Quintessential Burn II

Rufus Wainwright’s quintessential rendition of a quintessential Leonard Cohen’s song. Although, Jeff Buckely’s live version is pretty damn close, just for the sparse electric guitar…

I literally had never heard of Leonard Cohen until RadioParadise, but, oh what I had been missing. This song is off his first album from 1967 and Leonard continued making music off and on until his death in 2016. After “listening” to this video I spent the next hour or so on YouTube listening to more his songs, songs that I was now familiar with.

Man, I blink and it is Saturday again. Time for another track, this time from Pete Yorn with my favorite tune of the 4 or 5 that I heard while listening to early Radio Paradise.

At the halfway point of our little exploration of Radio Paradise I give you some folk/rock from, Over the Rhine, a group named after a onetime working-class German neighborhood, now gentrified, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

This song by Sam Phillips is probably the only one on this list that is a one-hit wonder for me. I have heard a few other songs of hers and unlike the other artists here, none of them made me go out and buy any of her music.

This is one of two kind of “novelty” songs on this list. Although this track by Kirsty MacColl is not nearly as novel as Track #15 coming up in a couple months. And, typing out her name here, I learned that I had been saying her name wrong all these years, because I was mentally swapping places of the I and R in her first name and calling her Kristy…

A continuation of the “Tex-Mex” theme, Crystal Frontier from the band Calexico. I think the horns give it a slight Hispanic/Ska sound.