The Songbook Highway

Listening Theme 55 – Las Vegas

by Paul Adams on Monday, April 4, 2011 at 5:13am

Hi all,
Here’s a nice little theme suggested to me by Miss Trixie Martha. She contacted me a week or so back to suggest I listened to songs about (or bands from) LAS VEGAS. A quick Google led to quite a few [...]

Listening Theme 54 – France

by Paul Adams on Tuesday, March 15, 2011 at 6:23am

Hi all,

This week I’ve been listening to a new album by a couple of French DJs who perform under the name of The Shoes, a great album called Crack My Bones (a bit dancey, not normally into dance music but I [...]

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Listening Theme 53 – BeBop Jazz

by Paul Adams on Saturday, February 26, 2011 at 1:24pm

Hi all,
Let’s start a new Listening Theme shall we?

I’ve decided that it’s about time I started going back to check out some
sub-genres of the types of music I’ve already covered. One of the ‘big
ones’ was Jazz which I did early on [...]

Listening Theme 52 – 1966

by Paul Adams on Thursday, February 3, 2011 at 12:01pm

Hello Folks,

It’s my 45th birthday next week and I feel as though I ought to mark the occasion somehow and I can’t think of a better way than to hold a special Listening Theme (yes you’re right, I CAN think of a [...]

Listening Theme 51 – David Bowie

by Paul Adams on Saturday, January 15, 2011 at 3:18pm

Hello folks,
Time for another Listening Theme, and for the next couple of weeks I’ve decided to concentrate my listening on the works of David Bowie (solo,
collaborations, movie soundtracks, live albums and covers by other artistes) so if you’ve got any favourites, [...]

Listening Theme 48 – Christmas Music Marathon 2010

by Paul Adams on Monday, December 6, 2010 at 8:48am

“Sleigh bells ring, are you listening,
In the lane, snow is glistening”
… well ‘slush is glistening‘
here in the UK as last weeks snow has almost disappeared. However, the landscape last week did give me the idea for this year’s music [...]

Listening Theme 47 – Ray Davies & The Kinks

by Paul Adams on Saturday, November 27, 2010 at 12:25am

Hi all,
Ray Davies has a new album out (in the UK at least, I believe the US will have to wait until March – sorry). As the title suggests “See My Friends” is a collaborative album featuring reworkings [...]

Listening Theme 46 – The Greatest Debut Albums Of All Time

by Paul Adams on Tuesday, November 9, 2010 at 5:12am

Hi all,

Now here’s a theme that could have endless possibilities. Let’s face it, every band/artist has put out a debut album but not all can be called classics. I would like your recommendations for the Greatest [...]

Listening Theme 44 – Liverpool

by Paul Adams on Thursday, October 14, 2010 at 6:53am

Hi all,

For the next couple of weeks I’m going to concentrate on bands and artistes from Liverpool (or Merseyside at a stretch)

- I’m sure you can all think of at least one Liverpudlian band (hmm, who could that be?) but as I’m [...]