Archive for the ‘Music’ category
A Place in the Sun: Stevie Wonder
May 30, 2013Leaving on a Jet Plane: My Morning Jacket
May 28, 2013When I went back to Ghana the first time, on my last night, my former students said they needed to sing Miss Ryan’s song, something they had been doing for forty years whenever they got together. It was this song sung perfectly and all the way through.
Sunshine on My Shoulders: Train
May 28, 2013Bang the Drum Slowly: Emmylou Harris
May 27, 2013Hey Beautiful: Elana James
May 27, 2013The lyrics to this song are, simply, a letter written by U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Juan Campos (1979-2007)–one of the last he wrote to his wife from Iraq.


