The Songbook Highway

Listening Theme 66: Drummers
by Paul Adams on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 5:58am
Hi, and a belated Happy New Year to you all.

I thought I’d start a new Listening Theme year with a bang and have a theme celebrating some of our great drummers, past and present, any genre – rock, jazz, you name it.

Just recommend [...]

by Paul Adams on Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 5:26am

Hi all,

The next few Listening Themes will concentrate on some of our greatest songwriters – first off is Leonard Cohen. I’ll be listening to his recordings and covers of his songs by other artists. As usual, I’d be grateful of any recommendations you [...]

Listening Theme (Songbook Highway EXCLUSIVE!) – The Power Ballad

Here you go, a Listening Theme just for Songbook Highway visitors. My Listening Theme project usually appears on my Facebook page (and duplicated here) but this time my Facebook friends and regular Listening Theme participants will have to come over to here for a [...]

Listening Theme 62 – Leiber and Stoller

by Paul Adams on Thursday, September 8, 2011 at 5:46am

Hi all,

To mark the passing of Jerry Leiber a couple of weeks ago, I’ll be dedicating my next Listening Theme to the music of Leiber & Stoller.

http://leiberstoller.com/Discography.html

Using this comprehensive discography as my guide (and with your suggestions [...]

Listening Theme 59 – Brum

by Paul Adams on Thursday, July 7, 2011 at 1:46pm

Hi all,

After a bit of a break it’s time to get back to my Listening Themes – I haven’t forgotten.

I’ve been thinking about Birmingham and the West Midlands a bit lately. Firstly I’ve been really busy producing some maps of [...]

Listening Theme 58 – Bob Dylan

by Paul Adams on Friday, May 20, 2011 at 4:55am

Okay, for all those of you that have been wondering why I haven’t had a Bob Dylan Listening Theme yet – relax, here it is!

The reason for the delay was that my main source of online music (we7.com) only [...]

Listening Theme 57 – US Punk

by Paul Adams on Saturday, May 7, 2011 at 3:50pm

Hi all,

Time for another Listening Theme and seeing as I’ve covered British punk a year or two back I thought it’s about time I took a look at the US punk scene. Let’s have some suggestions as to [...]

Listening Theme – Royal Wedding Special

by Paul Adams on Thursday, April 28, 2011 at 5:03am

Hi all,

I’m sure it hasn’t escaped your notice but it’s the ‘Big Day’ tomorrow and seeing as the media is going wedding crazy I thought I might as well jump on the bandwagon and have a special Royal [...]

Listening Theme 56 – Woodstock Festival

by Paul Adams on Saturday, April 9, 2011 at 3:34pm

Hi all,

For the next couple of weeks I’m going to focus on the Woodstock Festival of 1969. The idea being to go through the list of acts (in performance order – starting with Richie Havens and finishing with [...]