Introduced this group on his 2018 album, with Josh Evans (trumpet), Marcus Strickland (tenor sax/bass clarinet), and Nasheet Waits (drums), with all four bringing songs. This one adds covers of Larry Young, Ornette Coleman, and Sonny Rollins; each, in its way, sharpening the edges. **...
Some of the lyrics were inspired by Irish poet William Butler Yeats. ADD TO YOUR PLAYLIST "The Auld Triangle" — The Inside Llewyn Davis Soundtrack View full post on Youtube This song is said to be about life in Dublin's Mountjoy Prison, and is a motto for fans of the Dublin Bohemian...
As I worked on a page of the best rock songs of all time, I consulted theRolling Stonelist of 500 greatest songs and several similar lists, and I came to the conclusion that female singer/songwriters are still being shortchanged. Yes, a few songs by Carole King and Joni Mitchell made t...
“Nimrodel/The Procession/The White Rider,” based on JRR Tolkien’sThe Lord Of The Rings. They weren’t the first band to find inspiration in Tolkein’s fantasy trilogy, though: Led Zeppelin had based “Ramble On,” from their 1969 sophomore album, on Frodo’s wanderings...
Yeats’ ‘The Second Coming’ is intentional, this is an album that directly connects with the political upheaval of 2017’s widening gyre. “I don’t understand why people separate love and politics in their art,” singer and lyricist Matt Berninger has said of the album, which is as pre...
– turned out to be the superior album. It begins and ends, naturally, with songs about sliced and gouged-out eyeballs. In-between there is both sweetness ("Here Comes Your Man," "La La I Love You") and a sense of impending doom ("Wave of Mutilation," "There Goes My Gun"). ...
“Lisdoonvarna,” a song so infused with mocking social commentary and striking imagery that it gained entry inThe Penguin Book of Irish Verse, alongside the poems of W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney. The anthology editor described “Lisdoonvarna” as a “burlesque on 1980s Irish public life.” ...
but on this album you can hear ev-er-y-thing,” Juice WRLDtoldRolling Stone. “I have songs for the trap house, songs for the sock hop, songs for the Caribbeans, songs for raves, songs for slow dancing.” Some artists sound awkward when they are attempting to prove their range; that...
519:I would pretend I wrote songs I admired, and sing them in imagined settings. I also fantasized going to go to my left on a fast break for the Knicks, which was never going to happen, but having my lyrics sung at the Gaslight was remotely possible (and did happen). ...
Top:Épinette des Vosges, Amant Constant Lambert, late19th c., not on view. Bottom: Film credits,TheThirdMan,1949; Album Cover,Soothing Sounds for Baby,1962. Anépinettier(a player of the musical instrument; see above) followed Montaigne, along with his tutor, from room to room, playing...