From way back in 2012, a playlist… Life: The Soundtrack Yesterday’s Daily Prompt struck a chord (as it were): “Put together a a musical playlist of songs that describe your life, including what you hope your future entails.” I guess that this is something many people think about doing but don’t actually set about it…
“I remembered the days when I wasn’t afraid of the sunshine” This week, Jim is seeking a song that references climate change or the environment more generally. Quite simply, this is what popped into my head as soon as I saw the prompt. We don’t own this place, though we act as if we didIt’s…
Well now – this time I’m going all the way back to 2013 for this week’s flashback. Given the subject, you could maybe describe it as ‘Primal deadhead’. You may notice also that I hadn’t (and still haven’t) got to grips with WordPress’ spacing rules. An update seems appropriate here too. The relevant number has…
This week, Jim’s after something from one of the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame’s definitive list of the top 200 albums. Well, nestling there at #20 (too low, some might say) is the Grateful Dead’s 1970 masterpiece ‘American Beauty’, of which this is the opening track, here presented in an acoustic performance from 1980.…
“But I would slave to learn the way to sink your ship of fools” This week’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday is all things nautical, and my immediate first thought was this – one of my favourite Jerry ballads by the Grateful Dead. Searching my previous SLS posts I was relieved – indeed, pleasantly surprised…
There are absolutely no prizes for guessing who I was going to choose for Song Lyric Sunday this week, where Jim wants to see something from our (and his, apparently) favourite artiste(s). Choosing a particular song wasn’t quite so straightforward, although hardly difficult. After all, it’s not like the Grateful Dead don’t have an extensive…
This week’s theme is fire or something involving heat. ‘Fire On The Mountain’ is the product of a rare collaboration between drummer Micky Hart and lyricist Robert Hunter (who more usually wrote with Jerry Garcia). In concert, it was almost always paired with ‘Scarlet Begonias’ in the ‘Scarlet-Fire’ diptych, but this is an outstanding standalone…
This week’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday is children and/or families and Jim has entitled his post ‘Perks of having kids’. It’s not all good news though, and while not all families have a black sheep, this one clearly did. This is a Merle Haggard song that, not being a particular fan of Country music,…
Hang on. ‘Acoustic rock’? Isn’t that a contradiction in terms – an oxymoron, if you will. Like ‘military intelligence’? Well, apparently not. It’s rock music played on acoustic instruments, apparently. Personally, I don’t get it. I’m a simple man, and for me, it’s an either/or. However, there are, admittedly, lots of songs that in their…
“If you get confused just listen to the music play” Jim’s left it to us to choose this week. I thought of quite a few, but when I searched my back catalogue of previous contributions I discovered that I’d already used most of them. Unaccountably though, not this one, which contains probably my most favourite…
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