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Today’s Song for the Day is “New Year’s Day”, by Chuck Prophet.This tune is from Prophet’s 1997 masterpiece Homemade Blood. Seemed appropriate for this time of year.By the way, Chuck Prophet has a new album out, ¡Let Freedom Ring!, recorded in ...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Dear reader, it is my sad sad duty to inform you, if you have not already heard, of the passing of the great Vic Chesnutt, the victim of an immoderate suicide over the holiday season.Word broke just before Christmas, first on Twitter, then on a variety of...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Jesus Walking on the Water”, by Violent Femmes.This song originally appeared on the 1984 Femmes released called Hallowed Ground. My all-time favorite Femmes song, “Country Death Song”, also appears on that album.The ...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “I Found Jesus”, by Sunshone Still.The artist name is derived from the lyrics of a Nick Drake tune, “Place To Be”:And I was green, greener than the hillWhere flowers grew and the sun shone stillNow I’m darker than t...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Running With The Devil (Jesus Is Calling Me Home)”, by Blanche.Seems like a lot of songs this week have had parenthetical statements in their titles, doesn’t it (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.)You should...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Thank You Jack White (For the Fiber-Optic Jesus That You Gave Me)”, by The Flaming Lips.This tune was released on the Fight Test EP, which came out in support of the Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots album. And it features...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Jews For Jesus Blues”, by Clem Snide.When you listen to this tune, pay attention to what sounds like a guitar solo that begins at 1:11 in the track (after the second verse). The first time I saw Clem Snide live, Mr. Pete...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “See Me Through Part II (Just A Closer Walk With Thee)”, by Van Morrison.This song appears on George Ivan Morrison’s double CD, Hymns To The Silence, which I purchased in the fall of 1993 just before I left to work for ...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Jesus the Mexican Boy”, by Iron & Wine.This song appeared on The Sea & The Rhythm EP, released in 2003, shortly after Iron & Wine’s debut album, 2002’s The Creek Drank the Cradle. The hushed, breathless t...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Practice Makes Perfect”, by the phenomenal British band Wire.If you don’t know anything about Wire, please educate yourself, first at my previous post on them, then at the Wire site on Wikipedia, then at Wire’s Offic...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Tore Down á la Rimbaud”, by Van Morrison.The poet Arthur Rimbaud came up in casual conversation yesterday, and I can’t for the life of me remember what brought him up. Perhaps the crime of pederasty was being discusse...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Fannin Street”, by Tom Waits.Glitter and Doom Live is out. Glitter and Doom! It’s Tom Waits’ long-awaited live album, released November 20, 2009.The tracks on this album were recorded live last June and July, mostly ...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Lie Down Here (And Be My Girl)” by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.This album’s been a favorite of mine since its release in 2008, when I featured a number of songs from it in the Spring of that year (see, for example, her...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Vic Chesnutt. Vic fuckin’ Chesnutt. That is all. You can borrow (don’t steal music) an MP3 copy of today’s song from my Public Folder. Or click on the player in the left column and give it a listen here.“What Do You Mean”Like a puppy on a tramp...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “The Unguarded Moment” by The Church. This song was one of the first that got the venerable Australian band noticed in the United States early in their career. It appeared on the 1981 album Of Skins and Heart, and was the...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “I Had Lost My Mind” by Daniel Johnston. Daniel Johnston’s new album, Is and Always Was, was released about one month ago, and was produced by Jason Falkner, former side man to the likes of Beck, Glen Campbell, and Sir ...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “One Hundred Million Years” by M. Ward.As you, dear reader, already know, last Friday I attended the Monsters of Folk show in Chicago at the Auditorium Theater. It was, in a word, phenomenal. And perhaps the highlight for...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “The Sandman, The Brakeman, and Me” by Monsters of Folk.Astute readers of this electronic missive may remember that I featured this group on these electronic pages back in July. And if you do, you might remember that the ...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “God Only Knows”, by The Beach Boys, as covered by Roman Candle. At the recent Brian Wilson show here in Springfield, he introduced this song by saying something like, “Now we’re going to play the best song I’ve eve...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Good Kind of Love”, by Brian Wilson.Today’s an all-Brian Wilson/Beach Boys day on my iPod, because Brian Wilson will be performing at the Sangamon Auditorium, and I will be there with my male traveling companion, Tripl...
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