SONGS AND MUSIC TO AND FROM THE HEART

Bob Dylan, this cranky prophet of our time, has yet been a troubadour for love in his many songs. Among them: “Love Minus Zero, , True Love Tends to Forget, Make You Feel My Love. Tight Connection to My Heart, Heart of Mine.

The Wailers - One Love
Todd Rundgren - Love is the Answer
Buddy Holly - Not Fade Away
Little Feat - Love is a Perfect Imperfection
John Lennon - Real Love
Marvin Johnson - I Love the Way You Love
Shawn Colvin & Loudon Wainwright -The Heart Needs a Home - (Richard Thompson)
The Monotones - The Book of Love
Big Bill Broonzy - The Glory of Love
Ellen McIlwaine -Ain’t No Two Ways To It (It’s Love)
Linda Ronstadt - Give One Heart
Aretha Franklin - Freeway of Love
Lily Winwood - Higher Love

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme - Acknowledgement
Miles Davis - I Loves You, Porgy
Nina Simone - I Loves You, Porgy

And a few tender songs chosen from the many forms of heartbreak:
Pain in the My Heart - Otis Redding
Love in Vain - Robert Johnson
Heart Like a Wheel - Kate and Anna McGarrigle
Caroline Sunshine Girl - Jimmy Rodgers

Certainly one of most passionate and yet tender pieces ever in history, Beethoven’s Opus 111, in just two movements, the second movement almost unbearably tender and at times unearthly, Beethoven birthed melodies and harmonies for all time.. And the great Kathleen Ferrier singing as Orpheus in Gluck’s Orfeo et Euridice, “Che faro senza Euridice” - mourning the loss of his great love, Euridice. Finally a beautiful version of Mahler’s Liebst du Um Schönheit (Do You Love for Beauty?) by Dame Janet Baker.

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