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Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 3 weeks 3 days ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Terrible Things” by April Smith & The Great Picture Show.I’m sorry that it’s been awhile since I’ve updated the blog, but I’ve been busy with some things. Some terrible things. One thing is that I’m trying ...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 1 month ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Julie Ocean” by The Undertones.You might be wondering why I’m reaching all the way back to 1981 for today’s tune. Well, here’s what happened:My good friend Kevin Lust, who is six feet seven and one-half inches tall...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 1 month ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Something, Somewhere, Sometime” from the upcoming collaboration of Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore. The album on which this song appears Dear Companion, is due to be released by Sub Pop records next week, and it sound...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 1 month ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “When You Sleep” by Angie Hart.Angie Hart is an Australia singer-songwriter who used to front the band Frente!, who were responsible for that strange acoustic cover of “Bizarre Love Triangle” more than a dozen years a...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 1 month ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Pancho and Lefty” as performed by Steve Earle.I have more than one reason for choosing this song today. It’s in honor of my good friend Jamie’s birthday, as it is one of Jamie’s all-time favorite songs. It is also ...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 1 month ago.
Pardon me, Dear Reader. It’s been a long time since I’ve updated this blog. I have been away, travelin’ and unravelin’, and I am still nowhere near done mourning the passing of Vic Chesnutt. But I have not forgotten about you, Dear Reader, nor hav...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 months ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “When The Bottom Fell Out”, by Vic Chesnutt.I’m sorry, dear reader, but I am nowhere near done mourning the passing of Vic Chesnutt.There was a Fresh Air with Terry Gross broadcast on NPR last week, featuring remembranc...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 months ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Closer To That Moment”, by Clem Snide.I got this tune -- one of my all-time favorite tunes about masturbation -- on the Have A Good Night (Live Recordings 1999-2005) compilation disc released a few years ago. I don’t h...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 months ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Let’s Rock and Roll”, by Bobby Bare, Jr.We saw Bobby Bare Jr’s live show at Off Broadway in Saint Louis on New Year’s Day, and he was in fine form. It was a really good show; he played most of the tunes on the setl...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 months ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “2006”, by Hello Saferide. Like yesterday’s tune, it’s a New Year’s song. It happened to be written for New Year’s Day 2006 (hence the title), but it’s really good and has stood the test of time on my iPod. Anni...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 months ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “New Year’s Day”, by Chuck Prophet.This tune is from Prophet’s 1997 masterpiece Homemade Blood. Seemed appropriate for this time of year.By the way, Chuck Prophet has a new album out, ¡Let Freedom Ring!, recorded in ...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 2 months ago.
Dear reader, it is my sad sad duty to inform you, if you have not already heard, of the passing of the great Vic Chesnutt, the victim of an immoderate suicide over the holiday season.Word broke just before Christmas, first on Twitter, then on a variety of...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 3 months ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Jesus Walking on the Water”, by Violent Femmes.This song originally appeared on the 1984 Femmes released called Hallowed Ground. My all-time favorite Femmes song, “Country Death Song”, also appears on that album.The ...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 3 months ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “I Found Jesus”, by Sunshone Still.The artist name is derived from the lyrics of a Nick Drake tune, “Place To Be”:And I was green, greener than the hillWhere flowers grew and the sun shone stillNow I’m darker than t...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 3 months ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Running With The Devil (Jesus Is Calling Me Home)”, by Blanche.Seems like a lot of songs this week have had parenthetical statements in their titles, doesn’t it (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.)You should...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 3 months ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Thank You Jack White (For the Fiber-Optic Jesus That You Gave Me)”, by The Flaming Lips.This tune was released on the Fight Test EP, which came out in support of the Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots album. And it features...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 3 months ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Jews For Jesus Blues”, by Clem Snide.When you listen to this tune, pay attention to what sounds like a guitar solo that begins at 1:11 in the track (after the second verse). The first time I saw Clem Snide live, Mr. Pete...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 3 months ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “See Me Through Part II (Just A Closer Walk With Thee)”, by Van Morrison.This song appears on George Ivan Morrison’s double CD, Hymns To The Silence, which I purchased in the fall of 1993 just before I left to work for ...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 3 months ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Jesus the Mexican Boy”, by Iron & Wine.This song appeared on The Sea & The Rhythm EP, released in 2003, shortly after Iron & Wine’s debut album, 2002’s The Creek Drank the Cradle. The hushed, breathless t...
Posted by Music Is My Savior Blog 3 months ago.
Today’s Song for the Day is “Practice Makes Perfect”, by the phenomenal British band Wire.If you don’t know anything about Wire, please educate yourself, first at my previous post on them, then at the Wire site on Wikipedia, then at Wire’s Offic...
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