When I see a discussion about the greatest love song the one that I think qualifies, at least for me, is Dave Von Ronk’s “Another Time and Place”. There are many other great ones but I haven’t heard one that tops it.
One correction on your comments about the Fred Hampton movie. Emmett Till did not move to Mississippi from their home in Argo. They moved from Mississippi to Argo and he was visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi. His mother had his body brought to Chicago and insisted on having an open casket so people could see what had been done to him.
I read the column every day. Thanks for writing it.
"Cold Missouri Waters" about the 1949 Mann Gulch Wildfire (such a great song!) was written by a Canadian folksinger who grew up just a little north of the Montana wilderness where the tragedy occurred. Name is James Keelaghan https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/2013/07/02/folk-song-wildfire-tribute/2484881/ Here's his own version on Youtube with a lovely note from the son of John Maclean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qomNoN7MCYg Also thanks for the news about the Doc about Tim O'Brien. *The Things They Carried* is amazing but I am partial to the today way underappreciated *Going After Cacciato* (1978). I can still remember the shock of that novel which I read before his other work and still haunts me. Thanks for your great newsletter/blog!
When I see a discussion about the greatest love song the one that I think qualifies, at least for me, is Dave Von Ronk’s “Another Time and Place”. There are many other great ones but I haven’t heard one that tops it.
One correction on your comments about the Fred Hampton movie. Emmett Till did not move to Mississippi from their home in Argo. They moved from Mississippi to Argo and he was visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi. His mother had his body brought to Chicago and insisted on having an open casket so people could see what had been done to him.
I read the column every day. Thanks for writing it.
"Cold Missouri Waters" about the 1949 Mann Gulch Wildfire (such a great song!) was written by a Canadian folksinger who grew up just a little north of the Montana wilderness where the tragedy occurred. Name is James Keelaghan https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/2013/07/02/folk-song-wildfire-tribute/2484881/ Here's his own version on Youtube with a lovely note from the son of John Maclean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qomNoN7MCYg Also thanks for the news about the Doc about Tim O'Brien. *The Things They Carried* is amazing but I am partial to the today way underappreciated *Going After Cacciato* (1978). I can still remember the shock of that novel which I read before his other work and still haunts me. Thanks for your great newsletter/blog!