A song from Leon. A perfect love song.
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295: Rita Payés, ‘Nunca Vas a Comprender’/Nils Landgren, ‘Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight’
Watch this clip and tell me you didn’t love it. I dare you.
Continue reading...056: James Taylor, ‘Secret O’ Life’
Thinking that James Taylor is ‘Fire and Rain’ is like thinking that The Beatles are ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’ or Dylan is ‘Blowing in the Wind’.
There’s so, so much more.
234: Carole King, ‘Up On the Roof’ (Live, 1971)
Carole King’s remarkable metamorphosis from teen mom songsmith to Earth Mother poetess.
She composed the soundtrack of our times on her piano, and wrought the template of our times with her life.
215: Joni Mitchell, ‘Blue’
A close reading of the harrowingly intimate Joni Mitchell masterpiece, ‘Blue’.
Continue reading...205: James Taylor, ‘Something’s Wrong’
James Taylor: “When you’re 20, you’ve just been issued the equipment you’re going to be using for a whole lifetime—the body, the mind, the skills, the talents, the appetites…” It’s also when you face the awful truth about this life: Something’s Wrong.
Continue reading...181: Linda Ronstadt & J.D. Souther, ‘Faithless Love’
Why did J.D. get the eye-conic cover girl and not me? Why, oh why?
Continue reading...139: The Swingle Singers, ‘On the 4th of July’ (James Taylor)
This week we talk about the United States’ bar mitzvah, how we discovered Bach, the history of The Swingle Singers, the marvels of Scandinavian a cappella festivals, and older people falling in love.
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