Tom Morton's Beatcroft
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Monday, June 19, 2023
If you landed here...best move right along...
This blog has become rather clumsy, tottering under the weight of its top-heavy content, and I know it's inaccessible on some browsers. So for the moment my online activities will be focused on Substack, Instagram, Facebook, Linked In and Twitter. As if that weren't enough...
I'll keep this online (after all, it goes back almost to the beginning of blogtime) until I can work out a way of making it accessible as an archive.
Meanwhile, you can find links to all my activities at tommorton.live
Saturday, November 12, 2022
At the Council of Darkness
New (free) Substack newsletter, first of my weekly diaries with pix and pontification. This time: on being a nuclear target, flirting with arms dealers, pedestrians at risk, why councillors don't really matter much (but officials do), keeping vulnerable families warm and fed and the shame of burning coal. Also, it's very dark and...did I mention my new book?
Thursday, October 27, 2022
Bought, Begged and Stolen - as heard on 60 North Radio, 28 October
Jessie Buckley and Bernard Butler — The Eagle and the Dove
Simple Minds — The American (acoustic)
The Magpie Arc — Love Never Dies
Mary Chapin Carpenter — Between the Earth and the Stars
Steve Earle — Guitar Town
Unthanks — The Old News
John Smith — To the Shore
Karine Polwart, Spell Songs — Bramble
Benjamin Francis Leftwich — Oh My God Please
The Staves — Nazareth
Glen Hansard — Cold Comfort
Dry Cleaning — No Decent Shoes
Stevie Nicks — For What It’s Worth
The Waterboys — Glastonbury Fayre
Elvis Costello, Rusty — Don’t Lose Your Grip on Love
Drive By Truckers — The Driver
Dream Syndicate — Every Time You Come Around
Taj Mahal, Ry Cooder — My Baby Done Change the Lock on the Door
Gerry Rafferty — Wild Mountain Thyme
Nihilists — White Stripes
Finaly Morton — Harvest the Wind
Robert Gordon — Rock Billy Boogie
David Lindley — Mercury Blues
James and Bobby Purify — I’m Your Puppet
Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham — I’m Your Puppet
Lindsey Black — Undone
Taylor Swift — Bejewelled
https://www.mixcloud.com/tom-morton2/tom-mortons-bought-begged-and-stolen-28-october-on-60n-radio/
Friday, September 30, 2022
Bought, Begged and Stolen - Friday, 30 September
Jon Strider — Point of No Return
James Yorkston — Sometimes the Act of Giving Love
Nick Lowe — A Better Man
Suzy y Los Quattros — Radio! Stereo!
Dada — The Last Time
Led Zeppelin — Communication Breakdown
Dropkick — Until I Fall Away
Pugwash — The Perfect Summer
Wynntown Marshalls — Low Country Comedown
Boz Scaggs — Cadillac Walk
John Mellencamp — Small Town
Patty Griffin — Angels are Falling
Jon Allen — Heat of the Moment
Mark Knopfler — Occupation Blues
Smithereens — Dear Abby
First Aid Kit — Out of my Head
Teenage Fanclub — The Concept
Jesus and Mary chain — Sometimes Always
Echo and the Bunnymen — Lips Like Sugar
Sugar — If I Can’t Change Your Mind
REM — Fall on Me
The Beths — Knees Deep
Superchunk — On the Floor
Kurt Vile — Like Exploding Stones
Lemonheads — It’s a shame About Ray
Go-Betweens — Streets of Your Town
The Las — There She Goes
Paramore — This is Why
Dillard and Clark — Train Leaves Here this Morning
Johnny Cash — God’s Gonna Cut you Down
Christine and the Queens/Redcar — Rien Dire