IN THE MINDS OF MEN?
Daddy is very different from The Girls, its style more crisp than the earlier novel’s dreaminess. But it does share with its predecessor a feeling of dread: in every story, there is a heavy sense of a shoe about to drop
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Entries by Norman Warwick
Sidetracks And Detours present PASS IT ON weekly walkabout 23 Sunday 22nd October 2023
my mind recently cast back to Sunday 15th October 1989 when John Stewart appeared with Hugh Moffatt as support at the Flying Picket in Liverpool-a gig which Geoff Davies promoted.
TOM WAITS LIKE A SONG-NOIR AMONG THE BOOKS
: from his soft, folk-inflected debut, Closing Time in 1973, to the abrasive, surreal Swordfishtrombones in 1983.
Visual Artist Micaela Cometa Xerra
My works can be found in private and corporate collections and I’m currently represented by “Los Colores de La Isla” in the Lanzarote Art Gallery and Lanzarote Airport Internacional Cesar Manriquez;
RIDING BACK TO BLUEGRASS
Willie. Nelson is a legend. In the end, fans can only say “thank you” for all the artist’s music. And here’s to record No. 75, whenever it’s set to come out and whatever it may be. In the meantime, we can jam to the tunes on Bluegrass.
COUNTRY ROADS
In “All of My Memories,” Denver longed for home while out on the road. Amid a never-ending cycle of hotel rooms and long, endless highways, Denver dreams of more pastoral settings—the only place that seems fitting for the singer to be.
DON SCHLITZ: A DESERVED AWARD
Schlitz explained that he feels his role is to be a bridge between the crowd’s favourite artists that may not be around to sing for them anymore—to act as a placeholder for that relationship.
Sidetracks and Detours present PASS IT ON weekly walkabout Sunday Supplement 22 Sunday 15th October 2023
The Adsubian Gallery is one of our favourite galleries even though at the moment it is an item in our bucket list, that we have marked to visit before we die. I think it is perhaps because everything about the venue that we have learned about on-line and from their newsletters suggest they are a kindred spirit of the The Touchstones Arts and Heritage Centre, where I used to work as a facilitator with my Just Poets educational group.
THE BELOVED VISION
In this complete, entertaining, and singularly readable account, we come to understand the entire phase in music history that has become the mainstay of the twentieth and twenty-first century concert and operatic repertoire.
FOLK ARE TALKING-UP FOLK MUSIC
October is here, and so are English Folk Expo (EFEx) to remind us that Manchester Folk Festival is just around the corner! EFE are thrilled to offer another unforgettable celebration of folk music, and can’t wait to see you there.
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