Almanac Music: Songs about Roads

This week’s music piece from KD concerns songs that mention roads in the title, whether they be specifically highways, streets, avenues, boulevards, esplanades or similar infrastructure.

Almanac Music: Not Quite Bob – In our own backyard: Blokes

Trevor Blainey looks at some homegrown blokes in the ‘Not Quite Bob’ mould in his continuing series.

Almanac Music: Let There Be Light: Ten Songs of ‘Light’ from Favourite Mainstream Australasian Artists

This week’s post from KD is a companion piece to his ‘Songs of Darkness’ article of last Friday – the topic is now ‘Songs of Light’ from mainstream Australasian artists. Again, he invites Almanackers to respond, to add to the picture.

Almanac Music: Darkness from the Mainstream: Ten Dark Songs from Favourite Australasian Artists

In this encyclopedic piece, KD analyses ten favourite mainstream Australasian songs from the ‘dark’ side, and encourages Almanackers to add some of their own.

Almanac Music: Richard Clapton and I

Kevin Densley recalls the time his band supported Richard Clapton at The Waurn Ponds Hotel in 1980.