It’s always a resounding pleasure to talk to Janis Ian, for whose work I’ve had a deep love since my teenage years. Not only was she the first person I…
When American singer/songwriter/pianist Vonda Shepard became a household name in the 90s, thanks to Ally McBeal, I was an immediate convert – and discovered that she’d already made three albums, two…
I visited British singer/songwriter, Sam Brown, in Dorset to discuss a project with a difference – the album Number 8, made in spite of the singer’s almost total loss of…
Stoney (singer Shaun Murphy) and Meatloaf (later styled Meat Loaf) were plucked, like so many talents in the 1970s, from the cast of Hair. They were signed to Motown subsidiary Rare…
In the November 2022 issue of Record Collector (RC 537), I’ve contributed an extensive feature on the late singer/songwriter/backing vocalist, Valerie Carter, speaking to friends, family and collaborators and marking…
Ugh. What was wrong with me up until about 2013? Every cutting of mine, from my first job around 1993 until 20 years later, leaves me cringing so intensely I…
The great singer/songwriter/pianist, Steve Swindells, whose 1974 RCA album, Messages, is a personal favourite, spoke to me for Record Collector, Sept 2022 (RC #535), not only about being out in…
One of the most entertaining music books of recent months (and a stunning feat of research) is Eamonn Forde’s Leaving The Building: The Lucrative Afterlife Of Music Estates (Omnibus Press). For a…
A five-way, covid-era Zoom chat was arranged to herald the augmentation of Woman To Woman with the arrival of Rumer in 2022. I’ve followed the work of these four singer/songwriters…