Singer Songwriters

I Ain't Gonna Work On Maggie's Farm No More.... Carrying on the great folk protest traditions on Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie, there has never been...

Interviewer: So tell me Mr Dylan, what does the lyric �People don�t live or die, people just float� mean? His Bobness: I wanted something that rhymed...

�Johnny�s in the basement mixing up the ink to print more T-shirts, I�m on the pavement trying to sell the damn things�. OK, so it�s not quite as...

Although all too often dismissed these days as AOR, the fact remains that Bob Seger has one of American rock's finest voices, whilst also being a...

A tribute T-shirt to Bruce Springsteen's iconic The River. As you know, The Johnstown Company was where the hero of The River "got a job working...

We all have things in our record collections that we could live without or that we would deny owning if we thought it would lead to ridicule, but for...

Gone 60 and still rocking like a man a third of his age. For an artist to stay so true to his values despite some unbearably lean years when...

I know that New York is always cool and that these days it is safe to go pretty much anywhere without too much fear of getting mugged, but surely it...

�Drove My Chevy To The Levee But The Levee Was Dry� Writing about American Pie seems a tad pointless. Is there anything left to write about it?...

Elton John's contribution to popular culture is rightly debated. There's no doubt he has committed grievous crimes against fashion, manners, wigs &...

Whenever I hear some bunch of pop puppets being described as a "vocal harmony group" or "R & B" doesn't it just makes me want to scream and say (to...

He hung out with the Stones, made country music cool and asked his best friend to set fire to his dead body in the desert. Well, it doesn�t get much...

Before Janis died, she made provision in her will for a party for her friends. After she died, her closest friends held that party, with a banner at...

While the likes of Robert Johnson and Lead Belly never really got to see their success and those they influenced flourish, John Lee Hooker did. From...

When you record something as culturally significant as "At Folsom Prison" then it takes serious balls to try the same trick again. Most people would...

"They Paved Paradise & Put Up A Parking Lot". Joni Mitchell may have written it about Hawaii, but the theme of developers screwing things up for...

It is all too easy to flippantly dismiss Leonard Cohen as 'Laughing Lenny', the man who wrote the soundtrack to suicide, but that would totally miss...

Supergroups have come in various guises - from authentic groups to vanity projects. Many have barely deserved the title, others have thoroughly...

Morrissey is so many things to so many people. To me he is the man that ran the New York Dolls UK fan club, to some he is a miserable bastard with a...

I am struggling to think of many musicians that 50 years in to their career are still putting out fresh and relevant work. As much as I love so many...

Sadly, like so many great singer/songwriters Drake�s star only rose to the heights of recognition it deserved after his death. Now so rightly hailed...

Frampton Comes Alive! is a tricky one. Viewed as an album in it's own right, it is a sensational live record. Atmospheric, beautifully played, well...

With many of us sharing that warm fuzzy glow of nostalgia for the mid-90s, when there was hope in equal measure for both New Labour and the pop...

Along with Paul Rodgers, Rod Stewart is the greatest of all British blues singers. Forget all that Sailing and Do You Think I�m Sexy nonsense and...

Ryan Adams is a man whose output makes Bob Dylan look positively sluggish. Even Elton John in the early 70s didn�t pump them out like Ryan Adams. He...

If you could pick anyone to host a soul radio show, then can you think of anyone better than Smokey Robinson? Nope, neither could we... which is...

Whether you see Steve Earle as a country boy, rockabilly, bluegrass crooner, roots rocker, hard rocker or folk singer, one thing is for sure,...

Barry: �Top 5 musical crimes perpetrated by Stevie Wonder in the 80s and 90s. Go. Sub-question: is it in fact unfair to criticize a formerly great...

Jees, where do you start with Todd Rundgren? For me, he will be the man that turned the New York Dolls debut from what could easily have been a...

There is a real elitism about being into Tom Waits, so for that reason I'm not going to bother explaining the references on this Tom Waits T-shirt. I...

A T-shirt tribute to the world's coolest barfly and the drinking man's Springsteen. When life is a bit too much, or you are feeling sorry for...

As is so often, an artist's true legend is only fully acknowledged after their passing. Just as if every baby boomer that claimed to have been at...

A gang (OK, two) werewolves rampaging across London - Chinese Menus and Pina Coladas at the ready. Warren Zevon was such an under rated song-writing...

When it comes to influence is there anyone more vital to modern American music than Woody Guthrie? No Woody Guthrie, no Bruce Springsteen. No Woody...