Category: A’s Track of the Day

The missus has already featured this great song but here’s a great live version I’ve just come across. Hard to believe that Paul Rodgers was only 21 at the time.

As the years go by I love this band more and more. This is from their brilliant 1995 album Glow.

Unlike the band, His Bobness eschews the mask for this lovely lockdown version of the song from Highway 61 Revisited.

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More lovely stuff from the early June Tabor catalogue. Nice illustrations too.

Vocals from a young, still unpretentious June Tabor and percussive guitar from Martin Carthy. And a story to bring tears to your eyes. .

One of the most beautiful traditional songs of all thyme (sorry!)

Apparently filmed during a Mediterranean cruise in 2019. Suppose it made a change from cabaret and bingo.

From a New York charity concert in 1983. Watch out for the violin bow at the end.

My favourite track from the `1972 folk supergroup. Wonderful harmonies between Sandy Denny and Linda Peters, the future Mrs Thompson. And here’s one they made earlier.