This is a brief entry in the Song of the Day series, to which I will add more detail when time permits. Among Irish bands, I rank Danu very highly and I wanted a track that also showed off Muireann... Read more →
Still time for a few gems cut from the vast resource that is YouTube. In an ideal world, Ron Kavana's own version of his song Reconciliation, which like many in recent years used a love theme to depict conflict and... Read more →
Sometimes, people need their heads knocking together. You'd probably have to summon an arbitration panel to resolve the differences between Frankie Gavin and Alec Finn who, together, were the admirable driving force behind one of the greatest bands to emerge... Read more →
If the River Tees could sing, I once suggested, it would probably sound a lot like Vin Garbutt. In his voice you find the grit of Middlesbrough, pre-industrial decline, and the pleasures of the countryside to its west. Even so,... Read more →
The Bothy Band. Traditional music as rock, Irish music at its best, and all manner of other cliches. However it was correct to describe them, they were a wonderful Irish band and this is an example of the music that... Read more →
Bob Dylan presented me with the sort of problem I like to have: which of so many classic tracks should be included in Salut! Live's Song of the Day series? It is my mildy controversial view that many Dylan songs... Read more →
