#21  ThePerfectSongFor .. coming home

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Coming home can be such a relief: your own bed, you are surrounded by your own history, and most importantly, you know where everything is. Homecoming can also be philosophical: a return to your roots and your own identity. Home doesn't have to be the most fabulous place on earth, but it's yours; you instinctively are drawn to defend it, with or without its secret pleasures and public problems. But what is the perfect song about coming home?

In this podcast, journalists and writers Fred de Vries and Tim Cohen are joined by someone who spends a lot of her time on the road, professional singer with Misery Loves Company Kerry Hiles. As a lot of band members do, Hiles knows all about traveling and returning home, and has chosen some fabulous songs written by South African songwriters, Coming Home by Stuart Reece, Say Africa by Dave Goldblum, and When the Cookie Jar is Empty, by Michael Franks. Other songs we discuss are Under the Milky Way, by The Church: Back Home, by Golden Earring: Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd; To Live is to Fly, by Steve Earle; Like a Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan, and Paradise by Coldplay.

The full playlist is available here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3ALRuYWVGXjEwveg9qiyL7?si=J_L1t9anRPGVEjZc7gg7Rw

Comments, suggestions, and feedback here:
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Patreon here:
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Kerry’s gig guide is available here
https://linktr.ee/miserylovescompanyza
Season 1 / Episode 21 30 Nov English South Africa Music · Music History

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