After listening to this episode I immediately went to the Cocaine & Rhinestones episode on Bobbie Gentry that @andrewhickey.500songs.com recommends and that is an excellent listen too! cocaineandrhinestones.com/bobbie-gentr...

I wish I had remembered that I read a while back that the Billy Joel documentary was 5 hours long. And So It Goes...

B.B. King, Etta James and Dr John perform "I'd Rather Go Blind" in a live 1987 TV broadcast of B.B. King & Friends. #Blues m.youtube.com/watch?v=74dU...

Remembering Minnie Riperton on her birthday. Here she is performing Inside My Love on the Midnight Special in 1975. Watch the full show, which also includes Lovin' You and Adventures in Paradise at 📺▶️ youtu.be/jBmqT8eu4SY

Auld Reekie Scrievers, an Edinburgh group of short story writers, today launched our anthology "Pulling At Threads." Published by Dean Park Press, all profits to the homeless charity Streetwork for its library and creative writing group. Available from local bookshops and online.

A thing of great beauty. 🩵

For years, but especially for the past year, Democrats have been in thrall to the idea that they need to chase an imagined median voter, and adopt that voter’s positions. Mamdani’s victory shows another way: hold principles, and persuade people to share them.

If Trump and other autocrats are to be defeated, it will be by bold, bright, anti-establishment candidates, who speak for those who struggle with enormous rents, failing public services, lousy pay and insecure, unsatisfying jobs, rather than for those inflicting these miseries.

And going "We will simply have more growth if people work harder" is magic thinking with no basis in reality. You get growth when money is in the pockets of people who spend it, not being hoarded by a tiny minority. This is why every sector is struggling and businesses everywhere are failing.

A long shot, but does anyone out there have a copy of this Doris Troy album, and if so would you be willing to rip me some audio of 'My Father's House'? I would be eternally grateful 🙏

"As she releases a new album, the soul and gospel legend answers questions on Stax Records, duetting with David Byrne and the fight for civil rights …" ‘It’s dark in the US right now. But I turn on a light, you know?’ — Mavis Staples on Prince, Martin Luther King and her 75-year singing career:

#NowPlaying #DustySpringfield #SeeAllHerFaces

#NowPlaying #BruceCockburn #SunwheelDance

Chatterley fans have this to dip into for the next three weeks... The Chatterley Affair: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00876jt via @bbciplayer

#NowPlaying #BrigitteFontaine #Est...Folle

I live in a glimpse of all that didn’t happen

Ken Boothe - Lonely Teardrops youtu.be/JRbjl8_Izc0?...

#NowPlaying #EpicSoundtracks #RiseAbove

John Lennon in the studio September 12 1963 the #Beatles

12 seconds from 8 stop-motion films (1968–present) across the career of animator Yuri Norstein

This will be a top, top evening! Envious of those in Dún Laoghaire and its environs who can make it along. And if you can, you should!

Most Autumns, I try and paint the trees. This is Crystal Palace Park. These paintings are £35 each if you wanted one. darrenhaymanart.com/collections/...

A fantastic episode. 'Scuse me while I fall down a Doug Sahm rabbit hole...

My picks for #5debutalbums8084 1. Searching for the Young Soul Rebels - Dexys Midnight Runners 2. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 3. Never Too Much - Luther Vandross 4. Black Snake Diamond Role - Robyn Hitchcock 5. Give Me Your Love - Sylvia Striplin

In preparation for tomorrow... Does this also count as #5debutalbums8084? #NowPlaying #RobynHitchcock #BlackSnakeDiamondRole

The bird takes its revenge on the kings in The Thieving Magpie (1964), dir. Emanuele Luzzati and Giulio Gianini Federico Fellini loved this film: "it makes me furious that I don't know how to draw so I could resolve my films in the same way"

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#NowPlaying #EstherPhillips #SingsGreatLoveSongs #AndILoveHim

I love working with Tom. I love his writing. His light touch heavy insight. His respectful irreverence. His joyful enthusiasm. And I love Ringo Starr. This has been an absolute pleasure. It’s out today and I hope you enjoy it x

It's easy to develop a crush on social media because you haven't heard them eating soup

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Michael McClure #MichaelMcClure #BOTD In Hell, there are stars outside. And long sounds of cars. Brown shadows on walls in the light of the room. I sit or stand wanting the huge reality of touch and love. I have ten years life to worship youth Billy the Kid, Rimbaud, Jean Harlow

Happy Ringo No More Fan Mail Day to those who celebrate. youtu.be/hV8JFj17AtY #ItWillBeTossed #RingoStarr #PeaceandLove ✌🏾🩷 ☮️ ❤️

I was all set to watch Kerouac's Road: The Beat of a Nation after listening to this wonderful conversation with Ebs Burnough, but I can't find it anywhere. Reviews helpfully say "digital platforms" and "streaming services". Anyone else have a clue? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Final day of Linder’s Danger Came Smiling retrospective at Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. list.co.uk/news/linder-... Linder - Danger Came Smiling - Inverleith House, RBGE Edinburgh until Oct 19 www.rbge.org.uk/whats-on/lin...

The Wilbury Twist is a fun song to end on. There is such a great spirit to The Travelling Wilburys even when they're singing cynical words. It's no wonder they all loved doing it so much #wilburys35

As an opening line, "you took my breath away. I want it back again" really makes me laugh. And then the harmonies are so beautiful I feel bad for laughing! #wilburys35

Does anyone else hear Hope Of Deliverance in New Blue Moon? Naughty Macca! #wilburys35

Cool Dry Place is such a groove and I am having a wee dance to myself. I love all the brass. The solo is great too. I think this might be my favourite on the album #wilburys35

George's guitar is the star of the show of Poor House #wilburys35

The Travelling Wilburys do doo wop! I love it! But I keep expecting a deep bass riff on national health eyeballs #wilburys35

The sitar in The Devil's Been Busy reminds me of both the Kids In The Hall theme tune and Sorrow by The McCoys #wilburys35

They're all such simple rock n roll tunes it's the lyrics and the harmonies that really stand out. I love how Bob is wry with his desire in If You Belonged To Me #wilburys35

It also brings to mind the sun's not yellow, it's chicken #wilburys35

Am I supposed to find it funny everytime Bob says it's kind of yellow? Because I do #wilburys35

Watching the music video for She's My Baby this afternoon, I had forgotten how hilarious the lyrics are in this song. A worthy follow up to Dirty World. A really fun song to start the album #wilburys35

#NowWatching In preparation of tonight's listening party #wilburys35

JUST IN! 'Granny Takes a Trip - High Fashion and High Times at the Wildest Rock 'n' Roll Boutique' by Paul Gorman History of the iconic London Flower Power-era boutique, signed by the author. @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social www.normanrecords.com/records/2087...