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Friday Five: Songs Tenuously Related to Herman Melville
Break out the gifts and Fudgie the Whale ice cream cake: tomorrow is Herman Melville’s 190th birthday!
Melville may be the bane of anyone who’s ever taken a sophomore English class, but I’m kinda fond of the guy. Unfortunately there are very few country songs about nineteenth century whaling practices, mutiny, South Seas adventure, incest, fears [...]Continue reading "Friday Five: Songs Tenuously Related to Herman Melville"
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Friday Five: Songs about Canada
Wednesday, July 1, was Canada Day. Hopefully by now you’ve all recovered from your raucous celebration.
Aside from watching Kids in the Hall and drinking mass quantities of Moosehead (or Tim Hortons coffee if that’s your drug of choice), what better way to honor our northern neighbors than with a list of some Canadian country artists [...] -
Great Country Songs from the 1970s, Pt. 4
For part four of this series, I’ll be using the same criteria as before–Just some songs I liked, one song per artist (although feel free to comment on other songs by the artist). This part stops in the middle of the letter M.
“Joy To The World” – Murray Kellum (1971)
A nice country cover of [...]Continue reading "Great Country Songs from the 1970s, Pt. 4"
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