Carla Fuchs has shown me again what a small world we inhabit. A German singer, musician and academic, she and I made contact via Facebook and our shared love of the music of Sandy Denny. I was then in the... 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 →
Earlier this week, I confessed to having changed a view held for decades. Listening again to Bob Dylan's very early Percy's Song original, I conclude that I had been wrong to consider Fairport Convention's cover, excellent as it was, superior.... Read more →
As my interest began to flag a little while watching the good-in-parts but excessively long Hemingway and Gellhorn, a thought occurred to me. In later stages of the film, some of the antics of the two heroes (played by Clive... Read more →
Roberts and Rusby: Barnsley's finest Picture: Bryan Ledgard MY FOLK ALBUMS OF THE 1990s * Kate Rusby and Kathryn Roberts (Pure), album of the 1990s (1995) * How Are You Off For Coals? (Fellside) Bob Fox and Benny Graham (1997);... Read more →
