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Here’s another song from Mitchell’s greatest album, Blue, performed in a lovely trio with Brandi Carlile and Marcus Mumford. Carlile, a brilliant and powerful vocalist, can’t help but overpower Mitchell here, but the legendary songwriter tackles a few stanzas on her own and sounds great.
The New York Times
The set took place at the Newport Folk Festival, where Mitchell last appeared way back in 1969, and featured Mitchell’s friend and collaborator Brandi Carlile along with a host of other musicians.
‘Walk On’ is the fourth single from U2’s 2000 hit album All That You Can’t Leave Behind. The track won Record of the Year at the 2002 Grammys, marking the first time an artist won the award in back-to-back years for songs from the same album (‘Beautiful Day’ was the 2001 Record of the Year).
‘Walk On’ was written for and dedicated to Burmese democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi, who at the time was in the middle of a two-decade house arrest for promoting democracy in Burma.
‘Yayo’ is a track from Lana Del Rey’s 2012 EP Paradise, released less than a year after her breakthrough album, Born to Die.
This is actually the third release of this song. It first appeared on a 2008 three-song EP titled Kill Kill under Del Rey’s given name, Lizzie Grant. The same version showed up on Del Rey’s self-titled full-length debut, released in 2010 but subsequently removed from circulation.
Wrapping up my two-week dive into the Billboard Hot 100, we have The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber at #15 with ‘Stay,’ a song that was at #2 when I did this back in November of 2021. ‘Stay’ has been on this chart for more than a year now and continues to hang out in the top 20. Impressive.
Closing things out at #16 is ‘Glimpse of Us’ by Joji. I haven’t read about or listened to this song yet, so I’m in that nice realm where I have no idea what to expect. Rap? Country? Electronica? Whatever it is, at least it doesn’t feature Drake.
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