Category: Music
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Music time
Originally posted on The Monkey Prodigy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-FeY22YUSg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i02PvPttBsI
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Saturday Songs with Vincent
Oh, yeah, and Frank Turner too Although the headline says “with Vincent”, sadly this post is post-Vince. No, wait, that’s not right; he’s still alive and posting on Facebook from the other side of the Pond now. I mean this is a post-Vincent’s-visit-post. Does that clear things up? I just spent most of the week…
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Music Monday with Simon and Garfunkle’s America
Embed from Getty Images I was just 7 days shy of turning 7 months old when Simon and Garfunkle released the album Bookends in 1968. The third cut from that album is one whose harmonies and key changes has haunted me in such beautiful ways my whole life. If you’ve ever traveled cross-country in a bus,…
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Saturday Song, Sibling Style
I’m trying to concentrate on putting my set list together for tomorrow’s poetry reading, hoping to bring those wonderful, beautiful people from my old home town some words that they haven’t already heard me read before. Of course, I keep finding myself distracted, and the current political climate doesn’t help. So, let’s turn to some…
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Song of Sorrow, Poetry and Music
Let’s just call this a Saturday Song on a Sunday. I’m sure I’ve broken the rules on this before, but usually I save the music and poetry combo posts for the Music Monday feature. Again, who said I have to follow the rules? It’s my blog, and as the old pirate says of the Code,…
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Auld Lang Syne, the Original Words and Tune
How is this for a Flashback Friday? Happy 2016, my friends. If you sang this song just after midnight last night, my guess is that you didn’t sing all the original words (though if you did, I want to know–that’s fantastic!), nor did you sing them to the original tune. On this lazy first day…
