I first posted on Julianna Riolino in October 2025 after hearing her on Spotify’s Release Radar. I love the smooth graveliness of her voice. I like the passion with which she sings. I like her songwriting abilities. I like how she cut her teeth in at least one excellent band before deciding to go solo. …
Category: Song Lyric Sunday
#SLS — Richard Thompson (April 3) “1952 Vincent Black Lightning”
Richard Thompson 6-21-07 at a Brooklyn Celebrates concertin Prospect Park, Brooklyn NY photographed by Anthony Pepitone (CC-BY-SA) Rumor and Sigh album cover Richard Thompson OBE (b. 4/3/49) is an English songwriter, musician (primarily a guitarist,) singer and record producer. Thompson first gained prominence in the late 1960s as the lead guitarist and a songwriter for…
#SLS Id It Warm In Here? “Gift Horse,” by IDLES
Idles on the Mainstage at Haldern Pop Festival 2019.Photo by Alexander Kellnerl. – r.: Jon Beavis, Mark Bowen, Lee Kiernan, Adam Devonshire and Joe Talbot This week’s prompt got me scrambling my brain for a song that taps into the raw sexual energy of one’s – mine, in particular — libido, which Freud said…
#SLS — “Spill The Wine,” by Eric Burdon and War
When I saw what the prompt was for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday, so many songs popped into my head, which means it’s a good prompt. Thanks, Nancy! I originally wrote this for one of hanspostcard’s song drafts back in 2021. It’s an iconic groovefest that never grows old. Eric Burdon as frontman for War…
#SLS — The Moonbeam Song by Harry Nilsson from Nilsson Schmilsson (1971)
Jim, I enjoyed your conglomeration of weather lyrics in the first paragraph of the prompt. Nancy, what a good suggest for this week’s musical excursion that is Song Lyric Sunday. It didn’t take me long to figure out whose music I wanted to share this week and hoped he would have a song with one…
#SLS — Great Opener — “The Only Thing” by Dave Matthews Band
Dave Matthews Band Walk Around The Moon (2023) album cover Hello Everybody! This week’s prompt is extremely challenging in that there an almost infinite number of songs with great openers. Openings so memorable that often it only takes a few notes to recognize them. I agonized for a few moments before deciding on a cut…
#SLS March Birthdays (was Women Music March 2023 – Day 14 – Patty Griffin)
I started googling for March Musician Birthdays and then wondered if I had already written up someone who had a March birthday. Voila! Patty Griffin. As you will see in the title, this was first posted in March 2023. I went to wikipedia to see if there were updates on her discography, etc. and edited…
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