KSHE KLASSICS SHOW, June 28th, 2020

[As you may or may not know, i live in Canada, and for some reason KSHE doesn't stream their audio to here; i have to connect via a VPN, to spoof a non-Canadian address. This week, according to https://whatismyipaddress.com/ i was listening from Chicago. I think this is only the second time i've been there. I've actually been to the airport, but i've always wanted to visit the city itself in “real life” -- whatever that is – but nowadays virtual travel is the only way to go.]

Quotation Of The Week ~ Kim Mitchell: I feel square in a world that's round, i feel like a skinny Buddha.

What a shame about Chicago – the group, that is, not the city i'm visiting this week. Their first three or four albums were mostly brilliant, and although they released some great music after that, the rot was setting in and by the time of their eighth album, they were pretty much unlistenable. I know, because i bought it. Terry Kath had died and Peter Cetera was moving the band into vapid MOR drivel – the stuff that made him a fortune when he finally left the band and began his solo career, but the damage had been done. What a shame, then, that John Ulett chose a truly dire song of theirs for his show today. Well, he liked it – he said so – but it was probably the worst song he played today. (The Harry Chapin was a close contender.)

Otherwise, though, it was a wonderful four hours, and i'm grading it am “A+” -- not least because of the Mama's Pride track. (Gotta support the hometown boys!) Apart from the two dogs mentioned above, there was nothing annoying – not even the Ted Nugent, which was generic rock but not awful. The first hour alone was like listening to my own record collection.

Further, there were two musical moments when i actually laughed out loud – it's not something i do very often these days. Hearing “Go Now!” by The Moody Blues – a song i hadn't heard since maybe 1922 -- was such a delightful surprise, and then the long version of Arlo's “Motorcycle Song” -- in which he explains why he doesn't want that damned pickle – hilarious!

Stay safe and sane, everyone! Here's a pic of my friend Archy – India's only professional bagpipe player (what, you were expecting a photo of Ted Nugent?) – followed by the playlist. 

 

Billy Joel – Streetlife Serenader

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Almost Cut My Hair

The Beatles – Doctor Robert

The James Gang – Alexis

Rush – Nobody's Hero

Loggins & Messina – Vahevala

Van Morrison – Moondance

Jimmie Spheeris – The Nest

Robin Trower – Somebody Calling

Country Joe McDonald – Hold On It's Coming

Elton John – Take Me To The Pilot

Traffic – John Barleycorn

Rainbow – Long Live Rock And Roll

Joe Walsh – Welcome To The Club

Harry Chapin – I Wanna Learn A Love Song

Heartsfield – Lost Love

Joe Cocker – Delta Lady

Def Leppard – Rock Brigade

Kansas – Icarus (Borne On The Wings Of Steel)

Black Oak Arkansas – Uncle Lijah

Ted Nugent – Workin' Hard, Playin' Hard

Yes – Rhythm Of Love

The Little River Band – Every Day Of My Life

Neil Young – This Note's For You

The Marshall Tucker Band – Fire On The Mountain

Genesis – Follow You, Follow Me

UFO – Cherry

The Hollies – Another Night

Supertramp – School

Rare Earth – Born To Wander

Steely Dan – King Of The World

Mama's Pride – Guard Your Heart

Fleetwood Mac – Blue Letter

Paul McCartney – Beware My Love

The Moody Blues – Go Now!

Chicago – Alive Again

Prism – Virginia

Arlo Guthrie – The Motorcycle Song

Triumvirat – Spartacus

The Steve Gibbons Band – Speed Kills

String Driven Thing – Josephine

Foghat – Honey Hush

OK, I'm flattening the curve on the list of schtuff that troubled the optical drive on the Spriggs Tower's state-of-the-art Windows 95 computer last week, thanks to one 4-cd set (Faces) and one 3-disc deluxe reissue (Renaissance).

Davy Spillane – Atlantic Bridge

Yes – Tormato

The Incredible String Band – Wee Tam And The Big Huge

Jefferson Starship – Spitfire

Renaissance – Scheherazade & Other Stories

Saga – Saga

Free – Fire And Water

Madonna – American Life

Baka Beyond – Spirit Of The Forest

Portishead – Third

Faces – Five Guys Walk Into A Bar...

