as a culture we have really given "ideas" way too much credit. ideas are a dime a dozen. they happen all the time. the magic is way more in the doing, and the doing's diminished stature is linked to lack of respect for labor and, more recently, skill and expertise.

From my archive. The best quality recording in existence of the final Perfumed Garden on Radio London immaculately cleaned up by @andylewis.bsky.social of this parish. A show of monumental historical importance. archive.org/details/fina...

Decent soundtrack open.spotify.com/playlist/101...

New rule: Anyone complaining about what Easter Eggs are called has to explain what they've given up for Lent and what they've done with the proceeds of abstinence.

Stones Country Jukebox. Country or Country adjacent songs covered by The Stones and Keith solo plus 2 Gram covers. open.spotify.com/playlist/2fz...

Fairport Convention 1969. open.spotify.com/playlist/6kI...

My entry for #CountryRockSunday#CountryRockSunday is The Rockingbirds Time Drives The Truck youtu.be/oeL-xfl_pLQ?...

Fairport Convention 1969. open.spotify.com/playlist/6kI...

The best Stones album since the 70s is Blue And Lonesome. They should do a country covers companion. I'm the meantime, here's a country Stones playlist open.spotify.com/playlist/1yQ...

Small Faces 1965/1969 open.spotify.com/playlist/7Hp...

The Who 45s, 1964/1978 open.spotify.com/playlist/2D9...

Pop Dylan. Dylan the pop star and Dylan the pop songwriter open.spotify.com/playlist/2tP...

Stones Country Jukebox. Country or Country adjacent songs covered by The Stones and Keith solo plus 2 Gram covers. open.spotify.com/playlist/2fz...

Secret tricks to get much better results out of the very dreadful 'Google search' these days, plus other search engines for specific things. Statospherically useful for researchers. open.substack.com/pub/cardcata...

Chores - cooking, DIY, fixing things, cooking, building things, tidying up, cooking, sewing, cooking. Every night. When you've been to work! Just make us laugh more often please

Yay Nancy Banks-Smith. 97 and still with us. The greatest TV critic who ever lived. Turned down an OBE. Both Guardian anthologies of her writing are shamefully out of print. Every sentence she wrote was the very opposite of me me me showy clickbait. Genius with a pen.

The best Stones album since the 70s is Blue And Lonesome. They should do a country covers companion. I'm the meantime, here's a country Stones playlist open.spotify.com/playlist/1yQ...

Pop Dylan. Dylan the pop star and Dylan the pop songwriter open.spotify.com/playlist/2tP...

The Who 45s, 1964/1978 open.spotify.com/playlist/2D9...

Small Faces 1965/1969 open.spotify.com/playlist/7Hp...

A Neil Young 1970 playlist open.spotify.com/playlist/7qX...

A Bruce Springsteen 1973-1974 playlist open.spotify.com/playlist/0LS...

Fairport Convention 1969 open.spotify.com/playlist/6kI...

The ITV Retro YouTube channel just uploaded one of the greatest movies ever made. It's sumptuous and sensual in a way that still amazes for a film that's almost 80 years old. Don't watch it on your phone though - this deserves the big telly.

A good day as any to remember that Jann Wenner of Rolling Stone as recently as 2023 said that he did not include any women in his book on masters of rock music because: "Insofar as the women, just none of them were as articulate enough on this intellectual level"

A Bruce Springsteen 1973-1974 playlist open.spotify.com/playlist/0LS...

A Neil Young 1970 playlist open.spotify.com/playlist/7qX...

open.spotify.com/playlist/1d9... This was collaborative effort made in the closing overs of Twitter's pre-nazi period. Songs that reference other songs or bands or artists. It's great on a Friday night kitchen shuffle.

WAWA Milwaukee, R&B top 50, March 1967 open.spotify.com/playlist/6m1...

You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

It has got me wondering just how many work-hours are now devoted to checking that the Bank of Mum and Dad is not actually a front for the Sinaloa cartel. Meanwhile the Bank of England continue churning out £50 notes, which have no obvious legitimate use, but are handy for criminals.

WAWA Milwaukee, R&B top 50, March 1967 open.spotify.com/playlist/6m1...

Love it when this happens. Thread.

Last of a trilogy, only 3 Skip Bifferty tracks on Spotify open.spotify.com/playlist/7ib...

Love it when this happens. Thread.

A companion playlist open.spotify.com/playlist/1Ec...

John Fahey documentary on Tubi tubitv.com/movies/10005...

3 Billboard top 20s, 1967, 1972, 1978. open.spotify.com/playlist/3p1...

False alarm, thankfully, although it's a good reminder to celebrate work while the people are still around to hear it.

'Paolo Picasso, Pablo Picasso, Jacqueline, daughter-in-law Christine, art expert John Richardson, poet-playwright Jean Cocteau and art historian Douglas Cooper walking through the streets of Arles' David Douglas Duncan, 1957