Hesitantly, Crystal approached the unfamiliar territory, recording the song in a single take, her voice capturing the vulnerability and yearning woven into thelyrics. From Country Charts To Pop Stardom “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue” was released in June 1977 and quickly gained popularity....
You are one of the very few bands on the modern prog scene whose lyrics are based on current affairs rather than on more abstract topics. Why is it so, and has it always been that way? George: It’s always been that way. Right back to the 1st album, current affairs seems to be R...
atop whichsorikkunvocalist Chae Soo-hyun unspools an elaborate, ritualistic prayer for good fortune, based on a folk song from the Gyeonggi region. With driving instrumentation “Binari” reflected infectious hope; with delicious pacing and difficult-but-rewarding lyrics it practiced an art of patienc...
ones which evidence the artist’s reverence and deep engagement with the material, and offer hope for the future of the art form. the selling point of the albums may be the artist’s careful treatment of the lyrics (their wistfulness, humor or bitter irony), their resourceful or...
but rewritten and extended to accommodate the sentence “Tiger is coming down” as a repeating hook. The purely descriptive, scene-setting lyrics didn’t really progress the story, but did a fantastic job of imparting mood: the tiger is coming, and here’s how that feels, how the world se...