Grace on my mind, and in my heart ~ Dave Matthews

Dave Matthews Band ~ Grace is Gone -- Excuse me please, one more drink? via http://myendlessdoodles.tumblr.com/

Dave Matthews, prodigiously talented and prolific, a true minstrel of our times writing soulful, often doleful songs of our everyday experiences. Transcendent, luminescent, playful. His live performances bring together extraordinary musicians with nary a glorious note misplayed or misplaced. And at the center mic, leaving no doubt as to the […]

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Neil Young: He came dancing across the water

Zuma ~ Neil Young

I can remember the first time I heard this album, Zuma. I was all of 20 years old, ski bumming in Whistler, BC, and gathered with a bunch of friends after the bars had closed. I can’t remember her name. She was skinny and not very attractive in any traditional […]

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Sheryl Crow is strong enough to be my man…

Sheryl Crow ~ Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow, I don’t know, she’s got something going on, and has been one of my muses at critical moments. She writes and sings like a broken angel, with equal measures of strength and vulnerability, passion and fear, hope and futility. Some of her music is exquisitely beautiful — notably […]

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Gabriella Cilmi: Lessons to be learned and feel a little safer

Gabriella Cilmi ~ Lessons to be Learned

Gabriella Cilmi (pronounced “chill me” — and she does give me chills) was all of 17 years old when she co-wrote and recorded this song and others on her debut album, Lessons to be Learned. This is no Avril Lavigne, or Miley Cyrus, or Britney Spears. Cilmi has a soul […]

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