Category: A’s Track of the Day

I think it’s fair to say that there’s nobody else in the world with a sound quite like this.

Magical banjo and vocals turn from the 2005 concept album Come On Feel The Illinoise, part of Sufjan’s short-lived project to record an LP for each and every state of … Continue readingSufjan Stevens: Decatur

Brilliant title track from the 2012 album by the Drive By Truckers’ former frontman, played live.

Live version of a song from the band’s marvellous eponymous 1998 album.

So much of its time, and vying for the title of least photogenic band in the world, a track from 1971. A toffee apple to anyone who can name the … Continue readingMountain: Don’t Look Around

This is a new discovery. I think I’m going to like BG-C very much.

Apart from being such a good comedian (see yesterday) Capstick was also no mean singer. Here he joins Burland and Gaughan on a song by that great class warrior Ewan … Continue readingDave Burland, Tony Capstick, Dick Gaughan: Shoals of Herring

What a genuinely funny man Tony Capstick was. He got fired from local radio in South Yorkshire after suggesting that sex shops in the mining area sold inflatable pit ponies. … Continue readingTony Capstick: Capstick Comes Home

Utterly bizarre. Can’t imagine for one minute that drugs were involved.

With a slightly deranged edge that was Cale’s trademark, here’s a great track from the 1975 album Helen of Troy. Love the juxtaposition of soaring female voices and Chris Spedding’s … Continue readingJohn Cale: My Maria