Step Right Up - Tom Waits
Sorry about the delay. I was wanting to complete the songs by the fraternity of poets in Guy Clark's Mission Beach bar and had come to...
Pancho and Lefty - Townes van Zandt
So also in Guy Clark's Valhalla bar at Mission Beach, as we've said, was "poor Port Worth boy" Townes van Zandt, a great and prolific singer / songwriter, the ultimate modern day troubadour. He wrote many great songs, the best of which are poetic love songs, but he is becoming more and more well known as the years go by, for just one song, Pancho and Lefty. He was also famous for his live singing and beautifully delicate and complex guitar backing, but nowadays he was the m
The Lake Isle of Innisfree - Polly Bolton
Since the last post I've been to see Michael Keegan-Dolan's wonderful Swan Lake at Sadler's Wells, a superb, uplifting, multi-textured...
Cold Dog Soup - Guy Clark
2016 was the year of many sad things: Brexit and Trump's election to name but two, but to me nothing was sadder than the death of the...
Back in Time - Gillian Welch
Back baby, back in time, I wanna go back to when you were mine. Sixties week is over - the disco for the seventieth birthday is over....
Listen to Me - the Hollies
We'd better have something English and Northern for sixties week, and not much better comes from the "other" Northern city. This was the...
King Without a Queen - Dion (plus Runaway Girl)
A B-side from 1962 by the immortal Dion – he may have been a "King Without a Queen" but he was the King of New York Italian doo-wop....
Summertime - Billy Stewart
While we're in the sixties, the golden age of soul, we must have one of the great soul singles: fat boy Billy Stewart's rendering of the...
I Think We're Alone Now and Mirage - Tommy James and the Shondells
Tommy James and the Shondells existed from 1966 - 1970 and are most famous for their UK number one the terrific "Mony Mony" and their two...
Time for Livin' - the Association
Making a return after a very crowded summer in which my digital (lack of) expertise meant I wanted to get a few things sorted with the...
