02 February 2017
- Folk/Regional
- Pop
- Punk Rock
- Rock
- Rock And Roll
- Dark
- Intense
- Laid-Back
- Melancholy
- Playful
“What brings about the great shifts in the world of literature? Often it is when someone seizes upon a simple, overlooked form, discounted as art in the higher sense, and makes it mutate.“
Horace Engdahl, presentation speech for the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature
Playlist
Chapter 1 – Leonard CohenHallelujah
Take This Waltz
Treaty
Story of Isaac
Suzanne
Came So Far For Beauty
Avalanche
There Is A War
Chapter 2 – Bob Dylan
A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
All Along The Watchtower
Desolation Row
Man On The Street
Idiot Wind
The Times They Are A-Changing
Chapter 3 – Patti Smith
Birdland
Libbie’s Song
Wave
My Blakean Year
Summer Cannibals
Babelogue
Gloria
All texts read in between songs are taken from Nick Cave’s The Sick Bag Song (Edinburgh: Canongate, 2016).