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The song title and lyrics reference the Crux constellation, known as the Southern Cross. Billboard called the song a "midtempo minor-keyed saga very much in the tradition of [Stills'] earlier CSN and solo compositions." [7] The term "minor-keyed" presumably related to the song's bittersweet lyrics, as the song itself is performed in a major key.
Bowman rated "Acadian Driftwood" as "one of Robertson's finest compositions, equal to anything else the Band ever recorded." [2] According to The New Rolling Stone Album Guide critic Mark Kemp, "Acadian Driftwood" is one of three songs on Northern Lights – Southern Cross, along with "Ophelia" and "It Makes No Difference," on which "Robertson reclaims his reputation as one of rock's great ...
The Southern Cross she leaved the ice, bound up for home that day. She passed near Channel homeward bound, as news came out next day, To say a steamer from the Gulf she noe is on her way. "No doubt it is the Southern Cross, "the operator said, "And looking to have a bumper trip, and well down by the head."
Richard Rodgers originally composed this tune (with the title "Beneath the Southern Cross") for the NBC television series Victory at Sea (1952/1953). When Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II collaborated on Me and Juliet, Rodgers took his old melody and set it to new words by Hammerstein, producing the song "No Other Love". [1]
"It Makes No Difference" is a song written by Robbie Robertson and sung by Rick Danko that was first released by The Band on their 1975 album Northern Lights – Southern Cross. It has also appeared on live and compilation albums , including the soundtrack to the film The Last Waltz .
Northern Lights – Southern Cross is the sixth studio album by Canadian-American rock band the Band, released in November 1975. It was the first album to be recorded at their new California studio, Shangri-La , and the first album of all new material since 1971's Cahoots .
These songs contain some of the singer-songwriter’s most biting lyrics, the kind that twist the emotional knife into anyone’s heart. Swift’s eleventh studio album is no different.
MS Southern Cross, a cruise ship; Southern Cross (Melanesian Mission ship series) Southern Cross (1891 Melanesian Mission ship) Southern Cross, a yacht that challenged for the 1974 America's Cup; SS Southern Cross, a list of steamships; Southern Cross, steam yacht ex-Rover in the 1930s, when owned by Howard Hughes