Jeff Buckley feat. Elizabeth Fraser - “All Flowers in Time”

For years, I’ve had a live recording of this song that I loved.  The sound quality was crap, but it’s a song where Buckley’s like a ghost during the verses—you can’t really grasp what he’s doing and it feels like he’s already passed into another being—but then… but then the lines and the rhythm all come together for the chorus.  The quality of this recording is 10x better than Buckley live solo version, but the spirit of it changes with this girl who’s singing the verses.  I’m not sure that I like it as much.  She’s a little out of control, and it doesn’t come off as cool as for the girl in “Gimme Shelter.”  But it’s so worth it just to listen for the bridge from Buckley:

when will you weep for me, sweet willow?

All flowers in time bend towards the sun
I know you say that there’s no one for you,
…but here is one.

David Byrne - “Glass, Concrete, & Stone”

David Byrne rocks. I’ve been listening to his whole 2004 album.  I still like his best stuff live, but all I can say for this recording is, “Philip Glass, eat your heart out.” …Who knows, the song’s title may contains a purposeful reference to the composer.

Sea Wolf - “Wicked Blood”

I think I could have lied to you and said that this was an Arcade Fire song.

The Dodos - “Walking”

You can light the fire that's in your head.

Gregory Alan Isakov - “Evelyn”

G. Isakov has made my morning a number of times recently.  This is a driving song.  You can hear, it has the pulse of the road.

I love it when the banjo softly begins picking as he sings, “There’s an old folks’ song on the radio…”