Tom Stewart

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🎙️ Day5 🎙️ Jeff Buckley: Last Goodbye

Almost a primal scream as the end songs climaxes. The wonderful and much missed Jeff Buckley

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✨ Day5 ✨ Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris: Love Hurts

A song that covers 2 challenges. The song that gave me my love for Country music. My favourite duet with lyrics/melody that breaks me. Those voices 💔

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✨ Day4 ✨ Nick Drake: 'Cello Song'

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✨ Day4 ✨ Dougie MacLean: 'Caledonia'

While I suspect most will appreciate the melody and the delivery, for me, this song lyrically takes on a whole new level if you are a Scot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Our alternative anthem if I had my way…

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🎙️ Day4 🎙️ Genesis: 'Mama'

Starts off with real menace and builds and builds until the drums crash through the speakers. One of the best individual songs written by the group

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🎙️ Day3 🎙️ The Smiths: Death of a Disco Dancer

A showcase for Mike Joyce and its epic ending...

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✨ Day3 ✨ Fairport Convention: 'Who Knows Where the Time Goes?'

A song Nina Simone described as 'such a lovely, lovely thing'. Sandy Denny & Richard Thompson were never better.

“And I am not alone while my love is near me”

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✨ Day3 ✨ Re-Flex: 'The Politics of Dancing'

“The broadcast was spreading. Station to station. Like an infection across the nation. Though you know you can't stop it when they start to play”.

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#BreakfastSoundtrack #NowPlaying #MusicSky

One of the great unsung albums of the 70s turns 53 today. The epic 'A Wizard, a True Star' playing in the kitchen over breakfast ☕ 🥞

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✨ Day2 ✨ Bauhaus: 'She's In Parties'

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✨ Day2 ✨ Hank Williams: 'I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry'

'Hear that lonesome whippoorwill. He sounds too blue to fly.
The midnight train is whining low. I'm so lonesome, I could cry'

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🎙️ Day2 🎙️ John Coltrane: 'Naima'

From 'Giant Steps' and a sombre tribute to his first wife.

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🎙️ Day1 🎙️ Steve Earle: ‘Copperhead Road’

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✨ Day1 ✨ Mary Gauthier: 'Mercy Now'

“Only the hand of grace can end the race towards another mushroom cloud. People in power, well they’ll do anything to keep their crown. I love life, and life itself could use some mercy now”

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YouTube video by Digital Love The B-52's - Give Me Back My Man [TopPop Remastered]

Happy birthday Cindy Wilson.
One of my all time top tracks.
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✨ Day1 ✨ Death Cab For Cutie: The Sound of Settling

I first heard them on 'The O.C.' in 2004 around the time of 'Transatlanticism'.

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I saw U2 a lot in the 80s (6 times in total) but it was the tour supporting 'War' that was the most honest and exciting. It turns 43 today and is my soundtrack as I make breakfast ☕ 🥣

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🎙️ Song 5 🎙️ Frankie does T-Rex..... Bang a Gong!

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✨ Day 28 ✨ 10cc (feat. BBC Concert Orchestra): I'm Not In Love

Arranged and conducted by the legendary Anne Dudley

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In what seems like an age there are actually clear skies this morning. So breakfast is sound tracked by one of my favourites, both album and definitely group…the peerless XTC. 'Oranges & Lemons' is 37 today ☕ 🍊 🍋

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✨ Day 27 ✨ Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes: The Love I Lost

The world would be a better place if we all wore burgundy crushed velvet suits and worshipped the Sound of Philadelphia 🫶

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🎙️ Song 4 🎙️ Monophonics: Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)

Cher gets the psychedelic soul treatment from a band I first heard on Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone…Bang! Bang!

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🎙️ Song 3 🎙️ Nirvana do Shocking Blue…Buzz!

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✨ Day 26 ✨ Patsy Cline : She's Got You

Hank Cochran's song, Owen Bradley's production and arrangement and that voice 🥰 A song that echoed in my home in the 70s before I even knew what music was…

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A day of torrential rain ☔ ahead, standing looking into the garden it's already started, so it's WFH 👨‍💻 I feel a Blue Note day ahead starting with the near perfect 'Out to Lunch!' by Eric Dolphy 🫖 🥐

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✨ Day 25 ✨ Jessie Buckley & The RTÉ Concert Orchestra : Troy

The wonderful Jesse Buckley performing a remarkable version of 'Troy' backed by The RTÉ Concert Orchestra

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🎙️ Song 2 🎙️ Bowie does Iggy… Bang Bang!

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It's on mornings like this, you feel glad your neighbour is hard of hearing and can't appreciate the sheer volume of 'Physical Graffiti' @ 6am. It's 51 today ☕ 🥣

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✨ Day 25 ✨ Sixpence None The Richer: Kiss Me

Lead guitarist Matt Slocum doubles on the cello…

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🎙️ Song 1 🎙️ Stuart & Co. do The Primitives….Crash!

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