Jefferson Starship – Red Octopus

The Pointer Sisters – The Best Of The Pointer Sisters

Renaissance – Live At Carnegie Hall

Bob Dylan – The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Kesha – Rainbow

Eliza Gilkyson – Land Of Milk And Honey

Dixie Chicks – Fly

Chicago – Chicago V

Genesis – Abacab

Wishbone Ash – Nouveau Calls

Sinéad O'Connor – Throw Down Your Arms

Rod Stewart – Every Picture Tells A Story

Pyewackett – Pyewackett

Joni Mitchell – Don Juan's Reckless Daughter

Siouxsie & The Banshees – A Kiss In The Dreamhouse

The Oyster Band – Step Outside

Various Artists – Songs Of Our Native Daughters

Jackson Browne – Lives In The Balance

10 c.c. -- The Best Of 10 c.c.

Blue Őyster Cult – On Flame With Rock And Roll

Annie Haslam – Annie In Wonderland

Various Artists – Best Of 2004

Paul Simon – The Rhythm Of The Saints

The Vaughan Brothers – Family Style

The Tea Party -- Tangents

KSHE KLASSICS SHOW, June 21st, 2020

[As you may or may not know, i live in Canada, and for some reason KSHE doesn't stream their audio to here; i have to connect via a VPN, to spoof a non-Canadian address. This week, according to https://whatismyipaddress.com/ i was listening from Pine Brook Hill, Colorado, pop. 1045. I've never been there before!]

Quotation Of The Week ~ Benjamin Franklin: I didn't fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

Oh, it was a difficult show to grade this week. There were a few songs that i love, a lot that were enjoyable but ordinary and then REO effing Speedwagon, a group that really irritates me, and i almost went with a relatively low (for this show) grade of “B+.” Then i considered how much i really do love some of the songs and more toleramt heads prevailed so i'll go a little, teeny tiny bit better and say “A-”.

I think that my favourite song this morning was Kayak's “I Want You To Be Mine.” No, really: it was a rare treat. There were certainly songs that i loved more, but i hadn't heard Kayak's in such a long time. The great songs by Billy Joel, The Beatles and The Byrds (just to mention the letter “b”) are songs i play at home regularly.

I learned some things this morning, too, thanks to the host John Ulett (a.k.a. Uman). Fleetwood Mac's song “World Turning” was actually written 'way back when by founding member of the band Peter Green. However, Buckingham-Nicks “adapted” it just enough that they wouldn't have to pay songwriter royalties to him. This was rather naughty of them, i think (although it's a fairly common practice in the cut-throat world of the music biz, where songwriting credits are the real goldmine.) As the album it came from, Rumours, sold approximately a gazillion copies, Peter would have been set up for life. It's a shame. (The same thing happened to blues legend Memphis Minnie, who wrote “When The Levee Breaks” and which Led Zeppelin covered, and although she actually did receive a writing credit on the album, she never received a cent in royalties and died in poverty.) (There's a rumour that Bonnie Raitt paid for her headstone.)

I also learned that The Byrds' “So You Want To Be A Rock 'N' Roll Star” was inspired by The Monkees. The Monkees were a “manufactured” group and pretty much dismissed as a joke at the time, but the members were quite talented and although i didn't care for them then, i have since come to realise that they were a superb pop group.

Anyway, here's a (rather unfair IMO) image of why the Canada / U.S. border remains closed, and the playlist:

Triumph – Just A Game

Eric Clapton – Blues Power

Fleetwood Mac – World Turning

Kansas – Got To Rock On

Chicago – Make Me Smile

Leon Russell – Blue Bird

UFO – Rock Bottom

Glencoe – Airport

Billy Joel – New York State Of Mind

Spirit – Fresh Garbage

Nazareth – Miss Misery

Neil Young – The Needle And The Damage Done

The Byrds – So You Want To Be A Rock 'N' Roll Star

REO Speedwagon – Take Me

Phil Collins – It Don't Matter To Me

It's A Beautiful Day – Don And Dewey

Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Hoedown

Ronnie Montrose – Town Without Pity

The Grateful Dead – Truckin'

Kayak – I Want You To Be Mine

Genesis – Like It Or Not

Off Broadway – Full Moon Turn Your Head Around

Dave Mason – We Just Disagree

Rod Stewart – Cut Across Shorty

The Beatles – For No One

The Who – I'm Free

The Climax Blues Band – Reaching Out

Jackson Browne – Ready Or Not

Supertramp – Poor Boy

April Wine – Wings Of Love

Santana – Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile)

