Rory Gallagher: I Fall Apart
Another top tune from the Irishman in the lumberjack shirt.
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Clem Snide: Your Favourite Music
Via the tonsils of Loudon Wainwright soundalike Eef Barzelay, a choice clip from 2000. Great album sleeve, by the way.
An Audience with Van Der Graaf
THIS week I am fondly revisiting two bands with much in common. Both were unorthodox additions to the British progressive rock scene in the early Seventies, both were on the … Continue readingAn Audience with Van Der Graaf
Flaco Jimenez & Ry Cooder: La Bamba
I wouldn’t have thought Flaco was a fan of University Challenge, but here’s his tribute to its original and best quizmaster.
Powderfinger: Like a Dog
Atmospheric video from the Aussie rockers. Any band named after a classic Neil Young song can’t be all bad.
Browned off
IN A masterpiece of timing, after the fourth-wettest May on record the Royal Horticultural Society has told gardeners that they should not water their lawns but allow them to die back. … Continue readingBrowned off
Bill Fay: I Hear You Calling
Wistful selection from the singer ditched by Deram in the early Seventies, only to turn into a right cult decades later.
Can: Vier
From the brilliant new album Live In Stuttgart, 1975. The playing is top-notch, as you would expect from this mega-talented crew.
Jeff Beck/Eric Clapton: ‘Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers
Sublime stuff from the Crossroads Festival of 2004; Clappers drenched in sweat and the Beckster looking totally Spinal Tap.
Skids: Charles
New-wave blast from 1979 Dunfermline. I used to have this record on white vinyl. It sounded a lot better on my turntable than it does on the computer.