Category: A’s Track of the Day

As a teenager I thought Easy Rider was a great film. Watching it fairly recently I was amazed at quite how bad it was.

I still think Evan Dando has one of the great rock voices.

Rifftastic ode to the old waxter baxter. From Master of Reality.

Live 1978 version with Mr Dave on fiddle.

Live unplugged version of the anti-drug song from the Harvest album.

Continuing our druggie series (kids, don’t try this at home).

Continuing our drug odyssey, here’s Bert’s original version from the Sixties with great pictures from the BBC. I much prefer the 1974 remake on LA Turnaround. Sadly, since I wrote … Continue readingBert Jansch: Needle of Death

After White Rabbit, here’s another in a short series of songs about drugs. In this brilliant selection from the Hell Among the Yearlings album, Gillian’s character refers to morphine as … Continue readingGillian Welch: My Morphine

Live at Woodstock, 51 years ago. I was there only in spirit – the few festivals I can remember physically attending are Clitheroe Castle, 1972, July Wakes at Charnock Richard … Continue readingJefferson Airplane: White Rabbit

Brilliant live outdoor performance in the South of France, 1968.