Bridget St John: Love Minus Zero, No Limit
Speaking of Dylan covers, here’s a personal favourite from Bridget’s 1972 album Thank You For.
Author: Alan Ashworth
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The wonder of Worthington
IT IS more than 43 years since Frank Worthington scored a goal of such brilliance that people talk about it still. I’d be fibbing if I claimed to have been … Continue readingThe wonder of Worthington
Jerry Garcia: Positively 4th Street
Suggested by reader Patrick Dearsley as an example of a great cover version of a Dylan song. Thanks, Patrick.
Todd Rundgren: Hello It’s Me
One of Todd’s finest songs from the early 70s. What a strange chap he was and is – still with us at 74.
Lou Reed and John Cale: Hello It’s Me
One of the more affecting tracks from the pair’s tribute album to Andy Warhol, Songs For Drella.
Frank Zappa/Mothers: Magdalena
Everyday story of Montreal maple syrup manufacturer with sexual designs on his teenage daughter. From the 1971 live album Just Another Band From LA.
Our tumbling lapwings
WHEN we lived in God’s own county, Essex, more than 30 years ago, we used to see flocks and flocks of lapwings, but I very rarely see them in Lancashire, … Continue readingOur tumbling lapwings
Jeff Beck: Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers
RIP Jeff, the man even more Spinal than the Tap, and I mean that in an admiring way. Here he is back in 2007 and still in his prime. /
Gillian Welch: By The Mark
Hard-core religion from the Gillster, assisted by David Rawlings and Ricky Skaggs. ‘I will know my Saviour when I come to him, by the mark where the nails have been.’
France without tears
I HAVE never regretted for one second moving back up north after a 30-year stretch in Fleet Street (OK, Kensington High Street for most of the time). Who could pine … Continue readingFrance without tears