Big river

Posted on March 10 2012

Having been by the Tyne for much of this morning this track came to mind. It may be corny to make the link, but I've always liked the song:

Whatever happened to Jimmy Nail?

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  1. Mark Wadsworth says:
    March 10 2012 at 9:40 pm

    Dear Richard, somebody posted your debate on the radio with Matthew Sinclair on YouTube and sent me the link. I’m surprised you managed to keep your temper at his lies and propaganda, well done for sticking up for LVT, although it’s a shame you seem to see it as an additional tax and not a replacement tax.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtGz9NkQAyg

  2. Alan McMahon says:
    March 11 2012 at 1:59 am

    Hiya Richard.

    Corny? Not at all. Nail’s a surprisingly good singer, and it’s a good song. Earlier today I posted on FB a link to a spare, hauntingly beautiful Matt McGinn song called A Miner’s Lullaby, accompanied by nothing but a simple banjo arpeggio:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WPI8CF04A0
    that popped into my head this morning, a propos of nothing at all, after an absence of over 40 years. Could there be some sort of nostalgia meme around!?