Immortal Jukebox : The Story So Far (with some vintage Van Morrison as a bonus!)
When I launched The Immortal Jukebox in March 2014 I had, as they say, no expectations. I just knew that it was time to find out if I could think on the page with the same fluency I could talk about...
View ArticleHappy Birthday Helen Shapiro! Walking Back To Happiness!
Some songs stay with you all of your life. Some conjunction of their innate merit and the circumstances of your life when first heard sears that song into your memory for evermore. Helen Shapiro’s...
View ArticleGraham Parker & The Rumour – Fool’s Gold! Fool’s Gold!
‘I been doing my homework now for a long, long time’ One thing the world has never been short of. Naysayers. Naysayers. Can’t be done. Impossible. Not for the likes of you! A lanky, odd looking,...
View ArticleLittle Walter : 50 Years Dead but he will never be gone! The King of the...
Little Walter died 50 years ago in tragic circumstances. The term irreplaceable is too often used – in the case of Little Walter no other term will do. Since his untimely death many fine musicians have...
View ArticleThe Go Betweens : Cattle and Cane
What are we made of? Well, you could say we are mainly Oxygen, Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Calcium and Phosphorous. Add some pinches of Potassium, Sodium, Sulphour, Chlorine and Magnesium. Just the...
View ArticleRemembering Aretha Franklin : R – E – S – P – E – C – T!
Before night comes each of us must work, in our few days, the work we were uniquely created to accomplish. Surely, that’s exactly what the late Aretha Franklin did in singing with such splendour and...
View ArticleHappy Birthday Don Everly! Singing beyond Singing.
Note : This Post is best read in conjunction with the previously published,’Phil Everly Remembered’ from January 2017. Don Everly was born on February 1st 1937 Don is the elder of the two brothers –...
View ArticleIan Dury & The Blockheads : Reasons to be Cheerful (Part 3)
For most of last week as I took my early morning walk up the Ridge Top I all but vanished into an all encompassing Fog. Confident in the way I have trod so often and leaning on my staff I pressed on. I...
View ArticleJohn Hiatt, Charlie Sexton : Tennessee Plates
The ‘All Hail The King’ Series (1) Embed from Getty Images * Summer of 1988 and I was going 90 miles an hour down a dead end street. So, I walked one block from my office to the Tourist Centre for...
View ArticleJohn Gorka : Semper Fi
There are no ordinary lives. Take the time to attend to an ordinary life and you will find; dramas and disasters, triumphs and terrors, hope and horror and stories more fantastical than Dostoevsky ever...
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