Another live track from Emily Barker - White Geraniums (live at Blue Bird Festival)

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"Here’s the third in a series of songs played Blue Bird Vienna festival last year. Find the full video of ‘White Geraniums’ on my YouTube channel.

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Emily

Emily Barker - White Geraniums (live at Blue Bird Festival)November 2025

(posted 13 July 2026)

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Stevie Ray Vaughan - From the biography Texas Flood The Inside Story [by Alan Paul and Andy Aledort] | DON’S TUNES

Speaking of sobriety . . . . Here Staveie Ray on seeing his songs and lyrics from a different perspectice once he got clean 

Photo by Alan Messer

Stevie Ray Vaughan: One thing I’ve noticed [after getting sober] is that songs I used to sing at people, I should have been singing at myself. At least I think that way. I hear the words more now, and different songs mean different things than I used to think they meant, too. To put it mildly, a lot of blues tunes have to do with resentments, big-time!

Take “Cold Shot.” I used to sing that at certain women that I’ve been involved with over the years. Even though I didn’t write it, I had in my head the way I related to it. Since I sobered up, I realized that I left; I was the one who gave the cold shot. And it hurts when you realize that you’ve hurt somebody, as opposed to, all this time, you’ve been telling yourself how bad they’d hurt you. A lot of times, if I stop and look at it, those words could really be telling me that I hurt myself. There are also other songs that are kinder than I thought. They make me feel better than I knew.

Source: Texas Flood: The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan

by Alan Paul & Andy Aledort

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Cold Shot (Live From Austin, TX)

What better way to start the week!

Some Stevie Ray in his prime!

James Taylor - ‘Fire & Rain’ Live at The Grand Ole Opry 2025

So might sign off the day (weekend - ED) with this glorious version of one of James Taylor’s finest songs . . . . . check the emotional pitch of this career defining song from our JT! Astonishing!

"James Taylor had one captive audience during his historic Grand Ole Opry debut on November 11, 2025, and we were elated to have him be a part of our 100th anniversary celebration! Kick back and enjoy this performance of “Fire and Rain.”

Grand Ole Opry

Ringo Starr - The No No Song - The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

 This popped up in my algorithms and made me howl . . . . . regulars will know I am abstinent of all substances from drugs and nicotine to alcohol and worked in the rehab world for the longest time at the end of my working life so this appealed no end (so is Ringo now BTW!)

Ringo Starr - The No No Song - The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

The Jam - All Mod Cons | Herberg De Kelder

All Mod Cons

The Jam - All Mod Cons

HERBERG DE KELDER

Picture of the Day : Why a Big Suit?

 

Brassed Off - Concerto d’Orange Juice!

 We may have had this before but this clip from Brassed Off is a favourite and fits well with a Sunday afternoon here in Blighty . . . this is what passed for music in the North of England and why my dad ( and subsequently me) adored Brass Band Music . . . .I recall vividly going for a stroll along the promenade  of Fleetwood (North of Blackpool!) and hearing a brass band ringing across the dunes

Concierto d'Aranjuez ~ From the film 'Brassed Off’

The clip features many a British classic actor from Pete Postlethwaite to Ewan McGregor and why we all fell in love with Tara Fitzgerald

Beatles I'm Down Live at Blackpool Night Out 1965

 Someone posted this admiring (if not doubting!?) John’s natural Vox organ playing skills! I reckon it’s LIVE!

The Beatles - I'm Down Live at Blackpool Night Out 1965 

colourised

D.I.Y. Tip of The Day

 I Too Am Very Practically minded!

D.I.Y tip of the Day

(Thanks Niall)

Niall MacMillan

Thee Milkshakes - Jack The Ripper

speaking of Jack The Ripper and popular culture!!!

 more from Billy Childish  . . .side projects? Can I say that?

Thee Milkshakes - Jack The Ripper