In the town where I was born, lived four lads who shook the world. Having decided a year or so ago (when I was 64 - I can keep this...

Continuing the charity shop haul from last week, is this 1957 Miles Davis album, playing with an orchestra conducted by, and music...

This is another charity shop purchase from last week, and like so many other names from the 1970s, Tangerine Dream is one name which has...

This is one of a number of CDs picked up from the local Oxfam shop last week, on a particularly fruitful visit. This was a Zappa album...

A recent buy from Oxfam in Market Harborough, who seem to have had a plethora of decent donations recently, as we'll find out over the...

I reviewed another one of Scott Cossu's CDs about two years ago , and recounted the tale of how a number of CDs from the US jazz label...

Otis Lee Crenshaw, is, of course US comedian Rich Hall's alter ego as a country and western singer, so the emphasis here is comedy,...

In 1989 I was too busy becoming a father for the first time, and living down south to take much notice of a group of young scallies from...

I bought this online many moons ago, keen to hear a collaboration between Costello and American jazz guitarist, Bill Frisell, recorded at...

What I know about Billy Childish could be written in one paragraph at the start of an uninspired review. He's a Medway based artist,...

I recollect neither buying this or listening to it before this exercise. I had no idea why I might by it until further examination...

Lydia Domancich is a French pianist / keyboardist with peripheral links to the Canterbury scene, in that her sister Sophia stood in for...

A quid at a boot fair, as all the popular albums from the Britpop era tend to be thirty years later. Cast was John Power's post The La's...

I'm sure you know the story. After playing a tribute concert to Woody Guthrie, Bragg was contacted by Nora, Guthrie's daughter, asking...

The final purchase from a recent visit to Cambridge, and this wasn't staying in the Oxfam shop racks for very long while I visited,...

I've recently become more and more interested in the work of Steven Wilson, and his original band Porcupine Tree, and one of my musical...

There's a massive cheat coming up here. On its own, this album was only released as a 10 MP3 format, or a vinyl LP with 8 tracks. But...

All I knew of the Beta Band was one track ( To You Alone from their 2000 single) on a compilation free with a magazine, which I'd quite...

I'm not a fan of 'Best Of' compilations, as a rule, but Roddy Frame has churned out some decent tunes in his time, and I'm pretty sure...

This is the last of the boot fair purchases from earlier in the month, a Davis double CD from 1974. It was released as a double LP, with...