Archive for the ‘Music’ category

A Place in the Sun: Stevie Wonder

May 30, 2013

Leaving on a Jet Plane: My Morning Jacket

May 28, 2013

When 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, 2013

Bang the Drum Slowly: Emmylou Harris

May 27, 2013

Hey Beautiful: Elana James

May 27, 2013

 The 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.

Movies Is Magic: Brian Wilson And Van Dyke Parks

May 26, 2013

Those Old Black and White Movies Were True: Eugene McGuinness

May 26, 2013

Western Movies: The Olympics

May 26, 2013

That’s Why God Made the Movies: Paul Simon

May 26, 2013

Saturday Night: The Eagles

May 25, 2013