... young men over fifty - keep on living ... meant as a request or for comfort or both ... thus the eighty-three-years old B.B. King advised his audience during his marvelous concert in Vienna, Austria on July 17, 2009 ... his knees may be weak, but his fingers, his voice, his heart and his soul are still alive ...
... I want to dedicate this keep on living to songs and those who keep them alive, both known and unknown ... songs ... sometimes they are an inspiration ... sometimes they make you sad ... some may get on your nerves at times ... and some can be sometimes a kind of home ...
... this site is about artists and the songs they've recorded, about songs, their lyrics and interpretations, about blues and folk, but not only, we'll see, where it's going to ... it's about traditionals and those songs becoming kind of, but not only ... it's from the first recordings up to the time of the blues revival, but not only ...
... currently you may miss more than you'll find, but I hope it'll get better by and by ... all the information you see is based on informations I've found till now and will be corrected and supplemented whenever possible ...
Bob Dylan in his Nobel Lecture about literature and songs and some examples where he is getting his inspirations from:
