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Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 1 year ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Brackett, WI”, by Bon Iver.This tune appears on the Dark Was The Night compilation album, which I previously featured back in February. If you didn’t get it back then, go get it now.This past weekend, there was a live ...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 1 year ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Marrow”, from St. Vincent’s new album, Actor, released just yesterday. St. Vincent is, of course, Annie Clark, a multi-instrumentalist who was in Sufjan Stevens’ touring band and was formerly a guitarist in The Polyp...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 1 year ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Nikorette”, the new single form Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band’s new album, Outer South, released just today. (Actually, I got my copy via iTunes last night around 10:16 pm. They often seem to post new release...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 1 year ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Waitin’ For A Superman”.The original of this tune appeared on 1999’s The Soft Bulletin, the phenomenal album by The Flaming Lips.The cover version I’m featuring here, though, is from Iron and Wine, the recording an...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 1 year ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Jolly Banker”, written by Woody Guthrie, and performed here by Wilco, with special guest Feist playing the garden weasel. I swear I am not making that up. You can hear the garden weasel beginning with the intro, and cont...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 1 year ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Stand By Me” by Ben E. King. I chose this song today because I was blown away by a particular version of this tune that’s making its way around the internets faster than swine flu is making its way around the world: Th...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 1 year ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Darling, My Darling” from the latest release by The Handsome Family, called Honey Moon.The Handsome Family is, of course, the husband and wife team of Brett and Rennie Sparks. She writes the lyrics and he writes the musi...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 1 year ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “My Madonna” by Two Gallants.Two Gallants is, of course Adam Stephens and Tyson Vogel of San Francisco. Stephens has recently been branching out, playing SXSW with a new as-yet-unnamed band with Jen Grady on cello, and pl...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 1 year ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Chickamauga”, by Uncle Tupelo, from their album Anodyne.Uncle Tupelo was, of course, the seminal alt.country band composed of Jay Farrar, Jeff Tweedy, and Mike Heidorn which formed in Belleville, Illinois in 1987.Anodyne...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 1 year ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Find A Way”, a new tune from Chuck Perrin’s latest project, Down 2 Bone.This project is a collaboration [funny - the first time I typed that, it came out “coolaboration”] between the aforementioned Perrin and talen...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 1 year ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Let’s Make It” by Clem Snide. This tune appears on the album Early Home Recordings: Volume One, a limited edition tour-only CD that was later repackaged and sold as a digital download album titled Suburban Field Record...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 1 year ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Hickory Wind” from Gram Parsons. Actually, the version I’m featuring today is the Gillian Welch version from the 1999 tribute album, Return of the Grievous Angel. I chose this song today in honor of my friend Tom Flynn...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 1 year ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “I Am Goodbye” from Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s latest album, Beware.Bonnie “Prince” Billy is, of course, the moniker under which artist Will Oldham has recorded and performed for about the last decade. Prior to tha...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 1 year ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Don't Be Afraid, I've Just Come To Say Goodbye” by Spider. Spider is the recording and performing moniker of Jane Herships, an artist from Brooklyn.The album from which this song comes was self-released in 2006, I believ...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 1 year ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Nirvana”, a spoken-word piece by Tom Waits that appears on his Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards box set. I guess I chose this song in honor of the fifteenth anniversary of the day that Kurt Cobain was found dead...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 1 year ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “I Am A Pilgrim”, from the Byrds’ incredible album Sweetheart of the Rodeo, released in 1968.At the time of its release, it was somewhat panned by critics and somewhat shunned by fans, but it has since become known as o...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 1 year ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “The Pilgrim, Chapter 33”.This tune was written by Kris Kristofferson and released by him on his second album, The Silver-tongued Devil and I, in 1971.The version I’m featuring today is the Emmylou Harris version from t...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 1 year ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “A Perfect Day To Chase Tornados” by Jim White.This tune appears on his 1995 album, The Mysterious Tale of How I Shouted Wrong-Eyed Jesus!, and it’s really nice on a day like today. It is, after all, a perfect day. And ...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 1 year ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “This Tornado Loves You” by Neko Case. This tune opens the phenomenal new album from Ms. Case, an album I’ve mentioned before on these electronic pages. There are a number of tunes on this album that utilize the gatheri...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 1 year ago.
Today’s the day that Marvin Gaye died. Or, more accurately, today is the 25th anniversary of the day that Marvin Gaye died. In light of that fact, today’s Song for the Day is “Day That Marvin Gaye Died” by the Avett Brothers. This band is composed...
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