The Listening Club - 6th March 2022

Hey there, listening chums! It's @JimMcCauley here, doing my first bit of caretaker hosting in a good few months while @kleptones and @nessiest are away for the weekend. Lots has happened since I was last running ting - Christmas, panto, covid, new kitchen, and yesterday I was out performing on the streets of Bath with the Natural Theatre Company - but I'm sure you don't want to hear about that. So let's crack on.

Last week, then, it was the #coversororiginalsvortex, an oddball mix of great cover versions and lesser-known (but still great) originals, which all went down very nicely and taught us, if nothing else, that Dylan's brilliant at writing songs that other people subsequently do better. So thanks to everyone for all the picks and to @akx for putting it all together, and we now resume normal service with @brainspiritus, who will address you forthwith.

"Bearable ListeningClub, everybody! 

"I hope you are all doing as well as possible in a time that has upgraded our morning routine from "coffee, incidence rates, VPN, hello coworkers" to now include Schwerpunkts and dosimeters. 

"So usually, given you are all more musically-inclined than I am, my picks are one of "here's somebody you've never heard, now find out why you should" or "here's somebody you've never heard, now find out why that was probably for a reason" and I don't know myself which one it is. This does not feel like a week for that. This feels like a week for safety and comfort and no surprise metal guitars. 

"This week's artist is in the Hall of Fame, on the Walk of Fame, on not one, but two "Rolling Stone 100 GOAT" lists, has more Grammies than I have fingers, and you'll need about fifteen seconds to recognize who it is. 

"So, grab your comfort blanket, wrap yourself, your favourite person or persons and all your pets in it, have your hot chocolate ready (the good stuff, made with single cream and possibly a shot of something) and let's float away on mid-seventies bluesfolk until reality catches up with us again."

I'll skip the pets in the blanket bit because that would, at best, result in lacerations all round. Download's here, or simply stream away below:

See you at 8PM! (GMT!)