Grace And Janis
Photo by Jim Marshall
I Still Miss Her
“Mama” Cass Elliot (September 19, 1941 – July 29, 1974)
It May Be The Devil, Or It May Be The Lord...
...but you gotta serve somebody
Musical Highlight Of Last Night’s Oscars
Eddie Vedder singing Tom Petty’s “Room At The Top”
I got a room at the top of the world tonight
I can see everything tonight
I got a room where everyone
Can have a drink and forget those things
That went wrong in their life
I got a room at the top of the world tonight
I got a room at the top of the world tonight
I got a room at the top of the world tonight
And I ain't comin' down, I ain't comin' down
Stevie Nicks
"Nicks’s default response to betrayal is more introspective than aggressive. Her music has long been considered a balm for certain stubborn strains of heartache; her songs are unsparing regarding the brutality of loss, yet they are buoyed by a kind of subtle optimism. It’s as if, by the time Nicks got around to singing about something, she already knew that she would survive it."
From a very good profile by Amanda Petrusich in The New Yorker.
RIP Leon
Another great American songwriter gone.
Bad Moon Rising
Hope you have got your things together.
A Day In The Life Of Sir Paul
It was a cup of coffee, in case you were wondering.
Season Of The Witch
You've got to pick up every stitch. Stephen Stills, Mike Bloomfield, and Al Kooper get you ready for Halloween with a Donovan tune. And a Gil Elvgren witch.
Run For Your Life, Little Girl
Wow!
I hadn't listened closely to the lyrics in quite a while before tonight.
Run for Your Life
Well I'd rather see you dead, little girl
Than to be with another man
You better keep your head, little girl
Or I won't know where I am
You better run for your life if you can, little girl
Hide your head in the sand little girl
Catch you with another man
That's the end ah little girl
Well I know that I'm a wicked guy
And I was born with a jealous mind
And I can't spend my whole life
Trying just to make you toe the line
Youbetter run for your life if you can, little girl
Hide your head in the sand little girl
Catch you with another man
That's the end ah little girl
Let this be a sermon
I mean everything I've said
Baby, I'm determined
And I'd rather see you dead
You better run for your life if you can, little girl
Hide your head in the sand little girl
Catch you…
Abbey Road
Good morning!
Fast Times At Hibbing High
Bob Dylan's Minnesota high school takes a little bit of credit for his Nobel Prize.
Woodstock - Anybody Need A Ticket?
Forty-seven years ago today, eighteen bucks was a lot of bread. And it turned out you didn't need a ticket after all.
Love Hurts
Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris.
Woodstock
"We are stardust. We are golden. And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden."
A Joni Mitchell tune that captured the mood of the times, as the optimism of the Sixties devolved into the cynicism and violence of the Seventies.
Linda Ronstadt - Tumbling Dice
Parkinson's has stolen her ability to sing any more, but she was something special.
