Janis Ian Interview
Here I go, gradually replenishing the site with content that was lost during an update (roughly mid-2020 to late 2023 – ugh). I don’t think I can face trying to…
Human Interest
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Starting Over
Ugh… the eagle-eyed among visitors (should I get any, and Google Analytics suggests I do, so thank you for coming) may have noticed that all post-2020 content has vanished. This…
Charlie Dore Interview
Charlie Dore, the British singer/songwriter who had a big US hit with her first single in the late 1970s (‘Pilot Of The Airwaves) and went on to write for Sheena…
Blinky Interview
Blinky Williams (born Sondra Williams) was and is Motown’s most unjustly overlooked star – and if there were any doubts about that, they were scotched when the terrific Blinky anthology,…
Laurie Styvers
Undeservedly obscure artist #2 is American singer/songwriter, Laurie Styvers, who made three albums in the UK in the early 1970s. The first appeared when she was part of folk-rock outfit,…
Maria Mckee Interview
I spoke to singer/songwriter, Maria Mckee, for the March 2020 issue of Record Collector (you can read a sneak preview here). When I first heard that Maria was returning to…
Ruth Copeland Interview
Few singers have had such interesting career and life trajectories as Ruth Copeland. For years, I’ve wanted to write about her and was both thrilled and disappointed when Mojo got…
Maxayn Reloaded Liner Notes (2017)
A project I took great pleasure in helping to create in 2017 was a long overdue collection, anthologising in their entirety the three groundbreaking funk-rock albums of Maxayn, the group…
New Release! Polly Niles – Expanded Edition CD
Hot on the heels of the Rare Record Club vinyl release of Polly Niles’s lost Ember Records album, Sunshine In My Rainy Day Mind, here comes the CD version. The…