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Songs Of Innocence And Of Experience (Greg Brown Album)
''Songs of Innocence and of Experience'' is an album by folk singer/guitarist Greg Brown, released in 1986. Brown sets the poetry of William Blake (see ''Songs of Innocence and of Experience'') to music. Reception Writing for Allmusic, music critic Tim Sheridan called the album "Some of the tunes are outstanding, such as the easy lines of "Lamb," while some poems refuse to adjust to Brown's melodic structures. However, it is an effort to be commended." Track listing All song by Greg Brown. # "Introduction" – 2:40 # " The Lamb" – 2:54 # "Infant Joy" – 2:02 # "The Chimney Sweeper" – 4:54 # " The Echoing Green" – 2:57 # "Night" – 4:06 # "On Another's Sorrow" – 2:15 # "The Tyger" – 3:23 # " The Angel" – 2:13 # " The Garden of Love" – 0:47 # " Infant Sorrow" – 1:33 # "Holy Thursday" – 2:47 # " Ah! Sun-Flower" – 2:27 # " The Little Vagabond" – 2:55 # " A Poison Tree" – 2:30 # "London" – 3:08 Personnel *Greg Brown – vocals, guitar * Michael Doucet †... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual Phonograph record#78 rpm disc developments, 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at revolutions per minute, rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983 and was gradually supplanted by the cassette tape during the 1970s and early 1980s; the populari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tyger
"The Tyger" is a poem by the English poet William Blake, published in 1794 as part of his ''Songs of Experience'' collection and rising to prominence in the romantic period. The poem is one of the most anthologised in the English literary canon,Eaves, p. 207. and has been the subject of both literary criticism and many adaptations, including various musical versions.Whitson and Whittaker 63–71. The poem explores and questions Christian religious paradigms prevalent in late 18th century and early 19th century England, discussing God's intention and motivation for creating both the tiger and The Lamb. The ''Songs of Experience'' The ''Songs of Experience'' was published in 1794 as a follow up to Blake's 1789 ''Songs of Innocence.''Gilchrist 1907 p. 118 The two books were published together under the merged title ''Songs of Innocence and of Experience, showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul: the author and printer, W. Blake'' featuring 54 plates. The illustrations a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1986 Albums
The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 **Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal enter the European Community, which becomes the European Union in 1993. *January 11 – The Gateway Bridge in Brisbane, Australia, at this time the world's longest prestressed concrete free-cantilever bridge, is opened. *January 13– 24 – South Yemen Civil War. *January 20 – The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel. *January 24 – The Voyager 2 space probe makes its first encounter with Uranus. *January 25 – Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army Rebel group takes over Uganda after leading a five-year guerrilla war in which up to half a million people are believed to have been killed. They will later use January 26 as the official date to avoid a coincidence of dates with Dictator Idi Amin's 1971 co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Brown (folk Musician) Albums
Gregory Brown may refer to: Art * Greg Brown (painter) (born 1951), American painter from Palo Alto, California * F Gregory Brown (1887–1941), British artist Music * Greg Brown (folk musician) (born 1949), American folk musician * Greg Brown (rock musician), original guitarist for the band Cake * Gregory Brown, classical pianist and member of The 5 Browns * Gregory W. Brown (born 1974), American composer * Greg Brown, disc jockey for WLS-FM in Chicago Sports * Greg Brown (American football coach) (born 1957), defense coach for the Arizona Wildcats * Greg Brown (defensive lineman) (born 1957), retired American football defensive lineman * Greg Brown (Australian rules footballer) (born 1943), premiership player * Greg Brown (baseball coach) (born 1980), American baseball coach * Greg Brown (basketball, born 1972), American basketball coach and former player * Greg Brown III (born 2001), American basketball player * Greg Brown (footballer, born 1962), former All White and Soccero ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Ostroushko
Peter Ostroushko (August 12, 1953 – February 24, 2021) was an American violinist and mandolinist. He performed regularly on the radio program ''A Prairie Home Companion'' and with a variety of bands and orchestras in Minneapolis–Saint Paul and nationally. He won a regional Emmy Award for the soundtrack he composed for the documentary series ''Minnesota: A History of the Land'' (2005). Background and career Born August 12, 1953, and of Ukrainian ancestry, Ostroushko grew up in northeast Minneapolis where he first took up mandolin at age three. He released numerous recordings and was a regular performer on the ''A Prairie Home Companion'' radio program. Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, mandolin Ostroushko's first recording session was an uncredited mandolin player on Bob Dylan's ''Blood on the Tracks''. He toured with Robin and Linda Williams, Norman Blake, and Chet Atkins. Ostroushko also worked with Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, Johnny Gimble, Greg Brown, and John Hartford amon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Doucet
Michael Louis Doucet (born February 14, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter and musician best known as the founder of the Cajun band BeauSoleil. Early life Doucet was born in Scott, Louisiana, to a Cajun family. Family parties in the 1950s always included "French music." Two of his paternal aunts sang ballads, and many family members played musical instruments. He learned banjo at age six, guitar at eight, and belonged to a Cajun rock band with his cousin, Zachary Richard, at twelve. Career In his early 20s, Doucet and his cousin went to France, and when he got home he added violin to his music studies. Violin became his primary instrument, though he also plays accordion and mandolin. In 1975, he started the Cajun band Coteau, and two years later he started BeauSoleil with Kenneth Richard and Sterling Richard. BeauSoleil plays an eclectic combination of traditional Cajun music, blues, country, jazz, and zydeco. Doucet has been a member of a more traditional Cajun band, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London (William Blake Poem)
