by Charles Norman | May 28, 2018 | Song of the Day
“Rock and Roll,” by Beach Bait, is a surfy ballad, full of silences, the song played at the end of a summer night when the adrenaline has faded and you walk down the beach away from the fire and you just want to sit at the edge of the tide with your...
by Charles Norman | May 27, 2018 | Song of the Day
The country and folk music of the southern Appalachians – hillbilly music, some call it – has always been about the lives of the people who live within the valleys and ridges that stretch in a band through western Virginia and East Tennessee. In 1927,...
by Charles Norman | May 26, 2018 | Song of the Day
“Wish I Had Something to Hide,” by Exotic Doctors, is a chugging chunk of old school pop and rock, a throwback to the days when melodies, harmonies, and power chords were all the rage. The track has 1979 scrawled across its face. “Wish I Had...
by Charles Norman | May 26, 2018 | Song of the Day
My dad had terrible taste in music. Scratch that. He had no taste in music. I don’t mean that in the “this music you listen to sucks, you have no taste” way. I mean, while growing up I don’t recall him ever intentionally listening to a song...
by Charles Norman | May 24, 2018 | Song of the Day
Songs: Ohia – Whip Poor Will Excerpt from “A Miscellany of Characters That Will Not Appear” by John Cheever The pretty girl at the Princeton-Dartmouth Rugby game. She wandered up and down behind the crowd that was ranged along the foul line. She seemed to...
