After seeing Glen Campbell on Later with Jools Holland last night, I was reminded of how much I love this song, possibly the first existential country song – and truly a classic:
I am a lineman for the county. And I drive the main road. Lookin’ in [...]

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Possibly my favourite track from ‘The Seldom Seen Kid’ - ‘The Bones of You’ gets its single release, accompanied by this superb video.
So I’m there, charging around with a juggernaut brow, Overdraft speeches and deadlines to make. Cramming commitments like cats in sack, [...]

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Put a ribbon round my neck and call me a libertineI will sing you songs of dreams I used to dreamI will sail away on seas of silver and goldUntil I reach my home
Give me a guitar and I’ll be your troubadourYour strolling minstrel 12th century door to doorI don’t know anymore, if that feeling [...]

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I love your eyes, my dear
Their splendid sparkling fire
When suddenly you raise them so
To cast a swift embracing glance
Like lightning flashing in the sky
But there’s a charm that is greater still
When my love’s eyes are lowered
When all is fired by passion’s kiss
And through the downcast lashes
I see the dull flame of desire
Bjork - Dull flame [...]

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If through my cracked and dusty dime-store lips I spoke these words out loud would no one hear me?Lay your blouse across the chair, let fall the flowers from your hair,and kiss me with that country mouth so plain

Empty - Ray Lamontagne (2007)
Turns out that Ray Lamontagne is coming to the Uk for another tour [...]

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Well I held you like a loverHappy hands, and your elbow in the appropriate placeAnd we ignored our others, happy plansFor that delicate look upon your faceOur bodies moved and hardenedHurting parts of your gardenwith no room for a pardonIn a place where no one knows what we have done
Do you come, Together ever with [...]

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His father was a drinker
And his mother cried in bed
Folding John Wayne’s T-shirts
When the swingset hit his head
The neighbors they adored him
For his humor and his conversation
Look underneath the house there
Find the few living things
Rotting fast in their sleep of the dead
Twenty-seven people, even more
They were boys with their cars, summer jobs
Oh my God
Are you [...]

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Long afloat, on shipless oceans
I did all my best to smile
til your singing eyes and fingers drew me loving to your aisle,
And you sang
sail to me, sail to me,
let me enfold you.
Here I am, here I am
waiting to hold you
Did I dream, you dreamt about me ?
Were you hare, when I was fox ?
now my [...]

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All the wild horses
All the wild horses
Tethered with tears in their eyes
May no man’s touch ever tame
May no man’s reigns ever chain you
And may no man’s weight ever defrayed your soul
And as for the clouds
Just let them roll
Roll away
Roll away
As for the clouds
Just let them roll
Roll away
Roll away
 
Ray Lamontagne - All the wild horses

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Once last thing before I shuffle off the planet
I will be the one to make you crawl
So I came down to wish you an unhappy birthday
Someone call the ambulance, theres gonna be an accident.
I’m coming up on infrared, there is no running that can hide you,
Cos’ I can see in the dark.
I’m coming up on [...]

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