Category: A’s Track of the Day

From the excellent 1975 album Pour Down Like Silver. Here’s a fairly recent live version by Richard on his own.

Shortly after this 1977 stadium gig in Oakland the band’s plane crashed, killing singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines and Steve’s sister Cassie, a backing vocalist.

A live version of the Byrds song covered on the 1980 album Flesh and Blood. And here’s the great Leo Kottke performing it three years earlier.

‘Every silver lining seems to have a cloud that comes my way.’

A bit commercial for my tastes but it’s a fun video from 2014. Viewed, I see, more than 106million times.

From the delightful 1972 collection Boomer’s Story. It was recorded by Bing Crosby almost 30 years earlier, during the war.

Following on from Joni’s Amelia, this is taken from the 1972 album In Search of Amelia Earhart. And here are Gillian Welch and Alison Krauss with their version from the … Continue readingPlainsong: I’ll Fly Away

‘Like Icarus ascending, on beautiful foolish arms’. Magical live version of one of the greatest songs ever written.

Fifty years after I first heard it, this still sends shivers down my back.

Featuring an extremely shaggy Rodular barnet, a live version from French TV.