Get ready for the countdown with these different songs with the same title. The Walkmen ~ New Year's Eve Joan Jones ~ New Year's Eve Hesperus ~ New Year's Eve Golden Birds ~ New Year's Eve Elizabeth Cotton ~ New Year's Eve Michele Campanella ~ New Year's Eve (Robert Schumann) Amy Allison ~ New Year's Eve [...]
The Red Sox are champs once again. We've set the clocks back. We've even had a snow flurry. It's only been a couple weeks since my last post but between then and now it seems like we've really started to slip into the colder season. I guess this means the holidays are right around the corner. I'll likely be staying put through the next couple months without any work travel in sight. A couple big projects are behind me. They launched during October. Work is no less busy, but there's the tiniest bit of a calm [...]
Not a Friday goes by that I don't discover an amazing new song on David Johansen's Mansion of Fun on Sirius . Tonight, driving home from work, it was this song that put me in a happy place for 5 minutes of freeway time. I am in love with this voice. The song is "Shake Sugaree" by Elizabeth Cotten . The voice is her daughter, Brenda Evans, according to All Music . But according to the eMusic review of the album, it's Cotten's 12 year old granddaughter. Either way, she sings like an [...]
Technically, so many songs are like so many others. The set of elements from which Western pop music is drawn is a relatively tiny one. The same pitches and timbres, melodies and harmonies, tempos and meters, appear again and again in both the songs we like and those we dislike. The questions Sean posed here about what sets good singer-songwriters apart from the rest, can be generalized to the problem of distinguishing between good music and the rest. So if, as Sean suggests, the subtle difference can be boiled down to something to do with Â"character and wit and voice [...]
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