Silver Springs by Fleetwood Mac

SONG OF THE DAY “Sil­ver Springs” by Fleet­wood Mac (The Dance, Warner Bros./ Reprise Records, 1997). Writ­ten by Ste­vie Nicks. MY TAKE This song seems to seri­ously want me to blog about it this week! First, I’m singing along to it as I’m cre­at­ing a birth­day playlist for my Aunt Di (find the playlist below! The song …

I’ll Be Here When You Wake — The Reindeer Section

SONG OF THE DAY “I’ll Be Here When You Wake” by The Rein­deer Sec­tion (Son Of Evil Rein­deer, Bright Star Record­ings, 2002). Writ­ten by Iain Archer, Paul Fox, Bob Kildea, Gary Light­body, Colin Macpher­son, Jonny Quinn, Jenny Reeve, and Gareth Rus­sell. MY TAKE This band is the most pro­found exam­ple of musi­cal catch-22: these bril­liant artists …

Rain — Patty Griffin

SONG OF THE DAY “Rain” by Patty Grif­fin (1000 Kisses, ATO Records, 2002). Com­posed by Patty Grif­fin. MY TAKE I first heard this artist on Putumayo’s Amer­i­can Folk album, per­form­ing her beau­ti­ful com­po­si­tion “Row­ing Song”. This Putu­mayo col­lec­tion has def­i­nitely been one of my favorite albums since 2007, when I started get­ting into Putu­mayo, because it essen­tial served as …

Kite — Patty Griffin

SONG OF THE DAY “Kite” by Patty Grif­fin (Impos­si­ble Dream, ATO Records, 2004). Writ­ten by Patty Grif­fin. MY TAKE The piano that opens this song is just so sad. I can’t find any more poignant or dra­matic words to describe it beyond that, so I have to just leave it to you to hear it and …

I Had Something — Lucy Kaplansky

SONG OF THE DAY “I Had Some­thing” by Lucy Kaplan­sky (The Red Thread, Red House Records, 2004). Writ­ten by Lucy Kaplan­sky and Richard Litvin. MY TAKE I first heard this song on Putumayo’s Amer­i­can Folk album, and have since bought Kaplansky’s album The Red Thread because this track peaked seri­ous inter­est in me—which is say­ing some­thing major …

If You Want Me To Stay by Sly & The Family Stone

SONG OF THE DAY “If You Want Me To Say” by Sly & The Fam­ily Stone (Fresh, Epic Records, 1973). Writ­ten and pro­duced by Sly Stone. MY TAKE Well, it’s hard to say any­thing pro­found about as critically-acclaimed a song and album as this, but I’ll tell you how it fits into my world and maybe that …

Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie — Joanna Newsom

SONG OF THE DAY “Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie” by Joanna New­som (The Milk-Eyed Mender, Drag City Records, 2004). WHERE I HEARD IT + My O.P.INION This weird harp-plus-Kate-Bush-like vocals song was fea­tured dur­ing the cred­its of the 2007 PBS doc­u­men­tary Fol­low­ing Sean. The vocals can get really grat­ing when she strains her voice to hit some …

Adiemus — Karl Jenkins

SONG OF THE DAY “Adiemus” by Karl Jenk­ins (Adiemus: Songs Of Sanc­tu­ary, Jenk­ins Ratledge Records, 1995). Writ­ten by Karl Jenk­ins. MY TAKE For a week, I have been des­per­ately try­ing to think of a great child­hood music mem­ory to blog about today in honor of my sis­ter Lili’s birth­day, but kept think­ing of Dis­ney songs and musicals …

Caravan — Van Morrison

SONG OF THE DAY “Car­a­van” by Van Mor­ri­son (Moon­dance, Warner Bros. Records, 1970). Writ­ten by Van Mor­ri­son. MY TAKE This was one of the albums I was raised on. Well, to be frank, I was only raised on the A side, though I am famil­iar with the songs on the B side of the album. Side …

Shine A Light — Wolf Parade

SONG OF THE DAY “Shine A Light” by Wolf Parade (Apolo­gies To The Queen Mary, Sub­pop Records, 2006). WHERE I HEARD IT This is my third post in a row of a song that I dis­cov­ered on CBS’ Crim­i­nal Minds dur­ing this sea­son, Sea­son 5. BRIEF BIO (a la wikipedia) — Wolf Parade is an indie rock band formed …