Entries by Norman Warwick

sidetracks & detours present PASS IT ON – The Last Post Sunday 24 11 2024

sidetracks & detours present PASS IT ON – The Last Post Sunday 24 11 2024 Editor: Norman Warwick Writers: Peter Pearson, Michael Higgins, Trevor Bannister, Steve Bewick, Steve Cooke, Graham Marshall Contributors: Alfred Michael, Joseph Aloysius, The Poet In The Rain, Carusoe, Ralph Dent, Akela Listings: Jazz In Reading, Music That´s Going Places, Manchester Folk, […]

RED ELLEN:

RED ELLEN: People’s History Museum exhibition 9th Nov previewed by I love Manchester newsletter This November, the People’s History Museum (PHM)  is shining a spotlight on one of the North’s most indomitable figures, Ellen Wilkinson.(below left) Known as “Red Ellen,” Wilkinson’s legacy as a champion of social justice, a fiery parliamentarian and an indefatigable advocate for the […]

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When Canadian musicians started a revolution SOUTH OF THE BORDER

I look back to when I was one and twenty, as A E Housman would have had it, and feel sure I was in my salad days. I had fallen in love with a generation of songwriters and was enjoying the folksy, pastoral music that was a gentler sibling of rock. We had a stereophonic recording player that was like a piece of furniture and it had a sliding door over the turntable and I often tried to squeeze my head into the cabinet so that I could hear, even better, the fierce emotions wrapped in such laid back and softly sung arrangements. When I married and had a home of our own I was enjoying listening to how this generation of Canadian songwriters began to influence the writers who would forge what we now call Americana.