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Essentials: The Top 10 Emmylou Harris Albums

January 26, 2023 Lyndon Bolton 3

Since dropping out of her drama scholarship at the University of North Carolina and drawn by the songs of Seeger, Dylan and Baez to play the coffee shops of Greenwich Village during the 1960s folk boom, […]

Classic Americana Album: Kris Kristofferson “Kristofferson”

January 25, 2023 Graeme Tait 3

As the swinging sixties with its mantra of peace and love disintegrated into the splintered seventies of disillusion, suspicion, and violence, an ex U.S. Army Captain would become the most unlikely of saviours with the songs […]

I Write the Songs – Roger Cook

January 24, 2023 Rick Bayles 0

Now, here’s one for all you quiz compilers out there – who was the first (and, so far, only) British songwriter to be inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame? Yes, it’s Roger Frederick Cook, […]

The First Time: Paul Russell – Status Quo, Hammersmith Apollo, 27th June 1979

January 24, 2023 Paul Russell 1

Memories, memories. Looking back at one’s youth is sometimes a very embarrassing thing. My first venture into the wonderful world of popular music was buying a series of vinyl singles. My initial purchases, which I bought […]

AUK’s Chain Gang: The Everly Brothers “So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)”

January 23, 2023 David Jarman 0

Handed the baton by Emily with Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Dreams’ to follow ‘Dream’ takes me to the Everly Brothers – but rather than pick their well-known song in the same vein ‘All I Have To Do is […]