This week, Jim is seeking songs recorded at the famous Muscle Shoals studio in Alabama. As he notes, there are certainly plenty to chose from. However, I had already made my own choice before I finished reading Jim’s post last week, when he indicated that he was going to write about Bob Dylan’s ‘Gotta Serve…
This week, Jim is looking for one of Rolling Stone’s Top 500 songs ‘of all time’. I used the most recent iteration of this long-established list, so there are a number of songs by more modern artists – ones which are certainly well past my sell-by date. Apart from these young(ish) whippersnappers, most of the…
This week, Jim’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday is artistes who haven’t been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame but who we think should have been. Naturally, the first thing I did, in a process of elimination. was to check out who was actually already in there. Pretty much all of the…
This week for Song Lyric Sunday, Jim is looking for a song by an artiste inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. There’s no question that Pink Floyd deserve their place in that pantheon and this is a lovely, often overlooked, song from the 1970 album ‘Atom Heart Mother’. If I were a…
This week’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday is – perhaps a little morbidly – something that you would like to be played at your own funeral. That isn’t to say that I haven’t thought about it occasionally (who among us has not?, as Anthony Trollope might have put it.). However, it’s a bit tricky as…
This week’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday is the so-called ‘British Invasion’, referring to those British performers who ‘made it’ – however briefly – in the US, initially on the back of The Beatles’ extraordinary success. Appropriately enough, this is a Lennon/McCartney song (on which they did actually co-operate), which they very generously gave away…
British music is the theme for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday. Last week, I featured the original Fleetwood Mac, a band I saw at university. Another memorable performance from my university days was the British group Family, probably much less familiar to a US audience. Perhaps best categorised as ‘psychedelic electric folk’. the key element…
If you like classic rock, you must love the blues – and I surely do.There’s certainly plenty to choose from, but I decided to go with this version of the Elmore James classic ‘Dust My Broom’, as performed by Fleetwood Mac when they were still good. In fact, one of the best shows I ever…
Oh, I’ve been to ‘discos’ alright – if by that you mean standing around the edge of a Junior Common Room while a distinctly amateur DJ plays loud music and some people dance. However, to the best of my knowledge I have only ever been to one actual ‘discotheque’ in my entire life. It was…
Song Lyric Sunday this week is all about girl groups. For reasons that I have no intention of going into here – or anywhere else, for that matter – this particular song is still capable of producing an almost Pavlovian response in me whenever I hear it. And they weren’t called The Supremes for nothing……
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