Rab Noakes is a cancer survivor. He tells of his troubles on stage, then usually quips “at least I got a couple of songs out of it”.

I know you’re an author Colin and check things properly, but is it not Shreveport?

Famous for Leadbelly and Louis Armstrong.

Tom Waits has a song called Fannin Street, and though he says it’s in Houston, […]

60 ain’t old……pal!

Steve Earle – So You Wanna Be An Outlaw

edit…..just found Mary Gauthier – The Foundling

They’re playing at a little festival in Falkirk, this coming weekend, unless of course, they’ve cancelled it.

Is it possible to rip the whole cd as 1 track, then split it into individual tracks? You certainly could do that with mp3 software, as I vaguely remember doing this sort of thing ripping audiobooks.

Grasshopper was one of the few pre-recorded cassette tapes I had. I wonder if anyone else had it, as I seem to remember that it had the whole album on each side of the tape. Can’t remember any others like that.

Is there anything actually in Ballachulish? We’ve stayed at the Ballachulish Hotel a couple of times. It’s under the bridge, outside of the town, in the middle of nowhere, and it’s not possible to walk anywhere. […]

When we went over the bridge(both ways) there were dozens, maybe 100, folks on the hillside waiting for photo ops. Luckily it wasn’t raining.

I was in Fort William last year. First time for about 20 years…..probably nearer 30 actually.

My other half got us a trip on The Jacobite steam train, from Fort William to Mallaig, for my birthday.

The train […]

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You have to listen to the Marra/McFalls Chamber album in the correct order KFD. I don’t use Spotify, so I don’t know how they present it. It’s a live album, and most of the songs have spoken intros, and I […]

When I last read about his acoustic guitars, he was playing Loudens. Beautiful things, some of them at exorbitant prices. Made in Ireland I think.

Posts farther down don’t seem to have a reply button…….anyway, you’re all reminding me of this album and I probably haven’t played it for 10 years.

Scratching my head to think, but I remember it being […]

I’m so horny, the crack of dawn better look out! …..or something like that.

Wonderful album. So original….but surely not better than everything else he’s done?

Could she wrestle, and do Elvis impersonations?

Sounds great. I wish some folks would do something similar where I am.

The original Heartworn Highways is worth seeking out. The footage is a documentary of almost unknown (at the time) artists. Mostly it plays […]

Worry makes me physically ill. It raises my stress levels and causes high blood pressure, IBS etc.
I know I can’t change anything, so I just read about it and then get on with my life.

Here was me thinking it was a New Year Resolution.

Hugh Jarse.

Errrr….oops….as you were.

I was at an open mic night on Monday, when this bloke said he was going to play a Tina Turner song called ‘Proud Mary’! FFS

Since you mention 50 year anniversaries…tomorrow is 3rd February. In 1969 that’s […]