Kick and drag my feet then hem and haw and finally, oh but finally, I log on to my soon-to-end account with emusic.com to seek out my remaining downloads. There are several things worth noting in the above statement 1. Ending subscription=sad but no longer in the budget 2.remaining downloads=lazy, money wasting woman. Why on earth I let my subscription just flounder is beyond explanation because there are quite a few excellent music choices on the site. Sounds like a paid advertisement for them but no, it’s sheer, unadulterated joy. Ever have that song that escapes capture, the one you can’t find the title to or for some reason the artist is so obscure you think you’ll remember it if you only repeat the name over and over and over again after the dj calls it out? This is my undoing, my downfall if you will – to tell myself not to forget and then forget. It’s a state of mind that will make you grit your teeth and fume but none of that will help the old brain cells kick back into gear and hopefully, hopefully, at least one sentence from the song will come back so it can be looked up on the web. My life is full of these songs and lord help me if I catch a tune off a commercial. It becomes a crusade to find that piece of music and I’m all over the web. So last night I decide to get my lazy, forgetful self onto the music site of obscure and voila! instant success with an artist that has eluded me for 2 years!!! In other words, hot damn I got my Chick music on.
Her name is Dar Williams and she is just what you’re looking for if folksy/straight-to-the-point/thought provoking/ beautiful voice / lyrically witty music is up your alley. More to the point, she’s what I was looking for and WOO HOO to me. I’ve been researching the wrong lyrics to the one track I thought I knew for 2 years now and somewhere along the way I gave up, thinking that the catchy-folksy song I heard on NPR one gorgeous holiday afternoon was a farce. I was driving up rte. 29 in Saragtoga Springs, NY with the sun starting to set and the air crisp and cool, worthy of having the Jeep windows removed and NPR in the background. A total state of relaxation washes over my soul on those type drives, with the smell of wood fires lingering in the air and the mountains of Vermont looming out over the horizon – please dear lord let me be back there. This music does that, it transports you to that very drive, to the corner coffestore sipping on the beverage of choice while enjoying the pleasure of people watching and just being there, quietly. The music site lists many of her albums for download as does Williams’s site and not all of her music is “quiet” which explains the long description above. Some is pure folk while other songs are edgier, glossier and I enjoy them all. So what I’m saying is, I recommend the music and that I need to rejuvenate my spirit again with New England. And for what it’s worth, the song was “The Christians and the Pagans”. Anyone care to go on a road trip?
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