Neil Young

Sounds from beyond the Shed 155 “A Live One”

September 20, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 2

So as promised this week’s article is about the music and specifically live music. I’ve always wanted to be the guy that puts on the bands, rubbing shoulders with the people that fill my life with […]

Essentials: The top ten Neil Young & Crazy Horse live songs

September 12, 2024 Tim Martin 8

Why has Neil Young not appeared in Essentials yet? Probably because with a catalogue so big it is nearly impossible to listen to it all thoroughly enough to make a valid judgement. For me quintessential Young […]

Award winning Americana DJ Mike Ritchie celebrates 10 years on the air

August 8, 2024 Richard Parkinson 1

As many will be aware, Celtic Music Radio presenter, Mike Ritchie, celebrated ten years of broadcasting on the Glasgow-based community station on Sunday 4th August 2024. Ritchie, who is a two-time winner of the AUK Readers’ […]

Classic Clips: Neil Young “A Man Needs a Maid” – Live at the BBC, 1971

April 8, 2024 Helen Jones 3

I first became enchanted by ‘A Man Needs A Maid’ when I heard a version of it on the 2007 Neil Young covers album ‘Borrowed Tunes II’. It’s a song of heartbreaking feeling as Young wrestles […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed 126 – “Cheese Intervention”

January 5, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

New Year – same old post Christmas torpor. Welcome back readers and listeners and it’s a vaguely new format for a vaguely new year. Gone is the headline week of news and in comes the splash […]

Ismay “Half Truth”

July 14, 2026 0

Quietly adventurous songs that reward patient listening with emotional depth and subtle musical invention. For listeners drawn to the quietly adventurous music of Aldous Harding, Cate Le Bon or Jessica Pratt, Half Truth, by California songwriter […]

Jenny Gillespie Mason “Medicine Of Light” – a healing balm

July 14, 2026 0

On her new album In the Safety of the Light, Jenny Gillespie Mason is turning back to her musical roots. After a decade pursuing psychedelic pop, jazz, and electronic textures through her project Sis (and most […]

Video: Alex Southey “Green Sunday” – a constant giving-in

July 14, 2026 0

Vancouver-born, Toronto-based singer-songwriter Alex Southey has released an absorbing new single. Green Sunday opens with gently insistent guitar before lush layers are introduced and, halfway through, percussion is ushered in, giving the song a greater urgency. […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed 155 “A Live One”

Essentials: The top ten Neil Young & Crazy Horse live songs

Award winning Americana DJ Mike Ritchie celebrates 10 years on the air

Classic Clips: Neil Young “A Man Needs a Maid” – Live at the BBC, 1971

Sounds from beyond the Shed 126 – “Cheese Intervention”

Ismay “Half Truth”

Jenny Gillespie Mason “Medicine Of Light” – a healing balm

Video: Alex Southey “Green Sunday” – a constant giving-in

For The Sake Of The Song: Roger McGuinn “Car Phone”

Ed Snodderly “ES Pearl Presents Baggage Flies Free”