I’m ending the year, as I traditionally do, with some of my favourite photographs from that year. I’m no photographer, and it just didn’t turn out to be one of those years where I felt visually inspired (most of the time), but these I like anyway. Just why I take more photographs of staircases thanRead More
Normally at this time of year I would produce a series of blog posts on my cultural adventures over the past year, typically a post on favourite music, one on books, one on films, one on art exhibitions visited, and one on photographs I have taken over the year. I like reading the ones IRead More
Steve Cropper has died, the finest of all studio guitarists. The obituaries have been fulsome, so no need here to add to the biographical details. In outline, he was a guitarist, writer and producer behind many soul classics, chiefly as member of Stax Records‘ house band the Mar-Keys and its off-shoot, Booker T and theRead More