Category Archives: Music Blog

Everybody’s Got One: The Home of Tim Grierson: My Interview With Shira Small

Sometimes, you have ideas that just sit inside you for years. You think they’ll be something you never get to write. I am so very glad this dream piece finally happened. — Read on timgrierson.blogspot.com/2026/04/my-interview-with-shira-small.html

Lowlands (Away) (Roud 681; Henry H469)

It often happens that long ballads become whittled down into short lyrical songs. The dwindling of Captain Wedderburn’s Courtship into I Gave My Love a Cherry is a case in point. So too some forgotten narrative ballad of the return of a ghostly lover has survived as a lyrical fragment that sometimes turns up as aContinue reading “Lowlands (Away) (Roud 681; Henry H469)”

Behind the scenes at Ring Ding with Miss Lou – YouTube

Ring Ding which began in 1968, airing on the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation (JBC) and which continued until 1980 was hosted by the redoubtable Miss Lou (Louise Bennett-Coverley) and was one of the first of its kind produced locally. This is a behind-the-scenes look at that iconic program. — Read on m.youtube.com/watch