Category: A’s Track of the Day

From 1971, chosen as much for the look as the music. It’s taken from the Tago Mago album, which I mentioned in this piece https://am-records.com/2019/01/27/best-little-record-shop/ almost two years ago.

Title song and only decent track on his 2020 album – the rest is rubbish electronica.

From the late Beach Boys drummer’s ‘great lost’ second album Bambu. There’ll be a column about Dennis early in the New Year.

Concluding his brilliant festive country series, Matt says: ‘Ms Krauss brings a touch of bluegrass to this Christmas treasure from 1993.’ Have a good one, y’all, from A & M.

Matt says: Buck and his Buckaroos choose misery over mistletoe on this 1965 heartbreaker.

Reba was at her peak, says Matt, when she recorded this fiddle-led shuffle in 1987.

Matt says: Country’s greatest singer tugging the tinsel-strings in 1962.

Matt writes: This bleak yet beautiful song topped the country charts over Christmas 1973.

Matt says: The Blue Kentucky Girl’s as blue as ever on this song from her 1966 holiday album.

Our friend Matt says: A 1964 tearjerker from the number one Christmas album at our house.