The Moody Blues – The Voice

38 Special – Chain Lightnin'

John Waite – Change

The Kinks – Sunny Afternoon

Atlanta Rhythm Section – Another Man's Woman

The Smithereens – Only A Memory

Todd Rundgren – Just One Victory

The Who – Boris The Spider

Bob Dylan – Gotta Serve Somebody

Mama's Pride – Maybe

It's not an overly long Spriggsblog Playlist this week, kids, which is kinda odd as there was only one 4-disc box (“Nuggets”) and only one 2-CD set, which was The Johnstons. There were a lot of fairly new releases, though, and they're generally an hour long, whereas older records clocked in at about 40 minutes. Anyway, here's the list. Stay safe and sane, if you can!

The Doobie Brothers – Toulouse Street

Renaissance – Illusion

The Tragically Hip – Now For Plan B

Baka Beyond – Spirit Of The Forest

Various Artists – The Who Jukebox

Terje Rypdal & The Chasers – Blue

Gryphon – Red Queen To Gryphon Three

Sinéad O'Connor – Throw Down Your Arms

Various Artists – Nuggets

The Who – The Who Sell Out

Richard Thompson – Rumor And Sigh

Patti Smith – Outside Society

The Johnstons – The Johnstons / Give A Damn / The Barley Corn

Bob Dylan – Another Side Of Bob Dylan

Al Stewart – The Best Of Al Stewart

Renaissance – Prologue

Sly And The Family Stone – Stand!

Talk Talk – The Colour Of Spring

Pink Floyd – Atom Heart Mother

Free – All Right Now: The Best Of Free

The Byrds – We Have Ignition

Jefferson Airplane – The Worst Of Jefferson Airplane

Caro Emerald – The Shocking Miss Emerald

10,000 Maniacs – In My Tribe

Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris – Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions

Greg Kihn Band – Best Of Beserkley '75 – '84

This Mortal Coil – Blood

Pink – Greatest Hits ... So Far!

Mike Oldfield – Islands

Van der Graaf Generator – Pawn Hearts

Rory Gallagher – Take It Easy Baby

Propaganda – A Secret Wish

Tangerine Dream – Poland

Siouxsie & The Banshees – Nocturne

The Who – Odds & Sods

Steely Dan – Pretzel Logic

KSHE KLASSICS SHOW, June 14th, 2020

[As you may or may not know, i live in Canada, and for some reason KSHE doesn't stream their audio to here; i have to connect via a VPN, to spoof a non-Canadian address. This week, according to https://whatismyipaddress.com/ i was listening from Chicago. I don't recall ever being there before, in terms of my VPN, and i've always wanted to visit the place in real life – whatever that is! I've been to the airport there, though: you can see the city's skyline 'way off in the distance and it really looks celestial. ]

Quotation Of The Week ~ George Carlin: I'll tell you a little secret about the blues. It's not enough to know which notes to play, you have to know why they need to be played.

Today was, of course, the 25^th anniversary of Rory Gallagher's passing, and sure enough, we were treated to some Rory this morning – which automatically means a grade of “A+” -- as my regular reader will know. The show began in brilliant fashion, too, with one of my favourite Genesis songs from one of my favourite Genesis albums. Then a wheel came off.

The Grateful Dead bore(d) me senseless <ducking>. Then it deteriorated further: REO f*ck*ng Speedwagon, how do i hate thee, let me count the ways.... Their song's title should offer a clue: Say You Love Me Or Say Goodnight. Really? I don't like ultimatums (ultimata?), but if someone said that to me my response would likely be, “eff off, dipshit.” Unless it was Kaley Cuoco....

But then, to carry on with the automotive metaphor, we found a jack and the wheel was replaced. Everything was fine, all was right with the world again. Jeff Beck – my all-time second favourite guitarist and Rory – my favourite guitarist! And so much else, so many much-loved choons: Cream, The Beatles (who now seem to make a weekly appearance, which is fine with me), Manfred Mann (and i hadn't heard that in a long time), what may well be my favourite Mama's Pride number and a delightful end with the Pretenders.

