Starmania – The Show (1979): a Canadian-French cyberpunk rock opera (in French) written in 1976 with music by Michel Berger and book and lyrics by Luc Plamondon. At a recovery conference in Montreal in the 90’s I heard “Le monde est stone” at their cabaret & loved the song. While there I found a 2nd hand copy of the double lp & bought it. It was the studio lp & the songs was excellent. The…
Love is a shiny car
Love is a steel guitar
Love is a battle scar
Love is a morning song
Love is a twelve-bar blues
Love is your blue suede shoes
Love is a heart abused
Love is a mind confused
And love is the pleasures I'm told
And for some love is still a band of gold
My love has no reason, has no rhyme
My love cross the double line
It’s a chill Saturday, with low, dull, grey skies, and I’m cosying up in my favorite velvet chair listening to Kate and Anna McGarrigle sing Love Is. I am quite enjoying this, too!
Wade Hemsworth (right) with Kate & Anna McGarrigle, ?, Chaim Tannebaum and Dane Lanken (L-R), ca 1980s. At the forefront what looks like Kate's daughter Martha.
Someone posted a gif of a lumberjack on a rolling log and I wanted to reply with this but in typical Tumblr app fashion it Went Away but I'm not letting my effort go to waste
Emmylou Harris’s Stumble Into Grace turns 20 this year! To celebrate, Nonesuch has released the album on vinyl for the first time, in a limited cream-colored edition, out today. You can get it here.
On this, her second consecutive album of original material, following her Nonesuch debut, Red Dirt Girl, Harris is joined by guests like Linda Ronstadt, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Gillian Welch, Jane Siberry, Buddy Miller, Daniel Lanois, and Malcolm Burn, who produced the record.
Design by Barbara deWilde. Photography by Veronique Rolland