Author Archive for: Norman

While the singer recently gave fans a look into her life’s story with a new Netflix documentary, we over here at American Songwriter wanted to look back at her discography for ourselves. Though Twain has no shortage of record-shattering hits, let’s look at just a few of the tracks that didn’t soar up the charts – though are just as deserving of a spot on your playlist.

Spanning several decades of the American experience, One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer tells three tales of Hooker’s storied life through the perspective of those who lived within his massive orbit, weaving textured and interpretative stories that rise to the lofty creative heights of his music and fall to the gritty reality of trying to thrive in several unforgiving eras.

“If there was a Mount Rushmore in Canada, Gordon would be on it,” the Canadian musician Tom Cochrane said in a 2019 documentary about Mr. Lightfoot, “If You Could Read My Mind.” Geddy Lee, the lead singer of the Canadian rock band Rush, called him “our poet laureate.”

I think we can safely assume that Discover Music hold Knopfler in the same high regard as a poet as does our reader Peter Pearson, who fired the starting pistol at me to ensure I set off, accompanied only by the loneliness of the long-distance runner, in pursuit of all things Knopfler-esque.