#1000. Lineage of Song: “Peggy Gordon”

Sinead O’Connor

 

Schooner Fare

From The Proposition

Here’s the big thousandth post! When I started this blog back in 2002, I certainly wasn’t thinking about what I’d be doing twenty-odd years later. The blog was an extension of what I was doing online, then, being a part of a message board community and trying to expand that experience. I’d already tried a couple different approaches, and by that record it would’ve looked to any observer that Scouring Monk was destined for the same fate. But it expanded! For a time I operated a whole network of blogs, and Monk was the central hub…No one was ever as interested in all of it the way I was, but it didn’t matter.

And anyway, “Peggy Gordon” is a great way to celebrate. It’s a song I first heard from Schooner Fare growing up, and then later in the film The Proposition in much different context, and that was a touchstone moment in realizing even beloved songs can have a life far beyond what I’d first known. But that’s life, right?