I Remember Everything covered here by Brandi Carlile is the last song
ever recorded by Prine and won the 2021 Grammy award for Best American
Roots Song & Best American Roots Performance.
Pitchfork about the tribute: “A second installment of John Prine covers includes
some of the legendary songwriter’s best-known material, illustrating how his legacy,
and the definition of Americana—has shifted since 2010. .
Next Wednesday, 22 December, the 4th episode of the blockbuster science-fiction
movie series THE MATRIX arrives in cinema theatres around the world. Just in time
to have yourself a surreal Xmas this year.
1. Any light, simple song, especially one of sentimental
or romantic character, having two or more stanzas all
sung to the same melody. 2. A simple narrative poem of folk origin, composed
in short stanzas and adapted for singing. 3. Any poem written in a similar style. 4. A sentimental or romantic popular song.
Okay, I just wanted to check if I picked the right songs here.
Below you find TUTV’s Ballads Of 2021 Spotify playlist with
a total of 30 beauties that I picked from the past 12 months.
The late Suicide legend had a lost album out this year
called Mutator. One of those rare lost albums that are
actually really good. Samurai is one of the dark
highlights.
The passion-driven Danish outfit finally hit the bull’s eye
with their fifth longplayer Seek Shelter. A near-perfect
opus with this slow-burning torch…
Stand out track from these young Texans’ debut album Survivors.
The lyrics are crystal clear. America is not what Hollywood tells you. It has become
a dangerously divided country where racism and far-right rebirth stimulated by
charlatan Trump and his ruthless entourage are frighteningly realistic (again).
Alarming feelings expressed with heavy-heartedness…
A brave and affecting pop pearl. An inspiring encouragement for
the countless girls/women and boys/men worldwide, struggling with
the looks of their body when it doesn’t correspond with society’s
everlasting sexist perception of how a body should look like, as
we all know.
Singer/songwriter Chrisy Hurn sounds as if she’s
related to The Sundays‘ grand voice Harriet Wheeler.
8. ‘Weeping Willow’ by MODERN MOXIE (South-Carolina)
This nostalgic gem has that melancholic and magical feel we, adults,
are familiar with. Looking back at good times gone. This wistful lullaby
brings tears to your eyes.
Artist: DAVID BOWIE
8 januari 1947 – New York, 10 januari 2016
R.I.P.
Anniversary album: HUNKY DORY – his 4th LP Released: 17 December 1971 – 50 years ago today Charts: #3 in the UK
AllMusic: “Hunky Dory is a kaleidoscopic array of pop styles,
tied together only by Bowie’s sense of vision: a sweeping, cinematic
mélange of high and low art, ambiguous sexuality, kitsch, and class.”
Score: 5/5.
Turn Up The Volume: His first commercial success. The top-tier
harbinger for masterpiece The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and
the Spiders from Mars released a year later.
What Turn Up The Volume is playing/watching between two coffees
The late great AMY WINEHOUSE joined ska icons THE SPECIALS at V-Festival in Chelmsford, UK in 2009,
for two songs: You’re Wondering Why and Ghost Town.
Band: THE KUNTS Who: Comedy punks from Essex, UK. It’s actually the
side-project of Kunt and The Gang, launched last year.
Despite being banned from radio/TV The Kunts scored a #5 hit
in England on last year’s Xmas with punk missile Boris Johnson Is
A Fucking Cunt.
This year they want to hit the top of the UK charts on 25 December
with follow-up rant Boris Johnson Is STILL A Fucking Cunt (not really
an inventive title, you lazy bastards).
