At two of my favourite Facebook groups, Uncharted Jukebox and 60s 70s Folk Music, I have been banging on about Norma Waterson, who died on Jan 30 aged 82. And why not? She was a great and versatile singer and... Read more →
Just over three years ago, I published a whimsical edition of the Cover Story series about The Croppy Boy, a melancholy song of rebellion, capture and execution from the Irish rising of 1798. One version I briefly discussed was by... Read more →
The last time I saw Phil Steele, he had two good reasons not to be cheerful. It was outside the East Stand of the Stadium of Light that we spotted each other before, as I recall, another dismal Sunderland home... Read more →
Image: W W Thaler - H Weber, Hildesheim / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) Did I reach folk music via the blues or the other way round? I think it was the former; you'd go to folk clubs to hear people playing... Read more →
Image: Judy Dynle in Oxfordshire, 2009 Credit: Wikipedia 'tommytomato' Salut! Live is not a folk news site. It can post reflections, reviews, lists, the odd interview and so on but it cannot hope to offer a rolling stream of updates... Read more →
Image: Ron Baker. CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5685417 Not all who contribute to the pages of Salut! Live and Salut! are people I have met. Renata Baraldi, author of a supremely moving coronavirus-related essay from Lombardy, is known to me only... Read more →
Mary McPartlan, in the middle of the photo, flanked by Gerry Driver and Lisa Knapp* As the years pass, we get accustomed to hearing unwelcome news about contemporaries while also, and especially in these sad times, wondering about our own... Read more →
