Step away from the cliff edge, Yorki – don’t do it!

That’s the spirit, Bazza…

And a member of Andy Roberts & Everyone.

Done.

Thirded.

That kind of steroid-pumped white-boy blues guitar-fest doesn’t appeal to me at all. Joe Bonamasa always reminds me of ‘Where’s Wally’, but aside from that unfortunate resemblance… he’s a talented homager / […]

I once went to London to meet a music publisher, who seemed interested in one of my songs (nothing happened). We met in Covent Garden and ended up at, yes, a cellar in Covent Garden among a load of excitable A&R […]

Rick Laird passed on a week ago. Now Heather Jansch, Bert’s muse and second wife (m. 1969, separated mid-70s) – and a brilliant sculptor and illustrator.

She could have opted for a Stonier silence.

A bit of a tangent – I received a 10″ album in the post today that I’ve been looking for for about three years. It’s not on Discogs and there’s only one online reference to it elsewhere. It almost doesn’t […]

Sad to hear that Rick Laird passed on yesterday.

I think the ‘earlier one’ you mention is actually a 1968 BBC radio production of The Hobbit – which is commercially available but is impossible to enjoy. It’s off its time with grating music and OTT acting.

Good man! 🙂

Hi Arthur – well, almost anything by or edited by the following is terrific: Tom Shippey, John Garth, Wayne Hammond & Christina Scull, Verlyn Flieger.

The essentials would be Shippey’s very readable ‘Road to […]

Dare I say it, the mighty Scott Flanigan on piano from 3:27-4:17 in this recent CH & pals assault on the pop charts:

The mighty Rooster!

Offhand, I can think of a few but none that anyone would think significant:

Duke Special & The Ulaid ‘- A Note Let Go’, a vinyl album recorded live in 2017 with a small audience at a converted barn / analogue […]

I think we have a winner…