Eoin Butler: writer, journalist and Mayoman of the Year

Tripping Along The Ledge


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Is a Woman (2002)

A Six-Pack to Go (1960)

Move it on Over (1947)


Seven years later, the fat country music hack Bill Haley supposedly ‘invented’ rock and roll with a song whose chord structure was lifted almost verbatim from this one – Rock Around the Clock.

I’M SO LONESOME I COULD CRY (1949)

COME PICK ME UP (2000)

WILD ONE (2008)

UP WITH PEOPLE (2000)


I once spent a drunken evening attempting to explain to Kurt Wagner exactly how much I loved this song. In retrospect, I think the man took my point.