Erin Murray
Power – Hat Fitz and Cara Robinson
24 October 2017
Sometimes you forget musicians are real people, I know I do when I hear the clean craft of Hat Fitz and Cara Robinson. Absolutely unique, their sound blends pre war hill country and delta blues with early Australian folk and traditional Celtic styles. Hat Fitz an Australian bluesman and Cara, born in Ireland, were drawn to music independently developing their own style before meeting and creating a new sound together. Hat Fitz on guitar, Cara on fife and drums the duo effortlessly create and deliver real emotion and truth. Power is the first track on the Wiley Ways Album, voted Blues Album of The Year 2012 by the Australian Blues Awards.
Happy – Pharrell Williams
17 October 2017
Happy?
It is an accepted practice to talk about bad news, what’s wrong with the world, what we don’t like about it and whose fault it is. And it is usually expected that we will listen. I don’t want to listen to blame, I don’t regularly watch the news, I don’t read the paper everyday. I don’t have to accept that what you are saying is the truth, I don’t have to engage in a conversation about what is wrong in the world and who made it wrong. I will talk to you about what is real to you, in a real way. This doesn’t always mean happiness, but it does mean truth.
Runnin’ Down A Dream – Tom Petty
9 October 2017
Even when you don’t know what it is, your path, your purpose, your dream, you can feel it when you are getting close, you feel light, you feel good like anything is possible. That’s hope, hope for a better day than yesterday and a better day tomorrow, and when it is better you can learn to trust that feeling. It feels good to feel good. You get faith in that feeling and faith in yourself.
How Much Light – Ryan Adams
2 October 2017
A good friend of mine suggested this track for the Ocean playlist recently. No, that’s not right, really he, and his are part of our family, showing up when I was hard to be around and staying, just to be there, not forcing me to be “ok”. That makes this track even more meaningful to me. It means that he is in a really good place, he can see what he has in his life and he is grateful. It also means that others can see that I am happy and I am grateful, and so can I.
Nightswimming – R.E.M
25 September 2017
I remember hearing at the time how this beautiful ballad was created. The Piano melody written first by Mike Mills, then recorded onto a cassette tape, Stipe playing the circular melody over and over while driving around for about a week bought forth the lyrics and attached them to this beautiful tune, describing a time gone by “These things they go away, replaced by everyday”.
Space Walk – Lemon Jelly
19 September 2017
This week Lemon Jelly bring us Space Walk, featuring Astronaut Ed White describing his experiences during his space walk in 1965. I love that line “I’m letting go”. On first hearing it, it struck me how easy he made it sound.
Dark Days – Fat Freddy’s Drop
12 September 2017
From the Album, Based on a True Story, the Gentlemen at Fat Freddy’s deliver to us a powerful message, without ego straight from the heart, to me this is truth. Can I see myself in that split second before I speak in anger, and decide to speak from the heart without the need to win, can i speak my truth? Maybe….sometimes.
The Great Gig In The Sky – Pink Floyd
4 September 2017
Come one, come all! Performing for one night only! Every night! You are officially invited to the Great Gig In The Sky!
To get there, set your intent to reach the infinite, close your eyes and fly through the sky, through the stars and keep going. You will know when you have arrived, you will feel your body sing.
Blue Skies – Willie Nelson
28 August 2017
This week Willie Nelson brings us Blue Skies, in his easy way, with an honest guitar, it is true and moving.
What a nice place to be, love changes our world so much, in love and, with the one you love…..its hard to beat.
Darlin Ukelele – Jolie Holland
21 August 2017
Jolie Holland creates a world of wonder and magic, bringing us scenes of her dreams in this beautiful track – Darlin Ukulele.
She sees through the things around her, to the things she doesn’t have, focused on this it becomes her world. Down, down, down she goes…
Little Wing – Jimi Hendrix
5 August 2017
He sings of clouds, moonbeams and riding the wind, Jimmy Hendrix, the one and only, not only a master on the guitar also a thought provoking songwriter. So what is he talking about? I think this is about vulnerability, beautiful girls he meets along the way that are willing to be open and vulnerable with him. Not only physically, but emotionally. These women stand out from the crowd in a good way, even though he believes they will meet with pain through their openness.
Satellite of Love – Lou Reed
5 August 2017
The gentle delivery of this message makes me think of an easy love coming to us from the sky. Yeah I know, oversimplified and a bit childish, I would have been a young child when first hearing this song.