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Rhiannon Giddens: Shake Sugaree
I'm ending this weeks posts where I started with Rhiannon Giddens. I’m drawn...
Rosetta Tharpe
Today's post isn't so much about one song. It's really about a musical force...
Tom Waits: The Part You Throw Away
Tom Waits has got to be one of the most original balladeers alive. His raspy...
Leonard Cohen: Suzanne
I started talking yesterday about Country Music. As I said, I’m really not...
Rhiannon Giddens: At the Purchaser’s Option
NO SONG IS SAFE FROM US. That’s a slogan we invented soon after we started...
Noël Coward: If Love Were All
Judy Garland set the bar for every performer to follow. Every time I’m working...
Carmichael/Arodin: Lazy River
I’ve rarely found anyone that has ever heard of Kay Starr. I got to know Kay...
The Wailin’ Jennys: Wildflowers
I grew up with the sound of tight harmony in my ear from my many mornings in a...
Dolly Parton: Deportee
I think this piece speaks even more today than when Dolly recorded it over 40...
Jerry Herman: And I Was Beautiful
Maureen Forrester brings so much to this largely unknown piece by Jerry Herman...
Donna Summer: I Feel Love
What do you get when you google 'summer songs' to close out a week at Song of...
Edu Lobo/Chico Buarque: Beatriz
Brazilian-American composer/vocalist/pianist Clarice Assad, a NYFOS Next...
Fauré: Les Roses d’Ispahan
Elly Ameling and Dalton Baldwin perform this sweet mélodie by Gabriel Fauré...
Richard Adler/Jerry Ross: Who’s Got the Pain?
This has been stuck in our heads since watching the recent tv series...
Karol Szymanowski: W południe
A selection from Karol Szymanowski's sensual and obsessive song cycle Songs of...