(In the year this song was written..a singer-songwriter steadfast in their conviction and humble in their manner, see above) This is the second song to appear from Dylan’s maligned 1985 record Empire Burlesque. I reviewed the last track Dark Eyes…
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El Niágara en Bicicleta (1998) – Juan Luis Guerra
El Niágara en Bicicleta (Niagara Falls on a Bicycle) is a song written and performed by Dominican singer-songwriter Juan Luis Guerra. It is the fifth song to appear here so far from this immensely popular Latin music-artist. El Niágara en…
El Mismo Cielo (2009) – Marcela Gandara
El Mismo Cielo (The Same Sky / Heaven) is from the outstanding Mexican – Christian singer Marcela Gandara who has featured here twice before. Marcela’s music is so popular here, I hear people singing it outside my door in the…
The Marriage of Figaro Act III – Ecco la Marcia (1786) – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
With the French Revolution looming Pierre Beaumarchais wrote the French comedy “The Barber of Seville” in 1773. It was conceived as an Opera comique and not performed until much later due to political and legal problems with the author. Mozart…
Easy’s Gettin’ Harder Every Day (1994) – Iris DeMent
This song reminds me in texture and voice of Australia’s country artist Kasey Chambers who has featured a lot here. Iris’s album My Life which this song was included is described by Spin as ‘unbreakable gentleness as a modern epiphany…
Concerto For Mandolin In C Major RV425 Allegro (1725) – Antonio Vivaldi
In 1725 at 47 years of age Vivaldi produced the Four Seasons. Today’s Mandolin concerto is often accompanied with the 4 violin concertos which gives musical expression to a season of the year. The work is one of the most…
Always Remember Us This Way (2018) – Lady Gaga
This is a newly added song to the musical library project, but we are backtracking as it starts with an ‘A’ and we are well into the ‘E’s of the song-list… What entails the ‘Music Library Project’?Gaga performs ‘..Always Remember…
E Lucevan Le Stelle (Tosca) 1900 – Giacomo Puccini
Just the other week I caught a sensational documentary on one of my favourite channels ‘Film and Arts‘ called Magical Moments in Music: Maria Callas & Tosca. It tells the wondrous comeback performance in 1964 of American-born Greek Soprano Maria…
Duncan and Brady (2000) – Bob Dylan
I saw Bob in Sydney opening with Duncan and Brady in 2001. The night later he won the Oscar for ‘Things Have Changed‘. Dylan’s execution of this old ballad with the sync-rollicking guitars and intonation and timbre of voice as…
Dreaming (2015) – Smallpools
My eldest son Jesus Mateo is a footballer and a mighty good one at that! I have videos of him running rings around teams here in Colombia. Oh and ‘soccer’ is spelt ‘futbol’. Since COVID struck nearly 2 years ago…
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