David Crosby.
Sometimes he gives you a high.
Sometimes he makes you want to jump off something high.
In 1993, he and Joni Mitchell wrote a beautiful, enigmatic song together.
Song Of the week
261: Kurt Elling/Sting, ‘Practical Arrangement’
Love songs ain’t what they used to be.
Love ain’t what it used to be.
Kurt Elling brings something new to the table.
117: Carole King, ‘It Might as Well Rain Until September’
The 1950s didn’t end on December 31st, 1959. Here’s a quiz about 3 very minor hits from 1961-2, a whole bunch of Jews and a few Blacks, and the frustrated egos of several trillionaires.
Continue reading...259: Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau: ‘Marcie’ (Joni Mitchell), ‘Don’t Think Twice’ (Dylan)
You don’t need Thile and Mehldau to justify the standing of Dylan or Mitchell. But their fresh new readings may still amplify and even enhance the originals.
Continue reading...258: Stephen Stills, ‘Do For the Others’
Still–he’s still Stills.
A 1970 gem you may have missed.
029: Eva Cassidy, ‘Over the Rainbow’
Golden-haired, golden-voiced, painfully shy Eva Cassidy died in 1996 at 33 of skin cancer, unknown outside her native D.C.
She found posthumous fame three years later, via a British DJ.
Too kitsch to be true?
“Birds fly over the rainbow. Why can’t I?”
Have your handkerchief ready.
111: The Byrds (David Crosby), ‘Everybody’s Been Burned’
David Crosby’s best songs with The Byrds employed a psychedelic sensibility – floating, meandering, precious, delicate, shimmering, as unfettered and fragile as a soap bubble wafting in a marijuana cloud above a Tribal Gathering. ‘Everybody’s Been Burned’ is one of his finest. It has the weight of melody and lyric content and meaning and emotion and passion, and yet it still floats.
Continue reading...257: Alison Krauss/Brenda Lee: ‘All Alone Am I’
Guilty pleasures.
Could we keep this just between us?