T Texas Tyler: Dad Gave My Dog Away
The saddest story ever told? This tearjerker from TTT went to number ten in the country charts in 1948.
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John Mayall: Medicine Man
I AM not any sort of expert on blues, but I love this one. It’s on Blues From Laurel Canyon (1968), Mayall’s first album after splitting with the Bluesbreakers the same year. … Continue readingJohn Mayall: Medicine Man
Warren Zevon: Numb As A Statue
Zevon on vocals, David Lindley on lap steel, what’s not to like? From Wozza’s 2003 farewell album The Wind.
The Adventures of PC 49
MANY of us remember Dixon of Dock Green on TV, in which Jack Warner played the oldest copper on earth. But he was not the BBC’s first bobby on the … Continue readingThe Adventures of PC 49
Robert Mosley: Goodbye My Lover, Goodbye
THERE’S a bit of a fog about the details of this. For a start I can’t pin down if the name is Mosley or Mosely. It appeared as Mosley on … Continue readingRobert Mosley: Goodbye My Lover, Goodbye
Little Feat: Over the Edge
A CORKER from the odds-and-sods album Hoy-Hoy, released two years after the death of the irreplaceable Lowell George. https://am-records.com/2018/11/05/pipe-down-elton-we-cant-hear-lowell-george/
Mike Berry: Don’t You Think It’s Time/Loneliness
WRITTEN by Joe Meek and Geoff Goddard, Don’t You Think It’s Time reached No 6 in the UK chart in January 1963. It was one of my very early singles purchases. I … Continue readingMike Berry: Don’t You Think It’s Time/Loneliness
Sonic Youth: Total Trash
NOT my usual sort of thing, I’ll agree, but good fun none the less. From the 1991 album Daydream Nation.
Don Gibson/The Searchers: Sea of Heartbreak
THIS was written by Hal David and Paul Hampton, and released by Don Gibson in 1961. It reached No 21 in America and 14 in Britain. The Searchers recorded it … Continue readingDon Gibson/The Searchers: Sea of Heartbreak
The Cakes of Wrath
FOR 40 years, the good ladies of the Women’s Institute have been washing their hands and putting on their pinnies to bake cakes and biscuits for the terminally ill patients … Continue readingThe Cakes of Wrath