More than 16 years after his death, Ray Charles, another of those artists Rolling Stone magazine excluded from its list of the 100 greatest songwriters of all time, is still adored by many across the world. The French in particular,... Read more →
Richard Thompson virtually has a season ticket for Salut! Live's Cover Story series comparing different versions of songs. This features one of his finest compositions .... If Rolling Stone magazine's omission of the Pitman Poet Tommy Armstrong from its list... Read more →
Stuck inside the disc drive of an old Macbook, and probably destined to remain there until the laptop dies, is Bill (aka Belinda) Jones’s highly enjoyable 2019 album Wonderful Fairytale. The closing track - where else would it be? -... Read more →
Salut! Live wishes readers as happy a new year as Covid and Brexit permit and thanks you heartily for taking the trouble to visit the site in such large numbers ... Six seemed a perfectly good number on which to... Read more →
Again, I hear regular readers groaning. Not that Arthur McBride once more. Hasn't Salut! Live finally exhausted its interest in the song? I suppose the answer to those three actual or implied questions are, in order: yes, yes and no.... Read more →
Rachel Unthank was on her way home from Kings Cross. I was thousands of miles away in Abu Dhabi. Un As the train headed north, she answered my clutch of questions with great candour and eloquence. We didn't speak but... Read more →
