Creedence Week No 5: (Wish I could) Hideaway
Unusually we have had a whole week of tracks by a major artist with all of the chosen tracks being fairly well known. But this is a...
Creedence Week No 4: Who'll Stop the Rain
In Cuban crimewriter Leonardo Padura’s novel “Havana Red” the lead character says of John Fogerty ‘s voice in Creedence Clearwater...
Creedence Week No 3: Down on the Corner
Besides being a great track, “Down on the Corner” is the opener for Creedence’s fourth album “Willy and the Poorboys” and the cover was...
Creedence Week No 2: Fortunate Son
In these times of American and European military intervention in the middle east, it’s pertinent to offer up a meditation on the themes...
Creedence Week No 1 - Lodi
It may seem incredible now, but Creedence Clearwater Revival were voted the world’s number one band in the NME’s respected reader’s poll...
Need Your Love So Bad - Little Willie John
Much is said about "phrasing" and "timing" in singing, especially in soul music, where Otis was king and Aretha queen. But to understand...
Send Me Some Lovin' - Little Richard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMpnzcQ0Suw Of the Rock 'n' roll originators, Elvis had rockabilly roots, Fats Domino's were New Orleans...
What Do You Do (When Your Lover Leaves You) - the Tams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARDaCMB23QM Now that we're in deep we may as well carry on that way. The consistently good and much...
Making Love (At The Dark End Of The Street) - Clarence Carter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioFRJBxDhjg I'm a sucker for good talkies, whether it's Guy Clark rambling on about some wino or maestro...
Tin Soldier - the Small Faces
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vWTtx_PxPo Some time around the turn of the century I read an interview with Ian McLagan in which he...
