(White Flag is) engaging to the extent that you could easily be humming along without it registering in your brain. There’s something unconscious, pleasantly innocuous about it. It’s comfort food for the ears.– Derryck Strachan for BBC Music I like the…
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The Story – Brandi Carlile
Brandi Carlile’s bandmate Phil Hanseroth wrote this song, and it became the title track of her 2007 album. I enjoy hearing it whenever it comes on my music player. It has lots of different guitar textures and, at times, reaches…
White Dress – Kenny Marks
This 1987 song White Dress induces tears in me more easily than any other song. There, I’ve said it. It’s the heartbreakingly beautiful story of a girl growing up in a single-parent household after her father leaves when she is…
Where Were You Last Night? – The Traveling Wilburys
The tone of the acoustics on this track is the standout for me here, and combined with that tasty rhythm and the congenial vocal harmonies we’re accustomed to hearing from them, it makes this yet another keeper from the supergroup,…
Tagged with: the traveling wilburys, the traveling Wilburys Vol. 3, Where Were You Last Night
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Darlington County – Bruce Springsteen
Springsteen and the E Street Band are putting the pedal to the metal in this no-nonsense rocker, with him and his buddy Wayne racing down the highway. It’s one of his purest escapist songs, and you can’t help but be…
Seattle – Mark Knopfler
The alluring, melancholic Seattle was released on his 2012 album Privateering. The album was promoted during Knopfler’s North American tour with Bob Dylan later that year. The concerts typically consisted of Knopfler and his band performing an 11-song opening set,…
Po’ Boy – Bob Dylan
I absolutely love the absurdist wit on Po’ Boy. Its whimsical nature, the humour and cheeseball lines get me every time. And the music is so playful, yet somehow also poised and nuanced. I’m starting to sound like a broken…
When You Were Sweet Sixteen – The Fureys with Davey Arthur
Today we feature yet another Irish song, but this one is by the Irish folk band The Fureys and is more of the traditional Celtic variety. More versions of this old 19th-century love ballad exist than you can poke a…
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When Your Mind’s Made Up – Glen Hansard
When I read the news two weeks ago that Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard had tragically passed away in a motorcycle accident, I was confounded and aggrieved. At just 56 years of age, he was still so young, and yet he…
Tagged with: Bob Dylan, Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová, Once, When Your Mind's Made Up
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