How's the Silent Dance sound - different/better?  Not sure if we'll see Camel out there again, but it's a nice thought.

RIP Country Joe McDonald - his headline set on the Thursday night at Cropredy 2005 with his band (basically Country Joe & The Fish without Barry Melton) was a magical experience.

I made my usual raid on bandcamp on Friday, and purchased a few items including Fas by Breabach (preparing myself for them at Cropredy, as I haven't heard them before), Solstice's recent remaster of Silent Dance, their 1984 debut, fieldlily's debut EP Grow (another Cropredy connection - they are 2/3 of Wildwood Kin, who played some years ago) and another new release from Andy Latimer of Camel - The Road Home. He has been releasing a number of pieces on Bandcamp in the last months.  I'd love to see Camel at Cropredy one day...

Country Joe left us yesterday aged 84.

“You know what we need for our wedding? Some original-written songs about heartbreak and betrayal…
Take a break from the doom scrolling and look at this.

https://skirky.blogspot.com/2026/03/who-knew.html

As it's Bandcamp Friday I've made a couple of purchases. Outsider by Findlay Napier and Conversations We've Had Before by the Eliza Carthy Trio which I'm currently listening to.

If you don't know about Bandcamp Friday you can read all about it here - https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-fridays

Just booked - The Guess Who (Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman, together again) at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, August!

I've seen them separately, but never together, and never as "The Guess Who." I bought the Meet-and-Greet so I can personally express my gratitude to my neighbors to the north!

Grateful   Dead   : From the Mars Hotel  (Rhino  50th Anniversary LP, black vinyl).

This wasn't my entry point with the Dead,  but it strikes me it could be tor some people. Great collection of songs, well recorded .  Forget about  Anthem of the Sun  :-)

Now 13 - I just remembered that Lindisfarne are playing in Exmouth next month too!

Tonight, 9pm 'til 11pm : Scattering The Roots with Dan Ogus...two hours of the finest folk, roots, blues, etc...plenty of etc...

All-female Artists Special Edition 2026 !

The next show goes out tonight, 9pm 'til 11pm (after Express FM Country), and this week's show features some of the finest female artists on the planet, including :

Kirsty MacColl, Bonnie Raitt, Chloe Josephine Music, Chris While & Julie Matthews, Lucy Ward, Laura Veirs, KT Tunstall, Olivia Stevens & Co., Joni Mitchell, Rickie Lee Jones, Suzanne Vega, Shawn Colvin, Pearl Charles, Dar Williams, Katie Spencer, Amba Tremain, Jo Harman, Judie Tzuke, Danni Nicholls, Alice Russell, Kate Bush...

Listen tonight, 9pm 'til 11pm on Portsmouth's Express FM, on DAB and online here :

https://www.expressfm.com/programmes/scattering-the-roots/