‘Long Black Veil’ is a country ballad that was written and first recorded in 1959 and still stands the hairs on the back of the neck when it is performed and heard, over 60 years later. […]
“We knew we had something special here” Paul Brady’s words from his autobiography ‘Crazy Dreams’ (Merrion Press 2022) describing the closing song on his album ‘Hard Station’ (1981). Paul Brady is now 76 and very much […]
One of the more intriguing aspects of Gram Parsons’ second album, ‘Grievous Angel’, released four months after his death, is its closing track, ‘In My Hour Of Darkness’. It’s a glorious song which owes as much […]
The song that really got me listening to Dylan, rather than just hearing him as background radio listening was his story of the imprisonment of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter for murder. An unusual song in Dylan’s canon, […]
At the start of her post Gram Parsons solo career, Emmylou Harris was known more as an interpreter of songs than as a songwriter, though she had penned a number of the songs on her earlier […]
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