These Arms of Mine - Otis Redding
A little piece of history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUaO50nWnvg The legend goes that Otis was only at this recording studio as...
Sinnerman - Nina Simone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH3Fx41Jpl4 This classic track says, whatever you do, you will get what you deserve - the words talk of...
King of the World - First Aid Kit
thought we should have another one by First Aid Kit, just in case people think that "Heaven Knows" was a one-off - all of their stuff is...
Heaven Knows - First Aid Kit
From one great female duo to another and from 95 to the present, the incomparable Soderberg sisters are currently cutting the mustard on...
Seether - Veruca Salt
Back in 1995 I was watching Glastonbury late at night on tv when a band I'd never seen before came on: there were four of them, but what...
A Reason for it All - Eric Bogle
It's late so we're going from an everyday tragedy in America (Back Street) to an everyday tragedy in Australia, from a sixteen year old...
Back Street - R Dean Taylor
One of the few white songwriters on the Motown staff, R Dean Taylor specialised in social comment stories and simple, personal, low-life...
Ain't Got No Home - Clarence "the Frogman" Henry
Just in case this was getting a bit predictable, time to go off piste. Back in the old days when you could have the annual village dance...
Not My Slave - Oingo Boingo
Play it loud, no meaning, pure pace and pure joy. People have hardly ever heard of these guys, but stick 'em on the turntable and...
The Sire of Sorrow (Job's Song) - Joni Mitchell
while we're doing epic and the meaning of life...... One of the most extraordinary albums of of 2002 was Joni Mitchell's "Travelogue"...