Sure there were a few obscurities: Snail? Jack Green? Johnny & The Distractions? But they were okay and even the Ted Nugent number wasn't oppressive, which was a nice surprise. So, apart from a few disturbing moments at the beginning, it was an egg-salent way to spend a Sabbath morning.

Here's a photo of Chicago's skyline – not the view from O'Hare, obviously! -- and the programme:

Genesis – Firth Of Fifth

The Grateful Dead – Casey Jones

REO Speedwagon – Say You Love Me Or Say Goodnight

Supertramp – Oh Darling

Bruce Springsteen – Jungleland

The Moody Blues – Lovely To See You

Jeff Beck – Beck's Bolero

Billy Joel – Goodnight Saigon

Cream – Badge

Foghat – Rock And Roll Outlaw

The Quicksilver Messenger Service – Fresh Air

The Beatles – And Your Bird Can Sing

Tom Petty – A Thing About You

Spirit – Nature's Way

Charlie – Turning To You

Ted Nugent & The Amboy Dukes – Migration

Snail – The Joker

Jack Green – So Much

Manfred Mann – Do Wah Diddy

Santana – Aquamarine

David Bowie – Heroes

April Wine – Tonite

Rory Gallagher – I Take What I Want

The Doobie Brothers – Livin' On The Fault Line

Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band – We've Got Tonight

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Déjà Vu

Ten Years After – I'm Goin' Home

38 Special – Back Where You Belong

The Guess Who – Laughing

Johnny & The Distractions – Shoulder Of The Road

Dave Mason – Pearly Queen

The Charlie Daniels Band – Still In Saigon

The Outlaws – There Goes Another Love Song

Styx – Put Me On / Mademoiselle

Trevor Rabin – Finding Me A Way Back Home

Michael Murphy – Carolina In The Pines

Don Henley – Drivin' With Your Eyes Closed

Survivor – Summer Nights

The Rolling Stones – Send It To Me

Mama's Pride – Ole St Lou

Pretenders – Back On The Chain Gang

Not an overly long list of the schtuff that my cat played at home this week, thanks partly to one 2-CD set and one 3-disc box.

James Taylor – (Live)

Roxy Music – The Best Of Roxy Music

Rhiannon Giddens – Tomorrow Is My Turn

Prince – The Hits / The B Sides

Alison Krauss – The Essential Alison Krauss

Leonard Bernstein – Rhapsody In Blue / An American In Paris

Max Webster – Max Webster

James Taylor – American Standard

The Albion Band – Stella Maris

The Mothers Of Invention – Uncle Meat

Genesis – Foxtrot

Rory Gallagher – Top Priority

Loggins & Messina – On Stage

Dead Can Dance – Spleen And Ideal

Jon & Vangelis – Short Stories

The Lovin' Spoonful – Greatest Hits

The Keef Hartley Band – The Battle Of North West Six

Mike Oldfield – Islands

Kate Rusby – Awkward Annie

Bonnie Tyler – Greatest Hits

The Kinks – Preservation Act 1

The Beatles – Let It Be ... Naked

Jack Bruce – More Jack Than God

Joan Osborne – Love And Hate

The Kinks – Everybody's In Show-Biz

Various Artists – A Tribute To Dan Fogelberg

Joni Mitchell – Hejira

Rhiannon Giddens – Freedom Highway

Jackson Browne – Lives In The Balance

John Fogerty – Blue Moon Swamp

Gordon Lightfoot – Over Sixty Minutes With Gordon Lightfoot

Pyewackett – The Man In The Moon Drinks Claret

Richard Thompson – 1000 Years Of Popular Music

Cassandra Wilson – Cassandra Wilson Sings Standards

June Tabor – Rosa Mundi

KSHE KLASSICS SHOW, June 7th, 2020

[As you may or may not know, i live in Canada, and for some reason KSHE doesn't stream their audio to here; i have to connect via a VPN, to spoof a non-Canadian address. This week, according to https://whatismyipaddress.com/ i was listening from Norfolk, Virginia – a mere 770 miles from St Louis....]

Quotation Of The Week ~ Mark Twain: Sing like no one's listening / love like you've never been hurt / dance like no one is watching / and live like it's heaven on earth.

It wasn't a particularly auspicious start to this week's show, folks – it wasn't until after the first commercial break that Uman played a much-loved song and that was the Loggins & Messina track. . It pretty much soared after that, too, and the inclusion of Dan Fogelberg automatically means a grade of “A+.” I confess, though, that the REO Speedwagon track really annoyed me. I know, they're really popular in St Louis but their singer, Kevin Cronin, has a voice that makes me want to punch him in the face.

