The great badger debate
IN MY piece on skylarks last week I said that they are in decline and that the RSPB and British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) attribute this to changes in farming … Continue readingThe great badger debate
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Adam Faith: The Time Has Come
This was written by Les Vandyke, a regular collaborator with Adam Faith. It went to No 4 in 1961. It also featured in the film What a Whopper: I cannot pin … Continue readingAdam Faith: The Time Has Come
Duane Allman & Boz Scaggs: Loan Me A Dime
Sheer class from 1969.
Chris Farlowe: Ride on Baby
This was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and produced by Jagger. It was released in October 1966. Despite its pedigree it got to only No 31 in Britain … Continue readingChris Farlowe: Ride on Baby
Linda Ronstadt: He Darked the Sun
Recommended by reader John Lewis, for which many thanks.
Through the Night of Doubt and Sorrow
I HAVE written a few times about the shameful closure of churches at the very moment when they were most needed, so I was pleased to see this article in … Continue readingThrough the Night of Doubt and Sorrow
Curtis Mayfield: Dirty Laundry
Live version of the country-soul classic from the Eighties.
I’m rich (again)
I HAD always assumed that the emails one receives, usually from Nigeria, offering a share in a multi-million-pound fortune on condition of supplying one’s bank details were the product of … Continue readingI’m rich (again)
Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings: When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings
Yesterday we saw them performing in a caff. Today they’re all dolled up for the 2019 Oscars, with the song they wrote for the Coen Brothers film The Ballad of … Continue readingGillian Welch and Dave Rawlings: When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings
Michael Nesmith, country heir
THE description ‘laid back’ could have been invented for Michael Nesmith. He turned up to an audition for the Monkees on his motorbike carrying his dirty laundry in a sack … Continue readingMichael Nesmith, country heir