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What’s in a Song: Simple Gifts (1)
The great tangled rope of popular music (American and otherwise) includes so many disparate strands that to speak of it as a single “thing” invites ridicule: show tunes and jazz, bluegrass and ragtime, country, folk, rock, metal, rap, and hip-hop… And then what about “easy listening”? and popular classical music, like Gershwin’s and Copland’s? New [...]
Exquisite
You may already know of Natalie Merchant’s recent Leave Your Sleep project. Here’s how she describes it, at the start of the little booklet which comes with the CD (and I think as a bonus with the downloadable edition): This collection of songs… documents our word-of-mouth tradition in the poems, stories, and songs that I [...]
Road-Seen
[Image: "Little Red Riding Hood," copyright Amanda Gray; all rights reserved. See original at her blog, what now] From whiskey river: Cutting Loose for James Dickey Sometimes from sorrow, for no reason, you sing. For no reason, you accept the way of being lost, cutting loose from all else and electing a world where you [...]
The Chirping of Friday Crickets
I’d hoped to post a real blog entry today, on the way home, after working on it now and then during the week. Yeah: via the WordPress app on my Blackberry, and the device’s sucked-on-until-nearly-dissolved-breath-mint-sized, thumbs-only keys. (Ha ha, I know.) Now, it’s true that this little postlet has been created that way. But regular [...]
