this music brought to you by the letter s
1. Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter.
2. List (and upload, if you feel like it) 5 songs that start with that letter.
3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.
charismitaine assigned me S.
strange things - abigail washburn & the sparrow quartet.
In April I saw Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet play at Merlefest; it was hands down the best concert I have seen in an age. This was the first new song I heard them play: I had to remind my heart to keep beating. I want to call it "apocalyptic". Or possibly "an unholy marriage between Appalachian gospel and a string quartet". Two banjos, a violin, a cello, and Miss Washburn's incredibly versatile voice.
the swell season - the swell season.
One of my favourite instrumentals -- this one you can nearly taste. It's autumn somewhere in Europe, long ago, and trees are leaning over a lake. Maybe you're looking out of the window, maybe you're dancing so slowly and listening to the time-worn floorboards creak beneath your feet. Piano, guitar, violin, cello: magic.
shadowland - sarah slean.
As I mentioned in my review of The Baroness, I wish this had been the closing song rather than the penultimate: it sounds like the end of the story, the denouement after the final epiphany, and it's achingly lovely. Love, the only alchemy / Love, the killer of despair / Love, the true nobility / Love, the armour angels wear
scars - hannah fury.
This is a far-away spooky gently disquieting haunted wood reworking of "Scarborough Fair". Lovely.
say it to me now - glen hansard.
So, I totally did buy my dad the soundtrack to Once for Father's Day, and he loves it, and I'm so glad! This song is a testament to the power of simplicity -- one voice and one guitar carrying so much emotion and so much range, sort of as if Patty Griffin's Living With Ghosts was recorded by an Irish bloke.
2. List (and upload, if you feel like it) 5 songs that start with that letter.
3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.
charismitaine assigned me S.
strange things - abigail washburn & the sparrow quartet.
In April I saw Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet play at Merlefest; it was hands down the best concert I have seen in an age. This was the first new song I heard them play: I had to remind my heart to keep beating. I want to call it "apocalyptic". Or possibly "an unholy marriage between Appalachian gospel and a string quartet". Two banjos, a violin, a cello, and Miss Washburn's incredibly versatile voice.
the swell season - the swell season.
One of my favourite instrumentals -- this one you can nearly taste. It's autumn somewhere in Europe, long ago, and trees are leaning over a lake. Maybe you're looking out of the window, maybe you're dancing so slowly and listening to the time-worn floorboards creak beneath your feet. Piano, guitar, violin, cello: magic.
shadowland - sarah slean.
As I mentioned in my review of The Baroness, I wish this had been the closing song rather than the penultimate: it sounds like the end of the story, the denouement after the final epiphany, and it's achingly lovely. Love, the only alchemy / Love, the killer of despair / Love, the true nobility / Love, the armour angels wear
scars - hannah fury.
This is a far-away spooky gently disquieting haunted wood reworking of "Scarborough Fair". Lovely.
say it to me now - glen hansard.
So, I totally did buy my dad the soundtrack to Once for Father's Day, and he loves it, and I'm so glad! This song is a testament to the power of simplicity -- one voice and one guitar carrying so much emotion and so much range, sort of as if Patty Griffin's Living With Ghosts was recorded by an Irish bloke.