by Charles Norman | Mar 1, 2018 | Song of the Day
High Aldwin: Go in the direction the bird is flying!Burglekutt Prefect: It’s going back to the village!High Aldwin: Ignore the bird. Follow the river.– From Willow (directed by Ron Howard, 1988) I guess the moral of the story is, sometimes you follow the...
by Charles Norman | Feb 28, 2018 | Song of the Day
Kathleen Smith is a writer and singer of timeless, classic love songs. Her songs could have been sung seventy years ago, and may be sung seventy years from now. That is why, in our Wedding Reception Playlist, we slotted “Love Superstar” right after songs...
by Charles Norman | Feb 27, 2018 | Music
Glen Campbell – Wichita Lineman I first heard “Wichita Lineman” at the bowling alley. Not the new one. The old lanes out on Washington Avenue across from the Cee Bee grocery store. The building is still there. It would have been a Saturday night,...
by Charles Norman | Feb 25, 2018 | Song of the Day
Excerpts from Pnin, by Vladimir Nabokov The accumulation of consecutive rooms in his memory now resembled those displays of grouped elbow chairs on show, and beds, and lamps, and inglenooks which, ignoring all space-time distinctions, commingle in the soft light of a...
by Charles Norman | Feb 23, 2018 | Song of the Day
In the brief history of Reverb Raccoon’s Song of the Day, we’ve visited Scotland, Austria, Tasmania, and a sweep of American towns. Today we journey to Perth, a lovely but rather expensive village in Western Australia of which I’ve had the pleasure...
