This is quite faithful to the original, though some well-placed piano chords add a little more atmosphere together with Anderson’s sassy soprano. Anderson was the songwriter responsible for many top 50 country hits in the 1960s, writing for artists such as Merle Haggard and was first discovere...
Ode to Joy When I was growing up our house in Lexington had music flowing out of every window; my brother Nick practicing string bass or singing at the piano, Charlie’s rock and roll guitar, my mom’s accordion being played with wheezing gusto, my dad’s booming baritone –“This land...
The candid track is lead singer Lydia Night’s love letter to an unrequited crush — a female friend who Night never truly explored her attraction to, to some regret. Dreamlike and sensual, the song crescendos into a swirl of reverb-laden piano chords as Night reflects on what ...
in fact. Imagine yourself in the desert without water for three days, and your last breath is about to leave your body. Then imagine coming to a lake of fresh water. That’s the noise you would make, and it co...
At the end of the workshop, my brain and vocal chords are begging for some down time. I saunter over to the St. Paul Grill alone. The Grill is not as old as all the dark mahogany inside would suggest, but I remember the food and drink from a previous trip as being excellent. I ...
in a shadowy sort of way. The melodies of the Xian Xiao kept going round and round in her head, and in the resonant chords of the three-stringed san xian zi, she sensed a kind of spiritual struggle. This was r...