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JAKE BLOUNT & COUNTLESS FRIENDS DISPLAY GENERATIONAL RECIPROCITY

JAKE BLOUNT & COUNTLESS FRIENDS GENERATIONAL RECIPROCITY Norman Warwick mingles meet in THE SHADED AREA BETWEEN CIRCLES I know I´m always talking about Venn Diagrams and here I go again. My forty three year old son…
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When Canadian musicians started a revolution SOUTH OF THE BORDER

I look back to when I was one and twenty, as A E Housman would have had it, and feel sure I was in my salad days. I had fallen in love with a generation of songwriters and was enjoying the folksy, pastoral music that was a gentler sibling of rock. We had a stereophonic recording player that was like a piece of furniture and it had a sliding door over the turntable and I often tried to squeeze my head into the cabinet so that I could hear, even better, the fierce emotions wrapped in such laid back and softly sung arrangements. When I married and had a home of our own I was enjoying listening to how this generation of Canadian songwriters began to influence the writers who would forge what we now call Americana.
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THE UNIVERSE IN THE WORD

a poetry reading event organised by the hard-working arts enthusiast Mercedes Minguela
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SONG TOWN: a site for songwriters

we Since looking at a couple of our favourite songwriters yesterday, in Sidetracks & Detours, our writing team, (music-lovers all) have been constantly discussing particular songwriters, such as Townes Van Zandt,, Guy Clark, John Stewart, Nanci Griffith and Mary Chapin-Carpenter (American all). We therefore added a couple of great British song-writers ,  and the names that fell out in conversation included Gary Hall, Richard Thompson, Elvis Costello, the wonderful late John B Spencer and Julie Matthews.ti
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ELLIOTT SMITH Roman Candles: Count To Thirty

In every piece of music Elliott Smith released, I hear a restlessness I’ve yet to fully pin down
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RUNNERS AND RIDERS

John Stewart had a wonderful affinity with horses, and that is reflected in the three selections he has earned on this compilation of Runners And Riders
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WORDS RUN IN THE KENYON FAMILY

It read: “Olga Kenyon has performed a service to all who are interested not only in the written word, but in the changing lives of women”.
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FLY ON THE WALL PRESS

Greater Manchester can boast a plethora of excellent creative writing groups but I do feel that not enough authors go to a writing group. There’s a good one in Manchester called the Monday Night Group that meets every week at the Britons Protection pub.
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KATHY´S SONG for a girl I never knew

One of those songs I loved on the radio was Kathy´s Song by Paul Simon with a beautiful little guitar riff behind lyrics of his yearning for a girl who lived in a different country,
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TOWNES VAN ZANDT: man, myth and memories

I have a vivid personal memory of an occasion when I was working as a freelance journalist alongside the independent and excellent Stampede Promotions, a small two man operation that pledged the best-but-overlooked American singer-writers to the UK on small tours of some perhaps unlikely places.