In her last years with us, Granny used talk about the Sweet By and By. Today, I was listening to a collection of old American gospel tunes when I caught the phrase. I looked up the whole song to see the context. Here are comforting words: There’s a land that is fairer than day, And …
Category Archives: Music
Long Live the Long Play
Sara Zarr recently wrote about “listening to whole CDs at a time again, not as background music but as a discrete activity that involves full engagement.” She’s not the only one re-discovering the joy of the artistic whole represented by a well-crafted album of songs. In the last eight days I’ve seen Guster play in …
NPR: Tiny Desk Concert: Sam Phillips
Somehow missed this last summer. Here’s Sam (nee Leslie) Phillips playing new songs in someone’s office. It’s a cool concept. You see folks working at their desks and others gathered round like an impromptu jam session at the coolest office in the world. NPR: Tiny Desk Concert: Sam Phillips.
Ganging Up in Dayton
Drove to Dayton and back yesterday so that we could hear the immenently hummable GUSTER play a show at the University of Dayton. They handed out free chocolate soy milk at the door. Something I didn’t notice when we saw them at the Toledo Zoo is that the bass guitar seems to be the red-headed …
80′s Night at TU
Jaime in Red Originally uploaded by TCTruffin One thing you can do when you want to feel old is find a group of college students who think that your high school era is a cool, retro time-period and then create an event where everyone celebrates said era. Because Sherry and I like feeling old, 80′s …
2008 Christmas Music Round-up
I was avoiding work by browsing through iTunes today. Though it would be interesting to see what iTunes says my favorite music is. I must admit to being a bit dismayed at the lack of variety in the “regular” music category, but then I remembered that I don’t listen to much music on my iPod, …
What were you doing in 6th grade?
So, yeah, I’m lovin’ it that the Steelers are headed to the Super Bowl for the seventh time. What do I do about it? I stop shaving for a few weeks in a lame “playoff beard” motion. Other than that I make sure I know where my towel is so that I can wave it …
U2′s new Christmas Cover
Thanks to Jeffrey Overstreet for this link to U2′s new Christmas song, which is being used to promote (RED)WIRE–a digital music magazine dedicated to helping fight AIDS in Africa.
Filler
This has been making the rounds. And I can see why. Enjoy.
Awake, My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp
Thanks to Jeffrey Overstreet for pointing the way to this wonderful film on Sacred Harp, or shape note, Singing. You can watch it for free this week by going to this link.
