A CHAPTER OF WRITERS RECOLLECTED

If there isn´t already, there should be some pithy saying about how the habits of childhood become our routes through adulthood.
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PASS IT ON (volume 6 of weekend walkabout from Sidetracks And Detours)

Our daily posts from Monday 26th June to 30th June will introduce you to a chapter of writers, to discuss whether we become the books we read. We also count all the road running by Emmylou Harris and Mark Knopfler in our Knopfler Kronikles series and take a look at a song-writers writer. Of course we will continue building our bookshelf because  we would like to squeeze in Lady GaGa
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KENNY LOGGINS IS STILL ALRIGHT

Your Mama Won´t Dance gives collaborative writing credits to Loggins and Messina. The refrain and first verse is done in a blues format, deals with the 1950s and 1960s lifestyle concerning the generation gap, where the parents oppose the Rock and Roll Revolution of the younger generation, which includes the rebelliousness against the old society that monitors curfews on dating; as well as being arrested for making love with a girl in the back seat of a car during a drive-in movie, which happens during the bridge section of the song.

BRITISH AND AMERICAN FOLK side by side?

That sense that music needn’t be trapped in the here and now, that it can pull from the past and push into the future, that it exists for more than next week’s Billboard chart or tomorrow’s YouTube clicker, is the essence of folk music. And just when you might fear that music is dwindling away, DeMent, Brown, Avett, Giddens and Flemons demonstrate how vital it still is.

Knopfler Kronikles (Part 8): MARK AND EMMYLOU

Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris (right) have had long histories of collaborating with and supporting other artists. In addition to 23 solo albums and three successful collaborative albums with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt, Harris has recorded backing and duet vocals with many of the significant recording artists of her generation, including The Band, John Denver, Bob Dylan, Gram Parsons, Townes Van Zandt, Tammy Wynette and Neil Young. Knopfler had also been involved in a number of collaborative projects, recording duets with such artists as Van Morrison and James Taylor, and contributing guitar tracks to numerous recordings by other artists, including The Chieftains, Eric Clapton, Kris Kristofferson, Sonny Landreth, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Sting, Tina Turner, Steely Dan, and Jimmy Webb.

CAROLE KING

It is only as I post this piece that I realise that despite knowing Carole King´s songs so well, and this particular era of The Byrds being my favourite I am not sure I would have immediately thought of them all sharing the same shaded part of any Venn diagram.
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KIDS IN KOREA

Korean dramas aren’t new, but their global popularity has become more diverse and widespread in the U.S. in the last few years.

sidetracks & detours WEEKEND WALKABOUT volume 5  PASS IT ON

Bury Met is venue is one that I am sure our Sidetracks And Detours editor knows and loves very well from his time spent in the UK. I also know that Norm shares my admiration for American Songwriter Tom Russell who is the evening´s headline act. I shall probably send a review over to Norm if only to remind him how lucky I am to still see such artists here in the North West of England as they tour the UK
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JOHN WILLIAMS´ FILM MUSIC

John Williams has penned some of the most unforgettable film scores-while netting more than fifty Academy Award nominations

ART MATTERS ! Now, more than ever

In time of crisis and isolation, the role of art becomes more central to our lives, whether we realize it or not. There are as many of us turn towards the arts for some explanation of these accursed times as there are turning towards the sciences.…