Category: music
The Go Betweens, “Palm Sunday (On Board the S.S. Within)”
The Go-Betweens’ catalogue is a rich one, filled with songs that stay with you and come up at odd moments. Initially this song didn’t stick out much from the others…
#AprilCountry, April 13th The Walker Brothers “Boulder to Birmingham”
More Scott Walker in slightly unexpected country mode – though in The Walker Brothers reunion mode, rather than solo. This is an Emmylou Harris song mourning the death of Gram…
#AprilCountry – April 10th, “O Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie”, Sons of The Pioneers
Country songs were originally cowboy songs which were originally worksongs. The Sons of the Pioneers are still going, although obviously not with the same lineup as when they started in…
In Memoriam Mark Hollis: On April 5th, here is Talk Talk with April 5th
One of the first, if not the first, albums I bought independently with my own hard-saved chore money was the Talk Talk compilation Natural History. It turned out this was…
#MarchChoral: March 30th , “The Sound of Spirit” composed by Georgia Kelly, performed by Los Angeles Master Chorale
It sounds like a Russian Orthodox Choral work, but “Sound of Spirit” is by the harpist/composer Georgia Kelly and is a setting of the Rig Veda.
Séamus Sweeney 