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…
The Song Lyric Sunday tour of musical instruments reaches the drums this week. This wasn’t too difficult for me to decide on, although it certainly can’t have been easy providing the backing for the mercurial genius of Jimi Hendrix. By and large, though, Noel Redding (bass) and Mitch Mitchell (drums) did a pretty good job.…
This week, Jim has given us various types of utterance – chat, talk, laugh and scream – as the prompts for Song Lyric Sunday. My immediate thought was ‘Foxy Lady’ by Jimi Hendrix – probably because I used to have it as Madame’s special ringtone on my Blackberry back in the day.. If only I…
The elements of dialogue form the key words for Jim’s Song Lyric Sunday this week: talk and hear; speak and listen. I had originally intended to use Dylan’s ‘Ballad Of A Thin Man’ for this prompt, until I remembered that I’d already deployed it for the theme of ‘Books’ about a year ago. Still, Jimi…
There’s a cowboy feel to Jim’s choice of prompts for Song Lyric Sunday this week, and as he’s already quite rightly exercised his droit du seigneur and will write about what was my first choice, ‘Me And My Uncle”, I’ve cast my net a little further afield, while still respecting the prompt. In much the…
Last week, I proudly asserted that, as a general rule, I try to go with my first instincts when responding to Song Lyric Sunday prompts. This time, though, it may be a case of all the best rules being more honoured in the breach than the observance. That’s because Helen has chosen the theme of…
Absolutely no problem at all finding something for H in my music lexicon: the incomparable Jimi. Anyone even half-seriously interested in rock music could almost have been forgiven for becoming blasé about guitarists before Jimi came along, breaking through in the UK before his native USA really caught on to him. By late 1966 there…
One of the little projects I have in the works currently is to write about songs that no-one should ever even try to cover, because the original artiste has just done the job definitively. There is, of course, a flip side to that, and it happens to be this week’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday:…
the only deadhead in the hameau 