folk-rock

Track of the Day, Birthday Selection May 27, 2014:

2014/05/27

Nick Drake’s “Hazey Jane I” will always be the track that I hold closest to my head and heart. The older I get, the more its personal meaning keeps shifting its shape allowing me to understand my own sentiments. There are times when I feel the sadness in it, or when I feel the bracing…
Track of the Day: May 18, 2014

2014/05/18

I’ve always felt that the most soulful feelings or the ones that speak to me at a deeper, spiritual level are the ones driven by less ostentatious things. Nothing can get more onstentatious and overly pressing than when expressing veneration for anything. So, its with this in mind that I’m thinking about Bert Jansch’s “Be…
Rod Stewart: Mama You Been On My Mind (1972)

2014/05/10

You know the saying “every woman is someone’s daughter”? I’ll take some liberties and say that “every daughter eventually becomes someone’s mother”. I say this because it’s Mother’s Day (in Latin America) and I can’t help but think of two things my mom and this great track “Mama You’ve Been on My Mind” by Rod…
Dando Shaft: In the Country (1971)

2014/05/05

Today I’m going to be so on the nose with my pick. Dando Shaft’s “In the Country” from their Evening with Dando Shaft album expertly captures why Mondays suck. Its never per se, because Mondays objectively are worse than any other day, its just that Mondays immediately follow our weekend. Aren’t weekends so great? That’s…