Recorded in San Francisco in the aftermath of the Love and Peace era with a star studded cast and a bottomless pit budget due to Crosby’s massive success with his other band, If I Could Only Remember My Name made it to No.12 on the US chart in 1971 but received little love from the […]
Sandy Denny’s most famous song, Who Know’s Where The Time Goes was written and recorded in her pre-Fairport Convention days when she was a member of The Strawbs. After recording a demo in 1967, Denny recorded the song again with The Strawbs but it wasn’t released until 1973 on their album All Our Own Work […]
In this video the audience claps at the beauty of Cisneros voice, the mesmerizing warble of her vibrato and the length of time she holds a note. Cisneros hails from Texas and that’s about all I know. She is completely forgotten, has no profile on the internet and it seems that she hasn’t even released any records. […]
Nina Simone to Bob Dylan might not be such a great leap but Joni Mitchell to Nazareth is unlikely. In 1973 Scottish rock band Nazareth recorded This Flight Tonight from Joni Mitchell’s 1971 album, Blue. Nazareth had formed in 1968 and had finally broken into the UK charts with their third album, the Roger Glover produced […]
Having been a founder member of Fairport Convention in 1967, now 40 albums later, it’s hard to keep up with Richard Thompson’s prolific output and his constant reinventing of himself. This is him live solo acoustic at a Joni Mitchell tribute concert from 2001 with Joni in the audience, eyes closed tapping into his magic […]
Joni Mitchell, singer, writer, painter, was interviewed by Jian Ghomeshi for CBC earlier this year. The interview was 1hr.45min and I found myself watching the whole thing uninterrupted late at night. There will never be enough time to ask her every question you want to because her body of work is so vast, consequently it seems […]