“No musical instruments or mechanical devices used on this recording other than one guitar.”
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315: Matti Caspi, ‘Eliezer Ben Yehuda’
How one crazy Jew reinvented a dead language.
Continue reading...162: The Everly Brothers, ‘Crying in the Rain’
The perfect soggy, squishy rain song, bringing its own depressed weather system.
Continue reading...130: Thelonious Monk, ‘Let’s Call This’ (Monk’s Advice to Lacy)
How to be a ‘cool’ musician.
Or maybe about How To Be.
281: Carla Bley with Steve Swallow, ‘Lawns’
This is what love at 60 should be–gentle, warm intimacy born of years of two very individual individuals living together, creating a world bigger than the sum of their own selves.
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