Patti Smith: Summer Cannibals
Most of Patti ‘Unpretentious’ Smith’s work leaves me cold but she occasionally hits the spot, as with this selection from 1996.
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The Everly Brothers: So It Always Will Be
This one is a bit of a puzzle. This is the version I remember as a single on Warner Bros in 1963: But there is an alternate (not so good) … Continue readingThe Everly Brothers: So It Always Will Be
German cuisine: An apology
WHEN writing Tuesday’s piece about German food, I was confident it was so exaggerated that no one could possibly take it seriously. And indeed hundreds of readers gave it the thumbs-up, Teutons … Continue readingGerman cuisine: An apology
Elliott Smith: The Rose Parade
Superb song from the 1997 album Either/Or. Smith died in 2003, aged 34, from two stab wounds to the chest. The autopsy failed to determine whether he had been murdered … Continue readingElliott Smith: The Rose Parade
Tammy Wynette: Stand By Your Man
This was written by Wynette and Billy Sherrill, and released in September 1968. It was her most successful single, topping the US country chart and reaching No 19 in the … Continue readingTammy Wynette: Stand By Your Man
Jesse Winchester: Defying Gravity
Lovely song from the 1974 LP Learn To Love It. Also covered two years later by Jimmy Buffett.
Joe Brown: What a Crazy World
Because it’s my birthday (first, since you ask) I’ve been given dispensation to do an extra track on top of my weekly submission. These lyrics are probably the best ever … Continue readingJoe Brown: What a Crazy World
Robert Wyatt: Yesterday Man
A cover of the Chris Andrews hit, this was Robert’s 1974 follow-up to his successful single I’m A Believer. I think the brass section (Gary Windo and Mongezi Feza) makes … Continue readingRobert Wyatt: Yesterday Man
German food: What we’ll be missing
JUST in case you thought Project Fear could be ratcheted up no further, here comes another devastating warning. The Germans have threatened that their food producers might stop exporting to the … Continue readingGerman food: What we’ll be missing
Genesis – when Prog ruled the Earth
OUR destination this week is the Land of Prog – a magical country whose population includes a woman in evening gown with the head of a fox, blood-drinking snakes and … Continue readingGenesis – when Prog ruled the Earth