Tag: Sam Cooke

Original vs Cover Versions

Over the years there have been thousands of cover versions of songs recorded and released. I wanted to ask you all: what is your favourite cover of a song and what original song do you think cannot ever be beaten? I’ve listed my top three choices below: Favourite cover Sam Cooke – Blowin’ in the […]

Live albums

It’s been well over a year since most of us have been to see live music. I can imagine that there are thousands of us who are itching to be back in music venues seeing our favourite artists. While we are waiting for venues to open, take this time to enjoy some live albums. These […]

Top 10 Albums

My question to you today is… If you were leaving planet Earth on a spaceship and you could only take 10 albums with you, what would they be? Before I wrote this post, I thought the amount should be 5 albums, not 10, but this was far, far too difficult for me, so I doubled […]

Soul

As June is National Soul Food month (as I found out thanks to daysoftheyear.com) I thought a great topic for my blog this week would be my favourite genre of music: Soul. I grew up with Soul, Jazz and R&B music, thanks to my mum who always used to play George Benson, Lionel Richie, Michael […]