Today’s featured song is the 1968 soul classic Slip Away. It’s a bit of a cheeky one too because it’s focused on infidelity. The singer asks a girl to cheat with him. Tough to resist those pleas for the one…
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Blow Away (1979) – George Harrison
I grew up on the music of John Lennon, and since his life was tragically cut short, my musical appreciation gradually leaned more towards George Harrison in recent years. My parents didn’t own any of George’s solo records, and it…
The Rising (2002) – Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen’s music slipped off the radar for many after his much-maligned 1992 double album. Yet, in my humble opinion, if the strongest tracks from both had been combined into a single cohesive record, it could have stood as one…
I’m Not Supposed to Care (1976) – Gordon Lightfoot
I came to this song hearing Bob Dylan’s live version (1998), which I thoroughly enjoyed although the recording quality isn’t top notch. When I heard Gordon Lightfoot’s original version I thought it was wonderful as well and here we are…
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Portobello Belle (1979) – Dire Straits
I first heard the live version of today’s featured track on the above ‘Money For Nothing‘ greatest hits record (1988) which I purchased in my teens. It was a previously unreleased outtake from Alchemy: Dire Straits Live, 1984. Only 2 days…
Push the Sky Away (2013) – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
One of Australia’s most successful musical exports in Alternative – Indie music is back again, this time with the title track to his 15th studio album – Push The Sky Away. Nick Cave’s career spans over 4 decades working not…
The Promised Land (1978) – Bruce Springsteen
Vintage Bruce coming right up… and it more than aptly takes the wheel from where yesterday’s slice of American dream realism – Jackson Browne’s The Pretender – left us. If there’s one song which immediately transports back to my 15…
The Pretender (1976) – Jackson Browne
The Pretender is an epic song about the American dream and a person’s shifting place in it. It explores the tension between youthful ideals and the sobering realities of adult life – where dreams of love and purpose gradually give…
Rehab (2006) – Amy Winehouse
Rehab was released on English singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse’s second and final studio album Back to Black. While jazz, soul, and Motown isn’t usually my go-to, I did find what she did musically in her tragically brief career so engaging. She was…
The Partisan (1969) – Leonard Cohen
The Partisan is an anti-fascist anthem about the French Resistance in World War II. From the plodding bass line commencement of Leonard Cohen’s haunting and affecting The Partison – you can just imagine the resistance fighter trudging the green fields of France as he…
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