mostly david ephgrave

My internal soundtrack for the past few days, thanks largely to ‘Take it Away: The Complete Paul McCartney Podcast’, is the lesser known 90s Macca b-side ‘Long Leather Coat’. Songs like this are what makes delving into McCartney’s extensive back catalogue so rewarding. This track was the reverse to the first Macca single I bought contemporaneously: the less satisfying calypso-tinged ‘Hope of Deliverance’ (though I do like the guitar solo in it). While I’d been a Beatles fan for a few years by 1993 when the song came out - and went to see McCartney live for the first time in Earl’s Court that year - there hadn’t been anything new from him since 1989’s ‘Flowers in the Dirt’, which was just a little on the early side for me; eight-year-olds don't make up much of the record-buying public. Perhaps typically of Paul’s work, a lot of the b-sides from the period are far better than his more mainstream releases, though I am rather fond of the album ...