When I saw the prompt for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday, I wasn’t sure which approach to take. Did I want a sentimental song, something I would use to mirror feelings for my dad and his passing? Did I want to take a more light-hearted approach that would get the listeners up and out of…
Tag: Johnny Cash
dVerse Poetics Tuesday — a poem inspired by Johnny Cash’, Folsom Prison Blues
“The Circus,” by Albina Felski blues with no bridges: burned middle learning toxic lessons from the cradleprivileged take sun for granted on vacationpoor don’t notice it while scrambling to surviveprivileged are blessed to have cozy nanniespoor learn a bottle soothes when it’s fullprivileged own institutions that let them slidepoor, the face of crime, bludgeoned by…
Songs about the homeless: A Call for Compassion — Friday Favorite Feature 45
“Homeless,” by Ylli Haruni Not sure how I came up with the idea for a playlist on homelessness. Oh, yes, I do. After hearing Johnny Flynn’s song, “The Box.” He was the seed from which the playlist grew. Homelessness is real. It’s in your face every time you go out into a city street or…
Johnny Cash at San Quentin
I bought this album (CD) awhile back, used, through discogs and have listened to it a few times when I got it. Looking for something to listen to while cooking dinner on Monday not on the computer or spotify, I picked it from the rack. Maybe it’s because of the times we are living in…
Doodads — Hair Goes Electronic, Chet Atkins, and Johnny Cash x 2
I went to the library this morning to pick up the last disc of S3 of Farscape and drop off the previous disc. Donated books, etc. are along an area you pass while going in. There, calling out, was a box full of old LPs in mint condition. Most of them were classical, but of…
#SLS — Five Feet High and Rising by Johnny Cash
Jim Adams is the music aficianado host of Song Lyric Sunday. Jim says: This week we have Ankles/Hands/Feet/Fingers/Toes/Wrists and I think we will all be able to find a song that uses of these prompt words which can be singular or plural and we should all have fun while we are doing this. Here are…
The Tennessee Stud by Johnny Cash and Doc Watson, written by James Driftwood (was Coloring Club Plus — 5/21/19)
American Recordings is the 81st album by the country singer Johnny Cash. It was released on April 26, 1994 by American Recordings, after it had changed its name from Def American. The album marked the beginning of a career resurgence for Cash, who was widely recognized as an icon of American music but whose record…
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