The saddest music.
Continue reading...Song Of the week
309: Gali Atari, ‘Ein Li Eretz Aheret’ (‘I Have No Other Land’)
Israel is my home.
I have no other land.
136: James Taylor, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel – ‘Wonderful World’
More than a pop paean to pimply passion.
Continue reading...012: Arvo Pärt, ‘De profundis’
Tintinnabulous triads, a pre-Yom Kippur pause for reflection.
Continue reading...203: Aretha Franklin & Ray Charles: ‘Spirit in the Dark’
In which we peek outside the synagogue for a little boost in spiritual fervor.
Continue reading...289: Simon & Garfunkel, ‘Old Friends/Bookends’
In 1967, Paul Simon said I resembled Art Garfunkel.
He was wrong.
285: James Brown, ‘Night Train’ (The T.A.M.I. Show)
“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see,” wrote Edgar Allan Poe in 1845.
Apparently Edgar was referring to James Brown’s appearance on the 1964 T.A.M.I. Show.