Unthought of, though, somehow

I watched one of those YouTube ranking videos recently, where the artist under the microscope was Neil Young and it struck me then how much ...

Released 53 years ago today, 'Faust IV' was, remarkably, the band's third LP of 1973. I (along with many of my age group I suspe...

As we turn the corner of the year, I find that I've already posted on, and generally interacted with, this little corner of the internet...

I'm just back from Leeds, where a small group of us blogging types (and available partners) assembled for a couple of days to hang out, ...

Anita Ward went to No.1 on both sides of the Atlantic in 1979 with 'Ring My Bell' and, before the year was out, UK lovers rock trio ...

In January, a notable anniversary slipped quietly by while I was looking the other way - David Bowie's 'Station to Station' turn...

Cosmic Appalachia isn't a descriptor that you come across every day, though in the case of Eight Point Star's 2021 self-titled debut...

Devon Irons originally released 'Ketch Vampire' as a 7" single on Lee Perry's Black Art label in 1976, but the following ye...

I've been fortunate enough to witness Jon Wilks perform 'Greek Street' in venues of all shapes and sizes over the past few years...

On reflection, I'm pretty sure that my school chum James must've had an older brother or sister, though by this point, a lifetime la...

1977's 'The Bonny Bunch of Roses' was Fairport Convention's 12th studio album and first after leaving their spiritual home o...

If you've been lucky enough to see the great Martin Carthy in concert at any point over the past 50 years, there's a very good chanc...

My love of Kungens Män's music has been well documented on these pages over the years. The many records made by these guys (and their va...

The rarely attempted Triple Swedeface Between the summers of 2020 and 2021, John Dwyer (he of The Osees) together with a group of like minde...

Some time ago, probably several years by this point, John Medd and I were having a back and forth on the subject of guitar solos in rock. T...

I was very sad to hear of Danny Thompson's passing a couple of weeks back, at the age of 86. Unless you've tried particularly hard t...

For a period during the 1970s, Sweet were second only in my pop affections to the mighty T.Rex. The band's run of Chinnichap hit singles...

A new, all singing all dancing, 50th anniversary super-deluxe reissue of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway by Genesis arrives this week, even t...

Mal Waldron's 'Candy Girl' has been on my look-out-for list for a very long time, though, with original copies changing hands f...

The jazz-fusion sweet spot runs from 1969 to 1975, a period where electricity pushed and prodded its way ever further into the previously ex...