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Art is the music we make from the bewildered cry of being alive. ~Maria Popova
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The Browns: “Big Daddy” (1968) Almost a decade after country folk trio The Browns charted top 20 with sentiment-saturated fare such as “The Three Bells”, “Scarlet Ribbons (For Her Hair)” and “The Old Lamplighter”, they served up a change of pace with this John D. Loudermilk novelty tune. Jim Ed Brown, who’d usually handled lead […]
Röckët Stähr: “Sick” (2024) The singer/songwriter/guitarist/pianist/bassist who calls himself Röckët Stähr has made it his mission to revive the “spit and fire” of classic rock and roll. His Death of a Rockstar was an animated rock opera and accompanying 26-song soundtrack which took him 13 years animate, write and record. From his self-titled follow-up album […]
Secret Garden: “Song from a Secret Garden” (1996) The Irish/Norwegian duo Secret Garden wrote and performed Norway’s winning entry “Nocturne” at the 1995 Eurovision Song Contest. But to my ears “Song from a Secret Garden” is their debut album’s highlight. The song has been featured in Korean and Italian drama and sounds like something that […]
BØRNS: “Faded Heart” (2018) From the Michigan native’s second LP Blue Madonna, on which he displays the same glammy, glittery and slightly psychedelic proclivities that made his debut Dopamine smack listeners upside the pleasure centers. On Blue Madonna BØRNS evokes vintage artists like Elton John, Electric Light Orchestra, T. Rex and the Beatles but also […]
Greeicy featuring Mike Bahia: “Amantes” (2017) Colombian actress/singer Greeicy Yeliana Rendón Ceballos transitioned from TV acting to a career as a singer in 2017. The duet “Amantes” (“Lovers”) was her second single release and first time hitting the charts (#3 in Colombia and #1 in Mexico). She’d later go on to multi-platinum success and Grammy […]
Middle Brother: “Middle Brother” (2011) Super group? Nah. Middle Brother, the side project comprised of the lead singers of Dawes, Deer Tick, and Delta Spirit (Taylor Goldsmith, John McCauley, and Matthew Vasquez respectively) feels more like a rollicking bit of fun, with no lofty ambitions beyond mutual musical commiseration over female troubles. “Middle Brother”–the song, the album and […]
The Sallyangie: “Lady Mary” (1969) The Sallyangie were a British folk duo comprised of a 16-year-old Mike Oldfield and his 21-year-old sister Sally. Their single LP, the gently ethereal Children of the Sun, will be either musical balm or emetic depending on your affinity for fey Lord of the Rings-inspired Renaissance Faire soundtrack music. Some critics have […]
The Decemberists: “O Valencia!” (2007) “Hyper-literate” is an adjective often applied to songwriter Colin Meloy of the Decemberists. And his eclectic influences include British murder ballads, 70’s power-chord prog rock, the Civil War, sea shanties, Japanese folk tales and much more in between. Meloy definitely favors the “archaic” entries in his well-thumbed thesaurus, giving his […]
Mick Flannery & Susan O’Neill: “Baby Talk” (2021) Irish singer and songwriter Mick Flannery’s successful collaboration with Susan O’Neill (herself an up-and-coming Irish songwriter) on this song grew into a full album of duets between the two. Flannery’s rootsy sound and sorrowful songwriting find a sympathetic match in O’Neill’s vocals, which approximate a wounded Stevie […]
Stackridge: “Do the Stanley” (1973) If Monty Python’s Flying Circus had been a progressive folk-rock band… Meet southwest England’s Stackridge, the band who had the distinction of being both the opening and closing act at the first Glastonbury Festival in September of 1970. Their singular, quirky stylings sound a bit like a musical bridge between […]
Moon Safari: “Too Young to Say Goodbye” (2013) The words I used to describe Moon Safari on a previous post apply just as well to this song, so I’ll reprint them with only slight modification here: Moon Safari represents an astounding juxtaposition of seemingly incompatible musical components: the surprise-around-every-corner complexity of prog rock alongside an almost boy-bandesque propensity […]
The New Pornographers: “Sing Me Spanish Techno” (2005) Another slice of hooks, harmony, and enigmatic lyrics from the New Pornographers’ third–and probably best–release, 2005’s Twin Cinema. They could have been a great power pop band had they not decided to be something a little quirkier. See also: https://edcyphers.com/2013/03/19/songs-you-may-have-missed-366/ See also: https://edcyphers.com/2012/03/14/songs-you-may-have-missed-52/
Ray Stevens: “Misty” (1975) To a DJ, the art of the segue is key. Typically this takes the form of “beat matching” or matching the tempo of the ending of one song with the beginning of the next. Matching the key of the two songs can also make for a pleasing transition. Of course, the […]
Sports Team: “Condensation” (2024) The refreshingly non-self serious UK post-punkers Sports Team were nominated for a Mercury Prize (given for the best album released by a musical act from the UK or Ireland) for their 2020 debut Deep Down Happy. “Condensation” is a melodic little banger from their third, Boys These Days. See also: https://edcyphers.com/2020/03/15/songs-you-may-have-missed-657/
Maddy Prior and Tim Hart: “Dancing at Whitsun” (1971) Maddy Prior is on a very short list of women who could lay claim to the title of Queen of British Folk. Mostly notable for her tenure with stalwart lynchpins of the genre Steeleye Span, she’d recorded two, uh, prior albums as half of a duo […]
Sammy Rae & The Friends: “Kick it to Me” (2018) Describing the music of Sammy Rae & The Friends is difficult. Enjoying it–especially in a live setting–is definitely not. No single genre title neatly contains the breadth of this band’s sounds, which seem to draw from jazz, pop, soul, funk, classic rock and world music. […]
Arif Mardin Chorus: “Evil Companions” (1968) Little-known and rare in hard-copy form, the Arif Mardin Chorus’ recording of “Evil Companions” is a song with a history in my own family. Possibly no record in my late father’s collection better exemplified his winking, faux-bawdy sense of humor. This 45 was added to the stack on the […]
Golden Smog: “Until You Came Along” (1998) From the second full-length outing by the side project supergroup comprised of members of the Jayhawks, Soul Asylum, Big Star and Wilco among others. The band formed in the Minneapolis area playing mostly covers in local clubs. In its infancy the lineups, setlists and even band name were […]
Rolf Harris: “Two Little Boys” (1969) From an American perspective, Rolf Harris and his 1960 novelty top ten “Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport” were a one-hit wonder and a footnote in pop history. Something akin to Tiny Tim. But like Tiny Tim, whose extensive catalogue and encyclopedic expertise on early 20th century pop music are […]
Keola Beamer: “He Punahele No ‘Oe” (1995) Keola Beamer is a fifth-generation musician and master of the Hawaiian slack key guitar style. He’s also the composer of “Honolulu City Lights”, one of Hawaii’s biggest-selling songs of all time. Moe’uhane Kika: Tales from the Dream Guitar was produced by George Winston and distributed by Windham Hill […]
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