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Sidetracks & Detours present PASS IT ON 34 weekly walkabout Sunday 7th January 2024

Moscow Drug Club, a place where members can ‘have a smoke’, cock-a-snoop at authority, relax in the musical intimacy of its intoxicating atmosphere ‘where the Reds play the blues’.

culture and tradition, Literary, Music, Uncategorised

THE ESSENTIAL EWAN MacCOLL

MacColl collected hundreds of traditional folk songs, including the version of Scarborough Fair later popularised by Simon & Garfunkel, and released dozens of albums with A.L. Lloyd, Peggy Seeger and others, mostly of traditional folk songs.

culture and tradition, entertainment, Music, Uncategorised

being GUIDED BY VOICES

I don't see it as a science because songs come very naturally to me, but I guess it could be. Sometimes I take a lot of time structuring a song and sometimes they feel pretty autobiographical. Sometimes a song can be somewhat of a study on a topic I'm interested in.

culture and tradition, Music, Performing Arts

ROLL OVER 2023 AND ROCK ON ´24

Hackney Diamonds is worth returning to because of how confident Jagger seems to be throughout—a great shift from A Bigger Bang, where it felt like he was mostly phoning the whole thing in.

culture and tradition, entertainment, Performing Arts

I GLORIFY SPOTIFY

Spotify allows me to create playlists of those songs and artists I enjoy. Furthermore folks, it even creates playlists on my behalf based on the searches I have made and my own created lists.

culture and tradition, entertainment, Music

I don´t play his stuff on my playlists,… NO CHANCE

Ed Ames also recorded "Timeless Love", by Buffy Sainte-Marie, (left) which impresses my hubby because she also wrote Soldier Blue, one of his own favourite songs

culture and tradition, guest writers, sidetracks and detours

Sidetracks And Detours present PASS IT ON 33 weekly walkabout 31st December 2023

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