There’s benefit songs like “We Are the World”, “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”, and more recently the Haiti earthquake benefit song “Wavin’ Flag”. There’s also protest songs like “Give Peace a Chance”, Neil Young’s “Let’s Impeach the President”, U2’s “Sunday Bloody Sunday” and many many more. These songs are usually constructed as anthems, sing-a-longs, songs…
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Down To Earth
Of course everybody’s familiar with Jimmy Buffett’s hit “Margaritaville” and the commercialized persona and empire he’s created from that song and a multitude of other songs extolling the virtues of the tropics and the “easy life”. Well before he hit gold, though, Buffett was a struggling folk artist in Nashville who recorded two albums with…
Taking a Bite Out of 2012: Looking Back on the Year
As with last year’s favorite songs of 2011, we take a look back on some of the new music released during the year. This time around, there are two mixes to stack on your plate, both with quite different flavors. Listen on Mixcloud to Part 1 and Part 2. Part One: 1. Garden of Your…
Heart’s “Hit Single” / “Strange Euphoria”
In amongst the radio hits such as “Magic Man”, “Crazy On You”, “Straight On”, and “Dog & Butterfly” on Heart’s 1980 Greatest Hits /Live collection (a compilation of hits and live tracks) lie two very unusual songs – “Hit Single” and “Strange Euphoria”. Unusual in their career, much less on this album. It’s Heart being…
Jackson Browne’s “Linda Paloma”: A California Mexican Song
“At the moment the music began and you heard the guitar player starting to sing…” With this opening line, Jackson Browne directly invites the listener in to his 1976 song “Linda Paloma”. It’s a song unlike anything else in Browne’s catalog, and not just due to the music. While he’s known for writing subject matter…
Mystery, Reinvention and iamamiwhoami
Everybody likes a good mystery, and while I may have come to it a little late, it’s still an intriguing tangle of threads. A little while back I stumbled upon a video for a song called “Play” by an artist called iamamiwhoami. It struck me as a pretty freaky video and something a little different…
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