i love how grey-haired i am already. i just really want Paul Kelly's new ish hybrid release of his own greatest hits and other prominent Australian artists' takes on those songs which exist on a twin accompanying cd + John Williamson's new ish hybrid release of his own greatest hits and other prominent Australian artists' takes on those songs which exist on a twin accompanying cd..
ABSOLUTE GREATEST JOHN WILLIAMSON: 40 YEARS TRUE BLUE
CD1: 'Absolute Greatest.' - with general greatest hits
CD2: 'Absolute Tribute.' (this whole blog post was sparked by hearing Ash Grunwald's J W'son cover on the radio last night, driving back from dropping the boy home)
= Flower On The Water (Wendy Matthews);
Salisbury Street (The Waifs);
Galleries Of Pink Galahs (Shannon Noll);
Cootamundra Wattle (Kasey Chambers);
Chandelier Of Stars (James Reyne);
Paint Me A Wheelbarrow (Sara Storer & Greg Storer);
Tubbo Station (Songbirds);
You And My Guitar (Ash Grunwald);
Truckie's Wife (Ami Williamson);
Raining On The Rock (Troy Cassar-Daley);
Wintergreen (The Ordinary Fear of God);
Hillbilly Road (Adam Harvey);
Old Man Emu (Tommy Emmanuel).
..i had thought i greatly disliked about 90% of the artists on that cd but i'm positive that this little musical experience could change my opinion on a lot of them.
and since my blog is accidentally nostalgic and always seemingly dwelling on the past + things i miss or things i have recently re-found in my computer archives or something that i've remembered or a song/image that has sparked a memory or a conversation i'd had a while ago or something that's been playing on my brain for a while now or a past memory or something that i'd written in school a year or more ago..here's another written piece of sorts. or at least, partially so.
in yr 12 Modern History i wrote a hugely extensive assignment on a soldier and the mystery that surrounded his short life and sudden/relatively unexplained death..
i've removed more tedious parts (the vast majority) of the essay, and in their place sequences of dots have been inserted..:
'we are a generation that has not seen war first-hand. therefore, never could we ever fully understand the enormity of the blood that was shed for the freedom of our own.
we are a generation that travels overseas no longer to fight, but to try and grasp why those before us travelled thus far and fought; fought and were killed.
not rarely are the individual lives that were lost in World War One simply blurred into a mass number. perhaps it is less confronting to think of war in this way, though, we must not forget that behind each number existed a face, and for each face there was a name; a life.
the Australian National Memorial stands tall in the village of Villers Bretonneux in southern France, in memoriam to the blood that was spilled there, overseas, so many years ago. the memorial represents the freedom of Australia’s contemporary society, as upon it are inscribed the names of 11 000 Australian Infantry who fell during battle in France between 1916 and 1918, and as a result, have no known grave.
one particular name that can be found upon the great structure is that of Francis John Charles, who was killed on night patrol in late February 1917.
..due to his English upbringing, it is possible that Francis would have held what was perhaps an even closer bond to the Mother Nation of Britain than that of the plainly loyal and young nation of Australia at that time. for this reason, it does not come as a surprise that Francis enlisted when he was just twenty-one years old.
..at that time within the Great War, the personal battle of simply surviving the winter conditions was at the forefront of every soldier’s mind; perhaps even more so than the horrendous war that engulfed them. less and less major battles were being fought as the conditions steadily worsened and grew impossibly difficult to survive in, let alone wage war within.
wounded men drowned in mud-filled shell-holes while around them, shells hit the frozen ground, shattering and dispersing at every imaginable angle.
..it was around this time that the AIF sent out regular patrols to survey surrounding areas, and in doing so, locating nearby German positions. the focus at that time was primarily upon that of the readily approaching and much anticipated Spring Offensive, which would again mark the beginning of major battle along the Western Front.'
hmm i ended including hardly any of it, but the rest was massively informative, and unless you had done the research yourself, i doubt your interest. :)
ABSOLUTE GREATEST JOHN WILLIAMSON: 40 YEARS TRUE BLUE
CD1: 'Absolute Greatest.' - with general greatest hits
CD2: 'Absolute Tribute.' (this whole blog post was sparked by hearing Ash Grunwald's J W'son cover on the radio last night, driving back from dropping the boy home)
= Flower On The Water (Wendy Matthews);
Salisbury Street (The Waifs);
Galleries Of Pink Galahs (Shannon Noll);
Cootamundra Wattle (Kasey Chambers);
Chandelier Of Stars (James Reyne);
Paint Me A Wheelbarrow (Sara Storer & Greg Storer);
Tubbo Station (Songbirds);
You And My Guitar (Ash Grunwald);
Truckie's Wife (Ami Williamson);
Raining On The Rock (Troy Cassar-Daley);
Wintergreen (The Ordinary Fear of God);
Hillbilly Road (Adam Harvey);
Old Man Emu (Tommy Emmanuel).
..i had thought i greatly disliked about 90% of the artists on that cd but i'm positive that this little musical experience could change my opinion on a lot of them.
and since my blog is accidentally nostalgic and always seemingly dwelling on the past + things i miss or things i have recently re-found in my computer archives or something that i've remembered or a song/image that has sparked a memory or a conversation i'd had a while ago or something that's been playing on my brain for a while now or a past memory or something that i'd written in school a year or more ago..here's another written piece of sorts. or at least, partially so.
in yr 12 Modern History i wrote a hugely extensive assignment on a soldier and the mystery that surrounded his short life and sudden/relatively unexplained death..
i've removed more tedious parts (the vast majority) of the essay, and in their place sequences of dots have been inserted..:
'we are a generation that has not seen war first-hand. therefore, never could we ever fully understand the enormity of the blood that was shed for the freedom of our own.
we are a generation that travels overseas no longer to fight, but to try and grasp why those before us travelled thus far and fought; fought and were killed.
not rarely are the individual lives that were lost in World War One simply blurred into a mass number. perhaps it is less confronting to think of war in this way, though, we must not forget that behind each number existed a face, and for each face there was a name; a life.
the Australian National Memorial stands tall in the village of Villers Bretonneux in southern France, in memoriam to the blood that was spilled there, overseas, so many years ago. the memorial represents the freedom of Australia’s contemporary society, as upon it are inscribed the names of 11 000 Australian Infantry who fell during battle in France between 1916 and 1918, and as a result, have no known grave.
one particular name that can be found upon the great structure is that of Francis John Charles, who was killed on night patrol in late February 1917.
..due to his English upbringing, it is possible that Francis would have held what was perhaps an even closer bond to the Mother Nation of Britain than that of the plainly loyal and young nation of Australia at that time. for this reason, it does not come as a surprise that Francis enlisted when he was just twenty-one years old.
..at that time within the Great War, the personal battle of simply surviving the winter conditions was at the forefront of every soldier’s mind; perhaps even more so than the horrendous war that engulfed them. less and less major battles were being fought as the conditions steadily worsened and grew impossibly difficult to survive in, let alone wage war within.
wounded men drowned in mud-filled shell-holes while around them, shells hit the frozen ground, shattering and dispersing at every imaginable angle.
..it was around this time that the AIF sent out regular patrols to survey surrounding areas, and in doing so, locating nearby German positions. the focus at that time was primarily upon that of the readily approaching and much anticipated Spring Offensive, which would again mark the beginning of major battle along the Western Front.'
hmm i ended including hardly any of it, but the rest was massively informative, and unless you had done the research yourself, i doubt your interest. :)
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