The jazz/rock hybrid known as Return To Forever joins with Zappa Plays Zappa for a late-summer run beginning in August.Founded in the early 1970s by Chick Corea, Return To Forever
The three ladies of Mountain Man are pleased to announce North American tour dates this summer, including the Newport Folk Festival and several dates opening for Blind Pilot. Mountain Man
Serving as the band’s only U.S. shows of 2011, Pearl Jam’s Labor Day anniversary weekend concert at Alpine Valley (September 3rd and 4th) will include performances by fellow artists and
Paul Simon’s tour has brought a lot of joy to a lot of people over the last month, but the legendary singer/songwriter took things to a new level during a
The Indie Acoustic Project is proud to announce the winners of the IAP’s "Best CDs of 2010" Awards. The winners in each of 12 categories were selected from among the
Hot off a spring tour with the Whigs, the Chicago-based Company of Thieves are readying their summer headlining tour which kicks off June 4th. They will be touring in support
After playing a series of international festivals this summer, Virgin Records recording artist Ben Harper will launch a North American headlining tour. The run will kick off on August 25
Furthur/Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir debuts the webcasting capabilities of his TRI Studios this evening with a live broadcast that is set to start at 10PM EDT/ 7PM PDT. The
Earlier today we posted a list of 10 amazing parent/child songs for this week’s B List. We wanted to make Friday Mix Tape a companion piece, so we rounded up
In honor of the period we’ll call “Parent’s Month” that falls between Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, this week’s B List looks at ten amazing songs written from the perspective of a parent to their child along with a few from the opposite perspective. I’ll include a lyrical gut punch from each.
1. Beautiful Boy – John Lennon
For one of the tracks on John Lennon’s “comeback” album from 1980, Double Fantasy, the former Beatle wrote this song about his son Sean. I struggle to make it through this song sometimes thinking about how much love John had for his son and what a terrible tragedy it was when Lennon was gunned down later that year robbing the five-year-old boy of his father.
“Close your eyes, have no fear, the monster’s gone. He’s on the run and your daddy’s here”
2. Father and Daughter – Paul Simon
Originally released in 2002 as part of the soundtrack for the Wild Thornberrys flick, Paul Simon penned this ode to fatherhood which also appeared – in a different form – on his 2006 LP Surprise. Paul takes the POV of a father whose love for his daughter can never be measured.
“As long as one and one is two / There could never be a father / Who loved his daughter more than I love you”
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