A compendium of musical delights by Alan and Margaret Ashworth
IN a recent column I described shamefacedly how I drove into a Lancashire ravine while drunk, and that brought back memories of a hair-raising yet oft-repeated trip to the Timanfaya National Park … Continue readingA ride through lava land
IF it is possible to have a least favourite plant, mine is bracken. And I will be seeing a lot more of it before long, because when ‘rewilding’ comes to … Continue readingWith fronds like these, who needs enemies?
Title track of her 1991 album and one of the best of her later songs.
Having been in this position many times when I was lodging in West Ken, I find this resonates.
Live in London, 1971. Keef swigs from a bottle of something that’s not lemonade, and orft we go.
I HAVE written previously about some of the wonderful and talented people I worked with in Fleet Street, including Gordon Greig, Lynda Lee-Potter, Nigel Dempster and Keith Waterhouse. Obviously, the Daily Mail also had its share of … Continue readingHeroes and villains of Fleet Street
Colvin sings Tom Waits – a fine combination indeed. From her 1993 covers album.
From his debut album in 1970, Ry’s rattling version of the Blind Willie Johnson classic.
From Brucie’s 1972 debut album Greetings From Asbury Park NJ, this was a late addition after Columbia Records chief Clive Davis deemed the other songs not commercial enough, and marked … Continue readingBruce Springsteen: Spirit in the Night
STONE walls are very common round here, some of them proper traditional dry stone, some with a bit of mortar in the centre and some with mortar throughout, like a … Continue readingWithin these walls