Them genders can fluidify wherever they want, I’m sticking with Rachael Price. She make my heart go thumpity-thump-thump.
Continue reading...Song Of the week
121: George Harrison, ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’ (Acoustic Demo)
The quiet Beatle??
The Beatle of spirit and flesh and some great music.
307: Bob Dylan, ‘Living the Blues’
How I met Dylan backstage at The Johnny Cash Show in 1969–the ‘true’ story.
Continue reading...280: Charles Ives, ‘The Unanswered Question’
Founder of a successful insurance company. on weekends he composed modernist music that lay unheard for 50 years and “responded to negligence with contempt”.
My new role model.
248: Bob Dylan, ‘You Ain’t Going Nowhere’
Dylan just turned 82, and the dude shows no signs of slowing down. I wrote the following SoTW seven years ago, when he won the Nobel.
It’s my attempt to get to the heart of how I perceive Dylan as an artist.
282: Shuli Natan, ‘Jerusalem of Gold’ (Naomi Shemer)
The vibrations and the beauty that are so uniquely my Jerusalem.
Continue reading...120: Sam Cooke, ‘Shake, Rattle and Roll’
Guaranteed to make you shake AND rattle AND roll.
Continue reading...033: Radka Toneff, ‘The Moon’s a Harsh Mistress’ (Jimmy Webb)
You’ve never heard of the Norwegian singer Radka Toneff. Trust me, it’s your loss.
Listen to her sing Jim Webb’s ‘The Moon’s a Harsh Mistress’. Tell me you weren’t moved.