If it’s a Sunday night, then I must be listening to some folkie shit, right?
OH HAI Dick Gaughan.
Sunday nights back in the late 80’s and early 90’s meant Here Be Dragons with the legendary John Shaw on Radio Trent.
John is sadly no longer with us. He really, really is missed. Most of my musical education during this period came from his unique tastes.
When I should have been mashed off me tits and getting into sorts of trouble, I was listening to late night folk radio in bed.
That’s not as WEIRD as it might seem.
Dick Gaughan was occasionally played on Here By Dragons. But not as much as the House Artist, Richard Thompson, and all things Fairport.
On the CD player this evening is Gaughan’s Handful of Earth. It was picked up in the wonderful second hand St Helena music shop in Walton-on-the-Naze.
I became more aware of Gaughan following his collaborations with Billy Bragg. This album includes World Turned Upside Down - a song that Bragg would also cover on the Between the Wars EP.
It’s wistful, almost soulful Sunday evening music. The burden of the new week ahead doesn’t loom as large with a little folkie interlude.
That’s very much how I remember the great John Shaw and Here Be Dragons.