Springsteen’s New Single: We Take Care Of Our Own (Video with Lyrics)

Posted by Pamela Leavey on January 19, 2012

** Cross posted from The Democratic Daily…

Bruce Springsteen’s new single “We Take Care Of Our Own,” off his upcoming CD, Wrecking Ball was released today.

ABC News notes, “judging from the names of the other tracks listed on the singers website — “This Depression,” “Easy Money,” and “Death to My Hometown” — Springsteen is once again wading in political waters and returning his focus to working-class issues.”

“We Take Care Of Our Own” is a hard hitting rocker, in true Springsteen / E Street Band style. As longtime readers here know, I am a big Springsteen fan and I have to say this new single simply blew me away musically and lyrically.

Watch the video debut here: Continue reading “Springsteen’s New Single: We Take Care Of Our Own (Video with Lyrics)” »

British Soul Singer Amy Winehouse, Dies at 27

Posted by Pamela Leavey on July 23, 2011

The so very troubled and talented Amy Winehouse is dead, at 27.

Amy Winehouse “found worldwide fame with a sassy, hip-hop-inflected take on retro soul, yet became a tabloid fixture as her problems with drugs and alcohol led to a strikingly public career collapse.” She was found dead today in her London apartment, the police said.

Although the cause of death is at this point “unknown,” the news of Winehouse’s death stunned me and made me feel a sense heartbreak that she had most likely lost her battle with drugs and alcohol. Continue reading “British Soul Singer Amy Winehouse, Dies at 27” »

If

Posted by Pamela Leavey on February 10, 2010

If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. — Kahlil Gibran

One Day

Posted by Pamela Leavey on October 20, 2009

One day soon I hope I’ll find more time to post here… until then:

Daily Inspiration: Thought, Word And Deed

Posted by Pamela Leavey on May 21, 2009

“The tools of creation are: thought, word and deed.” – Neale Donald Walsch – Conversations With God, Book 1

Wicked Winds

Posted by Pamela Leavey on March 11, 2009

Did you hear the wicked winds

As they howled through the night?

Were they crying like the wounded child

Or screeching with delight?