I have focused on here before on some of my favourite guitarists , bassists and drummers , perhaps thinking that singers get enough of the limelight as it is. But there is one particular group of singers that has intrigued me for a while. When I think of the great singing voices of the last sixty years or so, the really great ones I mean, there are some clusters across the years. There was a high volume of supreme singers coming out of the high-end jazz of the 1950s/60s (Ell

First, let's set some context. Of course, some of you may have heard of this album, but the chances are, most of you will not know the...

A couple of things this last week - one a sadly unfolding saga of a band crumbling in front of our eyes, the other a very specific (and...

And so we continue. With things still somewhat of a struggle, we are keeping on with our series of decade playlists. This time we roll...

It's time to delve into '6 Degrees of Kevin Shields' again. This time we work our way towards Kevin Shields, starting from Chicago indie...

An occasional collection of songs suggested for you using a given theme. Today we look at 'Colours' songs. To make it more challenging, I...