[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…
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#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…
#MMB 2025 — “April Bloom” by Lior
Lior It’s fun to open oneself to new things. That’s why I like music prompts so much. I seek new music out and I get to listen to what others are sharing. This time I did the usual search for “song titles or lyrics containing April.” Once I had the list I started reading lyrics,…
#MMB 2025 — “April,” by Deep Purple
Deep Purple (III) album cover (from Hieroynmous Bosch) “April” is a song from the eponymous 3rd studio album, Deep Purple, also referred to as Deep Purple III, by the English rock band Deep Purple, released in June 1969 on Tetragrammaton Records in the United States and only in September 1969 on Harvest Records in the United Kingdom. Its release was preceded…
#MMB 2025 — April — “In April,” by Johnny Flynn, written by Jenny Lewis and Johnathan Rice
Johnny Flynn, photo by Eleanor Janelink takes you to a 2021 guitar.com article on Johnny Here we are at the first (week) of April, all fools for one thing or another. Like Nancy said, there are a lot of songs out there with April in songs or song titles. While scanning for an artist I…
MMB 2025 March — Tax Free, from “Dog Eat Dog” by Joni Mitchell
This time I looked for a Joni Mitchell song that included march in the title or lyrics and found Tax Free. Tax Free is on Joni’s 1985 album, “Dog Eat Dog,” her 12th studio album and her 2nd album under Geffen. The album was co-written by Joni and Larry Klein, where the wiki “liner note”…
MMB March — “Waters of March” (Portuguese: “Águas de março”,) by Antônio Carlos Jobim
“Waters of March” (1973) album cover When I went searching for a song with march in it, it was a treasure hunt with no limits, and oh, did I find treasure. I had heard of Jobim before so I zoomed in on the song and thought yes, let’s choose this one. There are no restrictions…
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