Leonard Cohen was a Canadian born Poet, Singer, Songwriter and Musician from Montreal in Quebec.
Here we have a brilliant version of a great song sung by a legendary artist. This is Canadian born Jewish Poet, Singer and Songwriter Leonard Cohen singing the classic Bee Gees song ‘To Love Somebody’. The Original was great. But I actually like this version better. Hope you enjoy!
There’s a light, a very special light,
Never ever shone on me.
I would like my whole life to be,
With someone like you…
With someone, With someone like…
You don’t know what it’s like,
You don’t know what it’s like,
To love somebody,
To love somebody,
The way I love you.
There’s a way, a very special way,
To look at each and every single thing.
Ah, but what good would that bring,
If I ain’t got you…
If I ain’t, If I ain’t got you.
You don’t know what it’s like,
I don’t think you really, really know what it’s like,
To love somebody,
To love somebody,
The way I love you,
The way I love you.
There’s a light, a special kind of light,
Never ever shone on me.
I would like my whole life to be,
With someone like you…
With someone, With someone like…
Baby, you don’t know what it’s like,
Ah, but you just don’t know what it’s like,
To love somebody,
To love somebody,
The way I love you.
You don’t know what it’s like,
I don’t think you really, really know what it’s like,
To love somebody,
To love Somebody,
The way I love you.
Leonard Cohen was a Canadian Born Poet who later became a songwriter and singer as well as a keen musician. It may also be said that the man was something of a prophet too. He has released many great albums over the years with some classic tracks. Songs like ‘So Long Marianne’, ‘Suzanne’ and Hallelujah’ are among his best known works. However, it has taken many decades for his works to be fully appreciated by many.
Cohen has always considered himself more of a poet. But he became famous for his songs rather than his poems. He had been living on a Greek island with partner Marianne Helm in a place he called beautiful. However, the poems weren’t paying the bills. So Leonard turned his hand to song-writing and performing. This is where he got famous. However, this meant having to leave the Island and live in Hotels throughout long tours.
But he later admitted that even as the quality of these hotel rooms increased, they could never ,match the beauty of the Greek island he had previously been living on. However, he says that ‘the Song’ ceased him, and the ability to reach so many people seized him.
But it’s certainly true that Leonard Cohen wrote some amazing songs. I’ve always been a fan, although I guess his style isn’t for everyone. His songs can be a bit deep. But thats what I love about them. Although they may sound morbid at times, but they always have a light of hope in their message too.
However, although his following was originally rather niche, he eventually hit the mainstream in his later years. His 1993 Album ‘The Future’ became a big Hit due to much of it being used as the soundtrack to Quentin Tarantino’s 1995 Blockbuster Movie ‘Natural Born Killers’.
However, he also got a lot of attention with his song ‘Hallelujah’ which was widely promoted after being used in the hit movie ‘Shrek’. The movie version was sung by John Cale in the film but has been covered by many artists since. It has been covered by artists such as Rufus Wainwright, Nick Drake and Jeff Buckley. But it hit the mainstream of mainstreams in 2008 when ‘The X-Factor’ used it as the template of their Xmas Number One performed by Alexandra Burke.
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Here we are with a little gem here from the legendary Matt McGinn. This is a live set where the Glaswegian Singer n Songwriter sings a set at The Bonnie Prince Charlie Bar in East Kilbride in February of 1975. A great mix of songs and patter. Hope you enjoy!
Matt McGinn was born in just off the Gallowgate in the Colton area of Glasgow in January, 1928. Born into a family of Nine, McGinn grew up in the are which was rich in Irish culture. This where he hoovered up many of the tunes often chanted with a mixture of colourful sectarian overtones and made them his own.
Although he was never to play a musical Instrument, and in some opinions, couldn’t sing either, McGinn wrote some amazing lyrics which he put with these tunes. His lyrics addressed social and political issues, yet he had a skill of being able to make them comedy, child friendly songs.
McGinn was expelled from Primary school and sent to approved school as a child. However, this was no reflection on his intelligence. At age 31, he obtained a Trade Union Scholarship to the Ruskin College in Oxford. Here he saw how society really worked. After a brief period as a school teacher, his beleifs were solidified and McGinn returned to Glasgow, vowing never to work again. However, Matt was a an enthusiastic campaigner for local social and housing issues and helped establish the Gorbals Adventure Playground.
In 1962, Matt won a song writing competition with his song ‘The Foreman O’Rourke’ which earned him a place at the Carnegie Hall. Here he met a young Bob Dylan and the American Folk Singer and Songwriter Pete Seeger whom he would forge a lasting Friendship with. Matt McGinn was a member of the Communist Party of great Britain and was a committed Socialist, trade unionist and a keen observer of nature which reflected in his songs.
