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#MMB 2025– July — “Black Day in July,” by Gordon Lightfoot
[I wrote the song] as a newspaper man would write an article.— Gordon Lightfoot, about “Black Day in July” Gordon Lightfoot remains one of my most beloved love song writers/balladeers, but he’s just as phenomenal at chronicling impactful bits of human history. Most everybody knows his song, “Edmund Fitzgerald.” He’s written about colonizing nature’s…
#SLS — “E Z Rider,” by Taj Mahal, from his eponymous Debut album (1968)
album cover link to discogs The Victorian house featured on the cover, known as the Salt Box, was once located on Bunker Hill Avenue in Los Angeles’ Bunker Hill neighborhood. Designated a city landmark in 1962, it was one of only two homes that were saved and relocated, only for both be destroyed by an…
#SLS — “Down to You,” by Joni Mitchell, from Court and Spark
Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark is #113 on the 2012 list and #110 in the 2020 list of Rolling Stone Magazine’s list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Court and Spark was Joni’s 6th studio album. It was an immediate commercial and critical success—and remains her most successful album. I’m actually surprised at…
Esther Chilton’s “Can You Tell A Story In…” 284
Sugar CookiesAfter Dr. Quack’s brain operation on me, I smell vanilla on full moons. I attracted Harry on a midnight walk and imagined sugar cookies as he bit me. Now, on certain days, we keep the pram canopy closed. Esther Chilton is the host of Can You Tell A Story In… Esther says: Can you…
#FF — Til Death (with “If I Was a Blackbird” by Silly Wizard added)
PHOTO PROMPT © Roger Bultot Til Death Startled awake, I listen for Mr. Coffee’s gurgle, but he’s not singing. It’s always a surprise to realize you’re dead, as our lives continue as if you are alive in the other realm. At first I thought you must be in limbo, waiting for the elevator, but it’s…
#MMB 2025 — April — “Gone to America,” by Steeleye Span
I feel happy to have found this song for Mixed Music Bag’s last April 2025 offering. It’s one where I not only recognized the band but liked the song. Listening to the simple lyrics that get repeated several times with only minor changes in them has me wondering what is going on here. Was he…
