Category: MusicMonday

Music Monday – "It was written that I would love you/From the moment I opened my eyes"

Recently rediscovered the album, “Flaming Pie”, one of my favourite McCartney solo efforts.  This song is a number of keepers on the album and the video's great too. 

Music Monday – "So I've been telling old stories, singing songs/That make me think about where I came from"

2009 is apparently the 250th birthday of Robbie Burns, a fact I only discovered while searching for clips from one of my favourite Saskatchewan singer-songwriters, Eileen Laverty.  I'm

Music Monday – "You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane/All they will call you will be deportees"

*I'm backdating a few posts to this past weekend to keep up the illusion that I never leave the front of my computer for such things as camping

Music Monday – "I've been looking at the sky/'Cause it's gettin' me high/Forget the hearse 'cause I never die"

I don't know much in this life but I do know that my version of the great unfinished Canadian novel begins with this line: “There were two kinds

Music monday – "You never need to doubt it/I'll make you so sure about it"

No less an expert than Paul McCartney is on record as saying that “God Only Knows” is the best love song ever written.  Below is the vocals-only track

Music Monday – "No moo-cow/No billy-goat/Is gonna get the baby's vote"

Loudon Wainwright III played on the closing night of the Regina Folk Fest last night.  He didn't play this ode to breastfeeding (at least I don't think so 

Music Monday – "You talkin' about Hammer/You talkin' about a show"

Shea thought I was joking when I said I wanted to go see MC Hammer play our local summer exhibition here in Regina.  I wasn't…but I didn't make

Music Monday – "I've got to be unstoppable/I've got to be unstoppable/Eh, eh you don't like/eh, eh, eh you don't like."

Found this clip on Reddit and though it's a bit different than my usual Music Monday clips, I thought it was worth sharing as it's definitely got music

Music Monday – "As for the whole thing we are/Ever smaller than you think/Yet on our own plain/We're giants building statues of ourselves."

I found out about Paul MacLeod because I saw that Hawksley Workman had produced one of his early  albums.  (Oh, I see Hawksley did a few of them

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