Archive for the ‘Music’ category
Sweet Dreams of You: Patsy Cline
February 25, 2012Oh What a Dream: Ruth Brown
February 25, 2012Dream: Four Aces
February 25, 2012My Sweet Lord: George Harrison
February 25, 2012Happy Birthday, George Harrison. He would have been 69 today.
I Had An Old Coat: Claudia Schmidt and Sally Rogers
February 24, 2012It’s Duet Day!
This song is from their 1991 album While We Live.
Music in My Mother’s House: Holly Near and Ronnie Gilbert
February 24, 2012This song touches me as my mother loved music. When she cooked, she played music and most times she sang along. We had one of the first hifi’s in the neighborhood. I heard Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Jo Stafford and so many more. I can also sing along with my mother’s music.
Dwarf in a Tree (A Cautionary Tale): Duncan Browne
February 23, 2012Les soeurs de la misericorde: Graeme Allwright
February 23, 2012If the melody doesn’t give it to you, I’ll help. This is Leonard Cohen’s Sisters of Mercy. It is from the album Graeme Allwright Chante Leonard Cohen released in 1973.
The House of the Rising Sun: Marianne Faithfull
February 21, 2012This is from her 1965 album Come My Way.
Come Wind, Come Rain: Vashti Bunyan
February 21, 2012The album from which this song comes, Just Another Diamond Day, was released in 1970. It didn’t do well so Vashti stopped recording. Slowly it began to have a following and was re-released in 2000. I love this album


