The weekly round-up from over at Star Maker Machine - Advice

Artist: Tad Lauritzen Wright

The theme in the week just gone over at the collaborative blog Star Maker Machine was 'advice'. There were a total of 45 posts and 71 tracks, so there's plenty over there to be listening to and learning about.

My posts were as follows:

- Don't Eat the Yellow Snow - Frank Zappa

- 10 more don'ts from Divinyl (with tracks from Leonard Cohen, The Byrds, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Doris Duke, Peggy Lee, Willie Nelson and Sinead O'Connor, Guns n Roses, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson, The Cramps and Michael Jackson!)

- The Gambler - Kenny Rogers

- House of the Rising Sun - 4 great, and very different, versions

- The 'setting feminism back 100s of years' edition (songs from Annie Lennox, Tammy Wynette, The Exciters and Betty Everett)

and

- Choose Life - PF Project feat. Ewan McGregor (from the Trainspotting soundtrack).

There were tonnes of other fantastic songs posted, and quite a few I did not already know, so head over there to have a look!

Here are a further 5 from my short list (there was also a very long list!) that I didn't manage to get around to:

mp3: Light Enough to Travel - The Be Good Tanyas
mp3: Up On the Roof - The Drifters
mp3: Try A Little Tenderness - Otis Redding
mp3: Cruel To Be Kind - Nick Lowe
mp3: Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out - Freakpower

The new theme is 'footwear', so wish me luck! And any suggestions (although I, again, have a loooong list!) are welcome...