June 2017 Update: this item on Jez Lowe appeared six years ago, and referred to a review from four years before that, but my admiration for the singer and his wonderful observations on life and events remains undiminished. Check out... Read more →
Buy this early Dylan masterpiece at https://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000024RQ/salusund-21 Cover Story is one of the most interesting series Salut! Live has run. Yes, I would say that, wouldn't I? It has plenty of steam left in it - Joan Dawson, who suggested... Read more →
UPDATE Jan 2021: see all items in this series at Cover Story. I wondered at the outset how it would develop and soon we'll reach the 60th instalment. Why? Because the interest from regular readers and causal visitors to the... Read more →
June 2017 update: this tribute piece to a great song by an even greater departed heroine of folk and folk-rock, Sandy Denny, first appeared nine years ago when I was living in Abu Dhabi. Some of the versions mentioned in... Read more →
Since the rotten news of Vin Garbutt's death, I have seen countless photos, video clips and verbal tributes. Among them all, what you see above speaks volumes for me since it couples two of the people from English folk that... Read more →
Let me credit the CD's sleeve painting: Georgia Cox from Bath: visit her site Steve Wickham: Beekeeper After an utterly grim stream of news from home - from the London Bridge terrorist attack to the death of Vin Garbutt and... Read more →
