There is a higher quality, full live concert coming out soon.
This song has Jered McKenna on piano, David Nigh on Cello, Jeremy Nigh on Mandolin, Tamara Wood on vocals, and me too.
I hope you enjoy it!
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Refugee
Here's a live version of a new song of mine: Refugee
There is a higher quality, full live concert coming out soon.
There is a higher quality, full live concert coming out soon.
Monday, January 17, 2011
The Weepies - Be My Thrill
The Weepies - Be My Thrill
What a nice album. I won't say this is the greatest album of all time. I will say it is a nice little group of songs that should fit nicely into your collection.
The first track, Please Speak Well of Me, is a quaint song that recaptures the feeling of the final moments of two good friends who only rarely see each other. It's like those college friends who you always forget to call but randomly end up in your current town and you enjoy a meal with. You hope that when life goes back to normal, the memories are good.
I like the Weepies approach to songwriting...the heavier the topic, the happier the music needs to be. It keeps the listener off balance.
The album ends with "Empty your hands of overheard conversations. Empty your hands, static from the big bang dinosaur radio stations. Empty your hands genocides in foreign nations, Empty your hands and look up." This sums it up to me. It's a lot like most of our lives overall; we bounce around through troubles and challenges, it's nice to remember that we always have that sweet melody line of life running through our veins...we just need to take the time to stop and pay attention to it.
Give this album a listen and I bet you'll come away smiling.
What a nice album. I won't say this is the greatest album of all time. I will say it is a nice little group of songs that should fit nicely into your collection.
The first track, Please Speak Well of Me, is a quaint song that recaptures the feeling of the final moments of two good friends who only rarely see each other. It's like those college friends who you always forget to call but randomly end up in your current town and you enjoy a meal with. You hope that when life goes back to normal, the memories are good.
I like the Weepies approach to songwriting...the heavier the topic, the happier the music needs to be. It keeps the listener off balance.
The album ends with "Empty your hands of overheard conversations. Empty your hands, static from the big bang dinosaur radio stations. Empty your hands genocides in foreign nations, Empty your hands and look up." This sums it up to me. It's a lot like most of our lives overall; we bounce around through troubles and challenges, it's nice to remember that we always have that sweet melody line of life running through our veins...we just need to take the time to stop and pay attention to it.
Give this album a listen and I bet you'll come away smiling.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Sunset Songs
Do you ever hear a song and as it gets to the last verse, you start wishing it would start over? I've got a lot of those. I created a playlist of these songs on my iPod. I call it "Sunset Songs" because they are like sunsets...so beautiful you always wish they'd last a little bit longer. So without further adieu, here is my current top 20 list (feel free to leave a comment of your own favorite "sunset songs"):
Orange Sky - Alexi Murdoch
Both Hands - Ani Difranco
Just Breathe - Pearl Jam
Nightswimming - REM
Grace Cathedral Park - Red House Painters
La Cienega Just Smiled - Ryan Adams
Fields of Gold - Sting
Wildflowers - Tom Petty
Southern Accents - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
One - U2
Lines Upon Your Face - Vertical Horizon
One Voice - The Waillin' Jenny's
These Are Days - 10,000 Maniacs
Love Like Laughter - Beth Orton
Halfway Home - Billy Pilgrim
Waiting For My Real Life To Begin - Colin Hay
Hard Times - Eastmountainsouth (Stephen Foster Song)
The Cave - Mumford and Sons
Over The Moon - The Innocence Mission
Down In The Valley - The Head and the Heart
Orange Sky - Alexi Murdoch
Both Hands - Ani Difranco
Just Breathe - Pearl Jam
Nightswimming - REM
Grace Cathedral Park - Red House Painters
La Cienega Just Smiled - Ryan Adams
Fields of Gold - Sting
Wildflowers - Tom Petty
Southern Accents - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
One - U2
Lines Upon Your Face - Vertical Horizon
One Voice - The Waillin' Jenny's
These Are Days - 10,000 Maniacs
Love Like Laughter - Beth Orton
Halfway Home - Billy Pilgrim
Waiting For My Real Life To Begin - Colin Hay
Hard Times - Eastmountainsouth (Stephen Foster Song)
The Cave - Mumford and Sons
Over The Moon - The Innocence Mission
Down In The Valley - The Head and the Heart
Friday, December 31, 2010
A Record you simply must hear!
I'm going to take the time to properly review the best album I've heard in years...Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More.
One of those rare albums where every song is amazing. If you're reading this and still snickering and repeating the name Mumford in your head...quickly open up iTunes and get this album. The rest of you are already singing one of their songs in your head. I can't say enough good stuff about his band. Check them out.
The album starts in haunting fashion. "Serve God, love me, and mend. This is not the end. Live unbruised, we are friends. I'm sorry." That could easily be the mantra to my recent history. Maybe I love this record so much because the opening lines speak so much to my heart. Of course he backs that up with a Shakespeare quote put to acoustic guitar music...yeah, I'm sold.
Throughout the album the words seem to be spilling from a good friend a few hours into a long road trip. It is the time when things get real and exposed. "My weakness I feel I must finally show." The jagged voice of Marcus Mumford really shines on the more emotionally driven tracks.
If you take the time to really listen to this collection of songs, you will find yourself thinking about the things you should be thinking about. "In these bodies we will live, in these bodies we will die. Where you invest your love, you invest your life" You will find rest from the commercialism and triteness that we are all daily bombarded with. You will be reminded that the ideals we are sold by popular culture are not reality and are not worth the struggle. "Liars and thieves, you know not what is in store!"
The album ends with a sense of brokenness: "And after the storm, I run and run as the rains come. And I look up, I look up, on my knees and out of luck, I look up." and a sense of hope:
"And there will come a time, you'll see, with no more tears. And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your fears. Get over your hill and see what you find there, With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair."
Any time a collection of music can speak to, properly focus, and encourage your soul, all the while making you want to get up and dance like no ones watching, it's worth listening to. Mumford & Sons album Sigh No More is all of that and more.
One of those rare albums where every song is amazing. If you're reading this and still snickering and repeating the name Mumford in your head...quickly open up iTunes and get this album. The rest of you are already singing one of their songs in your head. I can't say enough good stuff about his band. Check them out.
The album starts in haunting fashion. "Serve God, love me, and mend. This is not the end. Live unbruised, we are friends. I'm sorry." That could easily be the mantra to my recent history. Maybe I love this record so much because the opening lines speak so much to my heart. Of course he backs that up with a Shakespeare quote put to acoustic guitar music...yeah, I'm sold.
Throughout the album the words seem to be spilling from a good friend a few hours into a long road trip. It is the time when things get real and exposed. "My weakness I feel I must finally show." The jagged voice of Marcus Mumford really shines on the more emotionally driven tracks.
If you take the time to really listen to this collection of songs, you will find yourself thinking about the things you should be thinking about. "In these bodies we will live, in these bodies we will die. Where you invest your love, you invest your life" You will find rest from the commercialism and triteness that we are all daily bombarded with. You will be reminded that the ideals we are sold by popular culture are not reality and are not worth the struggle. "Liars and thieves, you know not what is in store!"
The album ends with a sense of brokenness: "And after the storm, I run and run as the rains come. And I look up, I look up, on my knees and out of luck, I look up." and a sense of hope:
"And there will come a time, you'll see, with no more tears. And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your fears. Get over your hill and see what you find there, With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair."
Any time a collection of music can speak to, properly focus, and encourage your soul, all the while making you want to get up and dance like no ones watching, it's worth listening to. Mumford & Sons album Sigh No More is all of that and more.
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