And just like that, we’ve reached the end of this musical pilgrimage. This has been a criminal amount of fun for me and I am so grateful for anyone that stuck around to indulge me throughout. It seems only fitting that I might dedicate this last day to the very...
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Kate Bullock
Kenny Ascher / Paul Hamilton Williams: Rainbow Connection
Music was a major part of my upbringing, which I still consider one of the greatest fortunes of my life. My mother’s singing was one of two things that were successful in lulling my hyper-anxious little self to sleep. (The other was my parents brandishing my purple...
Sara Bareilles: Orpheus
A couple decades ahead in a brave new world called “the present”, lives Sara Bareilles, one of my favorite artists working today. Man alive, does she know how to write lyrics that resonate! She is so much more a poet than most people writing commercially at this...
Irving Berlin: Always
I might have given myself away yesterday with my ringing endorsement of Camelot but in case there’s any mystery at all left to me, let’s blow the lid clear off this puppy, shall we? I’m 27 years in age but my sensibilities and musical tastes are proud AARP...
Lerner & Loewe: The Lusty Month of May
In the immortal words of Alan Jay Lerner, “Tra la, it’s May, the lusty Month of May” as we start to see the gradual advance into warmer temperatures and those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer. Right after I open my eyes on May 1st and announce “Rabbit Rabbit” to the...