To be fair, some Tom Waits songs make for good Halloween music. Screenshot: YouTube Music This is not Tom Waits’ “Fumblin’ With the Blues.” Even a little bit. This song has a great string arrangement, though. Screenshot: YouTube Music This was supposed to be “Dead,” by They ...
As part of my blog series on mother songs, this post is my recording of the 1893 tear jerker “A Widow’s Plea For Her Son.” The guitar was a 2007 National Estralita Deluxe. The microphone was a Sure SM 81 pre-amplified with an ART Tube MP3. I recorded on a Macbook using iMovie...
(Those have been documented by The 120 Minutes Archive, previously featured here on Open Culture.) Among the playlist’s more than 2,500 videos are songs — Violent Femmes’“Kiss Off,” The Psychedelic Furs’ “Love ...