Being a father himself, he was great at writing children’s songs too. He was really good fusing these components together to make songs that can be understood by all ages with an appreciative meaning as one grows older. However, in the 1960’s Britain and America were still in the height of the Cold War and while McGinn was a big name in the Folk Revival scene, he was limited in his publicised and very few TV appearances of Matt McGinn in his life and one from his early era.
As the 1970’s came along, the songs McGinn sang had started to become less of a threat to the status Quo and the singer had also adopted a more humorous approach to his material. This live show here is a prime example of Matt McGinn the entertainer. It was recorded in the singers latter years. But it has no shortage of humorous jokes and the craic which Matt was always good at. In fact, he was often considered the Mentor of his banjo Player Billy Connolly who would later go on to become a world famous Stand Up comedian.
Sadly Matt McGinn passed away in 1978. Unfortunately his home in Govan hill in Glasgow’s South Side suffered a fire when matt came home drunk one night and fell asleep in bed with a cigarette. He died in the fire and was pronounced dead by smoke inhalation at age 50.
Matt McGinn’s works are still very much celebrated and many musicians and songwriters including myself can say that McGinn was a big Influence on them. McGinn’s songs are still performed by folk musicians on both sides of the Atlantic. In Scotland and in America at tribute concerts. His songs have been recorded by Pete Seeger, The Weavers, Theodore Bikel, The Corries, Luke Kelly, The Chinese Man, The Ian Campbell Folk Group, Barry Dransfield & Rachel Unthank and the Winterset, among others.
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Here we have an Interview with American Rapper,Singer-Songwriter and Fe man ale Warrior Protagonist Ashnikko. On this episode of ‘Making the Album’s she breaks down her Debut album ‘Weedkiller’ track by Track.
‘Weedkiller’ is Ashnikko’s Debut album. Although she did already release her Mixtape Demidevil which many would consider an album. However, Weedkiller is her First actual complete studio album. The album is centred around the planet, and the environmental crisis that we face.
She describes it as a mix between Tank Girl and Mad max. She wanted to portray herself as the female warrior heroine with a big sword. Ashnikko says she’s done many survival courses and works towards Being that character.
The album is all about a dairy universe or planet which has been destroyed by industry, pollution and environmental crisis. However, she plays the protagonist feminist warrior girl. She is there to bring Justice. She adopts a part machine body to fight back against the evil Patriarchy to save the universe.
Ashnikko takes us through the album Track by Track. She gives us a lowdown on the song itself and what she had in mind and what was happening when she wrote it. She also discusses how she includes various Topics in her album including Feminism, Struggle, Environmentalism, Erotica and sexuality. However, she talks about how her mom was not impressed to begin with. But Ashnikko laughs it off and says she knows her mom gets it.
When it comes to the feminist struggle against the Patriarchy, she claims that we haven’t evolved at all. Not when she sees “Beast” of the male gaze being creepy and laughing like Hyenas as they tear womanhood apart.
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Thought I’d share this little Bob Dylan song. It’s called Talkin John Birch Paranoid Blues and was originally recorded for Dylan’s Second album The Freewheelin Bob Dylan. However, the song was replaced after some controversy over a Television Show censorship a few weeks before the album was due to be released.
The song was recorded for Bob Dylan’s Second Studio Album ‘The Freewheelin Bob Dylan‘. It was due to be released in May 1963. In fact, a limited amount of copies were made with this song on it. But these were soon recalled and destroyed by Columbia Records after some controversy over the song.
Well, I was feelin’ sad and kinda blue
I didn’t know what I was gonna do
The communists was a-comin’ around
They was in the air
They was on the ground
They was all over
So I run down most hurriedly
And joined up with the John Birch Society
I got me a secret membership card
I went back home to the yard
Started looking on the sidewalk
Under the hedges
Well, I got up in the mornin’ I looked under my bed
I was lookin’ every places for them gol-darned Reds
Looked behind the sink, and under the floor
Looked in the glove compartment of my car
Couldn’t find any
Look behind the cloths, behind the chair
Lookin’ for them Reds everywhere
I looked way up my chimney hole
Even looked deep inside my toilet bowl
They got away
I heard some footsteps by the front porch door
I grabbed my shotgun from the floor
Snuck around the house with a huff and a hiss
“Saying hands up you communist”
It was the mail man, he punched me out
Well, I was sittin’ home an’ started to sweat
I figured they was in my T.V. set
I peeked behind the picture frame
Got a shock from my feet, right up in the brain
Them reds did it
Hooting in the television
Well, I quit my job, so I could work alone
Got a magnifying glass like Sherlock Holmes
Followed some clues from my detective bag
And discovered red stripes on the American flag
Betty Ross
Now Eisenhower, he’s a Russian spy
Lincoln, and Jefferson and then Roosevelt guy
To my knowledge, there’s just one man
That’s really and truly an American
That’s George Lincoln Rockwell
I know for a fact he hates Commies
‘Cause he picketed the movie Exodus
Well, I finally started thinkin’ straight
When I run outta things to investigate
I couldn’t imagine nothin’ else
So now I’m home investigatin’ myself
Hope I don’t find out too much, good God
On May the 12th, 1963, Just a few weeks before the Freewheelin album was due to be released, Bob Dylan was scheduled to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show. When asked what songs he’d be playing on the show, Dylan told Ed Sullivan that he would be playing ‘Talkin John Birch Paranoid Blues’. However the ‘Head of Program Practices’ at CBS Studios refused to let him play the song, fearing Libel lawsuits from The John Birch Society. So they asked Bob to play another song instead.
