Category Archives: Folk-Rock

“The Orange Rooftop of Your Mind” – The Blue Things (1966)

Posted on February 28, 2024 by Richard Barry

How often have you listened to a singer or a group currently out there or perhaps even from the relatively distant past and asked yourself why they weren’t better known, why they weren’t making it or hadn’t made it? You … Continue reading →

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“Wondering Where the Lions Are” – Bruce Cockburn (1979)

Posted on February 8, 2024 by Richard Barry

If you like lists, this one was once named the 29th greatest Canadian song of all time by a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio program despite the fact that several of Cockburn’s subsequent singles reached a higher chart position. It was, as well, … Continue reading →

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“A World Without Love”- Peter and Gordon (1964)

Posted on February 5, 2024 by Richard Barry

Is “A World Without Love” a roots/folk tune? I don’t know, but if some duo got up at a folk festival and sang it, no one would blink. Sixty years later it sounds pretty folkie to me, certainly folk-rock, or … Continue reading →

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“Baby’s Got the Car Keys” – Trout Fishing in America (1997)

Posted on January 28, 2024 by Richard Barry

I used to spend a lot of time with Keith Grimwood and Ezra Idlet of Trout Fishing in America, but that was mostly in the late 1980s through the ’90s. We got to be friends and I would on occasion … Continue reading →

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