There is another, more grounded perhaps, definition of a songline, sometimes known as a dreaming track. These are amongst the paths across the land (or sometimes the sky) within the animist belief systems of the Aboriginal cultures of Australia.
Em Casalina, writing recently in American Songwriter, picked three particular songs from the entire Led Zep catalogue as being cuts that typify the group and their attitude to their music, which she rightly reminds us,. is loaded with rich lore. but these three songs are particularly interesting. She then took a quick look at the lore behind three of Led Zeppelin’s most famous songs that every diehard fan should know!
Natalia played three of his sonatas, and these also carried Angels and Demons side by side, leaving the audience continually looking out for the demons and then being gathered back in by the angels, a theme Natalia´s style reflected throughout the rest of the evening.
“The idea is to reuse the horses that were in a warehouse, unused, and thus take advantage of the transfer made at the time by the author and which expired in 2026,”
Who knows whether the definitive biography of Kris Kristofferson is yet to be written?
Nanci Grifith wrote and recorded a great song that was not only a tribute to pioneering ´country´ singer writers like Loretta Lyn and Emmylou Harris, but also a celebrfation of the radio.
Our home town of Playa Blanca recently successfully hosted the Lanzarote Tourism Awards ceremony for 2024.
Kris Kristofferson, who died Saturday at age 88 in Maui, Hawaii, had not one but two successful careers: the first as a country-music songwriter and the second as a movie actor.
Funmi Ononaiye, the regal, omnipresent music connoisseur, who was an inspiring ray of light in his capacities as A&R director, event producer, artist manager, performing musician, and mentor to many people, died on December 18, 2023, at Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York City.
I have fond memories of the Castleton Literary and Scientific Society, and I am still amazed at the broad church of their ethos and of their congregation.
SIDETRACKS & DETOURS Pass It On 2/11/2025 Jenny Bray, Nash and Asher, Opus 222nd November 2025 - 7:00 am
A LITTLE BUNDLE OF SUMMER. sidetracks & detours 3rd September 2025 featuring Jazz Artist, Jenny Bray. Broadcaster and writer, Steve Bewick, Expo Folk and Sound Roots3rd September 2025 - 7:00 am
PASS IT ON: MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER by Pearson & Warwick3rd August 2025 - 7:00 am