22 Mar 2025

Nashville Babylon: 22 March 2025

From Nashville Babylon, 6:00 pm on 22 March 2025
Nick Lowe at Ealing Blues Festival

Photo: Roger Green, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

On this week's Nashville Babylon there are birthday tunes for Aretha Franklin and Nick Lowe, blues courtesy of Buster Benton and Big Maybelle plus a reggae classic from the Abyssinians.

Music played:

Artist: Talking Heads
Track: Life During Wartime
Composer: Byrne / Frantz / Harrison / Weymouth
Album: Stop Making Sense
Label: Sire

Artist: Vince Taylor
Track: Brand New Cadillac
Composer: Taylor
Album: Single
Label: Parlophone

Artist: Cliff Richard
Track: Move It
Composer: Samwell
Album: Single
Label: Columbia

Artist: Nick Lowe
Track: I Live On A Battlefield
Composer: Lowe /Carrack
Album: The Impossible Bird
Label: Demon

Artist: Aretha Franklin
Track: Baby I Love You
Composer: Ronnie Shannon
Album: Aretha Arrives
Label: Atlantic

Artist: Big Maybelle
Track: 96 Tears
Composer: Martinez
Album: Single
Label: Rojac

Artist: Vince Monroe
Track: They Call Me Mr Calhoun
Composer: Vincent
Album: Bluesin' By The Bayou
Label: Ace

Artist: Buster Benton
Track: Loan Me A Dime
Composer: Robinson
Album: Blues And Trouble
Label: Black and Blue

Artist: Rykarda Parasol
Track: Dead Inside Too
Composer: Rykarda Parasol
Album: Tuesday Morning
Label: Self

Artist: Marianne Faithfull
Track: It's All Over Now Baby Blue
Composer: Bob Dylan
Album: Rich Kid Blues
Label: Castle

Artist: The Abyssinians
Track: Satta A Massagana
Composer: B. Collins, D. Manning, L. Manning
Album: Satta Massagana
Label: Heartbeat

Artist: Lyle Lovett
Track: God Will
Composer: Lyle Lovett
Album: Lyle Lovett
Label: MCA

Artist: Elvis Costello
Track: Alison
Composer: Elvis Costello
Album: My Aim Is True
Label: Demon

Artist: Nick Lowe
Track: Cruel To Be Kind
Composer: Lowe / Gomm
Album: Single
Label: Radar

Artist: The Noveltones
Track: Left Bank Two
Composer: Wayne Hill
Album: Single
Label: De Wolfe Music

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