Dr Feelgood: If My Baby Quits Me/Down at the Doctor’s
From Lee Brilleaux’s last gig, fittingly on Canvey Island, a few weeks before he died in 1994. RIP, mate.
Author: Alan Ashworth
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Grobschnitt: Vater Schmidt’s Wandertag
Welcome back to the Kraut proggers, live here in 1978. I have to say the keyboards player doesn’t look well at all – he’s terribly pale and those bags around … Continue readingGrobschnitt: Vater Schmidt’s Wandertag
The peerless Peter Kay
WHAT do the comedians Jimmy Carr, Ricky Gervais, Jack Whitehall, Joe Lycett, Michael McIntyre, John Bishop, Alan Carr, Russell Howard and Jon Richardson have in common? They are all ‘more influential’ than … Continue readingThe peerless Peter Kay
Bert Jansch: Bogie’s Bonny Belle
One of the great traditional songs, also memorably performed by Richard Thompson among many others. Here Bert is joined by Rod Clements, a founder member of Lindisfarne.
Bert Jansch: Riverbank
Another selection from Bert at the BBC: Here he is joined by Johnny Marr and Bernard Butler in 2000. Sorry about the oleaginous Jools Holland.
Bert Jansch: Blues Run The Game
From an exhaustive, eight-hour-plus compilation of Bert’s BBC performances which is repetitive but well worth exploring.
Van Dyke Parks: Ocapella
Back to Trinidad for this Allen Toussaint cover from 1972’s magnificent Discover America.
Bob Dylan: Abandoned Love
One of my favourite Dylan songs, and to think it was dropped from the 1975 Desire album to make way for the somewhat dreary Joey. It did not emerge until … Continue readingBob Dylan: Abandoned Love
The Esso Trinidad Steel Band: Aquarium
Last one from the Esso boys – a lovely version of Saint Saens’s tune from his hit album Carnival of the Animals.
Two phobias for the price of one
FOR most of my life I have suffered from vertigo and claustrophobia, both of which can be traced to the same fortnight in 1970. In the summer of our fourth … Continue readingTwo phobias for the price of one