“Sittin’ on the front porch | Ice cream in my hand
Meltin’ in the sun | All that chocolate on my tongue
And that’s good enough reason to live | Good enough reason to live”
You’ll have to forgive me for the posting hiatus. Winter break is quickly approaching and it seems education is getting in the way of my learning [...]
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
“I first heard this from Ric von Schmidt. He lives in Cambridge.
Ric is a blues guitarplayer. I met him one day on
The green pastures of the Harvard University.”
Another track from the prophet, Hunter Pritchard: “Baby, Let Me Follow You Down” comes off of Dylan’s eponymous debut album, released in 1962 when the singer/songwriter was 20 [...]
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
“I became a crystal healer and my ministry was to the sick
Creeping vines would send out runners and seek me in their numbers
I sold self-help tapes
Go down to the netherworld, plant grapes”
Not another folk-indie band! Bear with me: I’m sick and can only stomach acoustic music for now. The Mountain Goats (reference to Screamin’ Jay [...]
“I started a joke, which started the whole world crying,
But I didn’t see that the joke was on me, oh no.
I started to cry, which started the whole world laughing,
Oh, if I’d only seen that the joke was on me.
I looked at the skies, running my hands over my eyes,
And I fell out of bed, [...]
Curious how many covers have made it onto TBTV…
You’ll remember “Too Little Too Late” as that Platinum-reaching single JoJo did a few years back— something my sisters undoubtedly loved when it hit the radio. The story goes that Daniel Rossen, of Grizzly Bear, reinterpreted the song as a birthday gift for singer Ed Droste, who [...]
Saturday, October 3, 2009
“And you will go to Mykonos | With a vision of a gentle coast
And a sun to maybe dissipate | Shadows of the mess you made”
When you really break down the sound of Fleet Foxes, there isn’t a terrible amount of originality. But maybe that’s where modern music has it wrong: you don’t need to muck around [...]
