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Alan Ashworth is a former national newspaper journalist now retreated to the Ribble Valley, where he grows cacti and tramps the fells with the family dog Bingo. He and his wife Margaret run a website, A-M Records , which includes their collected TCW columns plus extra features including Tracks of the Day. Requests, queries and comments can be sent to alanj126@yahoo.co.uk
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Off the Beaten Tracks: Well-done Beefheart (Part Two)

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IN a previous column we left Captain Beefheart claiming all the credit for his 1969 double-album masterpiece Trout Mask Replica and insisting that his...
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Off the Beaten Tracks: Home thoughts, a lockdown songbook

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WITH Field Marshal Johnson attempting to confine us all to barracks, I thought I’d take a break from musician profiles this week...
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Off the Beaten Tracks: Mr Dave, Jackson Browne’s main man

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WHILE his contributions to classic LPs by Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, Terry Reid, Ry Cooder, Warren Zevon and many others would be...
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Off the Beaten Tracks: Lowe Life Part 3

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CRIKEY! It’s getting on for a year since we left the Nick Lowe story with him at a loose end, his band Little...
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Off the Beaten Tracks: Groundhogs Days

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THERE are certain musical acts which seem to have a special appeal to the male of the species. For example, I have...
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Dame Flo paints it black

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SPARE a thought for poor old Floella Benjamin. Or rather Dame Floella. Having arrived in the UK as a child...
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Off the Beaten Tracks: 1-2-3-4 Ramones!

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A COUPLE of columns ago we examined how Dr Feelgood evolved in early-1970s Essex as a dagger to the heart of the...
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Off the Beaten Tracks: Worst of the worst

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COURTESY of the much-missed radio and TV presenter Kenny Everett, this week’s column is dedicated to dross – some of the most...
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Off the Beaten Tracks: The Feelgoods Factor Part 2

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LAST week we left Dr Feelgood in the early 1970s playing their first gigs together in the area around their native Canvey...
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Off the Beaten Tracks: The Feelgoods Factor

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THIS week we paddle our battered time-travelling canoe into the Thames Delta of the 1960s, to visit that strange part of Essex...
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Off the Beaten Tracks: The Beach Boys come of age – Part 2

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LAST week we left the Beach Boys on the crest of a wave with Pet Sounds, an album which changed the face of...
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Off the Beaten Tracks: The Beach Boys come of age

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WHILE their early hit songs about surfing and girls have their charm, the Beach Boys don’t really interest me until 1966. That...
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Off the Beaten Tracks: The Joy of Samplers

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FOR the hard-up music lover in the late Sixties and early Seventies, budget-priced sampler albums were heaven-sent. For just a few bob...
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I’m rich (again)

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I HAD always assumed that the emails one receives, usually from Nigeria, offering a share in a multi-million-pound fortune on condition of...
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Off the Beaten Tracks: Michael Nesmith, country heir

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THE description ‘laid back’ could have been invented for Michael Nesmith. He turned up to an audition for the Monkees on his...
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Paradice Lost

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I TAKE it that readers shared my astonishment yesterday to learn from TCW’s Caroline ffiske that an official document from some group of nutters...
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