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DEAD GRATEFUL TO GRATEFUL DEAD

Matt Michell, one of the finest among many excellent writers at the Paste on-line site finally accepted the challenge of listing ´the best 20 tracks by the Grateful Dead (left) but prefaced his list by asking  ´
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INSTRUMENTS THAT STICK THEIR NECK OUT

The Theorbo is related to the liuto attiorbato, the French théorbe des pièces, the archlute, the German baroque lute, and the angélique (or angelica).
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SIMPLE MOTION

You pretty much know what you are going to get with an Eric Brace album – lovely melodies, splendid playing, insightful lyrics, great production, and in the case of his duo/trio records, wonderful harmonies. It is all there on this wonderful album
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WOMEN WRITERS:

This Woman's Work also features writing on the experimentalists, women who blended music and activism
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LONG LOST COUSIN WILCO

Norman Warwick hears of a LONG LOST COUSIN WILCO  “Depending on how you look at it, the connection to The Bear was an unfortunate—or fortunate—coincidence,” singer-writer Jeff Tweedy (left) recently told Paste on line…
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PLAYERS PICK THREE COMPOSERS

It felt strange to be sitting in a Lanzarote theatre waiting to welcome Britsh musicians to the stage. This was not a full size St. Martin In The Fields, but was of eight representatives who played beautifully
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INTO SOMETHING GOOD

There turned out to be a good number of artist who crept on to our playlists in 2023 simply because, to use another favourite phrase in the lexicon of Sidetracks And Detours, their names fell out in conversation.
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WHERE THE DEVIL DON´T STAY

 Where the Devil Don’t Stay is more than the story of a great American band; it’s a reflection on the power of music and how it can frame and shape a larger culture

ON THE BELL,..WHO´S THERE?

McCartney is no stranger to writing playful, tongue-in-cheek songs
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BEST OF BORN AGAIN BOB

The general consensus about what transpired is that Dylan, while wallowing in a bit of a swale in both his personal and professional life, had some sort of revelation that made him go all-in with Christianity. This meant that his music would reflect that. Many fans were dumbfounded at the time, and to this day there are Dylan diehards who don’t know quite what to make of it.