It's been a couple of days since my last post, been a bit busy with a few things. Not least sorting out my Charity auctions on Ebid. I'm very pleased to say I managed to raise £40 for NoRSACA'a Raines Avenue garden project.

Thanks to anyone who made bids, anyone not bidding this time there's always next month.

Also been catching up on some listening to a bunch of CD's I just got. These are a mixture of stuff picked up in charity shops and a couple ordered online.  One that I picked up in a charity shop is by Kevin Buxton & Chris Matthews called "Unusual Suspects" this is a pretty good album of blues/folk covers and original tracks, including a bloody good version of Dylan's "Blind Willie McTell", sadly I can't find any online recordings from this album, so I will post this Dylan recording.

If anyone know more about these two guys please feel free to let me know, I would love to hear more from them. Apart from "Blind Willie McTell" they also do a great version of "Across the Great Divide" written by Kate Wolf and also recorded by many American Roots singers including my favourite version by Nanci Griffith taken from her album "Other voices other rooms"

In complete contrast to "Unusual Suspects" an album that just arrived on my doorstep is by Lone Star, not the American country rock band, but a band from Wales in the 1970's. The CD is made up of their first two albums "Lone Star" & "Firing on all six" both albums have classic opening tracks, "She said, she said" (cover of the Beatles track) and "The Bells of Berlin"  for more about the band take a look here.