As I grow older, I am reverting back to my years of listening to music.
( Published Monday, November 14th, 2022 @ 9:45 pm )]]> "Mona Lisas and Madhatters", from Elton John's Honky Château, was that special ballad of heart wrenching sincerity, forever etched on the collective soul of generation, which saved a lyrical moment in time, and became a gift to so many.
( Published Friday, January 7th, 2022 @ 9:35 am )]]> Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits holds a special place in my musical heart for many reasons; not least of which, Dire Straits, led by the Knopfler brothers, came onto the musical scene with their first album, Dire Straits, 1978, at the height of the dreaded Disco craze.
( Published Wednesday, January 5th, 2022 @ 3:20 pm )]]> "Why Does Love Got to be so Sad?" will always be among my favorite rock 'n' roll songs, but only one version of it - the version that appears of "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs".
( Published Wednesday, January 5th, 2022 @ 12:39 pm )]]> Carl Sigman, the lyricist of many of America's most famous love songs, passed from this temporal plane in September of 2000; however, his music lives on, embodied in his beautiful songs of hope and heartbreak.
( Published Sunday, January 2nd, 2022 @ 7:38 pm )]]> Mark Knopfler, and Dire Straits helped steer my love of good music through the stinky stuff that was Disco in the late 1970's and for that I will always be thankful.
( Published Sunday, January 2nd, 2022 @ 3:32 pm )]]> There are many love songs written over the ages littered along the American musical landscape, but few were ever written with the impact of Brian Wilson's and the Beach Boy's classic, "God Only Knows".
( Published Friday, December 31st, 2021 @ 10:58 am )]]> Van Morrison covered this Tommy Edwards's classic, "All in the Game", on his classic album, Into the Music, released in 1979.
( Published Friday, December 31st, 2021 @ 8:52 am )]]> Canadian Balladeer Gordon Lightfoot was never a fixture among my favorites, as I consumed volumes of the uniquely eclectic music from the most enlightened periods of any within the realm of the classical creation of music; however, Balladeer Lightfoot did create one song that has stuck with me.
( Published Wednesday, December 29th, 2021 @ 10:08 pm )]]> I happened upon an early recording of Iris Dement's "Our Town" from the early 1990's, a song that played a large part in classic TV series Northern Exposure's swan song. That memorable last TV show signing off this beautiful classic really stuck with me.
( Published Wednesday, December 29th, 2021 @ 1:51 pm )]]> One of my favorite bands from my era, which produced the best music of the 20th century, is The Band.
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