I saw a few bats a couple of weeks ago. That was the first time I had seen any for years. They used to be a regular sight in the twilight sky in our part of north London 20 years ago.
Was hopeful that I’d see […]

I have trotted this one out before, but it is due for an airing as it must be five years since I last mentioned it.
On the song Hello Hello on Caravan’s If I Could Do It All Over Again… album, they employ a […]

That track sounds petty good, loaded with Byrds and CSN influences.
I looked at their website and the gig diary and note they are listed as playing at Birmingham University on February 7th 1976, but my memory is […]

There is much to mull over above.
With my wife being a bit older than me, she was keen that I retired sooner rather than later, which I did two and a half years ago.
Her view is we’re both healthy at present and […]

She posted that herself last year on FB (or maybe the year before), when her own son was leaving for University.

Welcome Smat, you’re in the very place to join the mission to find the answer to a deep philosophical question Chuck Prophet has frequently asked Who put the ram in the Rama-lama-ding-dong?

While I have been aware of Michael Chapman since my schooldays, (Peel used to play him fairly regularly) I had never really listened to him until a few years back when I went to see Ben Watt when he was promoting […]

Hawkwind Light Orchestra – Carnivorous?
No, that’s completely over my head.

I shall look out for it.
Thanks @Mike_H, but I think I’ll go with the version which will look better on TV.

It was Howard Hawks who called Chandler and his question was about The Big Sleep.
Apparently Humphrey Bogart first noticed the gap in the plot and asked; Who killed the chauffeur?.
I believe Chandler admitted to […]

It seems strange to change her stage name after all these years.
I always thought Oh Susanna was a strange choice of name – it seemed so anonymous and not likely to attract any sort of significant following. But […]

4 – The Truth About The Harry Quebert Affair by Joël Dicker

I read it, my wife the read it, she bought it for people for birthdays and almost everyone loved it.
Multi-layered story centred around the death of […]

That seems conclusive. We can’t argue with the artist’s testimony.

@SteveT and I discussed this at the time of release and concluded between us that the solo was not Duke but Ethan Johns.

BTW is Chaplin the result of effing spell checker or your amusing variation on her name?

My copy of the Harper volume arrived today.
I haven’t read very much of it, but I thought for anyone who considers themselves a Harper fan it’s thin gruel.
The piece on These Fifty Years for example, which I did […]

Our copy arrived yesterday.
I agree with all that Boneshaker says.
His non-Nashville mainstream career has produced a series of gems – the brightest of which is Fate’s Right Hand

Seconded.

Here for @NigelT and @Biggles are the identities of my dozen songs.

1 – Steve Miller Band – Brave New World from the album of the same name

2 – Kim Richey – Cowards In A Brave New World from her album […]

Not so much a tip as a comment: not too long after starting a new job, around 2004 I was talking about music with a co-worker. When I was less than enthusiastic about his liking for Jamie Cullum, he suggested that […]

I have written a piece on Dean Owens that is up there and I have submitted a Top 10 for Blue Rodeo which should be appearing there in the next few days.
Thanks for for pointing me towards it Dave.