It was a great exercise, and got me thinking about how I listen to music. I realized that I rarely find a single and buy it. I still tend to buy entire albums and usually listen to them front to back.
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Sea Legs Collective: My First Ten.
Full disclosure: I rarely buy singles, and love to listen to entire albums the old school way, which means shuffle is a strange beast to me. As a result, I can't separate the songs from their albums, and apologize in advance if I write more about the records than the songs themselves!
Sleep Beneath the Willow
Daniel has become one of my favourite balladeers - he' s a killer songwriter and a great performer. This tune doesn't belong to this century, and it makes me tear up if I listen too closely.
Segunda
I started listening to Brazilian Juana Molina back in the days when I was working a desk job and desperately wanted to be out of my windowless office. It brings back a lot of strange feelings.
Which makes sense, because this song is typical of the album - lots of texture, lightness, and very quirky. I like a song that keeps me guessing.
Antifogmatic
Never mind Chris Thile's ridiculous mandolin playing, this tune made me fall in love with his voice. I actually think I have a 12 year old girl crush on his singing… it's playful, pleading, persistent, scolding, and sweet. Can you say Swoon!?
Voyageur
I am not surprised that this one showed up in my first ten. I have listened to this song hundreds of times in the last couple years. I still can't believe that I got to sing, with the Lovelies, on this album. Pinch me!
Sidenote: this is the PERFECT driving song. Makes me want to be on the highway (maybe not the 401, a nice rural highway would do) with the windows down.
Bar chords
A song about a woman about having a baby, and growing old with his lady. Bahamas was made for me! I love tunes with hints of domesticity and family life. Also he uses the lyrics "fist pumping" in this tune. C'mon!
Facing Future
Okay, who wants to live in Hawaii? I do, someday…or at least spend a few months pretending I live there. This is the fellow who made the beautiful version of "Over the Rainbow" on the Uke, and the whole album feels like an afternoon on a island.
Jake Bugg
This KID kills me. He is 19 years old, and has written a song that I feel I have heard a million times before. Those are the best, the ones you have known your whole life. I dig this song big time, especially when I'm pounding pavement. It has a perfect walking beat.
The Law & The Lonesome
This is one of my favourite records EVER. I love Jonathan's songwriting, voice, guitar playing - the whole package really. Something about this tune reminds me of my youth, of the Highwaymen, and of my parents.
Days are Gone
I'm partial to female three part harmony bands. Go figure.
This band is rocking, in the best 80's-rock kind of way. This song is super fun and has become a kitchen dance anthem for me and my one year old.
Also, the music video for the tune riffs on gender stereotypes, and made me chuckle out loud when I watched it for the first time.
Child Ballads
This album is a devastatingly beautiful collection of some of the Child Ballads, Ancient English & Scottish poems. This ballad recounts how Tam Lin is saved by his true love from the Faerie Queen. Anais is one of my favourite artists, and this album is a perfect late evening soundtrack. It's emotional in the folkiest way.
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