One of the first songs I remember hearing upon arriving in Colombia was Cancion de Otoño (Autumn Song) and it was love at first listen. This is my ‘Desert Island’ Spanish song. I made a Family DVD for my son’s…
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Canadee-I-O (1992) – Bob Dylan
So she bargained with the sailor boy, All for a piece of gold. Straightaway then he led her Down into the hold, Sayin’, “I’ll dress you up in sailor’s clothes, Your jacket shall be blue. You’ll see that seaport town…
Bye Bye Pride (1987) – The Go-Betweens
The quintessential Australian rock group The Go-Betweens have made a strong showing so far in this Music Library Project. What entails the ‘Music Library Project’? Today’s song Bye Bye Pride was the fourth song released from their 1987 record Tallulah. This…
Burbujas de Amor (1990) – Juan Luis Guerra
Burbujas de Amor (Bubbles of Love) is the second song to appear from the Dominican – Juan Luis Guerra in this music project. It appears on the same 1990 album as the title song Bachata Rosa (see image above) which…
String Quartet No. 2 in D Major Notturno (1881) – Alexander Borodin
I challenge long-term happily married couples to top this romantic gesture. According to Alexander Borodin’s biographer Serge Dianin, this quartet was composed as Borodin’s 20th Anniversary gift to his wife Ekaterina Protopova. Not only was he a Russian music composer…
Lynyrd Skynyd (Free Bird) – How Life Once Was!
I think when I saw this video today in my YT feed of Lynyrd Skynyrd performing Free Bird I knew I was in trouble nostalgically from the get-go. My understanding is this concert was performed just 40 days or so…
Buffalo Bill (2000) – Sara Storer
What entails the Music Library Project? This Australian country song was sent to me by mother many years ago and I took an immediate liking to it. Buffalo Bill is from Sara Storer’s debut studio album called Chasing Buffalo. Storer…
Buckets of Rain (1975) – Bob Dylan
Buckets of Rain comes from one of Dylan’s most critically acclaimed records – 1975’s Blood on the Tracks. It is the last song on the record and is certainly different from all which proceeds it. Dylan often does that on…
5/05 – 11/05/20 incl. False Prophet, Herd Immunity, Trees & the 1619 Project
Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world. False Prophet – Bob Dylan Song at Bob Dylan 2 days ago Bob Dylan released his third song False Prophet from his upcoming album…
Bubak And Hungaricus – Anonymous
Bubak And Hungaricus is early 18th Century gypsy music which was arranged by Jaroslav Krček and included on the Amadeus soundtrack. The composer is unknown, but it’s a fun old Central European folk musical piece which seems to have been…
