We Are The Music Makers; John Ellis considers EVOLUTION AFTER LOCKDOWN
EVOLUTION AFTER LOCKDOWN
Steve Bewick talks to John Ellis as Norm listens in
john Ellis
Several years ago, Steve Bewick, my co-radio presenter and I interviewed musician and record producer John Ellis, who was a name I…
KIRSTY CROSSES MUSICAL BRIDGES
KIRSTY CROSSES MUSICAL BRIDGES
By Norman Warwick
Kirsty Almedia, and her band The Troubadours, played a selection of Winter Songs one evening, a few years ago, that warmed the hearts of a large audience that had turned out on the…
BURLY CHASSIS BREAKS A SHOE
BURLY CHASSIS BREAKS A SHOE
By Norman Warwick
According to https://www.facebook.com/MetroUK/ Dame Shirley Bassey is releasing her first new album in more than five years, to celebrate her 70-year career in showbiz. The album is being…
We are the music makers: BILL MORRISSEY, a novel in three verses and a chorus
BILL MORRISSEY, a novel in three verses and a chorus
By Norman Warwick
Bill Morrissey: photograph by Hervé Oudet
Unless you have bought any of his dozen or so albums you probably won´t have heard of Bill Morrissey. I thought for…
BEWARE A GEEK BEARING GIFTS
BEWARE A GEEK BEARING GIFTS
By Norman Warwick
Pete Benbow
Over the last four decades or so I collected about fifty albums by two particular singer-writers, John Stewart and Townes Van Zandt. It has all been the fault of Pete Benbow,…
NEVER A GEEK
NEVER A GEEK
By Norman Warwick
It all started, I guess when I was eight years old and my godparent, ´Auntie´ Jennifer, who lived over the mountains from us in Sheffield sent me a book as a birthday present. I could tell by the shape…
WHAT WE MEAN WHEN WE SPEAK OF DYLAN: part 5 conclusion of Sidetracks & Detours Dylan week
WHAT WE MEAN WHEN WE SPEAK OF DYLAN
by Norman Warwick
What people mean when they speak of Dylan can be as difficult to decipher as are his own lyrics. Usually what is said about him, or even to him, is agendised: Questions are cleverly…
VISIONS OF SIN: part 4 of Sidetracks & Detours Dylan week
VISIONS OF SIN:
By Norman Warwick
I had emigrated to take up residency here on Lanzarote only a month earlier when I watched in horror the on-line news footage that showed that I had lost the thousands of books and cds I had left in the…
TANGLED UP IN THE BLUES part 3 Sidetracks & Detours Dylan week
TANGLED UP IN THE BLUES
part 3 Sidetracks & Detours´ Dylan week
By Norman Warwick with Steve Bewick
This episode of the Sidetracks & Detours Dylan serial leads us Beyond The Blues, offering us a glimpse of Robert Johnson,…
INVESTIGATING MURDER MOST FOUL: Part 2 Sidetracks &; Detours Dylan week with Steve Bewick &; Norman Warwick
INVESTIGATING MURDER MOST FOUL
Norman Warwick & Steve Bewick examine the epic Dylan track
It might seem surprising that the names of so many jazz artists have been brought in for questioning about a Murder Most Foul, the song in…