All Posts Tagged With: "songwriting"
Meet Joe Pug
Joe Pug is a fantastic songwriter/musician from Chicago, and he’s only 23. He reminds many people, including me, of a young Bob Dylan. Here’s the video of the first track from his debut album.
Thanks to One Jones Brother for telling me to check him out.
Did Cohen Plagiarize or Allude to Longfellow?
Many critics and songwriters consider Leonard Cohen to write lyrics that match the quality Bobby Dylan’s words. I have always been skeptical of this view, but Cohen does have some gems. I have been studying many of the best lyricists and months ago I came across a video of Cohen reading Tower of Song – something he wrote that has been covered about 20 times. I vaguely recall being jealous of Cohen’s writing abilities when I first heard Tower of Song.
Here’s a great video recording of Cohen singing Tower of Song with a great backing band named U2. The Edge plays a sweet sad guitar:
Got to Beg Louder
Ya Got to Beg Louder Boy (In Chicago)
The City passes you by without saying hi
The City doesn’t care if you’re lonely or high
The City breathes with metallic lungs
And speaks in a rambling tongue
And coughs on the beat of his makeshift drum Read more…
One Jones Brother
One afternoon a few months back I clicked on a link on the gchat profile of a friend of mine who usually has links to funny or at least novel political commentary. I was multitasking, so I didn’t take a close look right away, but I heard some fantastic original music, that I assumed was by a famous recording office that I wasn’t cool enough to know about.