by Aleba Gartner and Phil Kline | Apr 25, 2017 | Song of the Day
Today’s pairing: strange crooners. From Phil: Scott Walker – Farmer in the City Scott Walker became famous in the 1960s as the front man of the English pop band The Walker Brothers (biggest hit “The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore,”) none of whom were English,...
by Aleba Gartner and Phil Kline | Apr 24, 2017 | Song of the Day
In our musical household, there’s often a race to see who gets to the “turntable” first. So rather than argue over who got to do which day and which song to pick, we decided to offer song pairings, some linked by theme, time, or place, others by...
by Kyle Jarrow | Mar 24, 2017 | Song of the Day
Nick is a good friend and sometime collaborator of mine. He’s also a fantastic songwriter and a killer singer. “Evaporate” one of my favorite of his songs, off his latest album Ampersand. It’s a great example of how to fuse acoustic instrumentation with electronic...
by Kyle Jarrow | Mar 23, 2017 | Song of the Day
Candi Staton has one of my favorite voices in the history of music (besides Lauren’s, that is!). She sings with such honesty and rawness on this song about an ill-fated love affair. The emotion comes through strong, even when accompanied by a cheesy late-60s-mode...
by Kyle Jarrow | Mar 22, 2017 | Song of the Day
What I love most about this song is the story behind it. David Bazan was raised Pentecostal, and rose to fame as the lead singer/songwriter of the Christian indie band “Pedro the Lion.” Then he had a crisis of faith. He stopped playing churches, he left his Christian...
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