A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

(C) 2017 Universal Music Enterprises (UMe), Florentine Films, and PBS. (Photo Credit: PBS.org) On September 15, 2017, Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) released The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick – The Soundtrack, a 2-CD album that features 38 of the 120 music tracks used in the 10-part, 18-hour documentary that premiered two days later on the 300-member stations of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). Per the press release from UMe, the album complemented Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ The Vietnam War: The Original Score, which features 90 minutes’ worth of instrumental music composed for the most in-depth exploration of the Vietnam War yet filmed. According to the UMe public relations staff’s press release issued last August: Sarah Botstein, the senior producer on the film, said, "We are indebted to a great number of musicians, their families, agents, lawyers, technicians and others, all of whom came together to make it possible for our f...

Pros:  Simple but powerful lyrics, fine performance by the Piano Man Cons:  None...this is a gem of a cover! There is nothing that I wouldn't do To make you feel my love. One of the nicest surprises when I bought my Billy Joel: The Complete Hits Collection 1973-1997 Limited Edition was a trio of covers that closed the Volume III: 1985-1997 disc; I'm not much of a listener of rock or country, thus I'd never heard Hey, Girl, Light as a Breeze, or To Make You Feel My Love . I've also never paid much attention to Bob Dylan's music; I was too young in the 1960s to have heard him when he was popular and bewildering listeners with his folk-rock anthem The Times, They Are-a Changin' , and when I did hear it as a college student in the mid-1980s, I was not only bewildered by the lyrics, but I wasn't too thrilled by Dylan's nasal voice. With that in mind, when I looked at the booklet of lyrics and saw the songwriter credit under To Make You ...