And here’s a slower groove:

Dan’s storming playing on Duffy Power’#s 1965 version of ‘Little Boy Blue’, with John McLaughlin (guitar) and Red Reece (drums). (There was a 1966 version with McLaughlin, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker.) As Alexis […]

If the Rejects’ ‘Oi! Oi! Oi!’ album was de-mixed and reassembled into surround sound by AI software, would they rebrand it ‘Ai! Ai! Ai!’…? And would there be a demand for a Dolby Atmos Cockney Rejects […]

What do Cockney Rejects and Sham connoisseurs favour, I wonder?

I don’t think everyone has realised I was joking.

The Beatles: Popular: Revolver Connoisseur: Yellow Submarine

Yes – I think it’s forgotten how big they were, and how unusually ‘wide’ their appeal – in the US they could play underground rock venues, colleges, folk festivals and Carnegie Hall; on radio/TV in the UK they […]

Pentangle (though both are terrific): Popular: Basket of Light (1969) Connoisseur: Sweet Child (1968)

Little-know fact – Glen Matlock’s first concert was the Pentangle at the RAH. Maybe even the one you were at (they played there a few times). The greatest filmed Pentangle concert is one filmed in B&W in 1969 […]

It is, I concede, a favourite word. I saw the sublime Martin Hayes tonight in Belfast. You mention Emmylou – I saw Martin Hayes & Emmylou play double header at CC in 1997 or thereabouts. I reviewed it in a […]

It might be legendary.

Fighting talk, Vulpmeister… I’m off to see Martin Hayes at Belfast Grand Opera House tonight – a different sort of restorative! But I daresay we’ll have a whisky after the show. 🙂

Well, if only you knew the angst over the last couple of days around a spreadsheet error (173 additional people, hidden deep in an opaque Kickstarter spreadsheet, expecting delivery of a Kickstarter ‘extra’ item […]

Arlo Guthrie’s James Taylor homage ‘Gabriel’s Mother’s Highway Ballad #16 Blues’. Who knows what the title is about… but it’s a masterpiece.

Sales link here, with full box set contents listed: January 18 tribute show booking here:

You’ll not be surprised to hear that I like it. On the matter of ‘group compositions’, Pentangle didn’t really co-compose after the first couple of albums. ‘People on the Highway’ is pure Bert, as is ‘Jump Baby […]

🙂

HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY, YABOOOGAMAN! KEVIN KEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEGAN! ROBBY BOBSON! OOP THAA TOON, CANNY LADS! WHYAYE, WHYAYE, WHYAYE – AHH TEEEEULD YA SEEEEUUU! YON BILLIONAIRE BASTIDS DIVN’T […]