Mavis Staples (Chicago –Illinois, EE. UU.–, 1939), Nick Lowe (Walton-on-Thames –Surrey, UK–, 1949). Can the Circle Be Unbroken es una canción original de la Familia Carter.
Andante contradicción, en parte verdad, en parte ficción…
INjubilables (Elvin Bishop, David Hidalgo, César Rosas, Steve Berlin, Louie Pérez y compañía) contra Trump: What the Hell Is Going On:
Por el camino –perdido y de perdición– que transitó Hank Williams. Hank Williams’ reputation today rests, in part, on his status as the artist who cemented the notion that the singer and the song had to be indivisible if the effect on the listener was to have sufficient resonance and depth. Yet Williams was also a fine interpreter of others’ songs, so much so that Lost Highway, written by Leon “I Love You Because” Payne, is often mistaken for a Williams original. The song’s protagonist seems to have ambled straight out of the dustbowl, an everyman doomed by luckless love to roam, rootless and alone, in constant search of redemptive purpose. Williams’ own struggle to [...]
Fais comme moi, Pépé. Pas de malheur. Quand j'ai trop le cafard, je chage d'époque.
Marguerite Boulc'h, dite Fréhel, chanteuse (Paris, 1891-1951)
Domenico Modugno, Volare: Robert Zimmerman, a.k.a. Bob Dylan Flying too high can be dangerous, one bad move leads to another, and that move is usually worse than the one before. Committing yourself too early can lead to disaster, but once you go, you go. This song is zooming and whizzing and runs the course, it gets up to speed and barges into the sun, ricochets off the stars, smokes pipe dreams and blasts into cloud cuckoo land. It’s a whimsical song and stays aloft. You get the mental picture, Utopia, and it’s painted blue. Oil paint, cosmetics and greasepaint, frescoes with blue slapped on, and you’re singing like a canary. You’re tickled pink and walking [...]
Asaltar (el reino de) los cielos. Australian Gospel: Nick Cave, Cave canem.
Hay una revuelta cociéndose por ahí… Sly Stone (1943-2025): gente –poco– corriente, gente –poco– común:
Clarksdale (Coahoma County), Mississippi Delta. Otros cortes de pelo del barbero de Sonny Boy Williamson: Y más LIghtnin' Hopkins en edder.org:
