Timely tribute to the living legends

I can’t remember the first time I heard Bob Dylan or Van Morrison or even Lightnin’ Hopkins, but I remember the first time I heard Dolores O’Riordan, writes Michael Clifford.

The song was ‘Dreams’, and while it’s a good song, it’s not anything to write home about. Especially if you were more inclined to write home about somebody like Sam Lightnin’ Hopkins.

It carved out a corner in my memory because I heard it when visiting a friend in Boston. My friend Mick is from Scariff, Co Clare, and we were belting along some motorway or other on the outskirts of the city in his air-conditioned vehicle.