Sing Your Hipster Baby to Sleep
Music to sing your kids to sleep without boring yourself to sleep, but it’s not just for parents of young kids
featuring artists like
Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Willie Nelson, Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, Elizabeth Cotten, Talking Heads
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Since my kids were born, my major musical activity has been singing them to sleep at night. It’s taken me a while to build up a collection of songs to sing that I actually like and won’t get sick of. You’ll see a number of songs here that might immediately seem too uptempo, too sad, or just plain too weird to be lullabies. I can assure you that if you sing them slowly and softly, they all work great.
This is music to sing your kids to sleep without boring yourself to sleep, but it’s not just for parents of young kids. Consider it a collection of songs from an eclectic array of genres and eras with one thing in common: you can sing them, to yourself or someone else, and they will make you feel better.
Blessings – Chance The Rapper
3 October 2017
Making this playlist shows me just how wide the distance is between most of the music I enjoy listening to and the music I can sing. Hip-hop is a case in point. I love listening to it, but I sound too much like Niles Crane to really participate. Also, rap is not generally a very lullaby-friendly genre. Or so I thought, until I encountered the mellifluous sounds of Chancellor Johnathan Bennett, better known to the world as Chance The Rapper…