Category: A’s Track of the Day

Playing this song on TV kicked off the Duchess of Coolsville’s career back in the late 1970s. Picture could be better but the sound is just fine.

Blimey, that’s a fair old ponytail on the geezer. Live version from 2012 of the song which gave the phrase ‘brain salad surgery’ to the world and ELP.

A live version from 2010 of the track which originally appeared on the Muy Divertido album ten years earlier. Always good to see a band enjoying themselves on stage.

JB wrote this beautiful song when he was 18 in the late 1960s but it wasn’t until the 2014 album Standing In The Breach that he recorded it with a … Continue readingJackson Browne: The Birds of St Mark’s

Concluding our guitar season, the troubled Texan musician/actor with the title track of his 1986 debut album. I actually prefer the twangy guitar on the original, so here it is … Continue readingSteve Earle: Guitar Town (Live)

I recently featured a version of this by Tom Petty and the Artist Formerly Known As Shortarse. Here’s the bloke who wrote it, with a Who’s Who of rock and … Continue readingGeorge Harrison and Friends: While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Five excellent minutes from the 1972 collection White Light.

From the 2002 album Margaritaville. And here’s a later version.

Love song to six strings from the 2005 album Prairie Wind. I’m getting near to the end of my guitar season so if you’ve spotted any glaring omissions, let me … Continue readingNeil Young: This Old Guitar

Lovely stuff. Live version of the song from 2009’s Some Days The Song Writes You.