I can't choose highlights, there were too many. Here's the playlist, and a picture of my new girlfriend (i wish!):

Sea Level – Nothing Matters But The Fever

The Marshall Tucker Band – Walkin' The Streets Alone

Loggins & Messina – Angry Eyes

Z.Z. Top – It's Only Love

Elton John – Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me

Batdorf & Rodney – Life Is You

The Beatles – I'm Only Sleeping

Dan Fogelberg – Tullamore Dew / Phoenix

Steely Dan – Dirty Work

Eddie Money – I Wanna Go Back

Santana – Hope You're Feeling Better

Supertramp – Another Man's Woman

Bob Seger – Turn On Your Love Light

Gary Wright – Fascinating Things

REO Speedwagon – I Don't Wanna Know

Joe Walsh – Turn To Stone

Black Oak Arkansas – Hot And Nasty

Loggins & Messina – The House At Pooh Corner

The Kinks – Apeman

Andy Pratt – Avenging Annie

Journey – Ask The Lonely

Billy Joel – An Innocent Man

Rush – Here Again

George Harrison – Isn't It A Pity

Bob Dylan – The Times They Are A-Changin'

Jon & Vangelis – I Hear You Now

Frampton's Camel – Lines On My Face

The Police – When The World Is Running Down

Thin Lizzy – Cowboy Song

Eagles – Wasted Time

The Alan Parsons Project – I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You

Jackson Browne – Redneck Friend

Kansas – Play The Game Tonight

The Moody Blues – You And Me

Deep Purple – Strange Kind Of Woman

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Woodstock

David Bowie – Ziggy Stardust

John Kay – Easy Evil

The Steve Miller Band – The Stake

America – Only In Your Heart

Hydra – Feel Like Running

The Climax Blues Band – I Love You

The list of what troubled the optical drive on Spriggs Towers' supercomputer's optical drive this week isn't as unwieldly as it has been recently, thanks to two 4-CD sets, and three 2-disc albums:

Court Yard Hounds – Court Yard Hounds

Paul McCartney – Ram

Frida – Shine

Bill Bruford – Feels Good To Me

Players – Players

The Mahavishnu Orchestra – Birds Of Fire

Sting – The Dream Of The Blue Turtles

Kate Bush – The Other Sides

Camel – A Live Record

Steve Reich – Sextet / Six Marimbas

Mott The Hoople – The Ballad Of Mott: A Retrospective

Christine McVie – In The Meantime

Steeleye Span – Hark! The Village Wait

Incubus – A Crow Left Of The Murder

Indigo Girls – Indigo Girls

Sandy Denny – A Boxful Of Treasures

Camper Van Beethoven – Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart

The Kinks – Soap Opera

Deanna Durbin – The Ultimate Collection

Planxty – Cold Blow And The Rainy Night

Richard Thompson – Rumor And Sigh

Afrocelt Sound System – Volume 3: Further In Time

Colin James – Miles To Go

Sixpence None The Richer – Sixpence None The Richer

Van der Graaf Generator – Still Life

The Sugarcubes – Life's Too Good

June Tabor w. Martin Simpson – A Cut Above

Amazing Blondel – Fantasia Lindum

Godley & Creme – Cry: The Very Best Of Godley & Creme

Enya – Dark Sky Island

Paul Simon – So Beautiful Or So What

The John Kirkpatrick Band – Welcome To Hell

King Crimson – Beat

Terje Rypdal -- Odyssey

KSHE KLASSICS SHOW, May 31st, 2020

[As you may or may not know, i live in Canada, and for some reason KSHE doesn't stream their audio to here; i have to connect via a VPN, to spoof a non-Canadian address. This week, according to https://whatismyipaddress.com/ i was listening from Cheney, Kansas. Yes, back there again!

Quotation Of The Week ~ J.R.R. Tolkein: The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though now in all lands love is mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

Looking for work? Universal Galvanizing in Wright City, Missouri, is hiring. Check it out here: https://universalgalvanizing.com/careers/ This is a public service announcement. Personally i wouldn't go anywhere near the States these days. The country i love is imploding, the streets are on fire, the people are furious, capitalism is failing, hate is everywhere. Their handling of the pandemic has been atrocious and their president is merrily tossing matches onto the TNT. But then, i wasn't thinking of applying.

