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.
Solitude – Billie Holiday
14 November 2017
I could have filled this whole playlist with Duke Ellington songs, or Billie Holiday recordings. Recordings of Billie Holiday singing Duke Ellington songs are almost too much musical pleasure to bear. This one falls into that large category of songs that are maybe too depressing for lullabies if you think about the lyrics too hard, but the melody is so perfect, so why ruin a good thing?..