I can't believe it was September last year that I last posted anything here. I will endeavour to be more attentive.

So on Facebook there is currently a request going around for people to list their favourite 10 albums that they listen to on a regular basis. So I thought it a good idea to restart my postings with my list and with a track from each. They are in no particular order. So here we go.

  Bob Dylan "New Morning" Released in 1970, this as ever since been my favourite Dylan album. It is a much maligned release that for for some reason I have found to be one that I return to over and over. It is so difficult to find tracks from this album on You-tube but here is one "If dogs run free"

 Another album from 1970. It must have been a good year. James Taylor's "sweet Baby James" This album reminds me very much of my last couple of years at school. Again this is a varied album, with some fine guitar playing. This is one of my favourite tracks that shows off some of this guitar playing plus a great brass section. "Steamroller Blues"

 Later in the seventies, 1977 saw the release of Barbra Streisand's album "Superman". I was introduced to the amazing vocal talent of Barbra Streisand by my first wife Wendy, and have been grateful for this ever since. Sadly Wendy is no longer with us, but this album is still around and sounds just as good now as it did all those years ago. It is a mixture of self penned tracks and brilliant covers, including this one, "New York state of mind" a Billy Joel song.

  1974 saw the release of one of my all time favourite live albums, John Stewart's "Phoenix Concerts" A double LP recorded at Phoenix Symphony Hall it is a tour-de-force with many of his greatest songs from his early solo career. With his wife Buffy Ford and son Michael in attendance. So many tracks to choose from this great songwriter who wrote "daydream believer" that was such a huge hit worldwide for The Monkees. Here's just one track "Kansas"

  I just realised that each of my first five choices are from the seventies. "Year of the cat" from Al Stewart was released in 1976 and it made his name known to a worldwide audience. Every track was radio friendly and could be heard all over that year and the title track still gets played many times over on radio stations all over the world. This is "On the border"

That's it for today, I will post the next five later, two of which are also from the seventies !