| Billy Bragg and Wilco – California Stars Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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@[BeadBeeman:39006] Just found the answer to my own question online - "Woody Guthrie Today is National Poetry Day in the UK, and the theme is “Stars.” What better way to salute British poetry than with a song penned by a quintessential American folk icon? California Stars is a beautiful poem/song written by Woody Guthrie, but never recorded until Wilco and Billy Bragg put it on Mermaid Avenue (1998), ...4 Oct 2012". ......boy, how did Wilco and Billy Bragg locate it in the first place and know how to play it/know how it went? |
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| Billy Bragg and Wilco – California Stars Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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@[BeadBeeman:39005] Very well said Bead, particularly your last line there. I was trying to locate the original recording by Woody Guthrie. The version by Astrograss, to me, is absolutely fantastic. |
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| The Pretenders – Don't Get Me Wrong Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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This is a song about Chrissie Hynde's friendship with John McEnroe , as per the segment below . I think she let him up on stage with his guitar (at least once if I've got the story right). Cheers, James "Don’t Get Me Wrong By RICHIE UNTERBERGER "A lively, throbbing, insistent beat paced Chrissie Hynde's declaration of the thrilling sensations she felt when in someone's proximity, glowing interwoven guitar and keyboard riffs mirroring her mood. While it seemed on the surface to be a love song, if a somewhat indirect one, Hynde said that she had tennis star John McEnroe in mind when she wrote it. "He was always getting in trouble in those days, but was such a nice guy when you got to know him," she reflected. "I imagined him singing it." |
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