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Musiq Soulchild’s “Anything”

November 7, 2011

I admit it. The sound of Musiq Soulchild’s voice reminds me VERY much of a young Michael Jackson and the sound he was producing back in the day. (“back in the day” = I don’t know the exact time frame) For me, Musiq has never had a ‘miss’ on his music and if there’s a [...]

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Swizz Beatz featuring Eve “Everyday”

November 4, 2011

Every day this week I get into my car and hear this song. Not because I’m intentionally playing, but because one of my XM Radio stations is playing it and then I hear it in my head for the rest of the day. The kids in this video are GREAT dancers, but I’m focused more [...]

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Kate Bush’s “This Woman’s Work”

November 3, 2011

Kate Bush is a fairy sprite of a woman. Delicate-bodied and delicate-voiced but a powerful influence of my teenage years. Spooky, intense lyrics and a flair for the dramatic, Kate Bush was the only performer I wish I’d seen in concert after hearing her first album and then I learned she only did one concert [...]

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Neko Case’s “Magpie to the Morning”

November 1, 2011

This is a farewell to summer kind of song and I’m feeling it a lot this week. I am late to liking Neko Case and I hate when that happens, but I love when I hear a song that I wouldn’t mind putting on repeat. Speaking of being late to something, I have just come [...]

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Michael Franti’s “The Sound of Sunshine”

October 31, 2011

This is a happy song. I am in great need of happy right now. When the weather starts to change to cold I am instantly crankier. Why I live in Central Illinois is a mystery to me. I am too much of a lizard what with my tolerance for heat and the sun. You won’t [...]

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Snow Patrol’s “The Lightning Strike”

October 30, 2011

With all this talk of snow pounding across different areas of the United States (Pennsylvania, Denver, New Jersey) this weekend I thought a Snow Patrol song was in order. But it’s more than that. It’s because I got an email from Mason telling me that he had some suggestions for my “Musica” section. When my [...]

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Handsome Boy Modeling School’s “Breakdown”

October 25, 2011

I don’t know what it is about some songs. For one thing, they just have to hit me at the right moment. Secondly, they have to stir something in me or stick with me because of a note or a lyric or maybe because something in my life resonates with me the first time I [...]

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Ashokan Farewell

October 24, 2011

The first time I heard this song was on a Ken Burns documentary. While getting photographed in The Traveling Red Dress there was a live band playing music for an event and it was wonderful background music for the outdoor setting I was lucky enough to find myself in, but when they began to play [...]

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James Brown’s “I Got the Feeling”

October 7, 2011

Remember all those old episodes of The Cosby Show when they used to lip sync a choreographed dance to music for the grandparents? I used to want my family to be just like that. I think everyone did. Adorable little Rudy made everything cute, but Cliff’s face looks just like my dad’s when he used [...]

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BB King’s “The Thrill is Gone”

October 6, 2011

What could I possibly say about BB King that wouldn’t mess up listening to this song? The answer is, most likely, nothing. Suffice to say that this is a great card playing game when you’re me and you win a round of Gin by going out with 200 points and your kids are flabbergasted and [...]

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