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Hi – here are some more songs from live lockdown sessions. This was from the Ruby Tuesday sessions on 23rd June End of Tears A Careless Blow Polecats Rossignolet du Bois (French folk song) The Ballad of Bob Dylan Green Lights All The Way
Here’s my set from the Ruby Tuesday sessions this week. I’ll be playing on Facebook a couple more times over the next two weeks. HomeSongs4Lunch on Friday 19th at 1pm Ruby Tuesday Live Sessions on Tuesday 23rd at 9pm
Long term readers of this site will be familiar with my fascination with the Incredible String Band. The first band I truly loved as a teenager, I keep coming back to them, thinking I’ve left them behind then having something trigger another wave of affection. This year it was when my friend Rossco played a … Read more I Remember It All From Before …
Here are a couple of cover versions from James Whyte and me, performing as Dexter & Sinister in the much-missed Village in Leith last July. First up, Kindling, a beautiful Elbow song from the album Little Fictions. They revisited it with a counter-melody by James Grant and that’s what we used for our cover. Now … Read more Covering up for May
Today’s video goes way back. I’m not exactly sure of the year but I think it’s probably 2001 or 2002 and is from a Sunday night session of The Listening Room at the Blue Blazer pub. My friend Graeme (‘The G’) gave me a collection of footage from three gigs he’d joined me for during … Read more Looking back: ‘Only The Sea’
One of my first quarantine tasks was to disentangle the muddle of cables which, over the years, had rendered my guitar synth and loopers all but unplayable. This is one of my favourite pieces to play with the guitar synth. Although it first appeared on a Mahavishnu Orchestra album, the most beautiful versions out there … Read more Lotus Feet (John McLaughlin cover)