The Band, Martin Carthy, Anton Karas : The Third Man Theme
Originally posted on The Immortal Jukebox:
You listen to a piece of music; a song or a symphony and by some miracle of neuro-chemistry it is encoded into your memory.…
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#AprilCountry, April 26th, “Buckskin Stallion Blues”, Amy Annelle
Quite a shift from Mike Denver, here is Amy Annelle singing Townes van Zandt’s “Buckskin Stallion Blues”
“Murder”, David Baker
Murder David Baker 1. Language must suffice. Years ago, under a sweet June sky stung with stars and swept back by black leaves barely rustling, a beautiful woman nearly killed…
#AprilCountry, April 25th, “Yellow Submarine”, Mike Denver
I’ve been debating how best to approach the phenomenon of Country’n’Irish for a while, a genre of music one could pontificate pompously about, but what better way than via Mike…
“The Thing I Am”, Jorge Luis Borges
From The Paris Review online: I have forgotten my name. I am not Borges (Borges died at La Verde, under fire) Nor am I Acevedo, dreaming of battle, Nor my…
#AprilCountry – April 23rd, “The Running Kind”, Merle Haggard
We’ve already featured Waylon Jennings , and in duet form Merle Haggard, but here is Merle on his own, with one of those half-boastful, half-wistful songs that shows country music…
#AprilCountry, April 22nd, “Jackson”, Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash
I’ve made it so far without reckoning with the enormous shade of Johnny Cash. Here he is with June, on a TV duet (with somewhat cringe set-up) performing “Jackson”, the…
Curlews in The Thirty-Nine Steps
John Buchan’s thrillers are not exactly politically correct by today’s standards, but contain many gems of prose – especially on the natural world and on the cares of power. There is…
Séamus Sweeney 