Two hours ago I heard Joan Baez sing this live in Nottingham's Royal Concert Hall. What a dignified, commanding, wonderful presence...
Hardy’s “Darkling Thrush”
5 hours ago
Thursday, 15 October 2009
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
WELCOME
ABOUT ME
- The Solitary Walker
- Midlands, United Kingdom
- I walk, I think, I dream. I look around. Then I blog about it. I like borders and edges, not the middle of the road. Oh, and I eat marmite. Love the stuff. 'Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.' BASHO
TURNSTONE: My Other Blog
Click on the pic and take a look. You never know what you may find.
SOLITARY RADIO: An ever-changing loop of my favourite tunes. Why not have a listen?
PILGRIMAGE
CAMINO, SPAIN
The most soulful places are almost always reached only on foot. SOLITARY WALKER
CHEMIN, FRANCE
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware. MARTIN BUBER
FOLLOWERS
FEEDS
Posts
Comments
ARCHIVE
CRÈME DE LA CRÈME
-
-
-
-
What are we creating?18 hours ago
-
-
The W of the Whimper2 weeks ago
-
-
CAMINO BLOGS
HIKING BLOGS
- Aktoman
- Alan Sloman
- Andy Howell
- Backpack45's Musings
- Backpackbrewer
- Backpacking In Britain
- Bearded Git
- Cameron McNeish
- Domestic Diva
- Ebothy Blog
- Hiking Blogs
- John Hennessy
- Lighthiker's World
- Outdoor Bloggers
- Outdoor Station
- Postcard From Timperley
- Section Hiker
- The Big Walk
- This Makes No Sense At All
- Ultra-lightweight Hiking And Backpacking
- Walkabout In The UK
- Walkweb
THE WAY CONTINUES
Aragon Valley, Spain
QUOTES
CANIGOU, PYRENEES
One Of My Favourite Places
LABELS
- 3 (2)
- 9/11 (1)
- Absinthe (2)
- Adrian Mitchell (3)
- Alain de Botton (1)
- Alan Yentob (1)
- Aldo Leopold (1)
- Aldous Huxley (2)
- Alfred Lord Tennyson (3)
- Aligot (1)
- Allison Moorer (1)
- Anatole France (1)
- Andrew Marvell (1)
- Andrew Motion (1)
- Andy Goldsworthy (1)
- Anne Stevenson (1)
- Ansel Adams (1)
- Applecross (1)
- Ardvreck (1)
- Arles (3)
- Arrés (2)
- Artieda (1)
- Ash Tree (1)
- Assynt (1)
- Astorga (3)
- Aubrac (1)
- Auch (1)
- Auden (2)
- Autumnwatch (1)
- Auvergne (3)
- Auvillar (1)
- Barack Obama (4)
- Bardsey Island (2)
- Barmouth (1)
- Basho (1)
- Basque Country (8)
- Bastide (2)
- Beast Of Gévaudan (1)
- Beatrix Potter (2)
- Bellowhead (1)
- Belorado (1)
- Ben Hope (1)
- Ben Nevis (1)
- Benjamin Zephaniah (1)
- Bergman (2)
- Bernard De Clairvaux (1)
- Bertrand Russell (1)
- Besthorpe (1)
- Betws-y-Coed (1)
- Bilbao (1)
- Bill Oddie (3)
- Bittern (1)
- Black Madonna (3)
- Black Virgin (4)
- Blackhouses (1)
- Blake Morrison (1)
- Blogs (12)
- Bob Geldof (1)
- Bogarde (1)
- Borce (1)
- Borgia (1)
- Boultham Mere (1)
- Bread (2)
- Bridgets (2)
- Broch (2)
- Brooks Williams (1)
- Buddhism (14)
- Bunyan (2)
- Burgos (3)
- Byron (1)
- Cacabelos (1)
- Cahors (2)
- Cairn (1)
- Cairngorms (2)
- Caithness (1)
- Calanais (1)
- Camargue (2)
- Camino (43)
- Canal de Berdún (2)
- Canal Du Midi (6)
- Canals (6)
- Cancer (2)
- Cara Dillon (3)
- Carl Sandburg (1)
- Carmen (1)
- Carol Ann Duffy (1)
- Carole King (1)
- Casanova (1)
