Category Archives: Music
Ninth of Twelve
Everything about this video, from the way they dress to the way they dance, just radiates joy. Full lyrics HERE. Other songs about September include: Try to Remember by Ed Ames (YouTube Link) September Song by Jimmy Durante (YouTube Link) September Morn by Neil Diamond (YouTube Link) Wake Me Up When September Ends by Green …
You just want to cry
“No two ways about it, the ’80s were rough. … It was seven years of going, ‘What is it that I do?’ Being self-employed your whole life, that becomes a certain rock, a reinforcement. When that’s gone, not only are you bored stiff, but you just want to cry, ‘What do I do? I know …
Soulshine
Full lyrics HERE. There are some amazing live versions of this song by Gov’t Mule on YouTube, if you want to explore a little.
Don’t you ever give up the fight…
Folk singer Hoyt Axton (who wrote the song) and Linda Ronstadt are singing in the background. Full lyrics HERE.
He’s afraid, I know…
Full lyrics HERE.
Time is Tight
I didn’t recognize this until about the 1:00 mark.
I’ll See You In My Dreams
Joe Brown is better known in the UK than in the colonies. He has an innate kindness that always seems to shine through and charm.
One More Saturday Night
Bobby is having fun being a rock star. Donna is having fun doing whatever that is that she’s doing. And I am having fun watching and listening.
Perfect
There are people who will passionately argue that this is a song about heroin addiction, but Lou Reed always said it was about a lovely day in Central Park with his fiancée. Of course, that raises a number of questions, too. For some reason, the verse Just a perfect day You made me forget myself …
Ah-haaa
Excerpted from Nashville’s Mother Church: The History of Ryman Auditorium by William U. Eiland, ©1994: One such act gaining nationwide exposure was Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, whose song San Antonio Rose (YouTube Link) was the best-selling record of 1939. One of his guest appearances at the Opry caused an incident which Minnie Pearl …
I’ll just dream and stay tan
Chances are pretty good I first heard this song on AM radio; a half-inch mono speaker pressed to my ear. Full lyrics HERE.
Two Daughters of the Devil
Excerpted from Nashville’s Mother Church: The History of Ryman Auditorium by William U. Eiland, ©1994: None was more famous or gifted than preacher Billy Sunday, who led revival meetings in the Tabernacle (later Ryman Auditorium) in the 1920s and 1930s. Once, as prominent Nashville attorney and author Jack Norman, Sr., relates, the Reverend Sunday held …
