Category: A’s Track of the Day

Wonderful piece from the 2005 Michigan album. The beginning reminds me of Beaver and Krause.

Twenty-four years after it appeared on the classic Doolittle album, a live retread sounding great as ever.

By way of reparation for my sacrilege of the other day re Wild Horses, here’s a much-viewed clip from 1968. Wyman as exciting as ever.

Another whizzo selection from the excellent Richard Thompson tribute album Beat The Retreat.

By way of a tribute to our friend Garry Barker, a Kent journalist who loved The Clash and wrote an authorised biography of the band. He died last week, aged … Continue readingThe Clash: I Fought The Law

From the just-released Zappa ’88: The Last U.S. Show. Not the best version of The Black Page but a must-listen all the same. And as a bonus, the theme from … Continue readingFrank Zappa: The Black Page

I’ll be tarred and feathered as a heretic, but I actually prefer this to the Stones’ version. There, I’ve said it.

From his 1976 album Havana Daydreamin’, a sweet cover of the Jesse Winchester song.

From their fun first album, when they were more punk than pop. As I wrote here, https://am-records.com/2019/06/03/gentlemen-prefer-blondie/ I saw them in 1977 and they were great.

Musically, this is a tribute to Jackson Browne’s These Days but lyrically it’s quite different. A lovely performance from Jason and fiddler Amanda Shires. This is from the excellent 2013 … Continue readingJason Isbell: Different Days