Category: A’s Track of the Day

Classic from the patron saint of short-term memory loss.

Danny Thompson performs his double bass magic for the nth time.

This could almost be Frank Zappa; praise indeed.

Sweet song from the minstrel of Thornton Heath, still with us at 81.

Concluding Matt’s brilliant week of alcohol-soaked country classics. He says: ‘Country’s greatest singer was probably its greatest drinker, too, so Jones knew what he was on about in this tearjerker … Continue readingGeorge Jones: If Drinkin’ Don’t Kill Me (Her Memory Will)

A 1966 swinger from the Texan honky-tonker and his Brazos Valley Boys.

Matt says: A wife resorts to desperate measures to stop her husband’s bar-hopping in this 1982 song from the brother of country legend Lefty Frizzell.

A 1966 hit by the bard of Bakersfield and his band the Strangers.

Loretta tells it like it is on this proto-feminist favourite from 1967, says our friend Matt.

Matt says: ‘Plaintive classic by the 50s Nashville superstar now best remembered for his guitar-shaped swimming pool’.