Bobbie Gentry Feature
One of this year’s most exciting reissues was the double-CD (and/or double-vinyl) presentation of Bobbie Gentry’s second album, The Delta Sweete (originally Capitol, 1968). When you see the name Andrew…
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Cheryl Dilcher
The late Cheryl Dilcher left behind four albums, all of which have something to recommend them. Dilcher was an American singer/songwriter (from Pennsylvania) whose first album, the rather prosaically titled…
Murray Head – Nigel Lived
This year has seen some astonishingly good vinyl reissues, foremost among them Laura Nyro on Analog Spark and Pure Pleasure and Judee Sill on Intervention Records. Some vinyl labels do…
TRT World: Showcase
I popped up again on TRT World’s Showcase in January to talk about Sundance Film Festival…
Let There Be More Melissa Manchester…
I had the not inconsiderable pleasure of chatting to singer/songwriter Melissa Manchester while I prepared liner notes for a reissue of four of her early albums. We were also able…
TRT World: Showcase
I returned to Showcase, TRT World’s arts and culture slot, to discuss the MTV Awards in August.
Londoners unfriendly?
Doing some house-keeping and noticed that I hadn’t posted a link to this slightly snotty article about the supposed unfriendliness of Londoners…
Shelagh McDonald, the singer/songwriter feared dead after a thirty-year disappearance, is alive and singing…
In 2005, flicking idly through one of the glossy music monthlies, I spotted a tiny box copy item about a singer/songwriter called Shelagh McDonald who had vanished. No one knew…
Harriet Schock in Conversation…
Forgive me. I’ve been in such chronic pain that for twelve weeks it was simply impossible to sit upright and type. But right now I’m experiencing a rare reprieve. I…