Wednesday morning highlights:
Feel Like Going Home
- Sadness As A Gift-Adrianne Lenker (A painful, realistic acknowledgment that a relationship has reached its end.)
- Work-Thelonious Monk (Proof that a jaunty melody on the piano doesn't have to be consistently sunny; with the right melody, there's room for dissonance.)
- Sunday-Yuck (Tuneful power pop with quietly confident lyrics about winning someone back.)
Shady Grove
- Look Down That Lonesome Road-Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands (One of the interesting tricks bluegrass music pulls off is pairing sorrowful lyrics with lighthearted instrumentation. Somehow, that combination gels appropriately here.)
- Cricket On The Hearth-Bryan Sutton (If you're a guitarist who can stay in tune and in time at this brisk tempo, you ought to clean up financially as a session musician. Fast instrumentals such as this are this genre's main appeal to me.)
