Entries by Norman Warwick

A CROSBY COLLECTION OF SONG

The title track to Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young’s first album, its lovely scat singing, seamless harmonies and otherworldly ethos (“And I feel like I’ve been here before”) makes this more than merely a song, but a defining encounter.

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COMMUNICATING WITH CROSBY

We got in a room together and there was a chemistry. And you could tell. When that happens right in front of you, you go for it. When you see it, man, you know it. And it’s irresistible to me. I could see plainly that all three of them can write and sing and play at a really, really really high level. But the main thing, though, is that when the four of us are together, there’s a friendship and a space to contribute that’s unmatched.

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BYRD WATCHING:

Because Crosby felt responsible for and was widely credited with popularizing the song “Hey Joe”, he persuaded the other members of the Byrds to record it on Fifth Dimension. By Younger Than Yesterday, the Byrds’ 1967 album, Crosby began to find his trademark style on songs such as “Renaissance Fair” (co-written with McGuinn), “Mind Gardens”, and “It Happens Each Day”; however, the latter song was omitted from the final album and ultimately restored as a bonus track on the 1996 remastered edition. The album also contained a rerecording of “Why” and “Everybody’s Been Burned”, a jazzy torch song from Crosby’s pre-Byrds repertoire that was initially demoed in 1963.

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HIGH CEILINGS: Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

tills and Nash, who had each dealt with all that in the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield and the Hollies, respectively. They started singing together for the thrill of it, and they quickly realized that they harmonized with an uncommon purity that astonished their friends. That feeling of amazement carried over to the listening public when the trio released Crosby, Stills & Nash at the end of May 1969, thanks to songs including “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes,” “Long Time Gone” and “Helplessly Hoping.”

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Sidetracks And Detours PASS IT ON weekly walkabout volume 14

At the party held in the La Aurora center in which several generations of fishermen and fishermen’s families came together, and Raquel Rodríguez already said that in Playa Blanca “it is difficult to find families of a lifetime that are not or have not been related with the more than sacrificed productive, artisanal and sustainable activity key in the development of the town, on which some thirty families of the town continue to depend directly” , in addition to the added value that “fishing represents for the restaurant and tourism sector local and insular”. 

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WELL OF SOULS

So vividly does [Kristina Gaddy] write, and so enthusiastically does she convey her meaning, that many of the songs play unbidden in your mind, through the rhythm of her sentences, the lyric of her vocabulary. As much as Well Of Souls is a gripping, fascinating, story, it is also a beautifully written one…a novel in documentary’s clothing.
Dave Thompson – Goldmine

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RIDING ON A PONY ON A BOAT

Lines like God might forgive you but I won´t or ther spectacular ´riding on my pony on my boat´ that came early in Lovett´s career and Mary Chapin Carpenter´s ´fantasy league´pairing of Dwight Yoaken and Lovett promised to place Lyle in the category of a writer´s writer and I expected his albums to slot on to my shelves somewhere between Kristofferson and Newbury,

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SKIP TO MY LOU my darling.

The fella in the center begins to decide which girl he’d like to dance with, continuing his singing, “I’ll get another one just like you!” When he reaches out for the hand of his chosen lass, the girl’s partner moves to the center of the ring, taking the first’s place.

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