It Starts With a Birthstone...

Sydney, Australia's Black Springs released their debut album When We Were Great  earlier on this year and fortunately they still ar...

A fairly straight take on the Roy Orbison original which Campbell took to # 31 in the US Billboard Singles Chart in 1971.

This is Steff Chura, a slim young woman wearing striking big glasses, from Detroit, Michigan, whose debut album Messes  I've been r...

The stand out song, (or at least the most exuberant and funniest moment), on Randy Newman's new album Dark Matter. A lesson from a ...

It's all in the unanswered questions. Where is he driving from (somewhere in California presumably). Where's he driving to? And...

A journey as deep into the heart of the late sixties hippie dream as you could possibly hope to take. This will doubtless leave some li...

Truman Capote, certainly no big girl's blouse. Strangely, it is Portland Oregon band Blouse paying tribute here however.

An ambiguous song this one. A tale of a woman going about her mundane life and ageing, dreaming of the alternative lives she could have...

Featured, memorably, in Stand By Me.

Manchester's The Chameleons occupy a special place in terms of the great cult bands. Fans have a tendency to ludicrously eulogise th...

Another nice evening out for a couple of pints with Big Adrian. This was his selection and it was a very fine choice. Never heard this ...

A remarkable record and probably Babe Wallace's most lasting musical legacy. Wallace lived some life. A bouncer, singer, actor, wri...

New from The Hinds. A cover of a Kevin Ayers song. But they make it all very Hinds-like.

A lesson in life. When you're going through one of life's inevitable lulls don't go into your local and take it out on the ...

As with Everything a Man Could Ever Need , this is necessary filler between the glorious peaks of this album. There's very little t...

Edith Piaf, after all, said it better than most of us. But it's big of Sparks to put their hands up here ahead of their new album H...

How Do You Spell Heaven the new record by Guided By Voices, is essentially business as usual. Fabulous, fridge magnet song titles, meat...

One of the mainstay TV programmes of my late teenage years and early twenties, (when you had more time and inclination to consume such ...

The first of the three Jimmy Webb  'town' songs that are the cornerstones of this record and together mark Campbell's claim...

Marvelous occasional indie supergroup Cinema Red & Blue, made up of members of Crystal Stilts, Comet Gain, Pale Lights, The Clean a...

Whoever would have thought that Climate Change might be a good thing! It is in the hands of Australian three-piece Display Homes and th...

A very pleasant Monday night in Rosie's. This was Big Adrian's request. Never the coolest option back in the day, but I was sur...

Written by Mac Davis and the first single taken from Campbell's 1970 album Norwood. Perhaps a bit of a filler in the company it fin...

A couple of songs from the latest Gold Star record Big Blue. Simple song titles, simple songs in the tradition of Neil Young's Harv...

Neat, atmospheric track from the soundtrack of Pawn Sacrifice, a 2015 film about the 1972 Fischer / Spassky chess match in Reykjavik. ...

The rolling tune is great but it's the wonderful lyrics here that make this song: 'It's knowing that your door is alway...

Texan oddball Bill Baird released a couple of wonderful albums a few weeks back. One a night-time, the other a daytime record. This com...

I've been spending rather too much time in Rosie's of late so I've got rather a backlog on this particular series. I've...

Glen Campbell died a few days back. This had been anticipated for a while as he had been suffering from Alzheimer's for a few years...

'Who Married Jane Fonda' ask Norwegian Velvets, Jesus and Mary Chain, and Spacemen 3 fetishists Rancho Relaxo on their 2015 alb...

There are glass half full bands and glass half empty bands. Walla Walla Washington's Chastity Belt belong firmly in the latter cate...

San Francisco's Cool Ghouls come across as younger cousins of LA's Allah Las. Both have a strong affinity with the wonderful mu...