It’s Saturday and so time for another Saturday Songster post. This week’s track is ‘Winter’ by Tori Amos. Tori Amos is an American singer-songwriter, pianist and composer who came to fame in the early 1990s with the release of her first album, ‘Little Earthquakes’. Since then she has released thirteen further studio albums plus numerous compilations … More Saturday Songsters – Tori Amos
It’s Saturday and so time for another Saturday Songster post. This week’s track is ‘I Recall a Gypsy Woman’ by Don Williams. Don Williams is an American country music singer and songwriter from Portland, Texas, often referred to as the ‘Gentle Giant’ of country music. In 2010, after four decades of solo performance, he was inducted … More Saturday Songsters – Don Williams
It’s Saturday and so time for another Saturday Songster post. This week’s track is ‘The Riverman’ by Nick Drake. Nick Drake was an English singer-songwriter who released three albums before he overdosed on antidepressants in 1974. He’s often seen as being a ‘doomed romantic’ – a talented musician whose shyness and dislike of live performance led to … More Saturday Songsters – Nick Drake
It’s Saturday and so time for another Saturday Songster post. This week’s track is ‘Fifteen Years’ by The Levellers. The Levellers are an English band formed in 1988 whose music crosses the boundaries between rock, punk and folk. Their name is drawn from the seventeenth century radical democracy movement that was founded during the English Civil … More Saturday Songsters – Levellers
It’s Saturday and so time for another Saturday Songster post. This week’s track is ‘Luka’ by Suzanne Vega. Suzanne Vega is an American singer-songwriter who began her career in the 1980s, influenced by the poetic lyrics of musicians such as Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed and Bob Dylan. She’s since released eight studio albums. The song ‘Luka’ is … More Saturday Songsters – Suzanne Vega
With yesterday being the sixth of the month – and so taken by my post for the monthly Six on the Sixth challenge – my Saturday Songsters post was delayed until today. This week’s track is ‘Suzanne’ by the Canadian singer-songwriter, Leonard Cohen. I first heard Leonard Cohen’s music in my early teens when my … More Saturday Songsters on a Sunday – Leonard Cohen
It’s Saturday and so time for another of my Saturday Songsters posts. This week’s track is ‘Mr Brightside’ by The Killers. The Killers are an American rock band formed in Las Vegas in the early 2000s who quickly rose to fame with their ’80s style synth-pop. They’ve since won four NME Awards (2005, 2008, 2009, 2013) and … More Saturday Songsters – The Killers
This is another of my Saturday Songsters posts where I share a video of a piece of music. This week’s track is ‘Strange Land’ by the Irish group, Clannad a group that consists of the siblings Moya, Ciaran and Pol Brennan plus their twin uncles, Noel and Padraig Duggan. Their younger sister / niece, Enya, was originally also … More Saturday Songsters #3 – Clannad
This is the second of my ‘Saturday Songsters’ posts where I share a music video and song lyrics. This week I thought I’d post a video by one of my favourite musicians, Newton Faulkner. This track was his first single from his first album, ‘Hand Built by Robots’, released in 2007. After hearing the song play … More Saturday Songsters #2 – Newton Faulkner
This is the first of a new series of posts I’ll be calling ‘Saturday Songsters’ where I share a music video and the lyrics of a song that I particularly like. I’ve always adored music and listen to it whenever I can. Many people over the years have called my taste a little strange but I … More Saturday Songsters #1 – Hozier
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