BLUE ON BLACK

KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD BAND
SONGWRITERS: KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD; MARK SELBY & TIA SILLERS
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: BLUE ON BLACK
LABEL: REVOLUTION RECORDS
GENRE: BLUES ROCK
YEAR:1998
 
       Kenny Wayne Shepherd (born Kenny Wayne Brobst; June 12, 1977) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He has released several studio albums and experienced significant commercial success as a blues artist.
          "Blue on Black" is a song by American blues rock band Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band. Written by Shepherd with songwriters Mark Selby and Tia Sillers; Noah Hunt provides the lead vocal. The song was originally released on their second studio album, Trouble Is... (1997). On April 7, 1998, it was released as a single and spent 42 weeks on the US Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and rose to number one, remaining there for six non-consecutive weeks. In 2019, Shepherd teamed up with American heavy metal band Five Finger Death Punch, along with country singer Brantley Gilbert and Queen guitarist Brian May for a reworked version of "Blue on Black".
            "Blue on Black" was regarded as the best rock song of 1998 by various media, including winning the Billboard Music Award for Rock Track of the Year and the song's popularity helped make Trouble Is... the 1999 Blues Album of the Year in Billboard. The song continues to be a top download of the Kenny Wayne Shepherd catalog, ranking at number one on Rhapsody. It is also his most-listened to song on Spotify with over 26 million streams.

Night falls, I'm alone
Skin chilled to the bone
You turned and you ran
Slipped right from my hands
 
(Refrão)
Blue on black
Tears on a river
Push on a shove
Don't mean much
Joker on jack
Match on a fire
Cold on ice
A dead man's touch
Whisper on a scream
Doesn't change a thing
Doesn't bring you back
Blue on black
 
Blind, now I see
Truth, lies, and inbetween
Wrong can't be undone
Slipped from the tip of your tongue
(Refrão)

FADO LARANJEIRA

MARTA PEREIRA DA COSTA & CAMANÉ
COMPOSITORES: JÚLIO CÉSAR VALENTE & ALFREDO MARCENEIRO
PAÍS: PORTUGAL
ÁLBUM: MARTA PEREIRA DA COSTA
GRAVADORA: PARLOPHONE PORTUGAL
GÊNERO: FADO
ANO:2016
 
        Marta Pereira da Costa é a primeira e, actualmente, a única guitarrista profissional de Fado a nível Mundial. A guitarra portuguesa está muito associada ao Fado, e Marta, não esquecendo as raízes e a tradição, arriscou novas sonoridades e procurou dar voz ao seu instrumento pelo mundo do Jazz, World Music, Música Portuguesa. Foi distinguida em 2014 pela Fundação Amália Rodrigues com o "Prémio Instrumentista“.
      Carlos Manuel Moutinho Paiva dos Santos, conhecido por Camané (Oeiras, 20 de Dezembro de 1966), é um fadista português. É irmão mais velho dos fadistas Hélder Moutinho e Pedro Moutinho.
           Camané desperta para a música um pouco por acaso, quando durante a recuperação de uma maleita infantil se embrenhou na coleção de discos dos pais. Além de Frank Sinatra, Charles Aznavour e Os Beatles, deixa-se fascinar pelos grandes intérpretes do Fado: Amália Rodrigues, Fernando Maurício, Lucília do Carmo, Maria Teresa de Noronha, Alfredo Marceneiro e Carlos do Carmo. Como conta o fadista em entrevista ao Diário de Notícias (cf. «Gravei o meu primeiro disco após um telefonema de Amália», in DN, 28 de abril de 2013

Em tenra laranjeira
Ainda pequenina
Onde poisava um melro
Ao declinar do dia
 
Depois de te beijar
A boca purpurina
Um nome ali gravei
O teu nome Maria
Depois de te beijar
A boca purpurina
Um nome ali gravei
O teu nome Maria
 
