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It’s a New World. A New World. Now, there’s a baby in the house. The air is suffused with Love and Wonder and a daily sense that Miracles are all around us. The Decibel Level sways between th...

https://theimmortaljukebox.com/2018/09/19/john-martyn-may-you-never/

A true message always gets through. Sometimes it just takes a while. Over 40 years a Song can, starting out as an unremarked track on a little regarded album from a little known Band, become a ve...

https://theimmortaljukebox.com/2018/08/13/nick-lowe-bruce-springsteen-lucinda-williams-whats-so-funny-bout-peace-love-and-understanding/

‘One day Frank started playing a little organ riff and we all really liked it a lot. I kinda came up with the chord riff … then Question Mark said he had words for it … I thought he was …...

https://theimmortaljukebox.com/2018/04/19/doug-sahm-garland-jeffreys-and-the-mysterians-96-tears/

I believe in Ghosts. No, not the ghouls and spectres of Halloween or graveyard apparitions. The Ghosts I believe in lie dormant in the labyrinthine halls of the mind and the secret chambers of th...

https://theimmortaljukebox.com/2017/10/31/gerry-rafferty-her-father-didnt-like-me-anyway/

Let’s remind ourselves what’s A1 on The Immortal Jukebox and why! Some songs have a brutally simple primal perfection. Usually these songs are recorded at the very beginning of an artists car...

https://theimmortaljukebox.com/2017/08/15/van-morrison-gloria-gloria-gloria-gloria/

“Rock and roll would have never happened without him” – Doc Pomus Auguries. Signs. Portents. Beneath the stillness something is stirring. Tectonic plates are shifting. Magma is on the move....

https://theimmortaljukebox.com/2017/05/01/big-joe-turner-moving-the-earth-shake-rattle-and-roll/

  ‘… He who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sun rise.’ (William Blake) ‘We’d come up over a hill and he’d see the radio towers, the beacons flashing, and he would ge...

https://theimmortaljukebox.com/2017/01/20/jonathan-richman-roadrunner-one-two-three-four-five-six/

‘I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river is a strong brown god – sullen, untamed and intractable, Patient to some degree, at first recognised as a frontier; Useful, untrustw...

https://theimmortaljukebox.com/2016/02/22/merle-haggard-dave-alvin-emmylou-harris-kern-river/

Christmas Cracker 6 Oceans and oceans of emotion have flowed through the telephone wires buzzing above your head. Think of all the announcements. I’ve passed my exams! I’ll be home for Christ...

https://theimmortaljukebox.com/2015/12/18/ry-cooder-elton-john-solomon-burke-jim-reeves-hell-have-to-go/

Now, to be clear your Honour, I can’t say for certain that Bob Dylan has a Jukebox and if he has I can’t be 100% sure which artists it features. But, but, I have to say that there is enough �...

https://theimmortaljukebox.com/2015/10/16/riding-high-on-bob-dylans-jukebox-warren-smith/