Songs About Musicians

Songs About Musicians #3: The Tim McGraw Chain

What Taylor Swift got me thinking about musicians as proxies for memories.

Feb 9 •

Richard Elliott

Songs About Musicians #2: Protest Singers

Guthrie, Dylan, Jara, Ochs, Bragg, Kristofferson, O'Connor. But who's singing about whom?

Jan 30 •

Richard Elliott

Songs About Musicians #1: Laura Veirs' Homages to Carol Kaye, Alice Coltrane and Judee Sill

I’ve written a lot in this newsletter about songs that take objects as their subjects.

Jan 20 •

Richard Elliott

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