Dear listening ears/reading eyes, For a long time, I've introduced myself as a banjo player from the Eastern Shore of Maryland. I'm a hiker and an environmentalist. I'm an optimist. I'm loud. I'm still all those things, but I went quiet for a few years. I cut my long...

It’s hard to think of a musician more evocative of the 1980’s than Sade Adu. Known, alongside her bandmates Paul Denman, Andrew Hale, and Stuart Matthewman, as simply Sade, her sophisticated poise and icy cool vocals came to soothe an era of rapid change, spiralling...

Paula Rego / The Dance 1988 I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) / Whitney Houston Dancing Queen / ABBA You Should Be Dancing / Bee Gees Let's Dance  / David Bowie Get Lucky / Daft Punk Dancing in the Dark / Bruce Springsteen Let's Groove / Earth, Wind &...

Simon & Garfunkel A Hazy Shade of Winter -  Red Hot Chili Peppers Snow (Hey Oh) -  Fleet Foxes White Winter Hymnal - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow - Billie Holiday I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm - Frank Sinatra Let It Snow! Let It...

"Pacific State"  808 State / "The Sun Can’t Compare"  Larry Heard / "House Nation"  The House Master Boyz / "Acid Trax"  Phuture / "Playing with Knives"  Bizarre Inc / "Where Love Lives"  Alison Limerick / "Love Can’t Turn Around"  Farley ‘Jackmaster’ Funk / "Rhythim...

Lynsey De Paul "Ivory Tower" Leonard Cohen "Tower of Song"  Elton John "Tower of Babel" XTC "Towers of London"