Weather is the broad theme for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday – a little more specifically perhaps, bad weather. Leaving aside the more obvious selections – ‘Hard Rain’, say, or ‘It’s Rainin’ Men’ – for me it came down to a choice between Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Thunder Road’ or this, a Hunter/Garcia song that was certainly…
Song Lyric Sunday this week takes ‘rain’ as its theme. The real standout choice for me would be Carole King’s ‘It Might As Well Rain Until September’; unfortunately it’s such a standout that I’ve already deployed it. Same with my second choice, the Grateful Dead’s ‘Looks Like Rain’; indeed, I used that for Helen’s prompt…
‘Blood On The Tracks’, released in 1975, is widely considered to be one of Dylan’s finest studio albums and this is certainly one of the highlights. In the accompanying video here it’s performed by the Jerry Garcia Band in a gentle stretched-out version – ideal for a Sunday morning. Jerry died on August 9th 1995.…
This week, Helen’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday is ‘Let Go’. So, just to be awkward, here’s a song entitled ‘Don’t Let Go’. It’s the first song that came to my mind when I saw the prompt, which is entirely due to the fact that it was a long-time staple of the Jerry Garcia Band.…
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