Category: A’s Track of the Day

Barely recognisable from the original but still well worth a listen. A live performance at Coventry Cathedral ten years ago. The Travis is flautist Theo, nothing to do with the … Continue readingTravis and Fripp: Moonchild

No relation to the Marcels song, or indeed the Big Star classic, this is from his excellent 2014 album Morning Phase.

I refer you, m’lud, to my column from May last year. https://am-records.com/2019/05/27/prime-time-television/ What a great, clean sound this is. I would have included the live at the Waldorf clip instead … Continue readingTelevision: Marquee Moon

Title track from Fairport’s tenth studio album, released in 1975. I saw them at Lancaster University when they toured on the back of it. Sandy was great, although her hair … Continue readingFairport Convention: Rising for the Moon

Co-produced by RR and Daniel Lanois, who was flavour of the year in 1987.

Can it really be 18 months since I wrote about the Slappers? https://am-records.com/2019/06/10/happy-slappy/ Don’t time fly when you’re under bogus house arrest! Go on, lads and lass, give it some … Continue readingSlapp Happy: Casablanca Moon

Title track from his 1992 sequel to the Harvest album from 20 years before. And very sweet it is too.

A hypnotic live TV performance from 1977 featuring the excellent Rosko Gee, formerly of Traffic, on bass.

Nice song from 1973’s Closing Time, before he had his vocal cords removed.

This is from his album Pacific Ocean Blue, released in 1977, six years before Dennis’s body was pulled out of said ocean. For many years it was unavailable but came … Continue readingDennis Wilson: Moonshine