The name of Stephen Bruton may be known to fewer than those who have heard his songs, and, if and when then, possibly when sung by others...

Rush : The Spirit of Radio [ purchase ] I’ve openly discussed my love of prog-rock in on this blog, so you might be surprised to disco...

I've wanted to do this post for a while, just waiting for the right opportunity, serendipity offering perhaps the least obvious way t...

purchase [ The album ] The following is all possibly "fake". How would you know? Yoko Ono is an artist? (True/False?) Y...

The Great American songbook is something that has me normally running for the hills, especially when utilised as a vehicle for ageing roc...

purchase [ Witch Fire ] Herbie Hancock? ... I had a vinyl copy of one of his albums way back at the end of 60's. It was so lon...

Rick Wakeman : Anne Boleyn 'The Day Thou Gavest Lord Hath Ended' [ purchase ] Today, we are going to debunk two myths. Firs...

Hole : Softer, Softest [ purchase ] I’ve written before about my admiration for Hole’s album Live Through This , and in that piece, I...

purchase [ Electric Ladyland ] because the whole album is one you should own if you are into owning your music When I think back on i...

'Charlatans UK', that is, one of those raggle taggle of bands having to append their country of origin to their name, at least in...

purchase [ Goodbye Stranger ] The longer SMM continues, the harder it gets to be original. Be it chosing a theme or nailing a song (ha...

I suppose there is some assumption that strange and weird are the same. Perhaps the easiest way to dispel that is with a substitution. The i...

Elvis Costello : Stranger In The House [ purchase the expanded My Aim Is True ] [ purchase My Very Special Guests ] I’m still being ...

Most of us when we think about power, we look at the outcome: heat, light, government. Let's now look briefly at the flip and the mess l...

purchase [ Broken Barricades ] There are probably few people on Earth who have never heard <A Whiter Shade of Pale> in some va...

Uncle Tupelo : Atomic Power [ purchase ] This is going to be one of those posts that tries to create a fusion of different things. L...

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I'm sort of sick of power at the moment, and, were you in the UK, you'd know why, with our parliament having to take our prime mi...

All the same thing, aren't they? All have hooves and tails, and the why-the-long-faces, so, yes, they must be. OK, I know, they aren...