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VERSIONS: “Hot Burrito #1/ I’m Your Toy”
In our VERSIONS series this week, which takes a look at different versions of the same song, we look back to a stone-cold classic from the Burritos which went on to be covered by… well, read […]
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AUK’s Chain Gang: Townes Van Zandt “Dead Flowers”
This week we go from one guitar playing Van Zandt to another. From “Badlands“, featuring the great Steven Van Zandt, to “Dead Flowers” by Townes Van Zandt. ‘Dead Flowers‘ is a cover of The Rolling Stones’ […]
Classic Americana Albums
Classic Americana Albums: Lambchop “Is A Woman”
Lambchop is listed as a Nashville band, or at least that’s where the band’s mastermind Kurt Wagner started out as a guy laying down parquet or laminate floors around town, trying to earn a daily living. […]
A Night to Remember
A Night to Remember: The Grateful Dead, Alexandra Palace 1974
Country boy hits the city – the city hits country boy, who is Grateful he isn’t Dead. I’ve always been of the, perhaps lazy, view that experiences are best seen as an undifferentiated stew, the details […]
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AUK’s Chain Gang: Bruce Springsteen “Badlands”
My esteemed colleague Jim Finnie’s piece on Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band’s “Against The Wind” last week brought back many happy memories for me. Amusingly the Bob Seger album that has special significance to […]