

Afrika 2000 - Mory Kanté
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKQ_rie50Dg To emphasise the excellence of Mory Kanté, here's a second track from "Akwaba Beach" with yet...


Tama - Mory Kanté
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Oxyhu8V34g I was very sad to hear of the death on May 22nd of Guinean kora player and singer Mory Kanté....


Denise - Randy and the Rainbows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgqMW4CHClk As in the case of Louis, it has been my habit to sing the appropriate song to someone's name...


Louie Louie - the Kingsmen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EqzTiDc-1k If not the mother, then the Auntie Val of recurring riffs: I once worked in an office with a...


Something About You - the Four Tops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuAaCgojI90 Billy Bragg gives us the excuse to return to the immortal Four Tops singing songs written and...


Levi Stubbs' Tears - Billy Bragg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbdJ8OGYtzM Once upon a time there was a country that was in a crisis. One day, at the height of the...


A New England - Kirsty McColl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vnzpg5GgQCo Version One https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SkdjsY6TKA Version Two For the...


Soho Square - Kirsty MacColl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thaiW9bfBM4 From her 1993 album, "Titanic Days", this is the track that best expresses Kirsty MacColl's...


My Way Home - Kirsty MacColl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyAKbpGnzj0 One of the two small children that Ewan MacColl left, along with wife Jean Newlove, for Peggy...


The Shoals of Herring - Ewan MacColl / Una Furtiva Lagrima - Enrico Caruso
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ov81aogaxg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t936rzOt3Zc If there is one person who I could meet again...

