Category: A’s Track of the Day

Given everyone’s increased alcohol intake during curfew, (not me, doctor, I’m still sticking to my 21 units [a day]!) I’m pleased to introduce another short season of country songs by … Continue readingGary Stewart: She’s Acting Single (I’m Drinking Doubles)

Remastered version of one of the standout tracks on Henry the Human Fly, Thompson’s underappreciated debut solo album from 1972. ‘She’s a hard girl, Nancy’.

Live version of the song from the 1975 album The Rotters’ Club, which inspired the Jonathan Coe novel and TV series of the same name, both of which I found … Continue readingHatfield and the North: It Didn’t Matter Anyway

These guys really could play – and so good-looking too.

Live version of the song from his 1971 debut album Naturally, recorded 33 years later in his native Tulsa.

Gentle clip from the Birmingham, Alabama folksmith’s 2008 album Leavetaking.

Another historical gem unearthed on the album Boots No 2; The Lost Songs Volume 3, released last year.

One of the few things I remember from geography lessons, apart from the sadistic teacher crushing my right toes under his stout heel (thank you, George Crowther), is learning how … Continue readingRalph McTell: Oxbow Lakes

What a beautiful sound these two guitar greats made together. From the 1993 album Acoustic Routes.

One of the loveliest songs I can think of, from the 1993 album Befriended. On a Sunday morning, what could be nicer (than a Pendleton’s Twicer)?