Poet and Trubador - Paul Simon - American Tune (1975)

Music for Insomniacs - Leslie "Sam" Phillips

This week has been no-sleep hell. At least this morning, it was already 4:00 a.m. when I woke up. Earlier in the week it was 1:00 and I couldn't get back to sleep.

You'd think I'd be choosing lullabyes but it never seems to work that way when one's mind is going and going and going...

I need love

not some sentimental prison

I need god

not the political church...

- Sam Phillips 

Music for Insomniacs - Ramones - Street Fighting Man

"Think the time is right for a palace revolution
'Cause where I live
the game to play
is compromise solution"
-The Rolling Stones

 I saw the quote above on my daughter-in-law's facebook page and was reminded of this cover by Ramones. One of my favorite Stones songs:  Street Fighting Man.

Welcoming April and National Poetry Month

For mere "folk", the song lyrics here offer a lot to sink your teeth into. 

Joni Mitchell at her mature best. 

Enjoy.

Magdalene is trembling
Like a washing on a line
Trembling and gleaming
Never before was a man so kind
Never so redeeming

Enter the multitudes
In exxon blue
In radiation rose
Ecstasy
Now you tell me
Who you gonna get to do the dirty work
When all the slaves are free? 
(who’re you gonna get)

I am up a sycamore
Looking through the leaves
A sinner of some position
Who in the world can this heart healer be
This magical physician

Enter the multitudes
In exxon blue
In radiation rose
Misery
Now you tell me
Who you gonna get to do the dirty work
When all the slaves are free? 
(who’re you gonna get)

Enter the multitudes
The walking wounded
They come to this diver of the heart
Of the multitudes
Thy kingdom come
Thy will be done

Oh, climb down, climb down he says to me
From the middle of unrest
They think is light is squandered
But he sees a stray in the wilderness
And I see how far I’ve wandered

Enter the multitudes
In exxon blue
In radiation rose
Apathy
Now you tell me
Who you gonna get to do the dirty work
When all the slaves are free? 
(who’re you gonna get)

Enter the multitudes
The walking wounded
They come to this diver of the heart
Of the multitudes
Thy kingdom come
Thy will be done

Oh, all around the marketplace
The buzzing of the flies
The buzzing and the stinging
Divinely barren
And wickedly wise
The killer nails are ringing

Enter the multitudes
In exxon blue
In radiation rose
Tragedy
Now you tell me
Who you gonna get to do the dirty work
When all the slaves are free? 
(who’re you gonna get)

Pagan Sphinx Entertainment Highlight and Music for Sunday

 First, a young Jeff Bridges (with Cybil Shepard and others) in the great 1971 film The Last Picture Show



 And then as The Dude in The Big Lebowski (a Coen Brothers film) with music by Kenny Rogers and The First Edition (that's the "music for Sunday" part.  ;-)

Music for Insomniacs - The Lemonheads - Into Your Arms

Music for Insomniacs - Monsters of Folk - Say Please

This sounds Lennon-esque to me. I heard it on WRSI, 93.9 FM out of Northampton, Massachusetts, on my way home from class the other night, took note of the time and went to the online playlist to find out who.

Independently owned for years and now owned by a bigger media company, 'RSI is still the best music in the valley and probably among the best "adult contemporary" stations in the country. Where else but Northampton does one hear the woman DJ talk about how she and her wife were celebrating their wedding anniversary? One of the many reasons I love being a Pioneer Valley Girl.   ;-)

Music for Insomniacs - Solomon Burke

And if you still can't sleep, check out the Happy Valley's very hip radio station WRSI 93.9 FM in Northampton, Massachusetts. Cuz that's where I heard this song today when I'd long ago forgotten it.

And please, please read my healthcare post. I need the therapy!