Marlow’s Listener

The shock of the old

You’d be forgiven for wondering if six CDs of Wilson Pickett is overkill

In essence, the company is doing the same thing Les Paul did when he debuted an early model of a solid-body electric guitar: namely, dressing it up like its acoustic forebears.

…you keep recycling your past

Without comment

Maybe the more old songs you carry around the harder it is to add new songs. One late arrival stuck. Red Dirt Road is a coming of age ballad by Brooks and Dunn. “Her daddy didn’t like me much, with my shackled up GTO.”
Well, I guess her daddy didn’t like Ronnie too much, but it [...]

On demand on the march

my pictures aren’t of anywhere in Pennsylvania. My Nazareth is a dusty western town sometime in the late 19th century. Neighbouring towns might be called Jerusalem or Babylon … or Jericho