- Castres (1)
- Castrojeriz (1)
- Cate Blanchett (1)
- Cervantes (1)
- Chanson De Geste (1)
- Charlemagne (2)
- Charles Darwin (2)
- Charles Martel (1)
- Chaucer (1)
- Cheedale (1)
- Chekhov (1)
- Chemin (9)
- Chillida (1)
- Chomolungma (1)
- Chris Brasher (1)
- Chris Smith (2)
- Chris Townsend (3)
- Christina Rossetti (1)
- Christmas (6)
- Christopher Ricks (1)
- Claire Tomalin (2)
- Clough Williams-Ellis (2)
- Coleridge (2)
- Colin Fletcher (1)
- Colin Mortlock (2)
- Colin Wilson (1)
- Collective Unconscious (1)
- Conques (1)
- Constable (1)
- Corn (1)
- County Tops (2)
- Courgettes (3)
- Crocus (1)
- Cwm Bychan (4)
- D.H.Lawrence (6)
- Dali (3)
- Dartmoor (1)
- David Bowie (1)
- David Cameron (1)
- David Constantine (1)
- David Craig (1)
- David Lloyd George (1)
- Delphi (1)
- Demeter (1)
- Depression (1)
- Derbyshire (6)
- Diana (1)
- Dick Gaughan (1)
- Dillard (6)
- Dolgellau (2)
- Dolwyddelan (1)
- Dorothee Soelle (1)
- Duhkha (1)
- Durness (1)
- Dylan (25)
- Dylan Thomas (4)
- Earthquake (1)
- Eduardo Galeano (1)
- Edward Abbey (5)
- Edward Lear (1)
- Edward Thomas (2)
- Edwin Brock (1)
- Elaine Feinstein (1)
- Eleusinian Mysteries (1)
- Elizabeth Jennings (1)
- Elvis Presley (1)
- Emerson (5)
- Emily Dickinson (4)
- Enclosure (1)
- England (1)
- English Heritage (3)
- Enlightenment (1)
- Equinox (2)
- Eric Clapton (1)
- Estella (2)
- Eucalyptus (1)
- Eunate (2)
- Everest (1)
- Ferrerios (2)
- Ffestiniog Railway (1)
- Ford Madox Ford (1)
- Forsinard (1)
- Forster (1)
- Frank Zappa (1)
- Freeconomy (1)
- G20 (1)
- Galicia (16)
- Gandhi (1)
- Gary Snyder (4)
- Gascony (2)
- Gaudi (2)
- Gavin Maxwell (3)
- George Barker (1)
- Gers (2)
- Glen Nevis (2)
- Glenelg (2)
- Goethe (2)
- Goldfinch (1)
- Gordon Brown (3)
- Goya (2)
- Greece (5)
- Guardian (1)
- Guggenheim Museum (1)
- Gévaudan (2)
- Harold Pinter (2)
- Healing (1)
- Hebden Bridge (1)
- Hemingway (2)
- Hendrik van Loon (1)
- Heptonstall (1)
- Hermann Hesse (4)
- Hilary James and Simon Mayor (1)
- Hillary Clinton (1)
- Hinduism (1)
- Hitch-hiking (1)
- Hontanas (2)
- Horreos (1)
- Housman (1)
- Huw Warren (1)
- Inverewe (1)
- Inverie (1)
- Inverkirkaig (2)
- Irache (1)
- Isis (2)
- Isle Of Axholme (11)
- Isle of Harris (2)
- Isle of Lewis (6)
- J.A.Baker (1)
- Jaca (3)
- James Lovelock (1)
- James Matheson (1)
- James Taylor (1)
- Jan Garbarek (1)
- Jane Tomlinson (1)
- Jarvis Cocker (1)
- Jaurès (1)
- Jeffers (3)
- Jessop (2)
- John Berger (1)
- John Clare (2)
- John Fowles (1)
- John Gray (1)
- John Hillaby (2)
- John Knox (1)
- John Lennon (2)
- John Mackenzie (1)
- John Muir (4)
- John o' Groats (1)
- John Smith (1)
- John Wesley (1)
- Jon Krakauer (1)
- Jonathan Bate (1)
- Joni Mitchell (2)
- Joss Naylor (1)
- Joubert (1)
- Joyce (1)
- Julian Barnes (1)
- Julie Driscoll (1)
- Julius Caesar (1)
- June Tabor (3)
- Jung (3)
- Jurançon (1)
- Kafka (1)
- Kant (1)
- Kate Humble (1)
- Kathleen Raine (3)
- Keats (9)
- Keith Tippett (1)
- Ken Welsh (1)
- Kenneth Grahame (1)
- Kenneth Williams (1)
- Kerouac (2)
- Kev Reynolds (2)
- Kevan (1)
- Kingsley Amis (1)
