The Welcome Wagon: Draw Nigh
Lovely clip from 2012’s Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices. Listening to this in the dark I was convinced it was Sufjan Stevens.
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John Martyn: One Day Without You
This shuffled up on my iPod last night, from the album Sunday’s Child, and I’m glad it did. Here’s a live version from Reading University in 1978.
Phil Spector: Spanish Harlem
Spector wrote this with Jerry Leiber and recorded it as a demo. I’m not sure what year. It was eventually released in 2006 on The Phil Spector Collectionalbum. The song was … Continue readingPhil Spector: Spanish Harlem
Neil Young: Needle of Death
Old Shakey’s version of the Bert Jansch classic. Don’t know who’s the worse whistler, Neil or me.
Billy Joel: For the Longest Time
I have said somewhere on this site that pop music ends for me in about 1972, but this number from the 1983 album An Innocent Man feels as if it is straight … Continue readingBilly Joel: For the Longest Time
Lucinda Williams: Sausage seller makes good
OUR subject this week was rejected in 1980s Nashville as being ‘too rock for country’ and in Los Angeles as being ‘too country for rock’. I don’t give a hoot … Continue readingLucinda Williams: Sausage seller makes good
Bill Frisell: Good Dog, Happy Man
Beautiful instrumental, title track of Frisell’s 11th album, which came out in 1999. Makes my tail wag.
Gram Parsons/Emmylou Harris: Hearts on Fire
Just discovered this alternative studio version of the weepie from Grievous Angel, recorded in 1973.
Gene Pitney: Backstage
One of the high drama numbers in which Pitney specialised. This one was written by Fred Anisfield and Willie Denson and released in 1966, reaching No 2 in America and … Continue readingGene Pitney: Backstage
The Melody Makers 3: Jerome Kern
This is the third in a weekly series celebrating the immense Jewish contribution to popular music over the last century. ACCORDING to a joint resolution passed by Congress, Jerome Kern … Continue readingThe Melody Makers 3: Jerome Kern