"The cords of all link back...strandentwining cable...
"Hello...put me on to Edenville... aleph, alpha: nought, nought, one"
Wednesday, July 23, 2014 at 2:31PM 
It's coming up to 4 years since I launched this site and now, having taken on some new commitments elsewhere, I've decided that it's time to take a break.
I've said most of the things I wanted to say when I started and there's clearly no shortage of music criticism available elsewhere. So I'll shut up for a bit.
Many thanks to everyone who has visited, read and commented so far - it has been fun.
Au revoir.
Sunday, July 20, 2014 at 10:43AM By popular request, legendary guest reviewer Rob Zanders is back with an account of two rather different blues shows. You can read it here.
Friday, July 4, 2014 at 12:28PM 
Taking a break from being sniffy about 2014's new releases, I'm knocked out by the first vinyl outing for Lucinda Williams' 1998 classic Car Wheels On A Gravel Road.
I find I don't make enough time regularly to listen to the really great records. And this one definitely is great. Strong songs, spot-on arrangements and sympathetic playing, and Lucinda in consistently wonderful voice.
I could single out virtually any of the songs on it, but take a listen to the spare lyricism and lazy erotic charge of the opener, 'Right In Time'.
Well done to Music On Vinyl for a clear and solid pressing: every home should have one.
Tuesday, July 1, 2014 at 7:27PM Hmmm... not feeling like a vintage year so far.
My top five of this year's releases so far are:
All splendid and well worth listening to, but I'd have trouble coming with another five at this point. I think Neil Young's A Letter Home will be up there with them, but I haven't yet got my hands on a vinyl copy.
So far as gigs have gone, The Hold Steady are on top, with Powder Blue and Michael Chapman in joint second...but, again I just haven't been to as many as I would usually have at the 6 month point.
Buck up, 2014.
