Russian Hill - Roger McGuinn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pSdNGv16bg From one literary rhapsody to another, this comes from Roger McGuinn's finest hour after the...
A Salty Dog - Procol Harum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOj3kJKy-_U Some groups record a track that is so iconic, so unique, that it is the thing they are always...
Somebody to Love - Valerie June
Just down the road about 60 km east of Bobby Bland's birthplace and just 17 days under 52 years later, Valerie June was born in Jackson...
Stormy Monday - Bobby Bland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCqEzfWrXfM If you ever wondered where the great Peter Green got his unique singing style from - just...
Turn on your Love Light - Bobby Bland
One of the best kept secrets - so far as the British are concerned - in soul music is the wonderful Bobby Bland. He died just over 5...
Sing, Sing, Sing - Benny Goodman and his Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhyhP_5VfKM I first played this song at a wedding last week, early doors, worried that the continuous...
Del Shannon Trilogy of Escape and Despair no 3: Stranger in Town
Really annoying - a glitch has meant that the June 11th post of Les Paul and Mary Ford resurfaced and interrupted the Del Shannon...
I'm Sitting on Top of the World - Les Paul and Mary Ford
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RKeF0YK_Kc June 11th, my Dad's birthday, he would be 109 if he were alive today. On Friday afternoons...
Del Shannon: Trilogy of Escape and Despair no 2: Keep Searchin' (We'll follow the Sun)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxcfa1mducI Charles Weedon Westover aka Charlie Johnson aka Del Shannon always seems to me like a man on...
Del Shannon : Trilogy of Escape and Despair No 1: Runaway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNkZV-XDqGo I know, I know I was going to give you tracks you'd never heard of. But I have to start with...
