Lizzy, The term "bedsitter" means someone who lives in cheap temporary accomodation, a small damp flat for instance. Lazy UK journalists have often bandied this phrase about when commenting on LC, I guess someone somewhere must have heard someone in a bedsit playing LC and the phrase stuck...

I guess this was always going to be a tricky one. Distilling the best of his 4 albums onto one (i.e. "Greatest Hits") is hard enough to do (and no-ones ever going to be completely happy), but the whole of his work onto a double? Naturally there's going to be contention especially amongst d...

What's you favourite LC album? I do have a preference for the earlier acoustic stuff - his guitar playing is vastly underated. That's not to say I don't love the newer material, indeed his last 3 studio are superb. My personal favourite has to be Songs Of LC, the first 8 tracks are perfection. I lov...

Though I personally prefer The Master Song, I find it strange that "Marianne" be left off any compilation that deems itself to be "essential" as, like it or not, it is one of the defining tracks of Leonards early output. For, they ought to be including all of the first 8 tracks f...