I've been ordering a little song here and there from Rufus Wainright's reproduction of Judy Garland's Carnegie Hall concert, which was just amazing and tragic and let me just say that the kid has mondo cojones to tackle it himself.This is just a sexy little number. Rufey has attitude THIS big. Let's just hope he doesn't wind up like La Garland. It might be a good idea if he laid off the hootc...
I admit to being a little bit confused by the title of this song: is Mrs. Leroy Brown related to Bad, Bad Leroy Brown of Jim Croce fame, perchance? If not, they should totally date. But anyway, in case you didn't know that Loretta Lynn is a legend for legitimate reason, you can start right here and enjoy her hot pipes and crackin' band. This is a song to crank on a summer ride to the beach wi...
... and she's Burning Down the House! Bonnie Raitt, that is. I know you loved the Talking Heads version -- who doesn't -- which is all weirdy and David Byrnesy, but this is just hip-swiveling hot. An added bonus is that I can understand the lyrics when Bonnie's singin' 'em.
"Love Is Everything" is a great break-up song written by Jane Siberry from her album "When I Was a Boy."Don't try to get through a break-up without that CD, I'm telling you."Love Is Everything" is the second or third track, but she reprises it at the end of the album, coming full circle and most likely leaving you in a soft sobbing heap on the couch, but in a good way.I just ran into this vers...
Alison Krause and Robert Plant are a pretty unlikely duo from my point of view (but I'm a music illiterate, so what do I know? Just the entire scores to about 100 Broadway musicals plus a tiny smattering of a few other things, but not much.Anyway, I am totally digging their collaboration "Raising Sand" because I'm that consumer that Starbucks loves -- an impulse buyer with the same musical tast...
Easter is a kind of funny time to exchange gifts ("Here, congratulations on Jesus rising from the dead! I got you a gift!") but what the heck. God loves a cheerful giver and all that.In my opinion, anyone who digs old gospel songs can appreciate this awesome recording by Jubilant Sykes, a classical singer who tears up the old churchy favorites with a fantastic jazz trumpeter whose name I don't ...
Now, admit it. You saw "Beaches" and you cried like a baby. Whenever "Wind Beneath My Wings" comes on the radio you're torn between cringing and changing the station, and singing it loud and proud with tears running down your face.Well, darlings, here's a version you can listen to with no shame. Because it's not the Divine Miss Midler's over-produced but earnestly sung kitschy 80's classic, but...
When it finally warms up about two weeks after Easter, throw a brunch. Make a big spinach fritatta (easy: just a bunch of eggs, spinach and cheese with some garlic and bread crumbs), drink bellinis or mimosas, and be romantic with Stephen Grapelli and Django Reinhardt in the background. You'll be dancing cheek to cheek before you know it.And while you're at it, put some Madeleine Peyroux and so...
You know that you love E.L.O., you just forgot about them, right? Do yourself a favor and cue up some "Do Ya" or some "Mr. Blue Sky" and give a lift to your housework, your work-out, or your commute.E.L.O. is a harmless happy drug you don't have to get a prescription for.
Did you ever notice that this song is actually a big, long musical nervous breakdown? It cracks me up. I may have already written about this.If so, please excuse me. But if you really listen to the lyrics, she's basically got this guy hostage and she's begging him for one last bang for the road."Yeah, I really need you near me tonightcause you'll never take me there again.Let me watch you goWi...
