Already more than halfway through their unusual and expansive month-long project, folk-rock act Poor Bailey have delivered the goods when it comes to honest songwriting. The band has been releasing one song a day during the month of October to hype up the upcoming release of their full length album, Excerpts from the Happy Dead . Since their release, the songs have reached a level of depth, a maturation of texture, writing and delivery. If these songs are even remotely as enjoyable as the upcoming full length, it's safe to say that Excerpts from the Happy [...]
The indie folk group Poor Bailey have set out on an extraordinary adventure; they're writing 31 songs, one for each day in October. For now the work is being titled The October Project, but we're not sure if the group will slim things down and make it some sort of official release. We're bringing you the first track from the project, which has this incredible feel of old Jeff Mangum to it, maybe even a touch of J. Mascis . Each day the band will [...]
Suzanne Vega : Small Blue Thing [ purchase ] Small. Blue. Thing. Three short words which combine to form an intricate puzzle. There is a sense here of small, as in insignificant. Blue here may represent sad. Or, taken together, this small blue thing may be something rare and precious. All of this is in Suzanne Vega's lyric, for the listener to puzzle out. The solution to the puzzle changes every time I listen. And that makes this one of Vega's best songs. Bruce Cockburn [...]
When I was listening to last week's podcast of "This American Life," I was privileged to hear to a beautiful talk by Anne Lamott; she spoke of her love for Jesus Christ, and the people around her, and music. She told a story of a man in her church who was dying of AIDS. He came to the meeting but he was so weak he could not stand to sing when everyone else was standing. A woman in the same congregation who had always been sort of standoffish to him was watching him sing and she got [...]
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