped from the 1975 Desire album to make way for the somewhat dreary Joey. It did not emerge until … Continue readingBob Dylan: Abandoned Love

Last one from the Esso boys – a lovely version of Saint Saens’s tune from his hit album Carnival of the Animals.

A good question. A third selection from the fabulous Esso boys.

Another irresistible sunshine selection from their eponymous 1971 LP.

What better on a grim November Monday than a blast of Caribbean sunshine?