Monday, December 16, 2024
Reality Christmas. Cold nights are a quiet mystery on this record. A slow winter welcome rather than a hurried, commercial rush around. A place of warmth, song, and comfort inside a house that smells like home. This record is the grey chimney smoke that heats a cold, black sky holding a full moon …Over the Rhine has been my favorite band for about 30 years now, give or take. This song, Given Road, from this gorgeous record, Love & Revelation, is one of the most haunting, stirring songs they’ve ever recorded.
I encourage you to listen.
Best savored at maximum volume.
Sunday, June 23, 2024
Green Library Online Exhibit Supporting the Black Lives Matter Movement This is important. You should visit it. 65 Stories: Say Their Names (a Stanford Libraries exhibit) Raise the Roof by MeShell Ndegeocello (Read by Staceyann Chin) “Raise the Roof” is a song from her forthcoming …Waking up this morning, which is a little overcast causing it to look like a grey muggy sauna out there, with a few songs from k.d. lang’s Ingenue. It’s one of very few albums I listen to that doesn’t have a single skippable song. “So It Shall Be” is my favorite this morning.
This song just spoke to a place in me that really needed to hear it. I’ve got to get my life together.
“Wise Up” by Aimee Mann song.link/us/i/1544…
Friday, December 15, 2023
Browsing Apple Music for another reason, I stumbled onto a playlist of new music selections from film and television. I stopped scrolling when I saw Maestro: The Music of Leonard Bernstein. The song featured in the playlist is the second movement of The Chichester Psalms, which is the most dramatic …Saturday, November 11, 2023
Michael and I took a walk to the branch library. We can see the building from our back door, but you can’t walk there in a straight line because the fenced off baseball fields and playground are in the way. (We just love those fenced off baseball fields and playground. They aren’t a nuisance at all, …Sunday, October 22, 2023
I drafted this little paragraph after I listened to a song by Abigail Washburn & The Sparrow Quartet. The song is called Strange Things and it lives on an eponymously titled album. Abigail Washburn is a clawhammer banjo playing singer songwriter. She plays bluegrass, speaks and sings in …