Life is Good

Today's song of the day is from a new children's album about a nautical adventure.  It's simple and fun.

Cody ChesnuTT - "Gunpowder On The Letter"

There is huge problem with lyrical continuity.  Verses 1 & 2 are pure anti-war protest song (although I can't make out whether his best friend's death was associated with war).  Verse 3 laments the struggles of a new musician and ends with an indictment against the government that references a traditional patriotic song (Like we used to know what 'just' war and government were.)

Read the lyrics first (below) and then give it a listen.  The musical elements are outstanding.

"Scarecrow" by the Alex & Sierra

This is a good old-fashioned love song:  sickeningly sweet, ridiculously naive lyrics that are filled with cliches and that have vague references to an old iconic movie.  The song is terribly derivative (the video features muppets in a park) and is totally unoriginal, but it has some redeeming features also - if you can get over the sentimentalism and 'cute-ness'.

The beat is contagious and I really like the chorus:  "I just want to believe in you and me."

Give it a listen.

Song of the Day - Happy!

Happy.  By Pharrell Williams.  Recorded in 2013.

You KNOW it's good.  He performed it at the 2014 Oscars Ceremony.

And it IS happy!

Song of the Day: Art Tatum

Many consider Art Tatum to be the best jazz pianist ever.  So I recently started listening to his stuff over to identify a favorite.  I think I found it:  his 1954 recording of Cherokee.  Amazing stuff.

Song of the Day: This is Always

Start your day with a really cover of George Gershwin's "Who Cares".

This was on Rebecca Sayre's 2003 Album, "This is Always".  Rebecca is an American pop singer from Nashville.

It's track #10 on this page from NoiseTrade

Song of the Day - Still the One

Jazz vocalist Laila Biali, backed up by a really lush trio accompaniment.  Album: Tracing Light (released in October 2010).  Song: Still the One.

Oh by the way....if you're looking for a really good love song to play for a romantic moment, this would work.