Narrowboat Sessions: A grand day out
It was my pleasure & privilege to visit Chirk Marina in May to record 3 songs for The Narrowboat Sessions. Lovely people, and all in support of a better cause than simply raising my own profile. This is the second of them, Don’t Ever Say...Word Watching #2: Leaning on a lamppost
Bare mention’s enough to set us off, strumming an air banjolele, screwed-up face and a bad imitation of the great man’s Wigan accent: ‘I’m leaning on a lamp-post . . .’ Except, it actually begins: I’m leaning on a lamp, I know I look just like a tramp, Or you...Word watching #1: Blue Velvet
A classic of the Great American Songbook, written by Bernie Wayne and Lee Morris in 1950, a hit for Tony Bennett the following year. Covered by many – here by Bobby Vinton: So I bet you can sing it off the top of your head, right? Wrong, probably. I...Crown of Horn – Martin Carthy: Forgotten Favourites #18
Let’s bend the rules a bit. Of course Crown of Horn is a favourite, but it’s a long way from being forgotten. It’s the record that kick-started my lifelong devotion to folk music and British finger-style guitar. Come with me, back to the musical dead zone of 1976 and...Bar the Doors and Bang the Shutters Down
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