I’ve never deliberated so much over whether to feature a song here as I have with ’74–’75 by The Connells. I’ve had it in my collection for years, but could never really connect with it, feeling out of the loop…
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Symphony No 3 In A Minor (Scottish) Op 56 – Mov. 2 Vivace Non Troppo – Felix Mendelssohn
For some inexplicable reason, I’d overlooked this Mendelssohn piece for years. Having listened to it again recently, I can say it’s grown on me considerably. This second movement from his Symphony No. 3 is a brisk and chirpy piece, so…
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Digger – Alejandro González Iñárritu (Friday’s Finest)
It’s difficult to know where to start when discussing the latest Tom Cruise movie, Digger, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman, The Revenant). It’s so dense, absurdist and polemical that I’m not sure how to cover everything I want to…
Wiyathul – Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that this post contains images, voices and names of people who have died. It was only about a month ago I presented another song by Geoffrey called Wirrpangu, unbeknownst to me that…
Monkey Man – The Rolling Stones
Hell would be coming back as Keith Richards’ teeth, or mine for that matter. For that reason, I bought this two-litre bottle of mouthwash yesterday to help protect my gums, especially where all my fillings decided they’d had enough, or…
Wreck on the Highway – Bruce Springsteen
I nearly died in a car crash in my mid-30s. I often wonder if I did, in fact, die and everything after is just a lucid dream. You can never be sure. My favourite quote, which rings more true to…
Beautiful Strangers – Mavis Staples
Purvis Staples and the Staple Singers – long before they were on Stax they were on Epic and they were one of my favorite groups of all time. I met them all in ’62 or ’63. They heard my songs…
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After the Fact – Syd Taylor
After The Fact is the title track from Syd Taylor’s debut 2025 album, which was written and produced entirely by Taylor in her Los Angeles apartment. I like this song whenever it comes on my player. It has a late-’50s…
Good Enough – Molly Tuttle
I came across Molly Tuttle’s music recently and I’ve liked a lot of what I’ve heard. What impressed me straight off the bat was her exceptional guitar playing and the melodic appeal of her music. It came as no big…
Where Teardrops Fall – Bob Dylan
Where Teardrops Fall is from Bob Dylan’s 1989 Oh Mercy record, which many critics and fans alike call Dylan’s “comeback record” after the preceding Knocked Out Loaded and Down In The Groove records were almost universally scorned. So when the…
