Five songs meme from penwiper26 and <lj site="livejournal.com" us

[kivrin]

List five songs that you are currently digging. It doesn't matter what genre they are from, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good. But they must be songs you're really enjoying right now. Post these instructions in your blog along with your five songs. Then tag five other people to see what they're listening to.


1. Crooked Still, "Orphan Girl" (Gillian Welch cover). Brilliant crazed fiddle-style cello, killer finger-picked banjo, lovely pure vocals and double bass that I'm sure kicks ass in some way I'm not musician enough to identify. One of those songs that just makes you happy.

2. Tracy Grammer, "Shadows of Evangeline" (music & lyrics by Dave Carter). Weird, hypnotic, complex, allusive. Typical Dave, in other words. I imagine a really chilling Buffy S7 vid to this song.

3. Jim Henry, "Ruby." I'm a sucker for father-and-daughter songs, and this one is so heartfelt and yet so funny.

4. Josh Ritter, "Snow is Gone." Another song that just makes me happy to be alive. Hello blackbird, hello starling/ winter's over, be my darling!/ Been a long time coming, but now the snow is gone

5. Tracy Grammer, "Preston Miller" (music & lyrics by Dave Carter). I guess you might call this the love child of a Gilbert & Sullivan patter song and a broadside murder ballad. (This is one of the songs that, eerily, I always think of first in Dave Carter's voice, though I've learned it from Tracy's performance and recording. I did hear him do it once, at the workshop stage at Falcon Ridge in 2000 or more likely 2001.)

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you didn't tag me, but I'll play anyway

[breadandroses.livejournal.com]

1. The World Ain't Slowin' Down - Ellis Paul. A gentle kick-in-the-ass song. "you gotta get gone, you gotta get goin'/ cause the world ain't slowin' down for no one/ it's a carnival callin' out to you/ it sounds like a song, it hits you like scripture/ you paint the picture with colors squeezed from your hand..."

2. Last Fair Deal Gone Down - Crooked Still. I've never heard a voice as breathy and as strong at the same time as Aoife's. And that cello....damn. This song is way sexier than it has any right to be.

3. Prince Charming - Flash Girls. I know this song as part of a lovely, sad, slightly creepy vid. I did some checking of this group recently, and their lyrics tend to be written by writers like Neil Gaiman, and (as in the case of this song) Jane Yolen. Lovely twisted fairy tale.

4. Alone But Not Lonely - Mary Chapin Carpenter. This song doesn't really describe me or any situation I've found myself in, so I'm baffled as to why it can reduce me to tears over and over. I think it has to be the melody.

5. The Atlantic - Eddie from Ohio. Sweet, quirky, one of my very favorite songs by them. The lines that get me are the very last ones - "Til the airfare drops to Greyhound rates, for now it will have to do/ til Mother Earth moves and shifts some plates, for now that'll have to do/ til the Crown reclaims the United States, for now that'll have to do/ Til Saint Peter opens up Heaven's gates, for now that'll have to do."

Re: you didn't tag me, but I'll play anyway

[kivrin.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you played! I like that Eddie song too.

*poke* Any word on the housing hunt?

[sarahlouise.livejournal.com]

ooh, Josh Ritter is the support act a concert I'm going to next month and I was thinking I should check some of his stuff out before then, because I know I've heard of him but I don't know anything of his...I might try and download that song. :) it sounds lovely.

[kelilah.livejournal.com]

I got "Kathleen" from his website when...um...Kivrin, in fact, suggested I do so. That one's great, too.

[sarahlouise.livejournal.com]

thank you. :) It would be really nice to know some of his stuff first, because if he's really good and I don't know any of his music I'll be kicking myself that I didn't know him before hand! lol. I'll grab that one, too.

[kivrin.livejournal.com]

Oooh, yay!

If you go to his website (www.joshritter.com, big surprise) you can download "Kathleen" which is one of my favorite songs ever. There are also clips of some other songs there.