Jonathan Wilson

My wife bought me a subscripton to the music magazine - Uncut - some years ago as a birthday present. I enjoyed it so much that she renews it annually for me. She doesn't now have to worry about what to get me and I don't have to worry that each month will be full of music surprises!

There is quite a lot of material about bands from the late 'Sixties and 'Seventies which were the years I relate to most, musically. There are also stories about new bands and artists that I didn't know about. The magazine featured a piece on Jonathan Wilson recently which was really interesting. He's collaborated with the likes of Roy Harper, Jackson Browne, Crosby Stills & Nash and a host of other more well-known names and yet, had it not been for Uncut, I may never have heard of him. I sampled a few tracks on iTunes and it still sounded good so I bought the album Gentle Spirit from amazon.

It's very much in the easy Eagles/West Coast vein and made a marvellous introduction to Sunday for me today.