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…
Category: Song Lyric Sunday
#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…
#SLS — (thinkers) “Madman’s Eyes” by Dave Matthews Band, from Walk Around the Moon
album cover for Walk Around the Moon Jim Adams is the host of Song Lyric Sunday. This week Jim wants us to look for a song that makes you think about life. One of the things that makes me love listening to music is how it makes me think about life. Songs are narratives as…
#SLS — Rhiannon Giddens (2/21/77)
Rhiannon Giddens When I saw this week’s prompt and learned that Rhiannon Giddens’ birthday is in February (b. 2/21/77,) she was my choice. I originally wrote a post on her for 2022’s Women Music March, then used the post again for Glyn’s Mixed Music Bag. Looking again for any updates I see Rhiannon is a…
#SLS “Forever’s No Time At All” written by Katie McInnerny and sung/acoustic by Billy Nicholls from Pete Townshend’s, Who Came First (partly repost)
As I lie amongst the heather bedHigh above the ocean’s roar Looking first through my own digital catalogue for songs with Time in them, I happened across this album and this song. I did a post on it back in March 2025. The next part is from the original post: Max from PowerPop posted…
#SLS — “Monterey,” by Eric Burdon & The Animals re: The Monterey International Pop Festival on June 16-18, 1967
Eric Burdon & The Animalsimage from Best Classic Bands website, which also has an article about Monterey I know that today’s song is supposed to be about a mode of transport. The airplane in it is not explicitly used as a mode of transport in it; however, I will argue that the song and the…
#SLS — “Grace” by U2
image link I have to thank Jim and Ange for this week’s wide open prompt. “Grace” was an easy one to choose for several reasons. First for me is the concept of grace, as it can lift heavy burdens as if they were feathers. Secondly, the lyrics personify grace into “the name for a girl.” …
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