Profiles in Music: The First Two Years
A dozen or more songs/videos each from Joni, Emmylou, Townes, Brandi, Leonard Cohen, Sam Cooke, Louis Armstrong, Richard Thompson, Sandy Denny, Nick Drake.
Holiday break so here are links to a few of my “profiles” from 2021 to 2023, when I featured each artist with a dozen or more cool or obscure videos. Some of the videos, naturally, have disappeared since they were selected but plenty remain. You can still subscribe—for free. And note: Highly relevant as we await the upcoming Christopher Nolan Oppenheimer movie— my award-winning 2020 book, The Beginning or the End, in which the “Father of the Atomic Bomb” plays a pivotal, and rather disgraceful, part. Here is more, and here is where you can order the book.
And now, ladies and gentlemen:
Richard Thompson & Sandy Denny (Fairport)
Sandy Denny solo
Richard Thompson solo
A few extracts:
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Thank you for all the effort and time you put into these profiles. With all the crap going on in the U.S. and the world in general, it’s a much appreciated reminder of the moments of joy and transformation that great music affords.