NB: comments are open after briefly - and unintentionally - being closed Salut! Live's popular Cover Story articles, in which we compare different interpretations of the same pieces of music, now runs to 76 instalments (that figure is a little... Read more →
Colin Randall writes: Nationalism gets a bad press. The word makes us think of hideous figure of the far right, all the way from Le Pen, Zemmour, Wilders and Meloni to Trump and - increasingly - the headbanger wing of... Read more →
April 2024: a fairly wretched season for Sunderland is almost done. I don’t remember the thought process that led me to juxtapose football and murder balladry but mots of fans feel the season has been murder to watch … May... Read more →
Reposted: April 2024. On a whim I have said often enough that the Cover Story series is not intended primarily as a competition but aims to alert readers to different treatments of the same songs and instrumentals. Inevitably, however, whether... Read more →
Si Kahn’s song What You Do With What You’ve Got is on it’s way to becoming a folk standard. The performers who have covered it include Roy Bailey, Dick Gaughan, The Magpie Arc, Eddi Reader, Siobhan Miller, and several others. But which is the best? Read on. Read more →
Join the Salut! Live Facebook group. Visit this link now February 2024 update: partly a deserved promotion back to the top of the site, partly a natural response to Maggie Holland alerting me to a photograph of the real, proper... Read more →
