Duffy - This Note's for You

Duffy, who I quite like, has fallen into bed with Coca Cola. She had the best selling album in the UK last year, and has 'broken' the U.S., so she can't be short of a few bob. Now, it's up to her to make a few quid while she can, and it's not like she's advertising guns, or supporting the Tories, but you'd think she could come up with something better that fizzy pop. Should it make her less of an artist? Probably not, music is a selling game, but Coke? Really? You couldn't think of anything better?

Duffy, This Note's For You by Neil Young

Swap Shop with Neil Young

I was trying to find a Neil Young song off the Life album the other day and stumbled across something called A Perfect Echo. Some chap called Braden Strickler, yes, Braden Strickler, has put together an 8 disc soundboard recordings set of live Neil, spanning the years 1967 to 2001. From what I've heard it's head and shoulders above the usual bootleg quality, and you've got to say what a complete nutter. There's a bit of a blurb on a website called Aquarium Drunkard, have a look by clicking here. I also found a complete track listing here, which is a one man site by a bloke called Jack, who is big on swapping whatever live stuff he's got for whatever live stuff you've got, a bit like Saturday Morning Swap Shop but not on a Saturday.

Lizz Wright

I was planning to do a lovely threesome of Neil Young covers, but this version of Old Man by Lizz Wright is head and shoulders above any others that spring to mind. Ian McNabb of the Icicle Works used to do a great version of The Needle and the Damage Done (he went on to record with Crazy Horse at some point), and Cassandra Wilson does a spooky version of Harvest Moon, but wonder at this if you will. Also, at the risk of sounding a bit Waynesworldesque, she's a fox.

Old Man by Lizz Wright