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#MMB August songs — “Picture Book,” by The Kinks

Here we are in August and I’ve already found several songs containing it. It remains to be seen how many will be checked off by others before the month is over. The one I went with today is The Kinks, with “Picture Book.” With Kinks songs, you really can’t go wrong. They are up there…

#MMB July 2025 — “4th of July,” by Soundgarden, from Superunknown

image link takes you to info on the cover art I was first introduced to Soundgarden by my older son. After, “Spoonman” became a hit and got radioplay, he bought the album it was on, “Superunknown,” their fourth album, released in 1994. Another song that got a lot of radioplay from the album was, “Black…

#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…

#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…