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Today’s Song for the Day is “Black Smoke (No Pope)” by The Young Accuser.The Young Accuser are a fictional band in the new novel It Feels So Good When I Stop by Joe Pernice. The novel is due to be released this Thursday (August 6), while The Young A...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “My Heart Is Fixed” by the Reverend Gary Davis, and it’s just for my good friend Jack Brekke.Special thanks to T. Sheehan Flynn for letting me borrow this tune (don’t steal music). The Reverend Gary Davis (also known ...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Charlie Darwin” by the Low Anthem.This album has been in heavy rotation on my iPod since its release, and I think it’s a masterpiece of blending styles and forms. This band — former Brown students in Providence, Rhod...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Say Please” by the Monsters of Folk.The Monsters of Folk are, of course, Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis of Bright Eyes, Jim James of My Morning Jacket, and M. Ward of, well, M. Ward. You may remember that I previously sprea...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Cartoons and Forever Plans”, from Maria Taylor’s newest album, Ladyluck, released last March 31.Since its release, it’s been in fairly frequent rotation on my iPod. It hasn’t gotten as many plays as, say, Middle Cy...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Josephine”, the title track from yesterday’s new release from Magnolia Electric Co.I like this new tune, because of the fairly prominent “Oh what a fool I’ve been” lyric.Let me ‘splain:No. It would take too lon...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Echoes”, the 23 minute-long masterpiece by Pink Floyd.I chose to feature Pink Floyd today because yesterday was the fortieth anniversary of the moon landing, and I came across this article in the New York Times, mentioni...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Dark Hand of Contagion”, from The Minus 5’s latest release, Killingsworth.For this outing, Scott McCaughey (Young Fresh Fellows) and Peter Buck (REM) have recruited most of the Decemberists as this album’s collaborat...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “The Church In The Wildwood”. The oldest version of this tune I have in my file is from the Carter Family circa 1930, but the version I’m featuring here is the Robbie Fulks version featured on his 50-Vc. Doberman collec...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Everything That Blooms Wrecks Me”, the gorgeous title track from Dao Strom’s last CD.Dao Strom is a friend to this blog, and I have, of course, previously featured her music three times on these electronic pages: here,...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing”, as covered by Bobby Bare Jr.’s Young Criminals Starvation League.It’s no secret that this song started life as a Coca-Cola advert, but shortly after its successful campaign had...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Dynamite”, from Son Volt’s latest release, Central American Dust.I know I’ve been away for quite some time, and I got a bit distracted from the promised heart-fixin’ songs, but please forgive me. There’s a lot go...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Give Back The Key To My Heart” recorded by Uncle Tupelo and released on their 1993 album, Anodyne.This tune was written by Doug Sahm, who is featured as a guest vocalist in this recording. Speaking of Uncle Tupelo (found...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Heartbreakin’ Man” by My Morning Jacket, just for my good friend T-Bone Brekke and his son, Happy Jack.Happy Jack wasn't old, but he was a man.The version of this tune that I’ve featuring on the page here is a live r...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “I Think I Need A New Heart” by The Magnetic Fields, for my good friend T-Bone Brekke.I mentioned last week that I was in search of some heart fixin’ songs for Brekke’s son Jack; most of my heart related songs are abo...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “I Think I Need A New Heart” by The Magnetic Fields, for my good friend T-Bone Brekke.I mentioned last week that I was in search of some heart fixin’ songs for Brekke’s son Jack; most of my heart related songs are abo...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is a pretty, pretty song from Tilly and the Wall’s latest album, o.That’s right. The name of the album is o. Actually, it’s an oval rather than a lower case O, a point I tried to make on these electronic pages almost exact...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Girl From The North Country” as covered by M. Ward, Conor Oberst & Jim James.I inaccurately reported last Friday that I was done with the songs about girls, but then I saw this article later on Friday, confirming tha...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Working Girls (Sunlight Shines)” by Pernice Brothers.This tune appears on the 2001 album The World Won’t End, released on Ashmont Records after the group left Sub Pop, their former label. Since this album’s release, ...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Flat Chested Girl From Maynardville” by Bobby Bare Jr.I first saw Mr. Bare Jr play this song at a gig at Mojo’s in Columbia, Missouri a number of years ago. The opening act was Langhorne Slim, then Bobby Bare Jr’s Yo...
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