It’s strange this is the first song to appear in the Music Library Project by Elton John considering how many of his songs will feature here in the Music Library Project. I listened to Elton more than any other music…
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Blue Black Sky (2003) – David Bridie
Blue Back Sky comes from Australian singer-songwriter David Bridie’s record Hotel Radio. It’s almost certain you haven’t heard of this 2003 record. There isn’t even a wikipage about it, but most of the songs from this record will feature in…
Blow Up The Pokies (2000) – The Whitlams
Blow Up the Pokies is a protest song about the misery and destruction of Australia’s poker machines. In the US, they’re called slot machines, in the UK; fruit machines. Back in the 1990’s Tim Freedman – the lead singer of…
Blind Willie McTell (1983) – Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan has such a vast song catalogue he decided to leave a dizzying array of excellent songs off his records. We have showcased some of these before one including Abandoned Love – Is this Dylan’s saddest song? That must…
Black Mule (1991) – Grant McLennan
Grant McLennan is a former front man of the hugely influential Australian band ‘The Go-Betweens’. It’s inexplicable how the Go-Betweens never reached wider success. Every single person I’ve ever played them for has liked them. Yet somehow they never got…
Black Muddy River – Bob Dylan (April 6, 1992 – Melbourne, Australia)
The moment I heard this Never Ending tour performance of the Grateful Dead’s Black Muddy River from Bob Dylan I knew I had to add it to my music collection. It’s one of the few songs I can listen to…
Black (1991) – Pearl Jam
This is my Desert Island Pearl Jam song choice. If I was restricted to choose just one Pearl Jam song to take with me for the rest of my life, then Black would be it. I also consider it one…
Bird on the Wire (1969) – Leonard Cohen
Bird on the Wire is a song by Leonard Cohen from his 1969 album Songs From a Room. It is one of my favourite early Cohen songs and one of his signature tracks. Leonard was living on an island called…
Billy 1 (1973) – Bob Dylan
Billy 1 is a track from Bob Dylan’s underrated soundtrack album ‘Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid‘. Billy 1 builds on the instrumental Main Title Theme (Billy) which opens the record. Most people will be familiar with the second song…
Big Yellow Taxi (1970) – Joni Mitchell
Big Yellow Taxi is the first song from Canadian singer songwriter Joni Mitchell to appear in the music library project. I was introduced to Joni’s music when she appeared on The Band’s legendary concert ‘The Last Waltz’. Joni is an…
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