Showing posts with label Joni Mitchell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joni Mitchell. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Joni Mitchell: The Last Time I Saw Richard

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One day you wake up and find you own 1 albums by Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen. You don't remember buying them, but they are there. C...
Wednesday, May 07, 2025

Joni Mitchell: The Last Time I Saw Richard

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This is the best song about disillusionment that I know: And he told me all romantics meet the same fate some day Cynical and drunk and bori...
Sunday, September 08, 2024

Judy Collins: Farewell to Tarwathie

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Farewell to Tarwathie was written by the Scottish poet George Scroggie (1826-1907) and published in his 1857 collection The Peasant's Ly...
Wednesday, June 19, 2024

The Joy of Six 1239

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"The UK and EU cannot help but matter to each other. Regardless of the formal terms of the relationship, developments on one side of th...
Monday, February 26, 2024

Hear Joni Mitchell play a lost Leicester Market Place pub in 1967

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What a find! And what a performance! Here's an hour-long bootleg recording of Joni Mitchell singing at the White Swan in Leicester on 16...
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Friday, February 09, 2024

The Joy of Six 1202

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Peter Geoghegan reminds us that, easy though it is to laugh at Liz Truss's PopCons, small groups backed by shady money have already res...
Sunday, July 30, 2023

The Joy of Six 1149

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"As a liberal I believe that we should all have equal access to decent facilities which we can use if we choose to. You should be able ...
Wednesday, July 26, 2023

When a young David Bowie played a venue opposite the derelict Leicester Belgrave Road station

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One of my favourite Twitter threads is one from The Chisit on gigs at unlikely venues in and around Leicester. It reveals, for instance, th...
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Thursday, December 15, 2022

Joni Mitchell: River

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A Christmas song for people who are lonely at Christmas! We need a song like that. – Joni Mitchell American Songwriter explains: River reve...
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Sunday, June 06, 2021

Carole King: It's Too Late

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Choosing No Secrets one Sunday, I blogged: I suppose if there were an event for albums by females singer-songwriters released in 1971, Carl...
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Sunday, June 02, 2019

Carly Simon: We Have No Secrets

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On Twitter yesterday I listed the five albums I have played more than any other. Not my choice of the best or my current favourites, but ...
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