Joni Mitchell: Dark majesty of Shades Of Scarlett Conquering
If the 1960s were the decade of the classic single, the Seventies were the decade of what was quaintly called the album. And for the first…
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Thanks for stumbling upon my retirement project and labour of love, Here Comes The Song. Here you'll find the latest blogs from music fanatics about their favourite songs and the artists who wrote them. It really is about the music that moves us...
Stevie Wonder: Talking Book and Blame It On The Sun
Has there ever been a better 10-track album than Stevie Wonder’s 1972 masterpiece Talking Book? A rhetorical question, as nobody will agree…
Courtney Marie Andrews: No longer a rookie dreaming
A lot of young American female singer-songwriters are lumbered with the unwanted tag of ‘the new Joni Mitchell’. Phoebe Bridgers, a 23-year-
Sandy Denny: Late November and the magic of melancholy
The rain is battering against the windows, the sun is refusing to make the briefest of appearances in a pewter-grey sky, the short day will…
Love: Alone Again Or
Prepare yourselves for the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love and endless eulogies to Sgt Pepper and Swinging London. But the Beatles…
Highway 29 revisited: Bruce Springsteen and Guy Clark
In 1995 Bruce Springsteen released his understated masterpiece The Ghost of Tom Joad. Springsteen’s best works are his narrative songs and…
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