It was a pretty dodgy start to this morning's instalment. I mean, Peter Cetera? Really? He hasn't done much of interest since the mid-seventies. (Today's song was from 1981.) All was forgiven, though, with the second number – not only a favourite James Taylor song, but also one of my all-time favourite songs, period. After that, oh, so many wonderful memories. I actually prefer The Move's version of “Do Ya” to ELO's; the Joe Vitale song is one of the few things i've ever bought from iTunes (he was the drummer in the Eagles' touring band for a while). And if anyone can tell me of another commercial FM station anywhere in the world that would play a twenty-two minute song by Yes, i would love to hear about it.

Further, there was nothing annoying, so this week's episode definitely gets an “A.”

America gets an "F."

Peter Cetera – Livin' In The Limelight

James Taylor – Carolina In My Mind

Steely Dan – Hey Nineteen

Eric Clapton – Hello Old Friend

The Move – Do Ya

George Harrison – Awaiting On You All

Paul McCartney – Maybe I'm Amazed

The Little River Band – Mistress Of Mine

Ambrosia – Time Waits For No One

Rush – Free Will

Journey – The Party's Over (Hopelessly In Love)

Doucette – Run Buddy Run

Bruce Springsteen -- 10^th Avenue Freeze Out

The Beatles – Run For Your Life

Yes – The Gates Of Delerium

Canned Heat – Going Up The Country

Neil Young – After The Goldrush

Atlanta Rhythm Section – Doraville

Sammy Hagar – The Pits

The Quicksilver Messenger Service – What About Me

Toto – Hydra

Steppenwolf – Mr Penny Pincher

Triumph – Something's Out There

Fleetwood Mac – Black Magic Woman

Queen – It's Late

Joe Vitale – Lady On The Rock

The Outlaws – Holiday

The Moody Blues – Lost In A Lost World

The Pure Prairie League – Angel #9

Prism – Spaceship Superstar

David Bowie – John, I'm Only Dancing

Foghat – Dreamer

Genesis – Taking It All Too Hard

The Rolling Stones – Let Me Go

Blackfoot – Train Train

Cream – I Feel Free

Batdorf & Rodney – Home Again

The Doobie Brothers – Wheels Of Fortune

Here's the list (i'm a list freak, what can i say-- we all have crosses to bear) of what spun on the optical drive here at Spriggs Towers this week. In order to keep it to a reasonably manageable length (as we're home more during this lockdown), there was one 3-disc box set, two music DVDs and two 2-disc cds.

The Beatles – Anthology 3

Steve Hackett – Spectral Mornings (DVD)

Simon & Garfunkel –Old Friends

Fairport Convention – Shuffle And Go

Wishbone Ash – There's The Rub

Various Artists – Big Blue Ball

Judy Dunlop & Ashley Hutchings – Sway With Me

Various Artists – The World Is A Wonderful Place: The Songs Of Richard Thompson

Three Dog Night – Joy To The World: Their Greatest Hits

Ofra Harnoy – Silent Woods

Warren Zevon – Genius: The Best Of Warren Zevon

Wishbone Ash -- 30^th Anniversary Concert (DVD)

Paul McCartney – Flaming Pie

Matchbox Twenty – More Than You Think You Are

Stèphane Grappelli – Stardust

Renaissance – Song For All Seasons

Dead Can Dance – The Serpent's Egg

Bob Dylan – Live At The Gaslight 1962

Dan Fogelberg – Phoenix

Jack Bruce – Cities Of The Heart

Frida – Frida Ensam

Rory Gallagher – Notes From San Francisco

Steeleye Span – Time

Nik Kershaw – To Be Frank

Dervish – The Great Irish Songbook

James Taylor – October Road

UB40 – The Very Best Of UB40

Ten Years After – Undead

Paul Simon – Graceland

Afro Celt Sound System – Flight

Cat Stevens – Buddha And The Chocolate Box

John Kirkpatrick, Martin Carthy et al. -- Plain Capers

Brass Monkey – Sound And Rumour

Coldplay – A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Wishbone Ash – Nouveau Calls

Tim Hart & Maddy Prior – Folk Songs Of Old England, Vols. 1 & 2