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01 - Tori Amos - Silent All These Years - 00:00
02 - Goo Goo Dolls - Name - 05:31
03 - Dave Matthews Band - Satellite - 10:02
04 - Melissa Etheridge - I Want To Come Over - 15:34
05 - Better Than Ezra - Desperately Wanting - 21:22
06 - Joan Osborne - Ladder - 26:00
07 - Paul Westerberg - Love Untold - 31:48
08 - Tracy Chapman - Fast Car - 36:32
09 - Jars of Clay - Flood - 43:03
10 - Dishwalla - Counting Blue Cars - 46:46
11 - Jewel - You Were Meant For Me - 52:33
12 - Bush - Comedown - 56:08
13 - Barenaked Ladies - The Old Apartment - 01:01:20
14 - Fleming & John - Love Songs - 01:05:05
Includes my fav acoustic version of Tracy Chapman singing Fast Car.
Song Review: Sierra Hull - “Black Muddy River” (Live)
Sierra Hull keeps it heavy when performing “Black Muddy River.”
Slow-rolling like the Grateful Dead’s arrangement, Hull’s features bluegrass instrumentation, plus drums. A plaintive fiddle - more violin in this case - pairs with Hull’s maudlin mandolin strings to keep the song as rueful as ever.
This version comes from high-quality audience video shot at the 2023 Grey Fox Bluegrass festival.
Women - think Susan Tedeschi and Joan Osborne - more often find the sweet spot of Jerry Garcia’s vocals than the men who attempt the feat. Hull continues the trend with a cover that’s both 100 percent hers and authentically Grateful in its presentation.
Grade card: Sierra Hull - “Black Muddy River” (Live) - B
Shuffle your 'on repeat' playlist and post the first ten tracks, then tag ten people
I was tagged by @heresluck!
I don’t really have an “on repeat” playlist, so I threw together my different favorite playlists (mostly sorted by vibe, emotion, or which fandom I associate with which songs) and shuffled them into a giant “list of bangers to belt in the car.” I skipped repeated artists (look, Ani DiFranco’s late 90s-early 00’s run was *formative*)
(1) Because the Night (Live MTV Unplugged) - 10,000 Maniacs
(2) Parachute (Serbian Ghenea mix) - Ingrid Michaelson
(3) Darkness, Darkness - Richard Shindell
(4) Hail Mary Shy of Redemption- Eddie From Ohio
(5) Pick Yer Nose - Ani Difranco
(6) When I Go - Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer
(7) Ladder - Joan Osborne
(8) You Gotta Be - Des’ree
(9) Pilentze Pee (Pilentze Sings) - Bulgarian Women’s Chorus
(10) Scarborough Fair - The King’s Singers ft. Manuel Barrueco
I feel 2000s pop is underrepresented in this sample, so please allow the additions of the first two that shuffled up:
(11) Sober - P!nk
(12) If I Were a Boy - Beyoncé
The most played non-Hamilton musical on my iPhone is either the 2009 Idina Menzel/Josh Groban CHESS or the 1998 OST for THE PRINCE OF EGYPT. That feels representative.
The most played classical piece is the 1955 version of Glenn Gould playing Bach’s Goldberg Variations, which is directly wired to affect my nervous system like Valium.
If you have noticed that I haven’t listened to much new music, well spotted! @heresluck and @kouredios are working on me, as are a couple of other friends, but I have been remiss about putting together new playlists, as I have spent most of the last two years listening to audiobooks (especially the Murderbot Diaries and the Goblin Emperor books).
Tagging @megastoat, @cincoseis, @white-throated-packrat, @fremedon, @agentreynard, @dsudis , @changingthingslikeleaves, @bgoodg and @cereta if they’ve thus far escaped being tagged by someone else and would like to play. But anyone is welcome!
Very happy to be recording again! Not out on any other streaming platforms but it should be soon. More to come, look me up under Katherine Rose Hunter :)
If God had a Face, what would it look like?
And would you want to see,
if seeing meant you would have to believe
in things like heaven and in Jesus and the saints,
and all the prophets?
Graham Nash is 2023 John Lennon Real Love Award Winner
- “This is a very special award,” Nash says
Graham Nash is the 2023 John Lennon Real Love award winner.
Nash will receive the honor and play his favorite Beatles/Lennon songs at the 43rd-annual John Lennon Tribute Dec. 2 in New York. Rosanne Cash, Rita Coolidge, Marc Cohn, Shawn Colvin, Judy Collins and Bettye LaVette are among the other scheduled performers.
“This is a very special award,” Nash said in a statement.
“I thank Yoko (Ono) and the Theatre Within for thinking of me. Over many years, I watched John and Yoko fight the good fight for many whose voices were not being heard, a fight that Yoko continues to this day. I’m proud to be associated with the many fine artists who were previously honored with the … award.”
Those artists include Cash, Joan Osborne, Ani DiFranco, Natalie Merchant, Donovan and others.
Proceeds from the event benefit Theatre Within’s programs for elementary and middle schools, youth in crisis and people affected by cancer.
“Theatre Within is furthering the vision that John and I shared for a better world,” Ono said in a statement.