Dylan’s sense of jurisprudence rails against corruption, arbitrariness and the use of judicial powers to oppress and crush individuals. There’s the 1963 song, “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll,” which eloquently tells the story of a kitchen maid killed by WilliamZanzinger “with a cane...
while the guitar is playing a low riff. This riff combines a subdivision into two and into three and is using syncopes as well. There's a slight difference between bars 1-2 in the sense that the V chords last an eighth note and a ...
“We still play all of our songs live, but there are only so many chords you can put into a three-chord song so many times. You can only sing about having a broken heart for so long.” That was The Get Up Kids’ keyboardist James Dewees in 2002. Little did he know how wrong ...
Don't be fooled by the title to Judy Garland's '50s New Years' staple: The lyrics within, written by midcentury composer Gordon Jenkins, are actually rather forlorn, bemoaning a New Year's evening spent all by her lonesome. And as if that weren't enough, while partygoers are “donni...