Within the past couple weeks, I saw a YouTube video on someone’s Tumblr of an African guitarist (what gender I’m not certain-they were gaunt, elderly, and wore a head bandana), playing not only masterfully but in a fashion I’d never seen before: the guitar was flat on their lap, and they fretted with their left hand on the side of the neck toward ( Read more... )

I'm looking for a Christmas song which I think was alternative. Came out around 2005-2010. One guy was the singer but I think he had a band playing different instruments. And they used see-through glass trucks like from "Never Gonna Leave This Bed" by Maroon 5. It was a music video about being alone on Christmas and being happy with that. In the ( Read more... )

This one is accoustic, I heard it on The Station that Never Answers E-mails and Can't Be Bothered to Announce Anything (alas, it's also the only station we can get it work and it's better than dead silence). The person singing it had kind of an androgynous voice-I honestly wasn't sure if it was a man with a tenor (think sort of Wayne Newton-ish) or ( Read more... )

I'm trying to track down an acoustic folk-rock type song. It had a male vocalist and acoustic guitar (I don't think any other instruments were involved, but it's possible). The song had a folksy Simon & Garfunkel type feel to it, but I'm pretty sure it's from within the past decade. And as far as I recall, there was no defined refrain to the song ( ( Read more... )

This is stupidly vague. I'm looking for a song with a female singer where the chorus starts off with a long, drawn-out, "Please." It's probably from within the last decade, and is the kind of song that would be played on a soft rock station. It's got more of a singer-songwriter feel to it than straight-up pop. I think there's an acoustic guitar in ( Read more... )

I was in a bar today, and I heard this song, but it was too noisy for me to actually make out any of the lyrics. Maybe you guys can help ( Read more... )

So last night on the TV show, The Unusuals, at the scene where Delahoy goes to confront the man who had bought his identity and a quirky song comes on as he leaves the man's house... it's a male voice, soft, kind of quirky, backed up by an acoustic guitar. What I could make out of the lyrics are: Some say a bird flew, bearing some gun on you // ( Read more... )

One more music question, and then I am seriously done bothering you with music questions. There's a song I love that I haven't heard in a while that plays at the end of a movie I don't know the name of. Useful, no? I have not seen the entire movie. I do not know what the movie is about. The movie ends with some guy hitching a ride in a semi. Then ( Read more... )

I heard this artist playing in Barne's and Noble's back in early February (Manchester, New Hampshire). It was just her cd, I think, so maybe if someone worked in B&N at that time/location, they would know ( Read more... )

HARD QUESTION FIRST: I'm trying to find a song I last heard almost four years ago on college radio, so my ID abilities are not exactly up to snuff, but here's a go-round anyway ( Read more... )