HERE COMES THE SONG

Phil Shaw The Oxfordshire village of Aston Tirrold has an unusual distinction. Despite its last-recorded population being only 373, it...

Phil Shaw In winter 1963 It felt like the world would freeze With John F Kennedy And The Beatles From the 1983 single Life In A Northern...

Ian Tasker I’ve read some pretty heavy books in my time – Tolstoy’s War and Peace, Joyce’s Ulysses, Cervantes’ Don Quixote, even some of...

Neil Morton Brandi Carlile is grateful to Americana for providing her with a home. But the genre should be in her debt too. Apart from...

One song defines the tempestuous musical times of John Fogerty. Not Proud Mary, Bad Moon Rising or Born On The Bayou, outstanding rock songs

The wonderfully whimsical work of Loudon Wainwright III began to infiltrate my consciousness in the mid-70s during repeated listenings to…

Bob Dylan’s prolific songwriting was always bound to have an impact on Robbie Robertson. As the lead guitarist in Dylan’s touring band, The…

Shawn Colvin named her 2012 memoir after one of two songs that had persuaded her she could fulfil her ambition of becoming a successful song

Johnny Cash was not alive to see the product of the legacy he had bequeathed his eldest daughter Rosanne. The List was the title of Rosanne…

Has there ever been a musical autobiography so riven with guilt and self-reproach as this? Despite examples of evasion about certain episode