Noteworthy tunes heard today:
KDLO (Watertown, SD)
- If I Fall, You're Going Down With Me-Dixie Chicks (An honest, direct way of detailing how precarious some relationships are.)
- Outbound Plane-Suzy Bogguss (Bogguss recorded a strong cover of this Nanci Griffith tune. Lyrically, it's an effective way of saying, "It doesn't matter why this relationship ended. The bottom line is that it fell apart." Rhythmically, Toni Price's "Hey" would segue well with this.)
KSQD (Santa Cruz, CA)
- Cave-Mini Trees featuring Medium Build (A good new release about the possibility of an opportunity not presenting itself again.)
- Digging In The Dirt-Sheryl Crow featuring Peter Gabriel (I've always thought this Peter Gabriel tune is a sound way of channeling one's fury toward someone. Crow captures that anger convincingly in her new cover version.)
WICR (Indianapolis, IN)
- It Never Entered My Mind-Wayne Alpern (A fine version of this standard, which Alpern leads on saxophone. It's intriguing to hear just winds and brass carrying this melody.)
- Take The A Train-Charles Mingus (This jazz standard is best known to most listeners in its Duke Ellington renditions. This is one of the faster instrumental interpretations I've heard, yet every lead instrument has a chance to shine.)
