Music Monday: Jinx Dawson, Coven and “One Tin Soldier”

| December 29, 2025

The 1971 recording of the song “One Tin Soldier” sung by Jinx Dawson, lead vocalist of Coven, is my pick for today’s Music Monday. It triggered some of last year’s book reading on “Kent State: An American Tragedy” and my post in TheHustings. For those living through the Vietnam and military draft era, music was […]

Music Monday: “One Tin Soldier” – learning something new

| October 30, 2023

For most of my life, hearing the 1971 counterculture era song “One Tin Soldier” automatically triggered the band Coven in my musical memory … until last week. It was only then that I realized that the song was recorded (not surprisingly) a couple years earlier by the Canadian folk group The Original Caste (below).  

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  2. digressing from or unconnected with the main subject; random: a desultory remark.
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