by Charles Norman | May 31, 2018 | Song of the Day
Today’s feature should be required listening – or viewing – for anyone who wants to be a musician, or for anyone who just loves music: Jay Farrar and Ben Gibbard with a cover of Bob Dylan’s “Absolutely Sweet Marie.” I love the...
by Charles Norman | May 30, 2018 | Song of the Day
When I was a small child I had a great idea. I wanted to transform our family’s Buick into an airplane by nailing planks to the car doors. As far as I could tell, the only thing separating our car from an airplane was a lack of wings, and a 2x4 protruding from...
by Charles Norman | May 29, 2018 | Song of the Day
“Where to Begin,” by Mikey, roams the outfield between folk and indie pop, with a twinge of country at the edge of the grass. That’s a good place to play, and the song has that classic sound, that I’ve felt this before vibe, that always marks...
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,...
