Some music kills us softly in the most delightful of ways, recognizing us and teaching us to ourselves. Today, such a song for me was "Eric's Song" by Vienna Teng. Give it a listen. Maybe it will recognize you.

Listen here.Vienna Teng is one of my newest heroes. Her music is remarkable most of all for the lyrical and fresh way she uses words ( Read more... )

Once I had a professor who told a story of a relative, a great aunt perhaps, she had in England. This woman had lived in a tiny little village halfway to nowhere, and she loved music dearly, but all she had known her whole life was playing on her own piano. When a orchestra came to their village to play, of course she was there. Afterwards, she had ( Read more... )

A year or two ago I ran across Joanna Newsom, a lovely eccentric prog-folk harpist with a childlike warbling voice and a childlike beauty (like I told a friend once, "I like strange voices in my head."). Bam. My new favorite musician.

Earthy, enigmatic lyrics -

i slept all day ( Read more... )