The Velvet Underground

The Temptations

Occasionally there are songs which are just perfect.  This, for me, is one of them.

The Rolling Stones

This is the Rolling Stones in 1964.  This is a long clip.  "It's All Over Now" around the middle of the clip is mesmerising.  I was 8 in 1964 and looking back at this and thinking about these times I realise how different they must have seemed at the time and how the  "lock up your daughters thing" came about.

Jakob Dylan

Daddy is a hard act to follow but he's doing fine!

Alison Krauss and Robert Plant

My favourite song from Raising Sand.

Gram Parsons

I know the stuff about how influential he was and all that but the reason I love this song is because of these lyrics - "And the gun that's hanging on the kitchen wall, dear, is like the roadsign pointing straight to Satan's cage".

Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch

This is a beautiful song.  It was part of the soundtrack for the Coen Brothers film, "Oh Brother Where Art Thou". A while ago I made a CD for my dear friend Naomi, it had this song on it and she liked it.  She died just over two years ago and I miss her.  This song was played at her funeral. 

The Killers song Human really reminds me of Naomi as well.  It was a track that I put on another CD for her and I have a great memory from a time I was staying with her - waking up to the song being played very loudly, early in the morning on a beautiful summer's day .  She played it over and over that day and we danced like we used to dance some 30 years ago...