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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.)
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.)