On each of two nights recently spent in the Italian resort of Alassio, we ate at a restaurant called the Galeon. The food was good but the second visit was made because, as for the first, entertainment was to be... Read more →
Image: Jef Aerosol It has been a remarkable labour of love undertaken by a writer for whom Sandy Denny's voice "touches the soul" each time he hears it. More than 40 years after Sandy's untimely death at 31, Mick Donovan... Read more →
Anyone who reads Salut! or Salut! Live will recognise Bill Taylor as a prolific and compelling writer. Example: he is up to nearly 50 slices of lockdown life from Toronto and more than half of these little treasures have been... Read more →
Image: Linda Fitzgerald-Moore Eleven years is a long time, even in folk music. The article I reproduce below tells the story of the release of Fotheringay's 'lost' second album and dates from the end of 2008. I was living in... Read more →
Forgive me for being late with this but, come to think of it, the timing is right. On French news this lunchtime, amid generous and impressive coverage of commemorations on the 75th anniversary of D-Day, this song popped up. I... Read more →
I noted with surprise today that I have not mentioned the late Jackson C Frank's gripping song, The Blues Run the Game, for three years (plus three days). But yesterday, screening room number five at Picturehouse Central just off Piccadilly... Read more →