Em volta um coração
Também com arte e jeito
Ao circundar teu nome
A minha mão gravou
 
Esculpi-lhe uma data
E o trabalho feito
Como selo d' amor
No tronco lá ficou
Esculpi-lhe uma data
E o trabalho feito
Como selo d' amor
No tronco lá ficou
 
Mas no rugoso tronco
Eu vejo com saudade
O símbolo do amor
Que em tempos nos uniu
 
Cadeia de ilusões
Da nossa mocidade
Que o tempo enferrujou
E que depois partiu
Cadeia de ilusões
Da nossa mocidade
Que o tempo enferrujou
E que depois partiu
 
E à linda laranjeira
Altar pregão d'amor
Que tem a cor da esperança
A cor das esmeraldas
 
Vão as noivas colher
As simbólicas flores
Para tecer num sonho
As virginais grinaldas
Vão as noivas colher
As simbólicas flores
Para tecer num sonho
As virginais grinaldas.

COMES A TIME

NEIL YOUNG
SONGWRITER: NEIL YOUNG
COUNTRY: CANADA X U. S. A.
ALBUM: COMES A TIME
LABEL: REPRISE RECORDS
GENRE: FOLK ROCK
YEAR: 1978
 
            Neil Percival Young OC OM (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, musician, and activist. After embarking on a music career in the 1960s, he moved to Los Angeles, joining Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Richie Furay and others. Since his early solo albums and those with his backing band Crazy Horse, Young has been prolific, recording a steady stream of studio and live albums.
             Young has received several Grammy and Juno Awards. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted him twice: in 1995 as a solo artist and in 1997 as a member of Buffalo Springfield. In 2000, Rolling Stone named Young the 34th greatest rock 'n roll artist. His guitar work, deeply personal lyrics and signature tenor singing voice define his long career. He also plays piano and harmonica on many albums, which frequently combine folk, rock, country and other musical styles. His often distorted electric guitar playing, especially with Crazy Horse, earned him the nickname "Godfather of Grunge" and led to his 1995 album Mirror Ball with Pearl Jam. More recently he has been backed by Promise of the Real. His 21 albums and singles have been certified Gold and Platinum in U.S by RIAA certification.
             Young directed (or co-directed) films using the pseudonym Bernard Shakey, including Journey Through the Past (1973), Rust Never Sleeps (1979), Human Highway (1982), Greendale (2003), and CSNY/Déjà Vu (2008). He also contributed to the soundtracks of the films Philadelphia (1993) and Dead Man (1995).
             Young has lived in California since the 1960s but retains Canadian citizenship. He was awarded the Order of Manitoba on July 14, 2006, and was made an Officer of the Order of Canada on December 30, 2009. He became a United States citizen, taking dual citizenship, on January 22, 2020
        Comes a Time is the ninth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young, released in October 1978. "Comes a Time" is also the title song and a single release from the album.
          The album originally started out as a solo record, but when Young played it for Reprise executives they asked him if he would consider adding rhythm tracks to what he already had. Young agreed, and the end product was Comes a Time.

Comes a time when you're drifting
Comes a time when you settle down
Comes a light, feeling's lifting
Lift that baby right up off the ground
 
Oh, this old world keeps spinning round
It's a wonder tall trees ain't laying down
There comes a time
 
You and I we were captured
We took our souls and we flew away
We were right, we were giving
That's how we kept what we gave away.
 
Oh, this old world keeps spinning round
It's a wonder tall trees ain't laying down
There comes a time.

