Mexican Jim

St Andrews is a student town with a large number of Charity Shops.
However, by and large the CD selection is not great.
There are, however, one or two exceptions  which will feature in this blog over the course of time.

The above Jim Reeves CD was purchased in Sue Ryder.
It is a live recording and the quality of the recording is not great.

However, I freely admit I bought it primarily for the cover alone - check out those Cowboy Boots!!

Jim Reeves -Mexican Joe

Shiny Shiny Shiny Boots of Leather

Sticking with the Boots theme here is a cover by Trish Murphy from her Rubies on the Lawn album of the Lee Hazlewood song made famous by Nancy Sinatra:

Trish Murphy -These Boots Are Made For Walking

And by way of a wee bonus here is Ms Sinatra herself:

Nancy Sinatra -Sugar Town

How's Your Ukranian?

I have had the honour of a Ukranian visitor to this blog.

By way of a thank you here is a little something from your countrymen.

For those of you whose Ukraninan is a little rusty it starts of along the lines of Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather, Whiplash girl child in the dark.....

You know the rest



The Ukranians - Venus in Furs

Festive Greetings

I hope you all survived Shane McGowan's birthday yesterday.

I believe he is now 56 and well on the way to his bus pass'

The Pogues -The Band Played Waltzing Matilda

St Nicholas

Ricky Ross in his excellent BBC Radio Scotland  Another Country show refers to him as Sir Nick.

I've gone one step further and gone for beatification, although thankfully he is still very much alive.

Nick Lowe -So it Goes

The Holly and The Ivy

I'm afraid this is about as seasonal as this blog is going to get.

Here is some Holly (Golightly) and (Poison ) Ivy  - did you see what I did there??

Holy Golightly and the Brokeoffs - I Wanna Hug Ya, Kiss Ya, Squeeze Ya

The Cramps - Goo Goo Muck

The Second Winter of Love

Like many folk I purchased Forever Changes by Love primarily because it featured regularly in lists of the Best Albums of all time - and jolly good it is too.

I recently got Da Capo out the library and last Saturday I happened across Love in my local charity shop, this tripling my Love collection in a couple of weeks.

Electra as doing CDs with both the mono and stereo versions of all the songs.

The second winter of Love indeed!

Love - Can't Explain
Danny Wilson - Second Summer of Love