But Dylan was having none of it. What was the point in putting effort into writing a protest song just to have it rejected and play something else? No way! He would either play the song on the show or he wouldn’t play the show at all.
Although the song never made it’s originally Intended place on the Freewheelin album, it has still been released
John Birch was a Military Intelligence Captain in the United states Air Force. He was posthumously awarded the Army Distinguished Service Medal after being Killed on duty in China by Chinese Communist forces on the 25th of August, 1945. This was just 10 days after World War II Ended. He is often considered the very first casualty of The Cold War and considered a Martyr by some. In Robert E Welch fonded the Anti Communist advocacy Group The John Birch Society in commemoration of the officer.
Birch was born in India to Missionary parents but returned with his parents to America when we was Two Years old. He grew up in New Jersey and later Georgia. Here he grew up a Zealot and was always quite militant in his strong Christian beleifs. One example of this was at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia where he levelled charges of Heresy at some of the lecturers and spent a whole day in the classroom conducting a mock trial of the teachers.
At age 11, Birch decided he wanted to be a Missionary and he enrolled in J. Frank Norris’ Fundamental Baptist Bible Institute in Fort Worth, Texas. He had visited China before and with the Sino-Japanese War taking it’s toll on China, Birch couldnt wait to get in there again and preach the gospel and making converts. Norris explained they went “fully informed as to the dangers that await them, but they go like the Apostle Paul when he knew that it meant death at Jerusalem.”
In July of 1940, he landed in Shanghai and was soon posted to Hangzhou in the far North Eastern part of the Zhejiang province. However, by 1942, the ceaseless attacks by the Japanese made life pretty grim for Birch and he considered leaving the Missionary work and joining the army. But when he took a leading part in smuggling agroup of bailed U.S Airforce crew out of the Japanese occupied area nd back behind the lines to safety, Birch was automatically commissioned to the United States Air Force as Second Luitenant in Chongqing on July the 5th, 1942. He fought in the 23rd fighter group throughout the War until March 1943 when the regiment changed to the Fourteenth Air Force.
By 1945, Birch had risen to Captain and was transferred to the U.S Office of Strategical Services. Although the War was over and hostilities had ceased, there was still plenty of work yet to be done in China. The Japanese army had been advised to hold their positions until they were able to officially surrender them to Chinese National Authorities. But with the countries leadership being in dissarray, this led to some confusion. Chinese Communist forces sought to rid the country of all remnants of Japanese Imperial rule including American Forces.
The John Birch society is a Right Wing American Anti-Communist political advocacy group. It was founded in by Robert E. Welch and was named after Martyr’d U.S Airforce officer John Birch who was killed by Communist Forces in China.
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Here’s a little Live Show Video for y’all. It’s Neil Young playing live in Chicago in 1992. It has Twenty of his better known songs he plays. So a good little live compilation for those of you who enjoy Neil Young’s music. I hope you enjoy!
1. Long May You Run
2. From Hank to Hendrix
3. Unknown Legend
4. Love is a Rose
5. Pocahontas
6. Like a Hurricane
7. War of Man
8. Needle and the Damage Done
9. Tonight’s the night
10. One of these Days
11. Such a Woman
12. Harvest Moon
13. Dreaming Man
14. Natural Beauty
15. Dont let it Bring You Down
16. Mr Soul
17. Powder Finger
18. Sugar Mountain
19. You and Me
20. After the Goldrush
Neil Young is a Canadian born American Rock singer and song writer. Originally playing music in the local scene around Winnipeg he was involved in various projects. However, it wasn’t really until Young moved to Los Angeles that he seemed to get anywhere. Here he soon joined the band Buffalo Springfield as well as his own solo stuff backed by long term associates and backing band Crazy Horse.
Young went on to put out a healthy discography of critically acclaimed albums with various artists over the years although he also produced various films to under the name “Bernard Shakey” and has won Two Grammy Awards in his career. He has his own distinct way of playing an a voice you’d recognise anywhere.
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