HOMEWARD BOUND

SIMON AND GARFUNKEL
SONGWRITER: PAUL SIMON
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: PARSLEY, SAGE, ROSEMARY AND THYME
LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS
GENRE: FOLK
YEAR: 1966
 
             Simon & Garfunkel were an American folk-rock duo consisting of singer-songwriter Paul Simon and singer Art Garfunkel. They were one of the best-selling music groups of the 1960s, and their biggest hits—including "The Sound of Silence" (1965), "Mrs. Robinson" (1968), "The Boxer" (1969), and "Bridge over Troubled Water" (1970)—reached number one on singles charts worldwide.
            Simon and Garfunkel met in elementary school in Queens, New York, in 1953, where they learned to harmonize together and began writing material. By 1957, under the name Tom & Jerry, the teenagers had their first minor success with "Hey Schoolgirl", a song imitating their idols the Everly Brothers. In 1963, aware of a growing public interest in folk music, they regrouped and were signed to Columbia Records as Simon & Garfunkel. Their debut, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M., sold poorly, and they once again disbanded; Simon returned to a solo career, this time in England. In June 1965, a new version of "The Sound of Silence" overdubbed with electric guitar and drums became a major U.S. AM radio hit, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100. The duo reunited to release a second studio album, Sounds of Silence, and tour colleges nationwide. On their third release, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (1966), the duo assumed more creative control. Their music was featured in the 1967 film The Graduate, giving them further exposure. Their next álbum Bookends (1968) topped the Billboard 200 chart and included the number-one single "Mrs. Robinson" from the film.
         The duo's often rocky relationship led to artistic disagreements and their breakup in 1970. Their final studio album, Bridge over Troubled Water, was released that year and became their most successful, becoming one of the world's best-selling albums. After their breakup, Simon released a number of acclaimed albums, including 1986's Graceland. Garfunkel released solo hits such as "All I Know" and briefly pursued an acting career, with leading roles in two Mike Nichols films, Catch-22 and Carnal Knowledge, and in Nicolas Roeg's 1980 Bad Timing. The duo have reunited several times, most famously in 1981 for "The Concert in Central Park", which attracted more than 500,000 people, one of the largest concert attendances in history.
             Simon & Garfunkel won 10 Grammy Awards and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990. Rolling Stone ranked them number 3 on its list of the 20 Greatest Duos of All Time. Richie Unterberger described them as "the most successful folk-rock duo of the 1960s" and one of the most popular artists from the decade. They are among the best-selling music artists, having sold more than 100 million records. Bridge over Troubled Water is ranked at number 172 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
            "Homeward Bound" is a song by American music duo Simon & Garfunkel written by Paul Simon and produced by Bob Johnston. The song was released as a single on January 19, 1966 by Columbia Records.
        The song appears on the duo's third studio album, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (1966), although it was recorded during the sessions for their second album Sounds of Silence and included on that album in the UK. It was their second single, the follow-up to their enormously successful breakthrough hit "The Sound of Silence". It performed very well domestically, peaking at number five on the Billboard Hot 100, remaining on the charts for 12 weeks. Internationally, the song performed best in Canada, where it hit number two; it was also a top five hit in the Netherlands.
           A live version of the song is included on the compilation Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits, and it was also performed during the duo's legendary 1981 reunion, The Concert in Central Park.

I'm sitting in the railway station
Got a ticket for my destination
 
On a tour of one-night stands
My suitcase and guitar in hand
And every stop is neatly planned
For a poet and one-man band
 
Homeward bound
I wish I was
Homeward bound
Home, where my thought's escaping
Home, where my music's playing
Home, where my love lies waiting
Silently for me
 
Every day's an endless stream
Of cigarettes and magazines
 
And each town looks the same to me
The movies and the factories
And every stranger's face I see
Reminds me that I long to be
 
Homeward bound
I wish I was
Homeward bound
Home, where my thought's escaping
Home, where my music's playing
Home, where my love lies waiting
Silently for me
 
Tonight I'll sing my songs again
I'll play the game and pretend
 
But all my words come back to me
In shades of mediocrity
Like emptiness in harmony
I need someone to comfort me
 
Homeward bound
I wish I was
Homeward bound
Home, where my thought's escaping
Home, where my music's playing
Home, where my love lies waiting
Silently for me
Silently for me.