I’m a big fan of Bonnie Raitt. Always have been, from long before her eventual break through, the one heralded, I guess by the song that e...

  purchase [ get it ] At the time (early 70s), ELP was big. Their 1977 US tour was notable for its size as they went on the road with an or...

 Is this purely a UK thing, I wonder, with pirate radio a real nostalgia trip for anyone of a specific vintage? (Yup, I do mean old. Boomer....

Lambchop : National Talk Like A Pirate Day [ purchase ]  I’ve probably mentioned here that since 2017, I’ve been the secretary for my coll...

 Captain Hook aside, is there a greater pirate than Long John? I think not and am not even going to bothered if any dullard mentions Depp an...

  purchase [ A Little Less Conversation   ] I particularly like a good cover. To the extent that more than once, I have shone a light on mus...

 [ purchase ] When she was fifteen years old, Eva Boyd moved from North Carolina to Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, and worked as a maid and occas...

Who can forget it, the snarl and the spat out words, as the youthful Elvis Costello gave his commentary on right wing political ideology. Or...

  purchase [ The Philosophy of Modern Song ] If you use Amazon as your guide to the number of books Bob Dylan has written, you'll end u...

Musician? Yeah, I know, but the problem with this theme is a need to have read the books in question, and the reading of a book requires a h...

Robert Hunter Stories about the Grateful Dead, as with any number of other bands, often relate events that are wild, outrageous and salaciou...

Josh Ritter : Southern Pacifica [ purchase ]  Not every great songwriter is a great writer, and not every great writer is a great songwrit...

The mythological lure of the road has long attracted attention in way more than just musical memes. We’ll get to that in due course, but it ...

Lynyrd Skynyrd : What’s Your Name? [ purchase ]  Growing up in the 1970s, as I did, the life of a rock musician seemed pretty fucking cool...

Less on, more been, my excuse is down to the scourge of IT. (Others may vary.) As far as I’m concerned, the IT superhighway can go take one....

Funny how it all comes round. I used to rant against this song back in the day. As a dyed in the wool afficianado of the original Lindisfarn...

Actually, as the avid trainspotters will already have conjectured, and loudly, it is the other way around, it is Chant No.1 (We Don't Ne...

  purchase [ Dare ] There was an article in The Guardian the other day about the influence of the C64 (that would be the mid 1980s Commodor...

purchase [ White Album ] When it appears at the start of a sentence, don’t is a command - as opposed to its use mid-sentence, where it is mo...