……and, as for the gig…

…..we saw them in Kinross, and I didn’t write a ‘nights out’ piece, because I didn’t really think they were all that great together. I have seen Rab many times, and the 2 I have […]

I like it. Because I play acoustic guitar and sing(as a hobby), folks like Rab are an inspiration to me. Beating cancer, laughing about it in song(defiantly) and the way he and others just keep going amazes […]

Bought plenty old, but only 8 new it seems, and almost all of them are by ancient artists. I don’t really do new cds by new(to me) artists.

Neil Young – Tonight’s The Night Live
Dawes – Passwords
John Hiatt […]

There’s a new(old) Neil Young just out, and Broooce is releasing stuff from his acoustic residency in New York soon. They’re both AW friendly I think. Certainly bigstevie friendly.

I almost agree totally. Reading your earlier post, I was surprised that you hadn’t included gospel when mentioning Ry’s latest, as that’s the genre probably where I would put it.

Certainly not in my top 10 for […]

In our schools, grade 5 jazz was as high as he could go. Up to 8 in normal(?) sax though. He had a fantastic tutor(the bloke played and toured for a couple of years with Shooglenifty) but lost him when he moved to […]

My son learned on an alto, and uses it and a tenor in the various bands he plays in. The Wedding, by Abdullah Ibrahim that I posted above was one of the early pieces he learned. Nothing flashy or difficult in the […]

The world saxophone congress was held in St. Andrews in 2012. My son was part of it, so we were there. There was a Guinness world record made, I think, when hundreds of them played a tune on the stage. My wee boy […]

No reference either to the Netflix original of ‘Surviving Twin’ which is a Loudon Wainwright III show. I don’t have Netflix so haven’t seen it.

This is the reason I come here……c’mon folks, keep up.

This is happy, but always has me in tears.

With Amy Allison for extra guitar/vocals, when she’s not with her other guitar playing quartet of Rigby, Winehouse and Macdonald.

I was at a wedding on Saturday. There was a dj(disco?) at the reception. I had never heard any of the first 9 songs played before, and was pretty amazed at watching folks of a similar age to me, dancing and […]

It probably all started with blues music.

e.g. woke up this morning with the blues running around in my head
woke up this morning with the blues running around in my head

I was listening to a Big […]

In the book Sunset Song, a young lad goes mad in the trenches, and is convinced he can hear his wife calling for him. He walks towards her voice, but away from the fighting, and, gets the firing squad for […]

Mair steam McPhail!

I would bet that duco doesn’t know what ‘The Weedge’ is either, and if not, I’ll leave it to you to explain.

The bad news is, that it can last a lifetime. At the moment, you’re in pain, but that’ll go away, and you certainly don’t want it to become chronic.

I had a semi manual job, and I was over 6’4″. I started […]

Good man Feedback!

That’s you, me and Lando Cakes in the Marra fan club. Possibly pencilsqueezer too.

He’d be chuffed!

Never seen REK but have a few of his cds. Has he ever toured here? Such humour in songs like ‘Merry Christmas To The Family’. Is he a redneck, or taking the piss, or something in between?

To me, Lyle is the […]

Lovely!

signed
Jealous in Edinburgh