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Couple of recent Paul Simon 'garage band' covers - Late In The Evening and Kodachrome - sung by Josh Turner with an excellent backing ensemble. Great to see these songs freshly rejuvinated by a younger generation for their peers.

Sixty years ago this week The Beatles released their debut single Love Me Do to an unsuspecting world. And so it all began. Here's that song... And here’s the story behind it.

White Anglo-Saxon protestants always get the blame. Martha Stewart is a white Slavic catholic.

I was both saddened and surprised to hear on the radio the other day that singer-songwriter Janis Ian has cancelled her current US-Canadian tour due to a serious throat problem. Sad because it seems her singing career has now come to an end; and surprised because I had no idea she was still...

Probably the first piece of modern music I remember ever really liking - the jazzy story told in the cartoon The Three Little Bops. The music was written specifically for this Warner Bros cartoon by Milton Rogers and recorded by him and his band, Shorty Rogers and His Giants, in late 1956. The...

^ Its a pity to think that Money For Nothing wouldn't be written today, such is the effect that Cancel Culture has on artistic creativity. Not with lyrics like: See the little ****** with the earring and the make up Yeah, buddy, that's his own hair That little ****** got his own jet airplane...

A couple who are restoring an old chateau in Normandy, France, explore one of its old out buildings - a brewery/distillery left untouched for decades. Magnificent old wooden barrels that once held cider and calvados are discovered. As well as a few old bottles of calvados that are opened and...

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It's Sunday evening, and I'm still coming down. Thanks, Kris.

On a speaking tour in the UK, Canadian clinical psychologist and author Dr Jordan Peterson gave this erudite and wide ranging response when asked about the social and political consequences that will flow from the death of the Queen. Some insightful stuff to unpack here (IMO).

The queen is dead, long live the king! "When men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes or film-stars instead, even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison." C. S. Lewis

If you get you get your knickers in a twist thinking a MAGA hat denotes fascism then check out creepy Joe’s speech a week ago in Philadelphia. Mein Gott! Something straight out the 1930s Germany. The set dressed, like at Nuremberg, in the paraphernalia of the fascist state, and flooded with...

Bump for 2022.

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Geez, pot, kettle, black. Nothing very “fair” or “balanced” in you shooting the messenger before you’ve even heard the message. The movie is not even released yet. You evidently don't access points of view that don’t align with your own You’re not alone there. Maybe the progressive CNN is more...

A very well told yarn about Mark Knopfler’s Sultans Of Swing and how it came into being. This is a trip back to mid-1970s London and the tiny Pathway recording studio poked away down a side alley off Grosvenor Ave. (I was all over London in ’74 and ’76 - could have stood next to him in a pub...