The story goes that when 'Kind of Blue' was released all aspiring trumpeter players attempted to play along and couldn't; soun...

This has been doing my head in. All over Xmas; when I should have been concentrating on the next sausage roll, the dilemma I kept default...

Seasons' Greetings to all that visit these pages. I hope that you all have a great day/holiday etc. I'm hoping that 2013 will ...

A bit of a lazy choice this; it's the most seasonal album on my list so seems timely.  I've never been truly smitten with Kate un...

OK, I know that I'm off-piste with this but; these recordings are pretty important to my love of music and the performance of it... ...

This photo contains my two favourite things... I met one of them 26 years ago today. Forgot to mention it this morning... Do I: A: App...

In the late 90s I was briefly signed up to Rykodiscs, back   then refuge of Elvis Costello and a home to Nick Drake's back catalogue...

After the dark, gravely gravity of Nick Cave's baritone I bring you the featherlight brightness of Teiture. Perfect pop, beautifully ...

Americana UK is one of the very best online music magazines; their writing is top notch. How happy am I therefore that their Deputy Edi...

I don't believe in an interventionist God But I know, darling, that you do Following on from the menacing 'Murder Ballads' ca...

There were houses  There were hoses  There were sprinklers on the lawn... There was a frying pan  And she would cook their dreams  Whil...

Many thanks to Nick Baker for bringing this to my attention: After his resurgence with ' Queen of Denmark' ( Mojo 's '...

I guess that you need to love the film to love this and I lurve the film; maybe my favourite. If you have not seen it, it's a four h...

I first became aware of Wainwright through his Dad's song 'Rufus is a Tit Man '; Loudoun Wainwright's paean to his hungry,...

In the late 80s I remember Mark Fox, my then A&R man at Zomba publishing, giving me cassettes with demos from bands that he wondered a...

"No more dragging this wormy anus 'round on shag piles from  Persia to Thrace. I've severed my reeking gonads,  fed them to y...

'Mine and Yours' is 'Pop   Lite', but pop perfection. Many have been damned with the ' Macartneyesque ' compar...

In the late 80's a lot of bands were mimicking the jangle and rolling strum of Johnny Marr, and nobody did jangley adult pop better than...

This was a progression for Kelly Joe. Always a superb finger picker; maestro of the slide, his songs often played second fiddle to virtuos...

Sorry for dumbing down but in a recent road rage incident I was called a 'silver fox f*cker' which I thought was an odd but creativ...

Tell me that a lover's touch  Is more than nature planting seeds Oh what am I to believe? South of here the winter's kinder So...

It's a day full of dreams It's a dream of a day One of the benefits of David Sylvian having so many side projects is that I can...