February 18th, 2010 by Paul
I was thinking that “You’re So Vain”, from 1972, was the only song by Carly Simon song I knew. I soon found there were a number of others. At the time everyone was trying to work out who the song was about. As it turns out, she now says it was the result of various […]
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February 17th, 2010 by Paul
Arlo Guthrie, the famous son of the famous American folk singer Woody Guthrie, was already a legend himself by the early Seventies when “City Of New Orleans” hit the airwaves. In particular he had made his name with the 18 minute 34 second long “talking blues song” “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree”, better known simply as “Alice’s […]
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February 16th, 2010 by Paul
The J. Geils Band, which started as an acoustic blues trio in the mid Sixties, went on to have a number of hits in the Seventies, including “Looking For A Love”. To be honest, I don’t really remember much, if anything, of them in those years. At the end of the decade they moved somewhat […]
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February 15th, 2010 by Paul
Was 1978 “The Year Of The Cat”, when – I think – I heard the song of the same name by Al Stewart all the time? Well, the song itself apparently came out in 1977. It was helped on its way to success by none other than Alan Parsons, and was, it seems, part of […]
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February 14th, 2010 by Paul
Back in about 1976 I heard country singer Emmylou Harris for the first time, I particularly remember her singing “Shop Around”.
I also connect her with Bob Dylan, I think it was duets or backing on his “Hurricane” album.
And I know I had an album by Emmylou Harris – I figure it must be one of the ones that went missing from my collection by the time I took all my records from New Zealand to Germany a decade later.
Here is a live version of “Shop Around” by Emmylou Harris and the Hot Band:
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