Music I’m Listening To


   Back in 1974, if you’d asked me what I thought of this song, I’d probably have said, “Not much.” Neither did anyone else, at the time. I’m glad I’m still around, to have changed my mind.

   From their Wikipedia entry: “The New York Dolls were an American hard rock band formed in New York City in 1971. Along with the Velvet Underground and the Stooges, they were one of the first bands of the early punk rock scenes. Although their original line-up fell apart quickly, the band’s first two albums—New York Dolls (1973) and Too Much Too Soon (1974)—became among the most popular cult records in rock.”


           MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

A live performance, August 2006, with the Danish National Concert Orchestra and Choir at Ledreborg Castle, Denmark. There are songs that will stick with you forever and you know it as soon as you hear it for the first time. This is one of them for me.


Nancy Sue Wilson (February 20, 1937 – December 13, 2018)

   Singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile has been around for a while — her first album came out in 2005 — but while she’s had critical success, only a small number of dedicated fans have been following her career. That all changed last Friday when she was nominated for six Grammy awards in 2019.

   Here she is in May of last year, live at the Boston Calling Music Festival at Harvard University. I’m convinced. She’s going to sell a lot of her music from now on. See what you think.

   Marissa Nadler is a singer-songwriter who had a concert in New York City last night. I didn’t go, but there was a brief write-up about it ahead of time in yesterday’s NY Times. Her music was described as “goth-tinged experimental folk music,” which seems to sum it up quite succinctly.

   She has a number of videos available on YouTube. Of those I’ve seen so far, this is the one I liked best. That it was written by Leonard Cohen may have something to do with it.

   A rare instance of this song being sung as an actual lullaby:

This song appeared on this Chilean born jazz singer’s first album, Wind from the South (Verve, 2000).

   “Lady of the Ark” is a song from Kyle Craft’s debut album Dolls of the Highland (Sub Pop, 2016).

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