All the Playlists
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The Beat – Andy Vargas
2 August 2017
Sometimes the energy of a track is irresistible and you have to stop what you’re doing and check it out. I had been chatting with producer Michael Carey about just how much great music was “out there” and yet with the current distribution bottle neck – we get to hear so little of it.
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Minnesota Got Colder – Corey Koehler
1 August 2017
2009 was a rough year. I think I went to more funerals in that one year than in the past ten combined. One thing that really hit me was how hard it is to find something to say to people who are mourning the person they just lost.
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Portrait Gallery – Luke Howard
1 August 2017
I love how certain things just start appearing in your world – you know like – if you haven’t heard a certain song for years and then suddenly you start hearing it all the time – I love the weird random shit like that. And while I’m sure there’s some cognitive explanation – I personally think it’s magic and I’m all for it.
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Ventura Highway – America
1 August 2017
There can’t be a more aptly named band than America. This folk rock band’s sound is steeped in Americana, evoking memories of driving along the coast, vast open sky and a limitless horizon. Oddly enough, though, band founder Dewey Bunnell is British and Americans Dan Peek and Gerry Beckley were in England when the trio formed the band in 1970.
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Running If You Call My Name – HAIM
1 August 2017
One of my favorite television series is One Tree Hill and it’s definitely because I identify with one of the characters so much, Peyton Sawyer. She was a young woman growing up in Tree Hill who loved music so much that her storyline always linked back to her love for music. So in Peyton’s words “Sometimes things find you when you need them to find you. I believe that. and for me it’s usually songs lyrics (Peyton Sawyer, One Tree Hill)”.
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How I Wish… (Ask Me Now) – Carmen McRae
1 August 2017
Thelonious Monk is the best. But aside from “Round Midnight,” he didn’t really write the kind of songs you could sing. Or so I thought, until I found out about Carmen Sings Monk. It’s an entire album of Carmen McRae singing Monk tunes with lyrics by Jon Hendricks, Abbey Lincoln, and others. There are tunes here that you’d expect would work with lyrics (“Ruby My Dear,” “In Walked Bud”) and songs I never expected to hear sung (“Monk’s Dream,” “Pannonica.”) Carmen McRae was unquestionably the right woman for the job.
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Pilgrims On a Long Journey – Coeur De Pirate
1 August 2017
This week I decided to move a little bit outside the “solo piano” boundaries of the playlist, because I find that the use of strings in this piece is simply essential and in the same time necessary to evoke your inner and deep feelings. Many of you probably will know this track as it’s been used as soundtrack for an amazing fantasy video game called “Child of Light”.
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Little Boxes – Malvina Reynolds
1 August 2017
Like most folks living in this century, you probably associate this song with the early 2000s television series “Weeds”. The opening credits for the show were set to this track, and each episode featured a different musician covering the song.
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The Gambler – Fun.
1 August 2017
If you thought last week was a bit cheesy, with this song of the week we are going to complete that cheesiness and maybe more. Maybe most of you know Fun. , but not everybody knows many of the first album’s songs or EPs around that time.
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Risk to Exist – Maximo Park
31 July 2017
“If you see something and you think somebody needs to stand up for it – whatever issue it might be – then you should,” Maximo Park frontman Paul Smith told The Independent earlier this year as they debuted their sixth album, Risk To Exist. “There’s a responsibility as a citizen and as a human.”
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A Little Cruel – Harry Manx
31 July 2017
I found myself seeking out this track yesterday with the passing of a friend. I honestly don’t know what to say or feel this week, I’m just numb…”
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A Hundred Dreams from Now – Ray Bryant
28 July 2017
This playlist was lacking the right amount of jazz and this track does more than make up the difference it inspires, it beguiles and it understands the journey home. There is something in the way Ray Bryant plays that says I feel you and this track is his ‘let me play you something that might help’ moment as almost on command he gets you tonight in that car and after a generous tip is going to pull out one of his best numbers.