Peggy Day is the second song to appear from Bob Dylan’s 1969 record – Nashville Skyline after the previous entry I Through It All Away. Building on the rustic style he experimented with on John Wesley Harding, Nashville Skyline displayed a complete immersion…
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Pay in Blood (2012) – Bob Dylan
Pay in Blood is the second song to appear here from Bob Dylan’s 2012 album Tempest after my previous entry Long and Wasted Years. I always loved this song as I do the whole first half of the Tempest album. Like…
Pancho and Lefty (1993) – Willie Nelson & Bob Dylan (written by Townes Van Zandt)
I first became familiar with Pancho and Lefty from the duet below by Willie Nelson & Bob Dylan. I liked it a lot from first listen. It’s reassuring to know Townes was alive to see these two honour him by…
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All The Tired Horses (1970) – Bob Dylan
I always enjoyed listening to Bob Dylan’s ridiculed 1970 record Self Portrait starting with today’s featured track All the Tired Horses which opens the double album. I like the beautiful interplay of voices and instruments on All the Tired Horses.…
Oh, Sister (1976) – Bob Dylan
Oh Sister was recorded for Dylan’s seventeenth studio album Desire, and performed with Emmylou Harris. The song became a discourse on the ‘fragility of love‘. This is the first song to feature here from the Desire record, and it certainly…
Oh Boy! (1957) – Buddy Holly and the Crickets
If I was to go back to the dawning of it all, I guess I’d have to start with Buddy Holly. Buddy died when I was about eighteen and he was twenty-two. From the moment I first heard him, I…
Not Dark Yet (1997) – Bob Dylan
It is befitting Not Dark Yet is the first song to appear from Bob Dylan’s 3-time grammy award winning Time Out of Mind since for me it is the highlight of the record and in my top 20 all –…
No Time to Think (1978) – Bob Dylan
No Time To Think is the fourth song to appear here from Bob Dylan’s 18th studio album Street – Legal. I wrote in the last entry New Pony – ‘To say, Street – Legal is ‘complex’ is an understatement. To…
No One (2007) – Alicia Keys
I was thinkin’ ’bout Alicia Keys, couldn’t keep from cryingBut she was born in Hell’s Kitchen, I was living down the lineI’m wondering where in the world Alicia Keys could beI been looking for her even clear through Tennessee Bob…
Njósnavélin (The Nothing Song) (2002) – Sigur Rós
I came across ‘The Nothing Song‘ song some years ago when I watched the final scene in the movie Vanilla Sky. Cameron Crowe, the director of Vanilla Sky has such a great taste in music as seen by the song…
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