Well-Tuned: Just One More Song for the Road Please
Road songs. We all have them. Every genre of music has them. So dear reader, Here’s a small list for your consideration
Road songs. We all have them. Every genre of music has them. So dear reader, Here’s a small list for your consideration
That feeling I have deep down inside that Paul sings about? That feeling manifests itself in different ways when I really contemplate it.
Talisk isn’t just your usual neighborhood acoustic Scottish folk trio, all jigs and reels and hornpipes, no
This is not a review of The Beatles: Get Back, This is more of an observation that I thought I knew that band. I misunderstood the dynamics.
Seriously, if you never listened to either of Meat Loaf’s Bat Out Of Hells you really should.
The Meat Loaf/Steinman madcap musical universe of sex, and drums, and way over-the-top rock and roll comes to an end
Today’s theme, our last, is Counting Songs. Today I offer two counting songs. Let’s begin with the less annoying, shall we?
St. Stephen’s Day is celebrated on December 26th. Or the 27th. Or January 9th. Look, it depends on the variety of Christianity one practices, okay?
Merry Christmas, all! For those who celebrate, I hope today is filled with joy, health, love and peace. For those who do not, I hope today brings you blessings!
The Boar’s Head tradition was likely brought to England by the Anglo Saxons, and certainly existed in the Middle Ages.
First of all, I have a deep personal connection to County Wexford in Ireland. Second and third, there’s Yo Yo Ma and Alison Krauss.
Another I’ve loved all my life, this and tomorrow’s song are lullabies. “The Coventry Carol” was the second of two songs included in a 16th century nativity play
“Once in Royal David’s City” is, as so many of our Christmas traditions are, a child of the 19th century. Written by Cecil Frances Alexander and published in her 1848 hymnbook Hymns for Little Children
“The Friendly Beasts” is also remarkably old, going back to 12th century France and sometimes attributed to Pierre de Corbeil, Bishop of Sens.
Today’s theme is a catch all for the light, silly songs we encounter around the Holidays: silly Christmas songs
The word “lullaby” is, in fact, onomatopoeia; it is the “lu lu,” “la la” and “bye bye” sounds mothers often make to calm infants. Which suggests a new meaning to Radiohead’s “There There,” but—as I so often do—I digress.
Today’s song, “The Holly and The Ivy,” shows great evidence of being endemic for quite a while before it was collected and standardized.
This German song entitled “Es ist ein Ros entsprungen”—literally, “It Is a Rose Sprung Up”—is one of the most Marian of Christmas Carols.
I love the simple chords and melody of the song and its simple faith. And I do mean simple. Let’s just say Bethlehem is not a port.
You said the theme for this Saturday was “Strange Christmas.” I did. There’s nothing strange about this. Not yet…