"London" is a poem by William Blake, published in ''Songs of Experience'' in 1794. It is one of the few poems in ''Songs of Experience'' that does not have a corresponding poem in ''Songs of Innocence''. Blake lived in London so writes of it as a resident rather than a visitor. The poems reference the "Two Contrary States of the Human Soul". The "Songs of Innocence" section contains poems which reference love, childhood and nature. Critics have suggested that the poems illustrate the effects of modernity on people and nature, through the discussion of dangerous industrial conditions, child labour, prostitution and poverty. Poem I wander thro’ each charter’d street, Near where the charter’d Thames does flow. And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man, In every Infants cry of fear, In every voice: in every ban, The mind-forg’d manacles I hear How the Chimney-sweepers cry Every blackning Church appalls, And the hapless Soldie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Poison Tree
"A Poison Tree" is a poem written by William Blake, published in 1794 as part of his ''Songs of Experience'' collection. It describes the narrator's repressed feelings of anger towards an individual, emotions which eventually lead to murder. The poem explores themes of indignation, revenge, and more generally the fallen state of mankind. Background The ''Songs of Experience'' was published in 1795 as a follow up to Blake's 1789 ''Songs of Innocence.''Gilchrist 1907 p. 118 The two books were published together under the merged title ''Songs of Innocence and Experience, showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul: the author and printer, W. Blake'' featuring 54 plates. The illustrations are arranged differently in some copies, while a number of poems were moved from ''Songs of Innocence'' to ''Songs of Experience.'' Blake continued to print the work throughout his life. Of the copies of the original collection, only 28 published during his life are known to exist, with an add ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Little Vagabond
The Little Vagabond is a 1794 poem by William Blake in his collection ''Songs of Innocence and of Experience''. His collection, ''Songs of Innocence'', was originally published alone, in 1789. The scholar Robert Gleckner says that the poem is a form of transformation of the boy in the poem " The School Boy", from ''Songs of Innocence''. Summary and structure In "William Blake and the Ten Commandments", critic Paul Kuntz summarizes the main theme of the poem: it gives us a view into the lives of those who get drunk on Sundays versus those who choose to attend church. The poem tells the opinion of the boy who believes that more people would choose to go to church if there were alcoholic beverages. This is because he sees how happy those in the alehouse are, therefore he believes church should have a similar atmosphere and people would be more willing to attend. Also, that it would not be sinful to make the church similar to the alcohol-serving establishment because God wants to see ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ah! Sun-Flower
"Ah! Sun-flower" is an illustrated poem written by the English poet, painter and printmaker William Blake. It was published as part of his collection ''Songs of Experience'' in 1794 (no.43 in the sequence of the combined book, ''Songs of Innocence and of Experience''). It is one of only four poems in ''Songs of Experience'' not found in the "Notebook" (the Rossetti MS). The poem Poetic structure and tone The poem consists of eight lines, in two quatrains. The metre is largely one of anapaestic trimeter with an admix of initial iambs and trochees to break up the rather monotonous rhythm that the anapaestic line confers. Thus Blake is able to show the cyclical monotony that the protagonists are suffering, while at the same time giving a forward note of impetus and hope to the movement of the lines. The rhyme scheme is abab, cdcd; all the rhymes are masculine. The ambiguous use of the word "Ah," (a note of delight, surprise, pity?) and the repetition of the word "where" are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holy Thursday (Songs Of Innocence)
Holy Thursday is a poem by William Blake, from his 1789 book of poems ''Songs of Innocence''. (There is also a Holy Thursday poem in ''Songs of Experience'', which contrasts with this song.) The poem depicts a ceremony held on Ascension Day, which in England was then called Holy Thursday, a name now generally applied to what is also called Maundy Thursday: Six thousand orphans of London's charity schools, scrubbed clean and dressed in the coats of distinctive colours, are marched two by two to Saint Paul's Cathedral, under the control of their beadles, and sing in the cathedral. The children in their colourful dresses are compared to flowers and their procession toward the church as a river. Their singing on the day that commemorated the Ascension of Jesus is depicted as raising them above their old, lifeless guardians, who remain at a lower level. The bleak reality of the orphans' lives is depicted in the contrasting poem, "Holy Thursday" (''Songs of Experience''). The poem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Infant Sorrow
Infant Sorrow is a poem by William Blake from ''Songs of Experience''. Background This poem belongs to the ''Songs of Experience'' by William Blake. It is the counter poem of "Infant Joy". The poem suggests that childbirth is not always joyful and happy but can bring sorrow and pain. The response of the child itself may be different from that of the child in "Infant Joy" because of the behavior of the parents. In this poem the parents seem depressed by this unwanted birth, and this may be reflecting on the child itself. This poem could be considered as a work of societal allusion. It is well known that William Blake was strongly opposed to the industrial revolution The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in Great Britain, continental Europe, and the United States, that occurred during the period from around 1760 to about 1820–1840. This transition included going f ...; similarly, he was opposed to the mistreatment of children by ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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