The Songbook Highway

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 [...]

Listening Theme 43 – Elektra Records

by Paul Adams on Sunday, October 3, 2010 at 1:44pm

Hi all,

I wasn’t going to set a Listening Theme this week (I thought about having a week off) but after just reading an interesting article in MOJO magazine about Elektra Records (currently celebrating 60 years) I’m feeling inspired to check out [...]

Listening Theme 42 – Quincy Jones

by Paul Adams on Friday, September 24, 2010 at 5:14am

Hi all,
On to my third and final (for the time being) artist/producer – Quincy Jones.
Let’s have your recommendations of Quincy Jones’ albums or albums he has produced (plenty there).
Cheers, Paul

Listening Theme 41 – Jeff Lynne

by Paul Adams on Friday, September 17, 2010 at 5:19am

Hi all,

After a week of Brian Eno (thanks for your suggestions), it’s time to move on to my second artist/producer. As some of you may know I’m a bit of an ELO fan so this week it’s got to be the [...]

Listening Theme 38 – Summer

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Yesterday at 5:43am

I’m going on holiday tomorrow (yippee!!) and as I’ve no idea if  I’ll get a chance to listen to any online music next week I thought I’d set this one and see what happens.

I simply want some suggestions for songs with ‘Summer’ or ‘Summertime’ in the title. There are [...]

Listening Theme 37 – Live Aid 25

To mark the 25th Anniversary of Live Aid (13th July 1985) I’m going to try to listen to an album by each performer at the London and Philadelphia
Live Aid concerts*

The only rule is the album must have been released BEFORE the bands Live Aid performance. For instance, U2 performed [...]

Listening Theme 36 – Cuba

Friday at 6:33am

Hello folks,

Thanks to Moira (via Rob) for this suggestion which I will start on Monday morning. So lets have your suggestions of Cuban music/musicians please.

“The Caribbean island of Cuba has developed a wide range of creolized musical styles, based on its cultural origins in Europe and Africa. Since [...]

Listening Theme 35:  X,Y or Z

Hi all,

Monday lunchtime and I haven’t set a new Listening Theme yet – shame on me!.

Here’s something that should keep me occupied this week and should throw up plenty of different music genres. Bands or solo artists (surnames) beginning with the letters X, Y or Z! There’s some obvious [...]