

Madame George - Van Morrison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLCVpwNGPME Sacrilegious though it may seem, I actually prefer the version of "Madame George" released by...


Sweet Thing - Van Morrison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFAp3aRJ2vA Van Morrison left the Belfast band Them in 1966 and relocated to America, to embark on his...


Rave On John Donne - Van Morrison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv49jlyX-co In 1923 W. B. Yeats, like John Steinbeck and Bob Dylan in 1962 and 2016 respectively, won...


The Great Dust Storm - Woody Guthrie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J34m9ppG3Bo We couldn't cover Woody Guthrie (see previous posts) without including a song by the great...


Jesus Christ - U2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A47WxX3FkwU Easter Sunday has become the day of Easter Eggs, neatly incorporating the resurrection of the...


Gonna Get Through This World - the Klezmatics
Woody Guthrie's second mother-in-law (ie the mother of his second wife, Marjorie Mazia) was American Yiddish poet, Aliza Greenblatt, and....


Old Man Trump - Ryan Harvey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmZnlGBhwKg Woody Guthrie was an incredibly prolific songwriter, and many of the songs he wrote and...


This Land is Your Land - Elizabeth Mitchell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1Bo6xFg9x0 Without doubt Bob Dylan's greatest influence was Woody Guthrie. Dylan once referred to...


Bound for Glory - Neil Young
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pHeW6uscVY&list=OLAK5uy_kF8MrU5CeE7O5JzW-9CvWdwzgCcd9J7lI&index=9 Just as he left for the airport to...


After the Goldrush - Neil Young
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6Zf4D1tHdw The band Heart (see last two posts) were originally called The Army but then changed their...

