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For this episode, Patrick and Keith go in search of Days of Autumn Past.

Music that envelope one is a warm, comforting blanket of much used memories.

So, let them lead you tentatively but tenderly through mellifluous yet tender mists of autumn days.

We meet on the corner and convene three hours later with some mysterious brothers, then head southbound, away from suburbia.

Perhaps to the fabled alehouse at twilight, for cups of chilling ale…..

🌫 MT Wolf – “Life Size Ghosts”

From the EP “Life Size Ghosts” (2012)

Patrick Writes:

Dreamlike and spectral, MT Wolf’s “Life Size Ghosts” feels like a breath caught between sleep and waking. Layered harmonies and distant guitars shimmer in the haze — a perfect entry point into the London band’s blend of folk, electronica, and quiet euphoria. Featuring local girl Kate Sproule on vocals.

🌫 Jethro Tull – “ Songs From The Wood”

From the Album “Songs From The Wood” (1977)

Keith Writes:

With this late 70s album, Ian Anderson moved Tull out of the Prog Lane and into a newly created sub-genre…Folk-Prog…

Every song fits our defined theme of Autumn Moods, so I may as well pick the hook-laden title track.

Anderson continued delving into the folk tropes and the next two Tull albums, Heavy Horses and Storm Watch ploughed the same furrows ….

🪷 David Bowie – “Buddha Of Suburbia”

From “The Buddha Of Suburbia” (1993)

Patrick Writes:

Often overlooked, Bowie’s Buddha Of Suburbia bridges his art-rock past and ambient future. The title track is hypnotic and deeply English — suburban mysticism set to slow funk and soft saxophone. It’s Bowie at his most introspective, gently folding the mundane into the divine.

🌫 The Moody Blues – “Never Comes the Day”

From the Album “On the Threshold of a Dream” (1969)

Keith Writes:

So autumny the album’s cover features leaves strewn about in their “browns, reds and gold”.

The Moodies appear to be gearing up for the 70s with this late 60s offering. Longer tracks, spoken word…and just a hint of the encroachment of technology.

The album is suffused with a fatalistic air and also perhaps a resigned determination to meet the new times with a brave face and warm hope.

🏠 Radical Face – “Welcome Home”

From “Ghost” (2007)

Patrick Writes:

Built around a single acoustic refrain and handclap rhythm, “Welcome Home” became a modern folk anthem. Ben Cooper (aka Radical Face) wrote Ghost in a shed, and it sounds like it — intimate, haunting, and full of stories whispered by walls and floorboards.

🌫 David Bowie – “The Bewlay Brothers”

From the Album “Honky Dory” (1969)

Keith Writes:

Having joined the work force in the late summer of 1973, I was at last able to buy myself a new album every three months or so.

Bowie was a huge force in both the singles and album charts. For some reason, I passed on Ziggy as the choice of my first Bowie album; I had picked up some Ziggy singles and that scratched that itch.

The reason for going with Honky Dory as my first Bowie purchase was the fact that Life on Mars had been issued as a single and I was mesmerised by the lyrics and piano playing. So,Honk Dory it was.

I recall a particular late Sunday afternoon listening to the album, played on a Dansette type record player, and marvelling at the lyricism and even then, thinking lyrics could introduce one to new topics thus new ways of understanding the world.

However, over 50 years later, I still have no idea what The BewlayBrothers was about…. and I have long since worrying about it…

🎸 Thin Lizzy – “Southbound”

From “Live And Dangerous” (1978)

Patrick Writes:

Recorded live but larger than life, “Southbound” captures Phil Lynott’s storytelling charm at full power. Live And Dangerousremains one of rock’s great documents — swaggering yet soulful, the sound of a band playing not just to a crowd, but to their own legend. 

🌫 Lindesfarne – “Meet Me On The Corner”

From the Album “Fog on The Tyne” (1969)

Keith Writes:

Another memory of simpler times. I lived on a road where there were other music heads were emerging, and we would gather around an old transistor radio and try and catch the wavering signal from Radio Luxembourg in order to hear the sounds that were hoisting themselves into the charts.

I still remain bemused that a bunch of hairies like Lindisfarnecould break into the charts. But they were on merit and brief run of singles chart success.

Meet me on the Corner was of course and instant classic; conjuring up comradeship and fraternity; warmth and comfort. 

