Category: A’s Track of the Day

Sonja and the boys with a period piece from 1971. I used to have a picture of her stuck to my jotter at Nelson Grammar School.

Driving through Todmorden on the way to Gordon Rigg’s garden centre I am always reminded of this song and the tragic story it represents. Here it is: https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/crime-broadsides/catalog/46-990069096830203941 At the … Continue readingNic Jones: Miles Weatherhill

The 1996 album Lay It Down, from which this is taken, is the Junkies at their best.

Live version of the most excellent song from the 2014 album English Oceans.

From the 1977 album Time Loves a Hero, a cover of the great Terry Allen song. Here’s Allen himself, recording it two years later on the album Lubbock (on everything). … Continue readingLittle Feat: New Delhi Freight Train

Here’s a song which BBC Radio 2 announced was the 43rd best ever written. To illustrate the sheer fatuousness of this, No 1 was A Whiter Shade of Pale, 2 … Continue readingThe Jam: That’s Entertainment

We have a tortoise which looked to be losing the battle for life but M refused to give up on her because, she said, she was holding her head up … Continue readingArgent: Hold Your Head Up

Jackson’s other great single from the end of the Seventies.

One of the great songs about being given the heave-ho: Jilted John and Elvis Costello’s Alison spring to mind. I liked Joe Jackson – he could have done a lot … Continue readingJoe Jackson: Is She Really Going Out With Him?

What a guitar sound! Peerless stuff from the Rorster.