Music
General Crook – Gimme Some
3rd September 2021 · UncategorisedArchie Bell & The Drells – Tighten Up
3rd September 2021 · UncategorisedThere’s not much to Tighten Up beyond a funk groove, some handclaps, and Archie introducing himself before urging the listener to dance. But it’s a classic. (more…)
Junior Walker & The All Stars – Shotgun
1st September 2021 · UncategorisedI was going to post the gorgeous instrumental Walk In The Night, the only tune I knew growing up by Junior Walker & The All Stars. Then I stumbled upon Shotgun. (more…)
Billy Ocean – Love Really Hurts Without You
31st August 2021 · UncategorisedIt’s only listening to this again now, 45 years later, that I realise it’s the best Four Tops song not actually by the Four Tops. (more…)
Johnny Rivers – Secret Agent Man
30th August 2021 · UncategorisedI always thought this song was by Devo until I read Quentin Tarantino’s novel Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, where it makes an appearance. (more…)
RIP Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry (1936-2021)
29th August 2021 · UncategorisedThe word “legend” gets chucked about a lot but Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry really was one. Keith Richards once called him “the Salvador Dali of reggae.” (more…)
Freddie McKay – I’m A Free Man
29th August 2021 · UncategorisedFreddie McKay emerged as a rocksteady singer in the late 1960s with Prince Buster and Coxsone Dodd, recording at the Studio One and Treasure Isle labels. (more…)
Graham Parker & The Rumour – Don’t Ask Me Questions
27th August 2021 · UncategorisedBy the mid-Seventies you had to forage far and wide for rough-and-ready roots music in a music world dominated by prog dinosaurs and disco. (more…)
C.W. McCall – Convoy
26th August 2021 · UncategorisedNovelty pop songs don’t come much more annoying than this, at least without children and bagpipes. Except they do – because Convoy prompted an even worse “parody” version. (more…)
The Walker Brothers – No Regrets
25th August 2021 · UncategorisedThe first time I heard Scott Walker’s distinctive baritone was when No Regrets came out early in 1976. (more…)
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