Friday morning highlights:
'70s/'80s Instrumentals
- Cosmic Square Dance-Chet Atkins (An interesting fusion of traditional and modern-for-the-time guitar stylings.)
Acoustic Guitar Instrumentals
- Come Home To Me-Vendla (Any thoughtful guitar instrumental that could segue naturally with "One Winter's Night" by Strength In Numbers is a winner with me.)
Iceberg
- The Good In Everyone-Sloan (Sloan is adept at socking a point home with forthright guitar parts. Lyrically, this is a good reminder to be careful what you say to people. The song's attitude reminds me somewhat of "These Days" by The Waking Hours.)
Kids Place Live
- Moon Star Pie-Lisa Loeb (Infectious optimism and reassurance that things will work out; the world could use a huge helping of this.)
Luna
- At First Sight-Eliane Elias (A refreshing, piano-anchored breeze of a melody with soothing vocal punctuation.)
- A Felicidade-Alexandra Jackson (Pleasant, percolating vocals and instrumentation. Multiple versions of "Mas Que Nada" would flow well into this.)
Real Jazz
- Promises, Promises-The Jazz Crusaders ("And the award for best translation of vocals into a trombone part goes to...Wayne Henderson of The Jazz Crusaders!" This is an excellent, energetic cover version.)
Soothe
- Poly Paw (Closure)-Timo Krantz (A keyboard-centered instrumental fit for underscoring an Arctic explorer's arduous trudge.)
