June 2017 Update: this item on Jez Lowe appeared six years ago, and referred to a review from four years before that, but my admiration for the singer and his wonderful observations on life and events remains undiminished. Check out... Read more →
June 2017 update: this tribute piece to a great song by an even greater departed heroine of folk and folk-rock, Sandy Denny, first appeared nine years ago when I was living in Abu Dhabi. Some of the versions mentioned in... Read more →
Two great names from Irish music, drawing on the lyrical and musical eloquence of Bob Dylan, combine in this latest edition of the Treasures rediscovered series ... Bob Dylan gave me some of my earliest of musical pleasures. I liked... Read more →
Here is the latest in Salut! Live's Treasures rediscovered series of items I post after coming across them again on record, tape, CD or clip ... Once, I called Vin Garbutt self-opinionated and he objected, rightly as I later conceded.... Read more →
June 2017 update: whether I am in London or here in France, the news has been uniformly rotten. I was home immediately after the Westminster Bridge attack and there again when the London Bridge/Borough Market atrocity happened. Now, worst of... Read more →
Another episode in an occasional series recalling pieces of music that have given much pleasure and suddenly flow back into the mind or are encountered among my thousands of CDs, cassettes and vinyl ... There is never a need to... Read more →
A fourth instalment in Salut! Live's new occasional series in which striking pieces of music suddenly remembered, or encountered in forgotten corners of the house, are hauled out and, if discoverable on YouTube, reproduced here ... From one of my... Read more →
