I was going to post a link to this video of John Martyn at Cropredy when I heard the sad news, but the truth is, it doesn't do anyone justice.

So listen to the version John Martyn did with Levon Helm instead.

And as an aside, why does Bob Dylan's similarly-paced version¹ sound merely plod...

Because he pointed me to this video.

And now I'm being sucked into a vortex of appalling “scientific” music videos. Alas, the “making” video to accompany that wonderful effort above doesn’t give any of the details I truly want. Are those all employees of the company? How many have PhDs. Is it...

Screw Grant McCracken and his hoity-toity, head-in-the-clouds, ivory-towered objections. I want to see Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver in a TV series. But I probably never will.

I dunno. You wait 28 years for a Bob Dylan concert and then two come along in 8 months. Outdoors at the Auditorium and most entertaining it was too. First off, Italians slow-handclapping because The Man had not appeared by 10 past the appointed hour. How ironic is that? To be honest, their hearts d...

I’m sure there were others, but for me the tribute album thang started with A Vision Shared, a wonderful set of Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly songs. Since then the tribute album has become almost a genre of its own. Several feature prominently on my playlists. I don’t have Springsteen’s We Shall Ov...