ALLISON RUSSELL: singer writer

Music was the last—Alzheimer’s couldn’t take it. She could sing every note.”

BIG STORM COMING,…one of these days

Steinar and Tom, collaboratively and individually, created music that, although it might still have many light years left to travel, will nevertheless continue, like all good music, will to find new pockets of audience.

McCARTNEY MUSES ON RADIO 4 PODCAST

´I was very intrigued by the work of Delia Derbyshire (left). She was a pioneer of electronic music, who worked for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and is probably best known for her work on Doctor Who.
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ON APOSTROPHE´S AND COMMAS,,,,,,,,

He began ´writing the song and the first thing that came out was 'Who gives a xxxx about an Oxford comma?'" He stated that the song ´is more about not giving a fuck than about Oxford commas´.
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E-MAILS, INCOMING, OF MUSIC AND ART

Somehow I feel sure Margaret will make her way down to the ´loyal friends and front row dancers´ at The Flamenco gig and will hitch her skirt, stamp her feet and click her castanets and call out ´Let the music play´.

THIS GENIUS OF SONG: John Prine

THIS GENIUS OF SONG John Prine, American song-writer with American SongWriter. by Norman Warwick A new John Prine tribute album (see our cover picture above), Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine, Vol. 2, out released…
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TIMELESS TALE FOR A NEW GENERATION

Mr. Spielberg has paid all due reverence to the original West Side Story and yet has taken some daring moves, too. His film certainly will serve as a lasting legacy for Stephen Sondheim´s lyrics and musicality.

GRAHAM NASH framing photographs in new book

Graham’s ability to see beauty in ordinary settings is another key to the work. “Look at the composition of this microphone on this chair,” Graham says, pointing to my mediocre audio cabling work off-camera. ”I know that I could take a picture of that and show it to you, and you’d go, ‘How cool is that?!’ I see differently, and I hear differently.”

JAMES TAYLOR TALKING America Standards with American Songwriter

After Taylor took Carol King´s You´ve Got A Friend to the top of the charts he became one of the most beloved and top-selling recording artists of all time, selling more than 100 million records. Since then, he’s written his own songbook of greatness over the decades. But he’s also recorded classic songs by others, always with that soulful touch.

DECEMBER DELIGHTS AND TIMPLE TREATS

To conclude the arts offer in a year when Time seemed to stand still in fear of covid, Los Sabendos, in a setting somehow both prehistoric and futuristic brought together the ancient and modern, the past and the present, and therein offered hope for the future.