- Kirsty MacColl (1)
- Knights Templar (4)
- Knochan Crag (1)
- Know Thyself (3)
- Krishnamurti (3)
- Lacommande (1)
- Lake District (19)
- Languedoc (1)
- Lascabanes (1)
- Last Night's Fun (1)
- Le Puy (2)
- Leigh Fermor (3)
- Leon (3)
- Leonard Cohen (6)
- Les Alyscamps (3)
- Lescar (2)
- Lesley Riddoch (1)
- Levertov (5)
- Limericks (2)
- Limestone (2)
- Lincoln (3)
- Lincolnshire (20)
- Linda Cracknell (2)
- Llechwedd (1)
- Lleyn Peninsula (6)
- Loch Morar (1)
- Loch Nevis (1)
- Lodève (3)
- Logrono (2)
- Look And Learn (1)
- Lord Leverhulme (1)
- Loreena McKennit (1)
- Los Arcos (1)
- Lou Reed (3)
- Louis MacNeice (1)
- Louis Untermeyer (2)
- Lydia Bauman (1)
- Maathai (1)
- Macfarlane (4)
- Maggie Holland (1)
- Magritte (3)
- Maize (1)
- Mallaig (1)
- Manjarin (2)
- Manley Hopkins (2)
- Mansilla (2)
- Margeride (2)
- Mark Tully (1)
- Mark Twain (1)
- Mary Oliver (1)
- Matthew Arnold (1)
- Matty McNair (1)
- Mawddach (1)
- May Day (1)
- McNeish (3)
- Meister Eckhart (2)
- Meseta (2)
- Michael Horovitz (2)
- Michael Jackson (1)
- Michel Foucault (1)
- Miller's Dale (1)
- Milosz (1)
- Mindfulness (1)
- Minerva (1)
- Mipham (1)
- Moissac (5)
- Molinaseca (3)
- Monreal (2)
- Montpellier (1)
- Monty Python (1)
- Mosedale (1)
- Moya Cannon (1)
- Mt Kenya (2)
- Muncaster Fell (1)
- Music Quotations (1)
- Mysticism (2)
- Mérimée (1)
- Nan Shepherd (2)
- Nansen (1)
- National Trust (6)
- Navarre (2)
- Negative Capability (1)
- Newstead Abbey (1)
- Nicolas Culpeper (1)
- Niedecker (1)
- Nigella Lawson (1)
- Nina Simone (1)
- Nirvana (1)
- Norfolk (7)
- Norman MacCaig (6)
- Norman Nicholson (1)
- Nottinghamshire (4)
- Nuttalls (2)
- Nájera (1)
- O'Cebreiro (3)
- O'Donohue (2)
- Ogden Nash (1)
- Oloron (1)
- Opium Trade (1)
- Orford (2)
- Orkneys (1)
- Ortolan Bunting (1)
- Orwell (3)
- Osprey (1)
- Otter (1)
- Pamplona (4)
- Pasternak (1)
- Patrick McGoohan (1)
- Pau (2)
- Paul Young (1)
- Paul Éluard (1)
- Paulo Coelho (1)
- Peace Pilgrim (1)
- Peak District (5)
- Pennine Way (3)
- Peregrine (1)
- Persephone (1)
- Pessoa (2)
- Philip Larkin (2)
- Pibrac (1)
- Pilgrimage (10)
- Pirsig (2)
- Plantar fasciitis (1)
- Poems (100)
- Poetry Society (1)
- Pogues (1)
- Ponferrada (2)
- Pontcysyllte (2)
- Porthmadog (1)
- Portmeirion (1)
- Portomarin (2)
- Prayer (1)
- Proust (4)
- Proverbs (1)
- Puente La Reina (7)
- Pyrenees (14)
- Pythagoras (1)
- Quercy (1)
- Quiz (7)
- Quotations (10)
- R.S.Thomas (5)
- Rabanal (2)
- Rachel Unthank (1)
- Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway (1)
- Rebecca Solnit (1)
- Revel (1)
- Rhinogs (2)
- Ribadiso (1)
- Richard Adams (1)
- Richard Else (1)
- Richard Mabey (6)
- Richard Thompson (1)
- Rilke (5)
- Riquet (1)
- Robert Frost (2)
- Robert Louis Stevenson (2)
- Robert Randolph (1)
- Robin Cook (1)
- Robin Hood (1)
- Rocaforte (1)
- Rodel (1)
- Roethke (1)
- Roman Steps (1)
- Romanticism (2)
- Roncesvalles (5)
- Rosemary Bailey (1)
- Rousseau (7)
- RSPB (3)
- Ruesta (1)
- Ruitelán (3)
- Rumi (1)
- Ruskin (3)
- Sahagún (1)
- Saint Benedict (1)
- Saint Francis (2)
