Going For A Song: ‘The Desert Babbler’
My album of 2021 was Big Red Machine’s How Long Do You Think It’s Going To Last, with Low’s HEY WHAT coming in a close second.
Here’s Big Red Machine doing a lovely version of ‘New Auburn’ on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
going forwards looking backwards
As mentioned in 2019, and for other perhaps obvious reasons in 2020, I didn’t find time in 2021 to write frequently for this blog. So, as in 2019, but with no summary this time to accompany them, the following photos will have to give some indication as to what I got up to.
Given my disuse of it I’m undecided, going forward, as to what to do with this blog. I’m not writing for it in the manner I thought I might. Which is fine. Plans change. But as I still think it worth to have my own bit of space on the web, I have to decide in what shape and form that takes. But before that, a glass of port. And as I forgot to post it, the first port of the season was:
- Reading: The Stranger’s Child, Alan Hollinghurst (and dipping in and out of The Fire of Joy, Clive James)
- Viewing: Fraiser (full series on 4OD)
- Drinking: Cockburn’s Special Reserve Port
Going For A Song: ’36” Chain (BSBD Remix)’
Going For A Song: ‘I Had No Intentions’
Some music for me is forever associated with certain seasons. Damien Jurado’s music is the sound of late Autumn / Winter. ‘I Had No Intentions’ is off one of my favourite albums of his, 2006’s And Now That I’m In Your Shadow.
Going For A Song: ‘We Won’t Have to Be Lonesome’
Going For A Song: ‘Lay Back in the Sun’
Mark Cavendish
The greatest sprinter this sport has ever seen
David Millar
Today Mark Cavendish won his 31st stage at the Tour de France. Outstanding.
Belated
A very belated happy birthday to Bob Dylan who turned 80 last week. I was preoccupied with my dad’s own 80th birthday (amongst other things) to really pay attention. But this week I enjoyed reading John Harris on Dylan in the Guardian and this by Alan Jacobs from his blog post linkage over at Snakes and Ladders. And BBC 6 Music did a nice 6 Music Artist Collection I am currently listening to.
If I had been able to pay it any mind I would have chosen a song by Dylan for Going For A Song last week instead of choosing nothing. So to cover that omission may I point you in the direction of a GFAS I wrote in 2016 about ‘Sign on the Window’ from New Morning.
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