Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles
one of my favourite Beatles' tracks - bleal view of elderly loveliness. Think of the line 'the face that she keeps in a jar by the door'
Johnny B Goode - Chuck Berry
backwoods boy lives the American Dream (country boy - not coloured boy as originally intended)
Levi Stubbs' Tears - Billy Bragg
Oh how good is this! Homage to the 4 Tops singer. A woman left abandoned by her husband after an accident - conga and flugelhorn used!
Blind Willie McTell - Bob Dylan
Me and Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin
That rascal Kris Kristofferson!
Zen chorus 'Nothing ain't worth nothing if it's free'
Common People - Pulp
'You will never understand, how it feels to live your life, with no meaning or control'
Jodi M. Savage’s Book Notes music playlist for her essay collection The
Death of a Jaybird
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"While writing The Death of a Jaybird, I listened to a lot of gospel music.
Writing about illness and grief is emotionally demanding. Because I grew up
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