Category: A’s Track of the Day

What a lovely player Les Harvey was. Two years after this performance he was electrocuted in front of 1,000 fans at the Top Rank in Swansea when he touched a … Continue readingStone the Crows: Danger Zone

As I might possibly have mentioned before, this is my favourite Matthews song, better even than Biloxi (which is a Jesse Winchester cover version). Beautiful piano by Keith Tippett.

One of my favourite tracks from June and Maddy’s sublime first album together. Those harmonies!

Union Station – always understated, always flawless playing. Saw them back in the 90s and it was the only concert I ever attended which actually started on time.

Recorded live in Montreux in 2004, some 32 years after it was written and performed by Timmy Thomas.

One of the greatest songs of all time, here performed live in California early this century. And here’s the Walker Brothers’ version.

Live in Glasgow, 2013, one of the late John Peel’s favourite singers with good reason. /

Continuing the contemplative mood, here’s a track from the renowned draft-dodger’s 1974 LP Learn To Love It. And here’s a much-later live version with Jimmy Buffett and the legendary Allen … Continue readingJesse Winchester: Mississippi You’re On My Mind

This is a recently released demo version of the song which appeared on the lovely 1995 album Glow.

A live clip from 1989. What a lovely sound he got from that guitar.