I Can’t Be With You comes from The Cranberries’ stellar 1994 album No Need to Argue (see image inset). Can we just all go back to the ’90s now? Despite being so young at the time, The Cranberries released so…
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San Lázaro (mid 1950’s) – Celina y Reutilio
San Lázaro (Eng: Saint Lazarus) by Celina y Reutilio is one of Cuba’s most moving yet vibrant and rhythmic tributes to faith and healing. Rooted in Afro-Cuban tradition, the song calls upon San Lázaro – syncretized with the Yoruba deity…
Edelweiss (The Sound of Music) – Ft. Christopher Plummer (Rodgers and Hammerstein)
My Music Library Project wouldn’t be complete – wouldn’t even be in the same vicinity of “complete” – without today’s featured piece, which almost the whole world is familiar with: Edelweiss. Few other songs tug at the heartstrings quite like…
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Absolutely Sweet Marie (1992) – George Harrison (Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Concert)
As much as I love you, Bob, George Harrison owned this song. George always brought a lucid, sunny disposition to whatever he touched, and that’s absolutely the case with his rendition of Absolutely Sweet Marie. He channels pre Dylan –…
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A Matter of Trust (1986) – Billy Joel
76-year-old Billy Joel is recovering from hydrocephalus (NPH), a condition in which cerebrospinal fluid accumulates in the skull and exerts pressure on the brain. He described his balance problems as feeling “like being on a boat” and noted that the…
La Traviata: ”Libiamo Ne’lieti Calici” (Brindisi) 1853 – Giuseppe Verdi
So I raise today’s piece to you, dear reader. It’s been waiting 172 years to get here. Libiamo ne’ lieti calici in Italian means Let’s drink from the joyful cups. I don’t know how cups can be joyful, but don’t…
Things Have Changed (2000) – Bob Dylan
This song is pivotal – not only in Bob Dylan’s career but as a wider statement about human nature and our strange place in the modern world. Dylan, who almost never explains or interprets his own songs, made an uncharacteristic…
Day After Day (1971) – Badfinger
Day After Day came on my random music player yesterday while I was out and about. I could have sworn it was a Paul McCartney track because of the voice, and I wondered how I hadn’t already included it in…
A Man Needs A Maid (1972) – Neil Young
“It’s overblown, but it’s great,” Young said of this song (A Man Needs a Maid). Featuring a dramatic Jack Nitzsche arrangement, “Maid” transcends its air of dated chauvinism to reveal a deeper core. Written for Young’s girlfriend Carrie Snodgress (who…
They Killed Him (1986) – Bob Dylan
I was about 14 when I bought the cassette of Dylan’s much-maligned Knocked Out Loaded album. I got a kick out of some of its tracks – including today’s featured song, They Killed Him. Even now, whenever I hear it,…
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