With John Prine song-writing is A WALK IN THE PARK

Miranda Lambert had a hit with John Prine´s That´s The Way The World Goes Round, or what had long become otherwise known as the happy enchilada song for reasons that Terry Wogan would have appreciated with his love of mondagreens.

MUSIC UNTIL ETERNITY PASSES AWAY

Some reviewer I am. I don´t know where to begin to describe tonight´s incredible concert other than waffle on, as above, in the hope the words will fall to the floor and rearrange themselves, Countdown fashion, into something that makes a vague sense.

FIONA ROSS joins up Jazz

The Arts are so powerful. They make you feel like anything and everything is possible. I don't like barriers.

REAL ALE AND GOOD CONVERSATION

´Spencer's songs came out of a 1970s scene that blurred folk, punk and pub rock, but were grounded in the work of the likes of Woody Guthrie and John Lee Hooker. Between 1974 and 1978, he gigged and recorded with his group, the Louts, then, in 1980, teamed up a collective of musicians who outgrew the Albion Band to become the Home Service. This group represented a major development in folk-rock, and members of it featured in variants of the John Spencer Alternative.

a blur of legs and arms; TWO TONE

Punk had opened the doors for all-girl bands like us. The energy levels on those tours was insane. The Specials would get the audience on stage. Venues just weren’t built for that many people jumping. At one gig on a pier I looked down and I could see the sea beneath the floor. Afterwards there’d be schoolgirl pranks like apple pie beds and water pistols. I was 20. Miranda [Joyce, saxophone] was 16.

I looked away and lost a  JEWEL

So, when I turned my head for just a few moments and twenty six years Jewel had crafted for herself a laudable career and achieved a great deal of admirable charity work

THE LEGEND LORETTA WILL ALWAYS BE

Where would I be withouty those songs that Loretta wrote

FOLK IN HIGH PLACES

September's Official Folk Albums Chart has been announced, featuring a new top seller and eight other new entries that demonstrate the breadth of music to be found within the wider folk genre.

MUSIC MEANDERS ALONG M62 AND M60

Whilst it is not wholly unreasonable to conjecture that bees and even educated fleas do it, bursting into song is something that Rochdale Jazz Club audiences have historically held should be strictly the for the birds or - more politically correctly perhaps – for the fairer sex.  As the incomparable Monsieur Chevalier recommended, we unfailingly 'Thank Avians For Little Girls'?

MIKE NESMITH  walked to the beat of a different drum.

Nesmith created a video clip for "Rio", which helped spur Nesmith's creation of a television program called PopClips for the Nickelodeon cable network. In 1980, PopClips was sold to the Time Warner/Amex consortium. Time Warner/Amex developed PopClips into the MTV network.