Denis Lehane: Farm Aid would be music to my ears

It's high time our musicians tuned into the idea of a rock concert in aid of farmers, like they do in the States

Farm Aid founder Willie Nelson. Picture: AP/Jacquelyn Martin

A man approached me in the pub the other night and enquired as to how I was surviving at all?

"With great difficulty," I assured him, as I supped on my pint with a certain degree of distress and loads of angst.