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Girl Groups Week No 3: the Ronettes - Be My Baby

Aaaah we have finally arrived. 1963, the first release by the Ronettes, mind-blowing, the wall of sound is born. Apparently when Phil...

Girl Groups Week No 2: The Crystals - There's No Other Like My Baby / Uptown / He's a Rebel

So, once the Shirelles had forged the idealogical template, Phil Spector came along and forged the sound. Already a successful songwriter...

Girl Groups Week No1: Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? - the Shirelles

Which to begin with, demands a definition. People often use the term girl groups to describe groups like Bananarama and Spice Girls and...

Too Late for Tonight / Early Years - Laura Cantrell

Having had a room full of modern day troubadour men in that bar in Mission Beach, it's only right that we should think about the women that could have been there. We can imagine Gillian Welch at a table in the corner chatting with David Rawlings over a beer, Laura Marling surveying the room, reclining with her back on the jukebox, Emmylou Harris swapping stories with Joni Mitchell as they lean on the bar, and at the back, by the door to the toilets, Laura Nyro singing softly

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