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...

It's no secret that at BathroomWall our chronologically ordered record collection starts to thin out a bit when you get into the 90s and is...

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...

"When the change was made uptown, and the Big Man joined the band...." There are plenty of Jazz saxophonists that we can all name, but when it comes...

“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?...

We all know the story about why he is called Fish, and some of use have even come to terms with the fact that he is not Marillion's singer anymore,...

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...

"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...

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...

Songwriter, Musician, Novelist, Screenwriter, Actor and got to make 'Where The Wild Roses Grow' with Kylie, I don't know about you but I'd be happy...

I have to confess to coming to Pete Seeger late. Like so many I first heard the songs of Pete Seeger when Bruce Springsteen released The Seeger...

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...

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...

There is a train of thought that once Fleetwood Mac let women in the band that they were finished. OK, so they may have been finished as a white boy...

The fact that Tim Buckley barely sold a record during his lifetime, whilst during the same period Englebert Humperdink was making millions, is surely...

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...

What a massively under appreciated song writer Warren Zevon was. A man taken from us far too early, but leaving a legacy of unique work that so many...

Is there anyone that doesn't love Willie Nelson (except the US taxman)? Even those that don't like country still love Willie Nelson. Way out at the...