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17/12 – 23/12/19 Woody Allen, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Lynyrd Skynyrd

Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world. Woody Allen – A Real Package of What Not To Say  Interview excerpt from the Dick Cavett show: Although the title of this video…

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Better Man (1994) – Pearl Jam

Better Man is the third song to feature from Pearl Jam in this music project and possibly my joint favorite song with Nothingman. It is the eleventh track on the band’s third studio album, Vitalogy. Better Man was never commercially…

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Best Laid Plans (2010) – James Blunt

Best Laid Plans is the first song to feature from James Blunt in the music library. James Blunt like fellow English pop artist Robbie Williams was born in the month of February 1974 – the 22nd to be exact and…

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Belfast Mill (1982) – The Fureys and Davey Arthur

When I was a preadolescent I bought the album by The Furey’s called ‘When You Were Sweet Sixteen‘. I listened and was charmed by these traditional Irish folk songs. Most of the songs from this album will feature in this…

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Beds are Burning (1987) – Midnight Oil

Beds are Burning is a modern-day Australian anthem. It was released just months before Australia marked on 26 January 1988, the 200th anniversary of the first fleet’s arrival in Sydney. The Guardian described Beds are Burning as arguably the most…

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Be Mine (2003) – David Gray

Be Mine is the second song to appear in the music project from David Gray and it is also my favourite song of his. I don’t think there is any other song in his catalogue which demonstrates his passion and…

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Barricades and Brickwalls (2002) – Kasey Chambers

Barricades and brickwalls Won’t keep me from you You can tie me down on a railroad track You can let that freight train loose Iron bars and big old cars Won’t run me out of town Well I’ll be damned…

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Barbara Ann (1965)- the Beach Boys

Barbara Ann is the first song by the Beach Boys to appear in the music library project and it is also one of the first songs I can ever remember hearing.  I am still in awe of it, mainly because…

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Bapa (2008) – Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu

Geoffrey Gurrumul wrote and performed some of the most beautiful world music of this millennium so far. Geoffrey was an Australian blind aboriginal singer who played the guitar upside down. After the release of his debut album –  (pictured above)…

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Bajo el Agua (2015) – Manuel Medrano

Bajo el Agua (underwater) is the first song to appear from a Colombian music artist. I was shopping in ‘Exito’ (a large supermarket store) here in Bogota on the 53 (Calle / street) and I heard the song come on…

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