- Saint James (9)
- Saint-Gilles (2)
- Saint-Guilhem (1)
- Saint-Jacques (4)
- Saint-Jean (3)
- Saint-Roch (2)
- Saint-Trophime (1)
- Sainte Foy (1)
- Sainte-Germaine (1)
- Saintes-Marie-de-la-Mer (1)
- Saki (1)
- Salman Rushdie (1)
- Samhain (1)
- Samuel Johnson (1)
- San Juan (1)
- San Juan De La Peña (1)
- San Sebastián (2)
- Sandaig (3)
- Sandwood Bay (1)
- Sangüesa (3)
- Santa Cilia (3)
- Santander (1)
- Santiago (7)
- Santo Domingo (4)
- Saoirse (1)
- Sarkozy (1)
- Sarrance (1)
- Sarria (3)
- Sartre (1)
- Satish Kumar (1)
- Sca Fell (1)
- Scorsese (1)
- Scotland (23)
- Seamus Heaney (1)
- Seferis (3)
- Seth Lakeman (1)
- Shakespeare (4)
- Sheep (2)
- Sheigra (2)
- Shiel Bridge (1)
- Shirley MacLaine (1)
- Simon and Garfunkel (1)
- Simon Armitage (1)
- Sir Edmund Hillary (1)
- Snowdon (2)
- Socrates (1)
- Soda Bread (1)
- Somport (1)
- Song Of Roland (1)
- Sorley MacLean (1)
- Soup (2)
- Southwell Folk Festival (2)
- Springsteen (1)
- Springwatch (1)
- Sprung Rhythm (1)
- St John of the Cross (4)
- St Roch (1)
- Stac Pollaidh (1)
- Steinbeck (1)
- Stephen Spender (2)
- Steve Earle (1)
- Stoat (2)
- Stornoway (1)
- Suffolk (4)
- Sutherland (5)
- Sutton Hoo (2)
- Suu Kyi (1)
- Suze Rotolo (2)
- Swifts (1)
- Sylvia Plath (1)
- Sympathetic Magic (3)
- T.S.Eliot (3)
- Tanglefoot (1)
- Tao Te Ching (3)
- Tarbet (1)
- Ted Hughes (7)
- Telford (2)
- Tenzing Norgay (1)
- Tgo (2)
- Thomas A Kempis (1)
- Thomas Burke (1)
- Thomas Carlyle (1)
- Thomas Gray (3)
- Thomas Hardy (11)
- Thomas Merton (2)
- Thoreau (6)
- Tierra De Campos (2)
- Toad (2)
- Todd Haynes (1)
- Tolstoy (1)
- Tony Blair (1)
- Torridon (1)
- Toulouse (2)
- Transhumance (2)
- Travel (1)
- Tricastela (1)
- Turnstone (1)
- U. A. Fanthorpe (1)
- Ultreia (1)
- Undués (1)
- Vala (1)
- Van Gogh (1)
- Van Morrison (1)
- Vauvert (1)
- Verlats (1)
- Vermuyden (1)
- Via Negativa (2)
- Victor Gollancz (2)
- Villafranca (1)
- Violet Trefusis (1)
- Vita Sackville-West (1)
- Vía de la Plata (1)
- W.H.Davies (3)
- Wainwright (4)
- Wales (11)
- Walking (2)
- Walsingham (1)
- Walt Whitman (1)
- Wasdale (2)
- Way Of Saint James (3)
- Weasel (3)
- Welsh Highland Railway (1)
- Wendell Berry (1)
- Wendy Cope (1)
- Werner Herzog (1)
- Whisby (2)
- William Blake (4)
- William Jardine (1)
- William Morris (1)
- Wollaston (1)
- Woolf (2)
- Words (1)
- Wordsworth (16)
- Yeats (3)
- Yorkshire Dales (1)
- Zen (5)
THE CAT WHO WALKS BY HIMSELF
TOP CAT, TOP HAT
3 comments:
Without a doubt, she loved Bob Dylan dearly. I've always found her versions of "Farewell Angelina" to be quite moving, too. She continues to be a passionate and radiant woman. Wonderful to hear that the concert in Nottingham was a good one!
Thank you for the kind birthday wishes!
I really enjoyed this song, and also like the words you chose to describe her performance 'dignified, commanding, wonderful presence ...' It must have been a great experience being there.
Yes, passionate and radiant too, absolutly... My head is still buzing from the concert this morning. It was very uplifting, somehow.
Post a Comment