Songs and Objects
Richard ElliottOn songs, songholders and other objects.
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Different Kinds of Love Songs: Dick Gaughan
Everyone was riveted by the truth in his voice. Even people who understood hardly a word. There was a truth within the sounds that surpassed the sentries at the brain to travel straight to the heart and impact in ways that are not forgott...
The Orange Box
An orange and brown box stands on the wooden floor in my sitting room. It has a hinged lid (the brown part) with an off-white handle for carrying the box when it’s closed. There are clasps that hold the lid shut. They are lockable, though I...
2025: Music
At some point on New Year’s Eve, my 2025 playlist assumed its final form. A mixture of tracks I’d collected during the year (the majority), some late additions as I did the usual year-end review of other people’s year-end-reviews, and some...
Ancient Axe
Violeta Parra, La niña y el arpa (1963-1965). Papier-mâché on chipboard. Fundación Violeta Parra.
November, 2025. The curators at Qobuz, my current music streamer of choice, place Mélanie Laurent’s Pastel in the ‘Discover’ section....
Notes on Guy Clark
November 1975. RCA releases Old No. 1, the debut album by Guy Clark. It’s the result of over a decade’s worth of songwriting, touring, getting a record deal, refusing the arrangements the label’s preferred producer wanted to impose, going b...
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Writer, teacher and music researcher based in Newcastle upon Tyne (UK). Author of books including Fado and the Place of Longing, The Late Voice, Nina Simone, The Sound of Nonsense and DJs do Guetto.
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