A compendium of musical delights by Alan and Margaret Ashworth
Following on from yesterday’s That Reminds Me, commencing a short season of songs about smoking. This is a live version of the track from 1974’s Paradise and Lunch. Picture quality … Continue readingRy Cooder: Fool for a Cigarette
Another superb selection of film clips to accompany a Thorogood boozing song and end our musical pub crawl. It’s been fun (hic!)
You and me both, Billingtons.
‘I’m on my seventh cold glass of gin’. Good going, Mr Oldham. From the 2006 album The Letting Go.
Rodders vocalises on this late sixties hit, with Beck on guitars, Ronnie Wood on bass and Micky Waller, drums.
Some great movie clips to go with this further selection from Mr Thorogood.
Another suggestion from the eminent Wilkologist Andy Marshall. Johnson’s percussive guitar is all over this selection from Farren’s 1978 LP Vampires Stole My Lunch Money.
Thirty-odd years after the song appeared on the Bright Lights album, Thompson plays it live, ably assisted by Loudon Wainwright III and Suzanne Vega.
From his eponymous album on A & M Records (no relation) released in 1972. I taped this from the John Peel programme at the time and must have played it … Continue readingRab Noakes: Drunk Again
I wasn’t keen on The Slide Area when it came out in 1982, but the guitar on this clip is jes’ fine.