One of my most vivid musical memories from the nineties was coming across a new CD by the wonderfully named The Vulgar Boatmen called ‘Opposite Sex‘. It was 1995 and this album was on the Warner […]
In 1977 Emmylou Harris was at the first of many high points in her career. ‘Luxury Liner’ had come out the previous year and work had started on ‘Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town’. While […]
At the time the pandemic hit, Jade Jackson had just released her second album, ‘Wilderness’, on Anti- and was shortly to embark on a collaboration with Aubrie Sellers which resulted in the magnificent Jackson + Sellers’ […]
I think that this clip fits the brief pretty well: the oft referenced moment when Van Morrison overcame his crippling mid-1970s stage-fright to almost single-handedly rejuvenate The Band’s ‘farewell show’ at Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco, and […]
While the late great Robert Fisher was around he and his revolving collective Willard Grant Conspiracy never got the wider recognition they deserved for their ever-inspiring, often dark americana, that always at its centre had Fisher’s […]
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