

Movin' Away - Kenny Lynch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj6T2lniwfU It's a salutary fact that there are usually one or two (or sometimes as many as five or six)...


Box of Rain - the Grateful Dead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwhktLINnjo Winter stories. Like most mammals in northern climes, homo sapiens has a hibernation period...


River - Joni Mitchell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NH-ctddY9o Back in the 1990's I was one of the people who helped put on an annual St Patrick's Day...


7 O'Clock News / Silent Night - Simon and Garfunkel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgYFXCUEL4Y A few weeks ago, my daughter Hattie asked me to find the best recording of Silent Night. We...


Little Donkey - Nina and Frederik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qudi6JqE-M Every Christmas, when I was a child in Bahrain, my father and I would drive the five miles or...


All Together Now - the Farm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRgtzZ-mOQo It's that time of year, time for a few choice yuletide tunes. And this is amongst the best,...


If - Joni Mitchell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBuqy9oLISA Another of my father's ski-ing companions from that first trip to Zermatt was the Englishman...


Down in the River to Pray - Alison Krauss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkWn69VBslw My father was a strange man. He was brought up by Plymouth Brethren women. The Plymouth...


Tell Mama - Etta James
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bwZSEtoUVU One time Simon and I were out in the desert just behind my house when Glenn Walker, the much...


Back on the Chain Gang - the Pretenders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK3uf5V0pDA Awali was a place of three distinct inhabited areas: Upper Camp, and the two zones of Lower...

