Earthman says he could listen to more of Serena Ryder so I thought I'd oblige. And wouldn't you know it, I do have a cold, but my love is far away.I love how Ryder's voice seems at once familiar with hints of various female vocals and yet it's all its own.
This is the song that made me absolutely gaga over Serena Ryder. It may have also been in Ms. Ryder's favor that I have been v. busy of late falling in love. Anyhow, enjoy.
Serena Ryder was the focus of a RatetheMusic survey I took yesterday. All of the songs I heard were great, some of them amazing, and I immediately downloaded everything I could find: an EP from itunes and an album from emusic. Still all the songs I heard on the survey are not present and accounted for, so there must be more to come. Serena Ryder (born 8 December 1983[1] at Toronto, Ontario[2]) ...
So maybe I lost my sense of directionBut I'm alright nowEvery man needs a little affectionSo I'm alright nowGive me strength, give me something to believe inAnd I'm alright nowSing along when your heart's finished bleedingYeah, I'm alright now
From my Ithaca sojourn (early 20s) until that fateful Nebraska day I gave up music, this was the introspective and melancholy album and this was the song. keep a pencil and a bookI say this is how a life can lookRussian roulette, French-kissed cigaretteAnd the silence like an anvilThe things that you learn,but now all that burnsIs a candleAnd the fog melts over the night,and it softens the edgesI
For Jackson Browne tells us so and he knows everything if anyone does. And cantankerousness aside, it's a gorgeous song.Why won't the video embed? O dear damn MOG!
The maniacal playlist began with this song, so I have heard a lot of it over the past hundred years. Still I must say, all of the itunes hell songs have stood up very well under extraordinary testing.
Actually as often happens the postcard sender has beaten the postcard home. A matter of boxes, like checked baggage, becoming unchecked and for days my listening experience a rootless disheveled mess. This track by unsigned artist Josh Woodward was among the chosen few I could hear.
I have been playing this album every day since I downloaded it a couple weeks ago, sometimes a few times each day. This song is my favorite of the many great songs on the album.