Oh Bob, you old romantic… This is the final track on the 1967 ‘John Wesley Harding’ album that got plenty of needletime from me back in the day. It’s a sweet, upbeat ending to an album that has more than it’s fair share of darker, more serious material. Close your eyes, close your door You…
Jim’s propmpt for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday had me stumped, I have to admit – although that is partly due to me wishing, rather quixotically, to avoid the obvious. However, I was very glad to happen across this song by The Smashing Pumpkins – a group that I’ve heard of but know little about.…
Facial features constitute the unifying theme for Jim’s Song Lyric Sunday keywords this week. At last this gives me an opportunity to feature this gem. In the unlikely even that anyone ever put a gun to my head and demanded to know what one song by the Grateful Dead was my favourite, it would probably…
“I was hungry and it was your world” Jim’s key words for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday reflect the closeness of Thanksgiving Day in the USA, so it seems appropriate that this song was apparently (as in ‘according to Wikipedia’) written by Bob Dylan on Thanksgiving Day in 1965. Nobody feels any pain Tonight as…
And now for something completely different. Lonnie Donegan was at the head of the skiffle craze in the UK in the late fifties and developed a successful side-line in humorous little ditties such as this (another was ‘My Old Man’s A Dustman’). Although it was written in the USA as long ago as 1924, in…
Jim’s cue words for Song Lyric Sunday this week are full of possibilities: ‘could’, might’, ‘would’ and ‘should’, This early sixties (1962 to be exact) classic doesn’t need any introduction. It was Carole King’s first hit as a singer rather than a songwriter. What shall I write? What can I say? How can I tell…
‘Around’, ‘Down’, ‘Sideways’ and ‘Up’ are Jim’s key words for Song Lyric Sunday this week. This Yardbirds song that I remember very well from 1966 has two of them. I was no doubt attracted by the guitar sounds, with their occasional hints of sitar, but the lyrics, on a closer reading, are appealingly hedonistic The…
Jim has grouped the key words for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday under the umbrella of ‘Posture’. Well. this song is about a stand and, let’s be honest, nobody postured better than Robert Plant. This, in my humble opinion, is by some distance the best track on the ‘Presence’ album. It was an April morning…
I’ve categorised Jim’s prompts for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday as having the overall theme of ‘Drifters’, as that seems to encompass the specific trigger words of drifter, loner, transient and vagabond Anyway, this is the first song that came into my mind for this time. It’s true that all the men you knew were…
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