Noteworthy selections heard yesterday:
Alt Rock Classics
- Seether-Veruca Salt (Blistering guitar and vocals about being filled with rage that hold up nearly three decades later.)
Chamber Music
- Franz Schubert: Impromptu in G-flat major, D.899, No. 3 (David Barela, piano) (Lyrical, as usual for Schubert, with forceful crescendos.)
Classic R&B And Soul
- Many Rivers To Cross-Jimmy Cliff (I've always liked how optimistically Cliff sings this. When you approach a challenge this way, you're probably more likely to conquer it.)
Cocktail Lounge
- Riviera Bossa Nova-Burnell Leonard Whibley (Pleasant, peppy, decadent easy listening brass and strings for days when everything is going right.)
Folk Roots
- Long Lost Friend-Monica Rizzio (Thoughtful, sensitive lyrics with an instrumental backdrop that reminds me of Shawn Colvin.)
Holiday Hits
- Halloween Theme-John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies (This instrumental conveys an appropriate, Alan Parsons-like feeling of doom and urgency.)
Jazz Masters
- I Can't Give You Anything But Love-Red Garland (A bouncy piano take on a standard.)
- Summer Soft-Stevie Wonder (Great vocals and piano through which to acknowledge and ease the pain of a breakup.)
The Spa
- All That Could Be Said-Headlund (Compelling melancholy guitar.)
- Otro Muerde El Polvo (Another One Bites The Dust)-Los Miticos del Ritmo (I wouldn't have sought out an accordion-based cover of Queen's hit, but I can't deny that it's an imaginative way to carry the melody.)
