Neil Young: Terrorist Suicide Hang Gliders
Who could resist a title like that? From NY’s 2016 album Peace Trail.
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Sofia: North Country
Another Be Good Tanyas spin-off, Sofia released the album No Shame in 2007, from which this is taken. Confusingly, the record is also known as Unreleased, by Po’ Girl.
Eilen Jewell: Fading Memory
Eilen, 43, is from Boise, Idaho, and has made seven albums, with which I plan to make myself more familiar. This is from her 2009 collection, Sea of Tears.
Martha Scanlan: Seeds of the Pine
This little gem is from the Minnesota singer-songwriter’s 2007 album The West Was Burning. And here’s a live version from 2010 with Jon Neufeld, whom she had just met at … Continue readingMartha Scanlan: Seeds of the Pine
Jolie Holland and Samantha Parton: The Last
Great to see these founder members of the Be Good Tanyas back together. This is from their 2017 collection Wildflower Blues.
In Ted we trust
WHEN Liz Truss was Foreign Secretary before her calamitous spell as Prime Minister, the Whitehall gossip was that senior civil servants compared their problems in briefing her on overseas policy … Continue readingIn Ted we trust
Medicine Head: How Does It Feel?
One of the rockier selections from the hairy Dandelion stalwarts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NJrNjwmRIE
John Cale: Riverbank
From the early 1980s, and he’s still going strong.
Esso Trinidad Steel Band: If I Had the Wings (Like a Dove)
On a grey February day, what better than a glimpse of Caribbean sunshine?
The Velvet Underground: After Hours
The camera eventually manages to find Moe Tucker in this performance, probably some time in the 1990s.