Crooked Tree by Molly Tuttle and Golden Highway

“Thought he was a friend indeed, but a woman can’t trust a man in need”

Handful Of Earth by Dick Gaughan

“I walk out, sit down now and then, look out for objects in nature around me that are in unison or harmony with the cogitations of my fancy and workings of my bosom”

We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions by Bruce Springsteen

Turn it up, put on your dancin’ and singin’ shoes, and have fun.

Goats Head Soup by The Rolling Stones

Should unpleasant lyrics cause a song to be “cancelled”?

Wild Honey by The Beach Boys

Who was the first of the big musical artists who released a “back to basics” album in 1968?

Reverence by Faithless

Maxi Jazz died, peacefully, four days ago

Hunky Dory by David Bowie

“Sometimes I don’t feel as if I’m a person at all, I’m just a collection of other people’s ideas”

Love by The Beatles

A new way to listen to The Beatles

Ladies Of The Canyon by Joni Mitchell

Folk. Pop. Jazz. It’s all music.

Another Side of Bob Dylan by Bob Dylan

The spontaneous performance, the imaginative poetry and the inspired vision make this a masterpiece.

2022

The best albums of the year

Nothing Can Bring Back The Hour by Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker

“The relationship between song lyrics and the melody makes good song writing”

Time After Time by Eva Cassidy

“It didn’t take a genius to figure it out. The moment I listened to her, I knew this was one of the best singers I’d ever heard.”

Music For A New Society by John Cale

John Cale’s entire working life has involved expressing strange, unsettling emotions

Love Over Gold by Dire Straits

Wait a minute. It’s Dire Straits!

Live At Raji’s by The Dream Syndicate

Classic live music from great exponents of The Paisley Underground

Revolver Sessions One and Two by The Beatles

“The one time I tried, it was a little too intense. I couldn’t quite turn off my mind, let along relax and float downstream. But it’ll happen eventually, I’m sure. I can wait forever. I’ve got time.”

Pink Moon by Nick Drake

“He has a voice that can draw you in, it has a pleasant appeal and his guitar playing is very accomplished. But it doesn’t ever become easy listening because underneath all that is a disquieting mood”

The Slider by T. Rex

Pure precise peerless pop perfection.

Juniper by Linda Frederiksson

The idea of using jazz influences to enhance music by singer/songwriters is hardly new but Linda Frederiksson has approached the concept in reverse

Loose Future by Courtney Marie Andrews

An impressionistic, non-experimental psychedelic country album

Meet The Humans by Steve Mason

Meet the humans. Everybody gets happy, everybody gets sad.

Are You Experienced by The Jimi Hendrix Experience

One of the best psychedelic albums of all time.

One World by John Martyn

Wonderfully uplifting positivity.