Paul Kerr

Billy Bragg “The Million Things That Never Happened”

November 5, 2021 Paul Kerr 0

Bragg returns with a remarkable album on the human cost of the pandemic while still finding time to protest. Billy Bragg has certainly moved on from his days as a one-man band, building up an impressive […]

AUK’s Chain Gang : Steve Earle “CCKMP (Cocaine Cannot Kill My Pain)”

November 1, 2021 Paul Kerr 0

In last week’s Chain Gang we had Johnny Cash cavorting and killing around the wild west and, at the end of his song, ‘Cocaine Blues’, advising the listener to “lay off that whiskey and let that […]

Johnny Cash “Bear’s Sonic Journals: Johnny Cash, At The Carousel Ballroom, April 24, 1968”

October 27, 2021 Paul Kerr 0

Johnny Cash swaps prisoners for hippies as he moves from Folsom Prison to Haight Ashbury back in 1968. Folk might argue as to what the high point of Johnny Cash’s lengthy career was – the Sun […]

Classic Clips : Nils Lofgren with Grin

October 22, 2021 Paul Kerr 1

No apologies here for going back to the dark old days of 1973, another world really when it was still legal to discriminate against half of the UK population on the grounds that they were women. […]

Jenner Fox “Planet I’m From”

October 18, 2021 Paul Kerr 0

Very pleasant set of quirky modern folk songs. Jenner Fox is an Oregon resident who, when not playing music, is an international tour guide for white-water river rafting tourists while he also spends time teaching song […]

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RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
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RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
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