I got rid of my turntable and LPs about 30 years ago. I have thought about vinyl often, but no way was I buying new hifi. I already have a(30 year old) mini hifi and a couple of Denon cd players so I have enough. […]

Thanks! I will investigate. I have investigated. HMV want £60 for the vinyl. I will wait.

Not an unusual cover as such. 10,000 Maniacs and David Byrne doing ‘Let The Mystery Be’ by Iris Dement. I was delighted to come across this, as I’m a fan of all three. I have the 10,000 Maniacs Unplugged cd but […]

Is it not possible to contact the newspaper and ask for prints? Many years ago, when I worked for an oil company, we went on strike. The photographer caught me, leading the strikers, marching along the road. I […]

I can’t read it unfortunately.

I always thought ‘One Eye Fiona’ was about her………mostly anyway…..and in a nice way. Fiiona/Fiona is her middle name.

Thanks for all that KFD and duco! One of my very favourite artists of all time. He was playing Edinburgh last night, but sadly I can’t get to gigs anymore. Unfortunately, no reviews online yet. I first saw […]

Thanks for that. I had a listen at lunchtime. Absolutely nothing new if you’re a fan, and I can’t imagine any casual listener rushing out to buy his music after listening. A tiny bit of his history and a few […]

With Dwight Yoakam.

YouTube is a great place. If it’s songs he wants to learn, there are covers of everything. If he wants to be Stevie Ray Vaughan, there are tons of lessons on scales etc that’ll bore him to death, but if he […]

As you both probably know, he’s spent the last 20 years or so making music for the movies. Also, as you know, he’s had multiple issues with his health. eg 3 knee operations. Has he got 3 knees? I finished his […]

I missed Lyle Lovett twice too. Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh the first time. I think it was with his large band too. 9/11 was the reason for cancelling. Covid the second time. Small band, again in Edinburgh. I […]

In the Randy Newman biography, Robert Christgau (the Dean of American rock critics) wrote “‘A Few Words In Defence Of Our Country’ vies with James Mcmurtry’s ‘We Can’t Make It Here’ as the greatest protest song […]

Randy Newman wrote ‘Lonely At TheTop’ for Sinatra too. He didn’t want it either.

I saw her supporting Billy Bragg too. Usher Hall, Edinburgh. Probably the same tour, but I can’t remember what year. I remember her saying something along the lines of her bush being more useful than the one in […]

My favourite Lightfoot song to play on guitar is ‘Early Morning Rain ‘. Guitar tuned to drop D, capo on fret 3(same as Gordon) and it’s D,G,A and Em. The difficult part is the strumming pattern as he fairly […]

Do you know who the song ‘Sundown’ is about? It’s about Cathy Smith, who was Lightfoot’s girlfriend at the time. (I think she was a girlfriend of the stars type of person). She was always out on the town with […]

‘You and me, sitting on a bus, on the front seat at the top. Watching the people who don’t look like us, and going way past our stop. Travelling everywhere, we got no money but what do we care. You and me, […]

I remember Don Draper drinking ‘old fashioned’ which I had never heard of and didn’t really pay any attention to, until we went to the Johnnie Walker experience in Edinburgh and it was on the menu. Black Label […]

I liked the film. Anyway, I think the song is very similar to ‘Days Like This’. I haven’t put my guitar on it but it sounds like the same chord structure and rhythm, tempo maybe up slightly. Anyone else notice?