In a previous post I wrote about the songs I sing to myself inside my head (or out loud if I am walking the dog). At night they keep my thoughts organized and help me to go to sleep. Here are a few more that I enjoy and I hope you do too.
In a previous post I wrote about the songs I sing to myself inside my head (or out loud if I am walking the dog). At night they keep my thoughts organized and help me to go to sleep. Here are a few more that I enjoy and I hope you do too.
I see you're as big a classic Ian & Sylvia fan as I am!
ReplyDeleteI am. Their harmony is amazing. I am a big fan of Ian Tyson who is still going strong at 87. I understand why they split but am still sad. Have you read "I Never Sold My Saddle"? Loved that book and need to by my own copy. If you run into one in a second hand book store, please let me know.
DeleteI tell myself stories than than sing songs to help me sleep.
ReplyDeleteLove your selection, some of which I even know...
Glad you liked the songs and that you were familiar with some of them. One of my favourite groups from the 60s is The Seekers which of course you would know well.
DeleteI often write my blog posts in my head too when I am trying to go to sleep but that usually has the opposite effect as I then need to get up and Google something. I did write a short story once whe3n I was in hospital for a month in 2018. You can read it here:
https://dablogfodder.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-storyteller-old-bob-and-fan-belt.html
Ian Tyson, Stompin' Tom and Gordon Lightfoot are all Canadian icons, but I'd rather listen to Paul Brandt or Alan Jackson if I was to fall asleep....
ReplyDeleteMight be an age difference here.
DeleteI also love the music of Glen Miller, Bach, Mozart and Corb Lund. Time and age are relative, LOL!
DeleteYour age isn't the issue it is my age. Alan Jackson I know. I had to Google Paul Brandt. I quit keeping up a long time ago.
DeleteI love Ian and Sylvia...
ReplyDeleteThey have the most wonderful harmony. I have several of their albums but not all.
DeleteSeeger and Seger. Clearly you're a man of taste. ;-) I enjoyed the others, too, but Ian and Sylvia always make me sad. I know a big percentage of marriages don't last, but it was such a pity when that harmony was silenced. Literally and metaphorically.
ReplyDeleteThat marriage was doomed from the moment Ian wrote Four Strong Winds, years before they broke up. They were two totally different people. He was an Alberta cowboy and she was a big city girl. Once the folk music era ended, their music went different ways. If you listen to their 1971 album titled simply Ian and Sylvia you can feel the difference in the songs between them. They had a good run and the world is better for it. My next blog on Simon and Garfunkel covers another unhappy "marriage" that gave us incredible harmony and wonderful songs. As the Russians say "Life is life"
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