Bringing It All Back Home by Bob Dylan was in many eyes (including mine) one of the most important and influential albums of all time. Half the songs had an electric band backing and the lyrics were personal, surreal and poetic and couldn’t have been further from protest song. It was released in March 1965 […]
I am a big fan of many well known songwriters including, of course, Bob Dylan, Richard Thompson, Leonard Cohen and many more. But there are also several less famous songwriters I enjoy just as much as the legends. One of these is Canadian Bruce Cockburn. He’s been releasing albums since the early 70s and his […]
Although I mostly perform songs I have written myself these days I still have a few covers I trot out when in the mood. I’ve always been a massive Dylan fan but first got to know this Dylan song via Brian Auger & Julie Driscoll. This was in the 60s and of course their recording […]