This is in danger of becoming a blog of obituaries, but I felt I had to mark the death of John Prine (actually on Tuesday, my birthday). Having twice survived cancer, he succombed to Coronavirus, which he contracted on a recent European tour. There's an interesting compare-and-contrast between Prine and Kenny Rogers, who also passed … Continue reading Death of the Singing Mailman
Category: Music
Music I’ve enjoyed – some Christian, some Americana and much of it both
King of the Road
Roger Miller was like Shakespeare: he wrote comedies and tragedies. His songs were invariably extremely wacky with clever word plays that left you with a broad smile or sad enough to make you cry in your beer (Diet Pepsi in my case). Like Shakespeare, he was also happy to invent new words: usually ones that … Continue reading King of the Road
Johnny Cash Gospel songs – the first 11
No one sang Gospel like Johnny Cash. That booming baritone voice was ideally suited to the tales of judgement and redemption that characterised his Christian music, and of course you knew that much of what he sang about he had lived himself. Here are 11 of his best, spanning his career from 1957 to 2003, … Continue reading Johnny Cash Gospel songs – the first 11
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