Rare music
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‘Sunshine Follows You’ – A new soul classic written and performed by Terry Carvey, produced by Owen Vyse. Who is going to make this a hit? Read more
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Christmas is a time the distance that separates people who love one another should magically be made to disappear. There are songs that deal with this theme, but none that really connected with me, so I wrote some lyrics. ‘The Other Half of my Heart’ is the result. My good friend Nigel Black suggested I… Read more
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I recently took part in a pilot with Patrick Woodward called Memory Box that my sister-in-law Lynne (Angel) Kerr is initiating in which you pick your nine most influential tracks from childhood to the present day and talk about what they mean to you – which is then recorded as a kind of podcast and… Read more
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More Indie love songs, but this time the emotional dial has been turned up to maximum. Here are 35 songs that will make you cry. It’s time to reflect on life, death, the loves you lost and the fast cars you drove past the people and the places you’ve left behind. Nick Clegg has used… Read more
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I first stumbled across Tracey Thorn on the Cherry Red compilation ‘Pillow and Prayers’ in 1983. She had three songs on the album under her own name, The Marine Girls and Everything but the Girl. I was astounded by the maturity, magical resonance and mellifluous marshmellowness of her voice. I also loved the feeling of… Read more
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Jon Hirsch is a dreamer, inventor, perfectionist and musician. He combines all these qualities in the form of his life’s obsession. Creating his own guitar. Like me, he’s listened to all the greats, wondered at the strange blend of spiritual transcendence and sheer down to earth sweat and toil involved in making a guitar sing.… Read more
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It’s January 2011 and the Atlantic rain is driving in on the unlimited causeway of my mind as I sit in one of the quieter moments of another new start, new year. As always at these times, I have the music. Read more
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Volume Three of The Greatest Indie Love Songs in the World, this time mainly from across the ocean, from the land of the free, from The Decembrists to Conor Oberst and a song from a little Irish band that will linger with you.. Read more
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Never thought you would hear another track as good as Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’? At last, one has arrived. Lissie’s ‘In Sleep’ from her ‘Catching a Tiger’ album featured a coruscating yet agonisingly beautiful guitar run from Eric Sullivan. Listen and weep. A classic is born. Read more
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