I was sorting my albums out this morning ... trying to whittle them down to a manageable amount for when we emigrate. I decided for a calm theme today only featuring tracks off albums I own.
The first track I feature is from the album Second Contribution , an album from an artist who was very popular in South Africa in the early 1970's ... Shawn Phillips
Shawn Phillips - Song for Sagittarians
An excellent start to the second day of the week I reckon. {looks around for 
Moving along in time, but not by much, to a delightful female artist in the form of Carole King ... the title track of her smashing album Tapestry
Carole King - Tapestry
My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue
An everlasting vision of the ever-changing view
A wondrous, woven magic in bits of blue and gold
A tapestry to feel and see, impossible to hold
Once amid the soft silver sadness in the sky
There came a man of fortune, a drifter passing by
He wore a torn and tattered cloth around his leathered hide
And a coat of many colors, yellow-green on either side
He moved with some uncertainty, as if he didn't know
Just what he was there for, or where he ought to go
Once he reached for something golden hanging from a tree
And his hand came down empty
Soon within my tapestry along the rutted road
He sat down on a river rock and turned into a toad
It seemed that he had fallen into someone's wicked spell
And I wept to see him suffer, though I didn't know him well
As I watched in sorrow, there suddenly appeared
A figure gray and ghostly beneath a flowing beard
In times of deepest darkness, I've seen him dressed in black
Now my tapestry's unraveling - he's come to take me back
He's come to take me back
A classic number indeed
Deciding which of my albums and artists to feature is difficult as I just want to listen to them all. The memories they all provoke .....
A very laid back, thoughtful album from Bruce Springsteen was Nebraska .... the entire album is nostalgia around growing up in the mid-west. The album was released in 1982
Bruce Springsteen - Used Cars
From that excellent publication ... Wikipedia....
The songs on Nebraska deal with ordinary, down-on-their-luck blue-collar characters who face a challenge or a turning point in their lives. The songs also treat the subject of outsiders, criminals and mass murderers with little hope for the future—or no future at all—as in the title track, where the main character is sentenced to death in the electric chair. Unlike previous albums, which often exude energy, youth, optimism and joy, the vocal tones of Nebraska are solemn and thoughtful, with fleeting moments of grace and redemption woven through the lyrics. The album's reverb-laden vocals and mood combined with dark lyrical content have been described by music critic William Ruhlmann as "one of the most challenging albums ever released by a major star on a major record label".[5] Because of the album's somber content, Springsteen chose not to tour in support of the album
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