Graeme Tait

artwork for Willie Nelson album "I Don't Know A Thing About Love"

Willie Nelson “I Don’t Know A Thing About Love”

March 13, 2023 Graeme Tait 2

Nelson adds his own perspective to the abiding musical legacy of one of country music’s greatest songwriters. Back in the final years of the 1950’s when the musical landscape much like the wider world was perceived […]

Classic Clips: Judee Sill “The Kiss” Old Grey Whistle Test, 1973

March 10, 2023 Graeme Tait 4

For this week’s Classic Clip I’d like to travel some fifty years back in time and briefly turn the spotlight on one of L.A.’s finest and most overlooked songwriters of the era as well as one […]

artwork for Doug Levitt album "Edge Of Everywhere"

Doug Levitt “Edge Of Everywhere”

February 23, 2023 Graeme Tait 0

Levitt’s 12-year and 120,000 miles sojourn across the U.S. by Greyhound bus results in one of the most important albums of the 21st century. Doug Levitt, born in Washington D.C. was a London-based foreign correspondent for […]

Classic Americana Albums: Phil Ochs “Pleasures Of The Harbor”

February 15, 2023 Graeme Tait 2

By late 1967 Phil Ochs had left New York where for the previous five years he had carved out a name for himself as one of the protagonists of the vibrant folk movement. He had been […]

Live Review: Madison Violet, The Town Hall, Kirton In Lindsey – 3rd February 2023

February 15, 2023 Graeme Tait 0

The first concert of the new year at Lincolnshire’s premier Americana music venue saw the return of Canadian duo Brenley MacEachern and Lisa Maclsaac better known as Madison Violet who only last June treated the regulars […]