Archive for January, 2007
Recording - Just Like Heaven
Just Like Heaven is a gorgeous song from the mid-1980s by The Cure, a group who had an undeserved reputation for being miserable, much like The Smiths. A lot of people didn’t see past the eyeliner, gloomy demeanour and straggly hair - if they had, they would have found any number of songs [...]
Recording - Who’s Going to Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet?
A great example of a song with floating verses that end up in all sorts of other songs, this version of Who’s Going to Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet? has a lovely liting melody.
I’ve learned it from the Everly Brothers’ LP “Songs Our Daddy Taught Us”, on which they paid tribute to the [...]Recording - Delia’s Gone
Delia’s Gone is currently one of my very favourite songs, and one which I first heard sung by Johnny Cash in the version he recorded for his American Recordings series of albums.
What I didn’t know, until I bought a copy of the Penguin Alan Lomax-edited volume of American Folk Songs, was that it exists in [...]