Category: A’s Track of the Day

From German TV in 1983. Leo’s either miming or something strange has happened to the film. And here’s the first version, by the great Lefty Frizzell.

Fifteen-minute 1970 live preview of the album title track, recorded shortly before Jim ‘Nic-Nic’ Morrison’s death in Paris the following July.

Lovely slice of autobiography from the Loudster.

Another geographical selection from Randall S Newman, this one from his 1977 LP Little Criminals. And here’s a curio – Nina Simone doing a reggae version the following year.

This is from his eponymous 1972 debut solo album. ‘In Berlin, by the wall, you were five foot ten inches tall. It was very nice. Candlelight and Dubonnet on ice.’ … Continue readingLou Reed: Berlin

From the lovely 2005 album Illinois. I love the way he rhymes everything with Decatur. And here’s a live version from 2010.

The human Easter Island statue: Thinnest lips in showbiz coupled with a mighty haircut.

Wacky 1980 clip included mainly for Kate Pierson’s amazing barnet. Reminds me of Katey Sagal as Peg Bundy in the great sitcom Married, With Children.

I featured this one, which shows how the amazing Rachel is a whiz on guitar as well as keyboards, when I put Frank Zappa’s Overnite Sensation in the list of … Continue readingRachel Flowers and Zappa Plays Zappa: Montana

Songfacts says: Barrytown is a town in upstate New York near Annandale, where Donald Fagen and Walter Becker went to school at Bard College. Strange things have happened there indeed. … Continue readingSteely Dan: Barrytown