The power of radio and a well written song…. plus 25 pence worth of almost warm chips and dreams enough to share…

🕊 Be Bop Deluxe – “Sister Seagull”

From “Futurama” (1975)

Patrick Writes:

Bill Nelson’s art-rock gem “Sister Seagull” soars with glam guitar lines and wistful melody. On Futurama, Nelson sculpted a sound that was futuristic yet romantic — a bridge between Bowie’s theatrics and the technical wonder of prog.

🌫 Led Zeppelin – “That’s The Way”

From the Album “Led Zeppelin” (1970)

Keith Writes:

My introduction to the works of Led Zeppelin was being aware that there was a connection to the Top of The Pops theme butnot knowing what the connection was and not much caring.

Then someone “laid” Led Zeppelin Two on me and I realised the connection. And still did not much care.

Anyway. So, I realised that Led Zeppelin were heavy metal thunderers who pillaged the blues from all and sundry.

Then I heard Led Zeppelin Three and was entranced. Small Welsh cottages and the sight of smoke through the trees.Wonderful.

I was smitten. So much so, I took my hat of to Roy Harper

🌧 Genesis – “Blood On The Rooftops”

From “Wind And Wuthering” (1976)

Patrick Writes:

Genesis is at their most tender and human. “Blood On The Rooftops” is a melancholy masterpiece — Steve Hackett’s acoustic guitar entwines with Phil Collins’ bittersweet vocal, a quiet lament for lost innocence and the numbing comfort of TV escapism.

🌫 Genesis – “The Twilight Alehouse”

From the single B-side to “I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)” (1973)

Keith Writes:

Although this track was the B-side to Genesis’ chart entry of 1973, it was not until 1979 when I heard it played on WunerfulRadio 1, Richard Skinner in fact.

It was fortunate that I was taping (!) the show and was able to hang on to the tape for some time.

In my head, this track appears as a Samual Palmer picture; a small cottage with its chimney’s gently puffing out a bluish grey..or is it greayish blue smoke that can just be glimpsed through the trees …

And inside, Jethro Tull’s roadies getting hammered on chilling ale….

🌊 Tycho – “Coastal Brake”

From “Dive” (2011)

Patrick Writes:

A radiant piece of instrumental electronica, “Coastal Brake” feels like sunlight dancing on the water. Scott Hansen’s Dive album is pure escapism — glacial synths, warm textures, and rhythms that drift like tides. The perfect soundtrack for memories you haven’t made yet.

🌫 Nick Drake – “Three Hours”

From the album “Five Leaves Left)” (1969)

Keith Writes:

Can’t have autumn without old Nick. The album Five Leaves Left has been marinaded in an autumn compost made of tree leaves, tea leaves, ginger cake and late bottled vintage port.

A heady mixture. No wonder Jeremy and Giacomo flew. Perhaps with Daniel, the red taillights heading to Spain…

⚔️ Led Zeppelin – “The Battle of Evermore”

From “Led Zeppelin IV” (1971)

Patrick Writes:

A mythical duel told in mandolins and harmonies. With Sandy Denny’s ethereal voice trading lines with Robert Plant, “The Battle of Evermore” weaves English folk into rock’s epic tapestry — timeless, haunting, and utterly spellbinding.

🌫 Roy Harper – “An Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease”

From the album “HQ)” (1975)

Keith Writes:

I can’t remember whether I was wearing a hat when I first heard this magnificent track, or indeed whether I had accepted a cigar.

But I do know that I was listening to a masterpiece. 

Haunting and bittersweet; the Silver …or was it Brass band breathing a gilded melancholy over the proceedings.

And who is that, just this side of the final, golden boundary….Itcould be me…it could be thee…

🙏 Sufjan Stevens – “To Be Alone with You”

From “Seven Swans” (2004)

Patrick Writes:

Barely more than a whisper and a strum, “To Be Alone with You” is a hymn of devotion — spiritual and painfully human. Seven Swans showed Sufjan at his most raw, an album of quiet revelations and trembling faith.

🌫 The Cure – “Plainsong”

From the album “Disintegration)” (1989)

Keith Writes:

Autumn continued to exist after the 70s wound themselves up.

The Cure produced the most beautiful of albums in Disintegration. Widely regarded as having one of the strongest sequences of opening songs.

To my mind, Plainsong’s elegiac lyrics convey the same misty nostalgia as Roy’s fading cricketer.

But maybe it’s just the way someone special smiles…