Category: A’s Track of the Day

One of the better tracks from their patchy but worthwhile 1992 reunion album. And here’s a live version – dig the bass.

A thirteen-minute chunk of the Colorado album from 2019 – great to hear that scratchy Crazy Horse sound again.

Fair maids of February is another name for snowdrops. This sweet song is said to have been inspired by a window box outside the Dransfield brothers’ flat in North London.

For some reason Margo Timmins’s ten-year-old daughter got in trouble for singing this at school.

Title track of her 2015 album. Note the video credits her hair and make-up artist. A long way from Meg’s home-recorded discs with sister Laura.

A moving version of the classic John Prine song, taken from the album All The Good Times (Are Past And Gone). The first to be released under Welch and Rawlings’s … Continue readingGillian Welch and David Rawlings: Hello In There

What a lovely, gentle song for a Sunday morning. The Colorful Quiet is Stephen Webster, from St Augustine, Florida and this is from his 2007 debut The Sun is Melting.

Taken from their debut EP Whole, released in 1997, with David Bazan playing almost every instrument. A very pleasant song to fall asleep to.

From her 2001 debut album When We Were Small. And very nice too.

Probably the greatest rock track ever, (in my humble opinion) in a live 1970 performance. Never fails to raise the goosebumps.