The Dirty Three’s 'Toward the Low Sun'
Thirty Words
By Robert Forster
Occasionally, just by looking at the song titles on a record sleeve, you can tell an album is going to be great. There is a rightness to their form and meaning that, when linked to the artist’s or band’s history, alerts you to a quality album in the offing. Here, for example, are some of the tracks on the new Bruce Springsteen album, Wrecking Ball: ‘Rocky Ground’, ‘Easy Money’,
Allen Toussaint and New Orleans
Gumbo
By Paul Kelly
My job as a singer–songwriter often involves being interviewed. One of the questions I’m asked most frequently, up there with “What comes first, the words or the music?” and “Do you write your songs from real life?”, is “What has been the highlight of your career so far?” There have been many but if I had to name one thing and one thing only, as the ultimate tell-the-grandkids
