Category: A’s Track of the Day

Matt says: ‘Two great singers and one great tearjerker of a song from 1993.’

Matt says: ‘California country at its bleakest on this hit from 1961. Silence in court!’

Beginning a week-long season of classic duets chosen by my country guru Matt. He says: ‘The finest country singer of his generation recorded this with his wife not long before … Continue readingKeith Whitley and Lorrie Morgan: ‘Til a Tear Becomes a Rose

After several artists’ efforts at emulating Buckley, here’s a cover version of Tim’s own to end the series – the beautiful Fred Neil song performed live on the OGWT. Here’s … Continue readingTim Buckley: Dolphins

Couldn’t resist another version of the Buckley gem; this time by the Plantster, playing live for the 2000-ish TV series Storytellers.

An American indie take on the Happy Sad track, from the same tribute album as yesterday’s song by Cousteau.

From another Buckley tribute album, the London band’s version of the song from the 1970 LP Blue Afternoon.

From ‘Bleecker Street: Greenwich Village in the 1960s’, in which artists including the Hyndester reinterpret songs from the era. This of course is the last track from Goodbye and Hello.

Not sure about the gratuitous sax, but otherwise a cracking rendition of the Buckley tour de force from Goodbye and Hello.

A real curio, this. From his 2006 album Dust Bunnies, the former Turtles lead singer and the Eddie out of Frank Zappa’s 70s sidekicks Flo and Eddie (we are NOT … Continue readingHoward Kaylan: Pleasant Street