When I read the news two weeks ago that Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard had tragically passed away in a motorcycle accident, I was confounded and aggrieved. At just 56 years of age, he was still so young, and yet he…
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When Your Mind’s Made Up – Glen Hansard
Tagged with: Bob Dylan, Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová, Once, When Your Mind's Made Up
Posted in Movies and TV, Music
Posted in Movies and TV, Music
When You Say Nothing At All – Alison Krauss & Ronan Keating Versions
Paul Overstreet and Don Schlitz must have done something right by writing a song which became a hit for four different performers, all within the space of just over a decade. There’s also a wonderful irony in its origin story:…
When Will You Fall For Me – Vika & Linda Bull
I enjoy listening to few songs as much as I do this one by the Melbourne music duo Vika and Linda Bull. Interestingly, it’s one of those songs I have raved about to other people, but they haven’t shared my…
Tagged with: archie roach, Black Sorrows, paul kelly, Vika & Linda Bull, When Will You Fall For Me
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Posted in Music
When We Were Kings – Brian McKnight & Diana King
Today we have a double-billing of sorts, featuring both the sporting documentary When We Were Kings and the song of the same name featured in the film. I have mentioned the film and Muhammad Ali’s colossal feat on other occasions,…
Tagged with: Brian McKnight, Diana King, George Foreman, Muhammad Ali, When we were kings, Zaire
Posted in Movies and TV, Music
Posted in Movies and TV, Music
When the Ship Comes In – Bob Dylan
When I hear When the Ship Comes In, I feel cast back to a centuries-old traditional English song, perhaps something Dylan might have covered on his 1992 record Good As I Been to You. No, instead he wrote this in…
Tagged with: Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, The Times They Are a Changin, when the ship comes in
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Posted in Music
When I Come Around – Green Day
It’s uncanny that we have two heavily guitar-driven 1990s alternative rock tracks appearing back-to-back in the Music Library Project. Yesterday it was R.E.M.’s What’s the Frequency, Kenneth? and today it’s When I Come Around by Green Day. It’s one of…
What’s The Frequency, Kenneth – R.E.M.
What’s the Frequency, Kenneth? is quite simply one of the best guitar-driven alternative rock songs I’ve ever heard. There is something hypnotic about its sustained guitar sound and bursts of reverb. It almost feels like an engine idling throughout the…
Anne of Green Gables – Kevin Sullivan
I revisited this 1985 Canadian made-for-television drama two weekends ago with my daughter Katherine. It was one of the most watched movies in our family while I was growing up, so it will always hold a special place in my…
Tagged with: anne of green gables, kevin Sullivan, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Megan Follows
Posted in Movies and TV
Posted in Movies and TV
What’ll I Do – Bob Dylan
‘I don’t see myself as covering these songs in any way. They’ve been covered enough. Buried, as a matter a fact. What me and my band are basically doing is uncovering them. Lifting them out of the grave and bringing…
Tagged with: Bob Dylan, Frank Sinatra, irving berlin, Shadows in the Night, what'll I do
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Posted in Music
Walk Like a Man – Bruce Springsteen
Walk Like a Man is yet another Springsteen track I’ve added retrospectively after it somehow slipped through the cracks all these years. So I’m trying to make amends now, and I hope I do it some justice. I was so…
