Coloring Club Plus — 3/20/19

“Rise to Me” is a song on the American indie rock band, The Decemberists’ sixth album, The King is Dead. It was released as a single in 2010.  They’ve done 7 albums, are working on an 8th, and also did a fantastic collaboration with Olivia Chaney in 2017 and called the group, Offa Rex for…

Coloring Club Plus — 3/19/19

I was trying to think of an appropriate song for today. One that would speak to the mass shooting a long way from here, in NZ, but close for so many of the writers and readers on Word Press. We in the US have seen it become almost commonplace here. It sorrows me to see…

Coloring Club Plus — 3/18/19

  From wikipedia: Bruce Springsteen’s, “Darkness on the Edge of Town” is the fourth studio album by Bruce Springsteen, released on June 2, 1978. In September 2010, a documentary film chronicling the making of Darkness was first shown at the Toronto International Film Festival. Quoting Springsteen as saying “More than rich, more than famous, more…

Coloring Club Plus — 3/17/19

  per wikipedia: Richard Thompson’s Front Parlour Ballads is the eleventh studio album by Richard Thompson, released in 2005, was a literally homemade album. Thompson’s aim was to create an album that sounded small and intimate. Thompson had a small studio built in his garage at home and recorded the tracks onto his laptop computer,…

Coloring Club Plus — 3/16/19

I listened to Leonard Cohen: Live in London, or at least most of the first disc. There are some intense songs on it. Not knowing much about Cohen’s music, I learned that it’s dense; not a fluff or throwaway in the bunch. My selection from it is, “Ain’t No Cure for Love,” originally on I’m…

Coloring Club Plus — 3/15/19

  Beeswing first appeared on 1994’s “Mirror Blue”. It is also on “Acoustic Classics.” wikipedia says: Acoustic Classics is the fifteenth solo studio album by British singer/songwriter Richard Thompson. It was released by Beeswing Records via Proper Records on 21 July 2014 in the UK and 22 July 2014 in the USA…According to the album…