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Tracks of our Years – A BOOK of a MUSICAL JOURNEY

This is my journey back into my musical past – This is 1970s England.
Music on vinyl that opened up a world of discovery – musically and personally.

Paul Simon – Live Rhymin’

Front cover of a vinyl record album featuring Paul Simon holding a guitar

Live ‘Rhymin’ is a largely forgotten gem in Paul Simon’s catalogue. It captures the Simon of the time beautifully, as well as giving an insight into how he must have sounded in those heady mid ’60s days touring the bleak Northern towns of England.

Bruce Springsteen – Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen album darkness on the edge of town on an artists easel

It is this classic, definitive collaboration with the E-Street Band that is my number one go-to album by him. It is pre the superstardom he was to have. The process of making great art is pressed into these tracks on ‘Darkness.’

Barclay James Harvest – Live

The four members of Barclay James Harvest on the cover of the live album from 1974

Barclay James Harvest – Live At the time an interest in the English band Barclay James Harvest was a bit unusual, moving me well away from the mainstream – no ‘glitter & the rouge’ with these Northern lads that is for sure. In some ways it was quite natural I should see what they hadContinue reading “Barclay James Harvest – Live”