A last request
IN A recent email exchange with a knowledgeable country fan from Ballymoney, Co Antrim, I mentioned that I had just about run out of favourite artists to write about. Came … Continue readingA last request
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The Rolling Stones: Sympathy for the Devil
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.
Clarence ‘Gatemouth’ Brown: Alligator Eating Dog
Can’t beat a song that starts with a few woofs.
The name’s Bond . . .
ONCE or twice I have turned on the telly and caught the end of one of those programmes in which a hopeless old wreck of a car is turned into … Continue readingThe name’s Bond . . .
Bonnie Raitt: When The Spell is Broken
Another whizzo selection from the excellent Richard Thompson tribute album Beat The Retreat.
The Clash: I Fought The Law
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
Frank Zappa: The Black Page
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
The Sundays: Wild Horses
I’ll be tarred and feathered as a heretic, but I actually prefer this to the Stones’ version. There, I’ve said it.
Bobby Vee: Rubber Ball
This was co-written by Gene Pitney, under his mother’s maiden name of A (Anna) Orlowski, and Aaron Schroeder, while they were working at the Brill Building in New York. Bobby … Continue readingBobby Vee: Rubber Ball
Jimmy Buffett: Defying Gravity
From his 1976 album Havana Daydreamin’, a sweet cover of the Jesse Winchester song.