I downloaded a couple of tracks from Patti Smith’s covers album and it put more in the mood for a bit of the same: that is, cover versions.  So I thought I’d bung a few up.  Add your favourites. Also, I’m trying to finish another project at the moment so will be a bit pre-occupied [...]

Little tribute to the Boss, I’d guess you’d call this.  Dark Daze Cafe is on a mission to sell me on Patty Griffin (mission accomplished?), so he sent me this clip of Patti doing Springsteen’s song, ‘Stolen Car’.  Of course, YouTube being YouTube, one thing led to another, including a very nice live rendition by [...]

Some tracks for the weekend jukebox, all of them women doing interesting things. First up, Australian, Caitlin Park (great name). You’ll notice this is an embed from the moshcam.com website, so you get a few songs from a live gig. Great feature, esp as I don’t think she has released any albums. (Happy to be [...]

Just for the hell of it, I thought I’d start popping up some songs on the weekend. No theme, no agenda, just stuff I’ve stumbled across that I mightn’t otherwise get a chance to mention. This is one I happened to see on an old episode of Later with Jools Holland. The artist is Julie [...]