Black Grape: Dadi Waz A Badi and the Trumpian parallel
When Hollywood makes its Donald Trump biopic, which with horrifying inevitability it will, the soundtrack will be by Black Grape. And the…
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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...
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Nature Boy and other blinders
Nick Cave is Picasso, that’s who he is. Like Picasso, he looks at something – or someone – and doesn’t blink. Like Picasso, he devours…
The SteelDrivers: Good Corn Liquor & Chris Stapleton
From my first steps in bluegrass and country, I have learned that no one who ever found themselves unexpectedly in Mississippi was remotely…
Tom Waits: How's It Gonna End
I love Tom Waits. I love August Kleinzahler. I’ve always paired them, songwriter and poet, as artists of the America that lies, north and…
Bob Dylan: Most Of The Time
Christopher Hitchens, a finer writer than me, called Most Of The Time by Bob Dylan, a finer writer than him, ‘one of the most vertiginous…
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