Natalie Pesin asked on FaceBook yesterday morning for five songs that summed our existential condition. These touched on those around me as much as myself, frankly. Then again, I had just fallen down the neighbors' unlit outdoors stairwell, hence thinking of the King.
Jawbox: "Consolation Prize" <=link to song; full album below:
Jawbox: "Consolation Prize" <=link to song; full album below:
The Kinks: "Shangri-La"
Albert King: "Born Under a Bad Sign"
Fairport Convention: "Farewell, Farewell"
Hüsker Dü: "Up in the Air"
and why not this, for this hour a day later:
Gordon Withers: "Consolation Prize"
Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Joe Morello, Gene Wright: "Blue Shadows in the Street"
John Lewis, Milt Jackson, Connie Kay, Percy Heath: "Softly, As In a Morning Sunrise"
Happier New Year.
And a message to the less pleasant folks clustering about, politically or otherwise: