I said I wouldn’t blog again until Monday. I promise good blogging next week, mind you, but am briefly near a computer, in between trips to South Florida and Northern California and the parking lot on campus. Lots of good things percolatin’ in my head, and on this Maundy Thursday (I’m home with the chinnies, missing out on foot-washing at church), I offer this FRT.
As usual, I’m heavy on female singers. #2 is from an artist who’s the rage-du-jour; I’ve heard a lot of her stuff the past ten days, and she’s the real deal. #6 is one of those folk standards from my childhood that remind me why I became a card-carrying socialist in junior high school. #4 is as good a feminist country anthem from the early ’90s as you could want, and the bonus track is one I really, really like singing in the car.
1. “Echo Park”, Joseph Arthur
2. “Cannonball”, Brandi Carlile
3. “Heavenly Day”, Patty Griffin
4. “He Thinks He’ll Keep Her”, Mary Chapin Carpenter
5. “Only Tongue Can Tell”, Trashcan Sinatras
6. “The Banks are Made of Marble”, The Weavers
7. “Lay My Head Down”, Indigo Girls
8. “Ol’ 55″, Tom Waits
9. “Take ‘em All”, Ultima Thule
10. “These Thousand Hills”, Third Day
Bonus Track: “Better than You”, Terri Clark
Happy Easter!
Hugo, you’re addicted to blogging. As addictions go, it’s not a bad one to have, though. (For the record, mine are: smoking, and leaving comments.)
Ooh, I love Mary Chapin Carpenter. The whole Come on Come on album is awesome… had it on repeat two summers ago.
Hugo;
If you’re heavy into female singers, you should at least check out Victoria Lloyd from Claire Voyant. I heard her voice on an mp3 file in 1999 and was spellbound. Of course, if you’re not convinced, listen to the track “Pieces”:
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Same thing with “The Mystic’s Dream” from Loreena McKennitt’s “The Mask and the Mirror,” and Tara from the husband and wife duo Tara/Mike Vanportfleet, a.k.a. Lycia, on”It’s Okay to be Small” from “Tripping Back into the Broken Days.”
Simply amazing.