Category: A’s Track of the Day

Biriani Ferrari sings Neil Young. I know I featured the old smoothie only the other day but I had to share this with you . . .

Live version, with Carl Perkins and Rodney Crowell, of the song from his groundbreaking 1987 album Bring The Family, which led to the formation of Little Village.

Not too often you hear his Bobness covering someone else’s song but this is him doing Gordon Lightfoot. And very nice too.

Live 2010 version of the utterly brilliant song from the Bossanova album 20 years earlier. I love how the crowd come in with the ‘No, my child’ bit just before … Continue readingPixies: Dig For Fire

Pretty much not your standard rock chick . . .

The great lounge lizard’s recording of a 1938 classic, complete with cool video.

Last of Matt’s country-on-country season and it’s a belter. He says: ‘Steve Goodman and an uncredited John Prine sat down to write the perfect country song and delivered this 1975 … Continue readingDavid Allan Coe: You Never Even Called Me By My Name

Sez Matt: ‘The Texan singer turned cowboy poet celebrates two of the state’s top exports in this western swinger from 1976.’

‘Emmylou had a 1975 hit with Buck’s 60s classic Together Again,’ says Matt. ‘Four years later they got together to sing this beautiful song about that beautiful song (if you … Continue readingBuck Owens and Emmylou Harris: Play Together Again, Again

According to Matt, ‘the gravel-voiced Floridian may have had yesterday’s Moe Bandy tearjerker in mind when he put this on his 1980 debut album’.