Category: Off the Beaten Tracks

WELL, folks, after three years of music columns, we come to the end of my 100 favourite albums. If you missed any, they are all available here. Let me repeat, once … Continue readingMy Top Five

I HAD planned this to be the final instalment of my list of favourite albums but enjoyed revisiting them so much that my keyboard ran away with me. So here … Continue readingMy Top 100 Part Ten

HERE we are then, sailing stately as a galleon into my 20 favourite albums of all time. 20 Robin and Barry Dransfield: The Rout of the Blues (1970) This was the subject of … Continue readingMy top 100 Part 9

30 Steely Dan: Pretzel Logic (1974) ON this, their third LP, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen set out to combine the conventional short pop-song format with the complexities of their beloved jazz. They … Continue readingMy favourite albums Part 8

JUST to reiterate, I am saying not that these are the best albums of all time, but those which have given me, myself, personally, the most pleasure. 40 Nick Lowe: Quiet Please: … Continue readingMy Top 100 Part 7

SOME readers have remarked that my selections seem heavily biased towards America. I don’t know about that – half of today’s ten are British. We start, however, with a Yank. … Continue readingMy top 100 Part 6

I HAVE to say I’m greatly enjoying this trawl through the columns of the last three years. Here we are almost half way through. 60 Kathleen Edwards: Back to Me (2005) I wrote … Continue readingMy Top 100 Part 5

TEN more of the albums that have given me most pleasure. If you missed any of the three previous instalments, you can find  them here. And for the reader who complained last … Continue readingMy Top 100 Part 4

THANKS for your positive response to Part 2 last week. Here goes with ten more of my personal favourites from the last half century or so. 80 Iris DeMent: Infamous Angel (1992) It was in March … Continue readingMy top 100 – Part 3

AS I stressed in Part One last week, this list is a purely personal choice and does NOT claim to include the greatest records of all time, rather those that I have … Continue readingMy Top 100 – Part Two