I came to this song hearing Bob Dylan’s live version (1998), which I thoroughly enjoyed although the recording quality isn’t top notch. When I heard Gordon Lightfoot’s original version I thought it was wonderful as well and here we are…
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I’m Not Supposed to Care (1976) – Gordon Lightfoot
Tagged with: Bob Dylan, Gordon Lightfoot, I'm Not Supposed to Care, summertime dream
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Portobello Belle (1979) – Dire Straits
I first heard the live version of today’s featured track on the above ‘Money For Nothing‘ greatest hits record (1988) which I purchased in my teens. It was a previously unreleased outtake from Alchemy: Dire Straits Live, 1984. Only 2 days…
Push the Sky Away (2013) – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
One of Australia’s most successful musical exports in Alternative – Indie music is back again, this time with the title track to his 15th studio album – Push The Sky Away. Nick Cave’s career spans over 4 decades working not…
The Promised Land (1978) – Bruce Springsteen
Vintage Bruce coming right up… and it more than aptly takes the wheel from where yesterday’s slice of American dream realism – Jackson Browne’s The Pretender – left us. If there’s one song which immediately transports back to my 15…
The Pretender (1976) – Jackson Browne
The Pretender is an epic song about the American dream and a person’s shifting place in it. It explores the tension between youthful ideals and the sobering realities of adult life – where dreams of love and purpose gradually give…
Rehab (2006) – Amy Winehouse
Rehab was released on English singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse’s second and final studio album Back to Black. While jazz, soul, and Motown isn’t usually my go-to, I did find what she did musically in her tragically brief career so engaging. She was…
The Partisan (1969) – Leonard Cohen
The Partisan is an anti-fascist anthem about the French Resistance in World War II. From the plodding bass line commencement of Leonard Cohen’s haunting and affecting The Partison – you can just imagine the resistance fighter trudging the green fields of France as he…
Tagged with: Anna Marly, Emmanuel d'Astier de La Vigeri, leonard cohen, Songs from a room, the partisan
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Just Like a Woman (1966) – Bob Dylan
“There’s never a moment in the song, despite the little digs and the confessions of pain, when you can’t hear the love in his voice” – Paul Williams, in his book Bob Dylan: Performing Artist, Book One 1960–1973 I posit that…
Rorate caeli (1673) – Gregorian Chant
My friend Bruce (from Weave a Web) recommended this chant a few years ago. I’m the least bit familiar with Catholic hymns especially one’s sung in Latin, but I like the tranquil state this beautiful devotional piece puts me in.…
A View To a Kill (1985) – Duran Duran
View to a Kill is not the typical song I would present here, but I have always had a guilty pleasure for it. Sure, it reeks of brutal 80’s synths, however it still has swagger and some heavy power unlike…
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