This week, we’re asked to present a song about running water – be it stream, brook, creek or, indeed, river. My initial thought was to go with ‘Black Muddy River’, one of my favourite Jerry ballads by The Grateful Dead. However, I was mortified when I checked back in my contributions history to discover that…
I confess to having been a little bamboozled when I saw that the prompt for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday called for a song from a ‘Super Band’. That’s not an expression I’m familiar with. However, a little exploration showed that it’s an alternative (American?) description of what would be more commonly described over here…
This week, Jim is looking for the the title track of an album. My very first thought was Neil Young’s ‘After The Goldrush’, but checking back, it seemed I’d already used it in an earlier post. A shame, but no problem – I went for the gentle, lilting ‘Harvest’ instead. Both those albums were on…
Jim’s doing a bit of digging this week: he’s after a song whose title begins with the first letter of the contributor’s surname. To be fair, he gives us the option of using any letter, but I don’t think confirming that my surname begins with a ‘C’ is giving away too much. So fair enough…
This week, Jim is looking for a song based on true events. My tertiary education alma mater is the University of Kent at Canterbury, where I studied (among other things) from 1970 to 1973. During my first year, a fellow student was an American who was doing a one-year masters course in Philosophy. I remember…
Forms of wealth provide the key words for Song Lyric Sunday this week. Naturally one of these is ‘gold’. And that’s the only excuse I need to offer up this dystopian Neil Young classic, released in 1970 and on heavy rotation throughout my student years. Well, I dreamed I saw the knights in armor coming,Saying…
‘Let us now praise famous Canadians’ is the essence of Jim’s prompt for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday. If you’ve dropped by hoping for some Justin Bieber then you’re definitely in the wrong place, but there’s plenty of excellent Canadian music to choose from. As I haven’t featured him for a while, I’ve gone with…
After having to dig a little deper than usual for inspiration last week, on this occasion I’m going with my first thought for Jim’s latest, flavour-packed, Song Lyric Sunday prompt. Anyway, we must be overdue another Neil Young song by now. I hadn’t realised until I hit Youtube that Lana del Rey had also performed…
There’s a geographical theme to Laura’s chosen themes for Round 35 of her Weekly Song Challenge. 1. Post a song that has either in title or lyrics the name of a state in the US. 2. Post a song that either in the title or lyrics has the name of a town. 3. Post a…
This week’s themes set by Jim for Song Lyric Sunday are based around the idea of ‘flight’. Which gives me an opportunity to post one of my all-time favourites. This haunting, ethereal piece was written and performed by Neil Young (plus orchestra) although it appears on the ‘Buffalo Springfield Again’ album. ‘Genius’ describes this as…
the only deadhead in the hameau 