August 2021 update: The Doonan Family Band, the Doonans, the Mighty Doonans. Call them what you will, they've been a brilliant fixture of the folk scene for a long time. I look for pretty much any excuse to showcase them,... Read more →
CLICK ANYWHERE ON THIS PARAGRAPH TO EXPLORE THE FULL COVER STORY SERIES - COMPARING DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF THE SAME SONGS AND SOMETIMES TUNES August 2021 update: we were in the car after picking up daughter and granddaughter at Marseille airport.... Read more →
August 2021 update: The war to end war. Tell that to the poor bloody squaddies who were sent over and again to fight and die in conflicts long after peace descended in 1918. Watching a recent re-run, on Arte TV... Read more →
On Friday September 13, we learned that Nanci Griffith had died. All week, Salut! Live has been paying tribute to a superb advertisement for country and folk music - folkabilly as she liked to call her genre - and you... Read more →
Without apology, I am breaking the rule of this series once again. In fact, I am driving a coach and horses through the rules. To close a week of "song a day" tributes to Nanci Griffith, who died a week... Read more →
"She wrote the soundtrack of my life," said Cyndi Fish Wetmiller, a Nanci Griffith fan from Pennsylvania, at a Facebook page devoted to the Texan singer-songwriter's fabulous body of work. That is a delightful tribute and we shall be hearing... Read more →
