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Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Fail Hard To Regain” by Two Gallants.Two Gallants is, of course, Adam Stephens and Tyson Vogel of San Francisco. When last I featured a song from these guys on these very electronic pages this past April, I mentioned tha...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Pretty Girl from Cedar Lane” by The Avett Brothers.I thought this song went nicely with yesterday’s tune, so I featured it today in a quick update. Blog posts may be a bit sporadic this week, because I’m traveling li...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Danville Girl” by Woody Guthrie, chosen in honor of the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival coming up in just one month.Friend of the blog Dao Strom is scheduled to play the Festival, and our good friend Mark Weiss will also be ...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Five Hearts Breaking” by Alejandro Escovedo.I was unsure yesterday what song I would feature today, because the Cat Power and Bill Callahan tunes sort of went together, and I hadn’t really thought too much further ahea...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “A Man Needs A Woman Or A Man To Be A Man” by Bill Callahan. I chose this song because I mentioned Mr. Callahan in yesterday’s blog post, noting that he and Chan Marshall of Cat Power attempted to conjure domesticated b...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Good Woman” by Cat Power.I’m sorry that I didn’t get a song up yesterday; I was still grieving, and I hoped my three posts on Friday would suffice for a time. But then I received a CD of a Jay Bennett and Edward Burc...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s third Song for the Day is “Charming and Plastic”.I chose this song because I am nowhere near done grieving... Oh, never mind, you know the rest.This last song I’ve chosen, before I move on to other music next week, was picked because I thi...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s second Song for the Day is “Misunderstood”, by Wilco.I’ve chosen it because, dear reader, I am nowhere near done grieving Jay Bennett’s passing. But you already know that, don’t youI’ve also chosen it because I’ve often wondered i...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Another Man’s Done Gone”. Well, it’s one of today’s songs for the day.I chose this song because the music for it was co-written by Jay Bennett, and because I am nowhere near done grieving over the loss of Mr. Benne...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Poor Places”, by Wilco.I’ve chosen it because, dear reader, I am nowhere near done grieving Jay Bennett’s passing. And also because the excerpt, above, from the documentary film I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, is my...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “California Stars”.I chose this song because the music for it was co-written by Jay Bennett, and a line from this tune was adapted to be used as an epitaph of sorts for Jay on the marquee of the Vintage Vinyl record store...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Without the Benefit of Sight”, by Jay Bennett.I am very sad to relay the news that Jay passed away this past weekend, reportedly in his sleep. The cause is yet, as I type this, undetermined. I am very sad for Jay’s fam...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “The Sad Milkman”, by The Handsome Family. This tune appears on their album In The Air, released in 2000. Their latest album, released just a couple of weeks ago, is titled Honey Moon.I mentioned just a couple of weeks ag...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “The Trapeze Swinger”, from the new release from Iron and Wine, called Around The Well.This new album is a collection of unreleased and rare tracks from throughout singer-songwriter Sam Beam’s time recording as Iron and...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Librarian”, by My Morning Jacket. It appears on their excellent last release, Evil Urges.I chose this song because My Morning Jacket was featured on Austin City Limits broadcast on PBS this weekend, and they played this ...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Great Atomic Power”, as performed by Charlie Louvin, released on his Grammy-nominated 2007 eponymous album, Charlie Louvin.Since releasing that album, he has also released Steps To Heaven (in September 2008) and Charlie ...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Wilco (The Song)”, because yesterday Wilco (The Band) announced on Wilco (The Website) that Wilco (The Album) had been leaked on the internets.Actually, there’s an inaccuracy in the above paragraph. Wilco’s web site ...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Beyond Here Lies Nothin’”, from Bob Dylan’s excellent new album, Together Through Life.It was hard to pick a tune to feature from this album; most of the tracks on this one are quite strong, and the album has been ge...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Where My Heart Begins” by Anna Fermin’s Trigger Gospel.I chose this rather simple song for a couple of reasons. One is that Triple J emailed me last night with the news that the Trigger Gospel would be playing in Sprin...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 years ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Reasons For You To Love Me (Cars Can’t Escape)’”, as performed by Jay Bennett.Actually, I’m featuring not only the version by Jay Bennett that appears on his Bigger Than Blue album, but also the Wilco version (call...
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