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Angeles – Enya

Angeles is the second song of Enya presented in this music library. It is the 5th song on Enya’s 3rd album Shepherd Moons released in 1991. The following is paraphrased from Wikipedia: Although her music could be described as celtic

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And It Stoned Me (1970) – Van Morrison

Van Morrison is an artist who’s music catalogue I wish I had delved more deeply into. I can’t remember how I first came across him, it may have been when I bopped to Brown Eyed Girl in some dirty dive

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An Mhaighdean Mhara (The Mermaid) – Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh

I cannot recollect how I found this song, nor had I even heard of the singer or could understand the lyrics. I imagine I stumbled across it on a wordpress blog and I hastily added it to my collection. It’s

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Amores como el Nuestro (‘Loves’ like Our One) – Jerry Rivera

Amores como el Nuestro is one of Latin America’s most emblematic love songs in Salsa. It is the second latino song to make an appearance in my music library project. The first was Marcela Gandara & Zaira Johnson’s Adorandote. In 2017,

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Amanda (1973) – Don Williams

My old man was a grand admirer of the American country singer Don Williams. We listened to his records a lot when I was growing up. I could understand years later why he liked him so. He perfected a smooth

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(Am I) Not Pretty Enough – Kasey Chambers

It’s so fitting this is the first song to appear in the music library project from Kasey Chambers because it’s the first song I ever heard from this outstanding Australian country music artist. I remember when, where and what I

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Alone (1987) – Heart

I could get hauled over the coals for having this song in my music library.  To even admit that I might have even once liked it could put me into the ‘Did he really like that? – Oh Lordy’ box.

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All of Me (2013) – John Legend

“The overwhelming sensibility is one of optimism,” Legend told BBC News about Teigen’s influence on the album. “She’s definitely affected my songwriting.” – Songfacts.com I became familiar with John Legend from La La Land. He wrote and performed that show-stopper

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All I Really Want To Do – Bob Dylan

‘I ain’t lookin’ to compete with you Beat or cheat or mistreat you Simplify you, classify you Deny, defy or crucify you All I really want to do Is, baby, be friends with you’ Warning this post includes a potentially

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Once (2007) – John Carney (Friday’s Finest)

Once is an Irish romantic drama that had a very modest budget (and ‘approach’ if I might add) and found Oscars success at the 2008 awards season. I have great affection for this movie not only because I had just

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