Song of the Day

Archive for the ‘Folk’ Category

From his 2006 album Goodnight William Fitzsimmons captures your ears and heart at the same time with this gentle humble and emotionally drawing songs. His songs well made lullabys remind me of the Weepys and Greg Laswell but he creates a softer more personal and intimate tone that seems to sit next to you and speak with you as if it were the actual voice in your head at the loneliest of times.

I’ve been trying to find this song online for years now and have finally by some stroke of luck found this song tonight. I’ve really been searching all over the place for it and I’m so glad I’ve rediscovered him and his music now. Hurray for keeping track of good artists, this song has been a long time coming!

If you have an artist that you want other people to discover, please don’t hesitate to share them with me and if I like it I’ll post it on my Song of the Day blog here. They don’t have to be an indie artist, but the idea is to share music that most people probably wouldn’t find out about by listening to the radio or watching TV.

You wouldn’t believe what I did to get this song. It wasn’t easy, I had to go to Tudou.com which is in Chinese, what a mess! Leave it to the Chinese to allow me to get a good audio file for sharing. What’s up US? Where’s the artistic beef?!

Well here’s this song, I was thinking of posting a live in (radio station) studio version of this track but the audio just wasn’t so good. I prefer production quality, there’s a reason for studios, they make better sound! And I even heard that using all battery powered equipment off the power grid is even clearer because there’s no distortion from slight jumps in power that you get when you plug equipment into the wall. I got that tip from Jack Johnson’s music label Brushfire Records.

Anyway, here’s the band and this song, ENJOY!!!!

Jason Reeves and I were both born in Iowa City! He moved to California and co-wrote most of the songs on Colbie Caillat’s album Breakthrough. I really like Colbie and now after finding out he worked with Caillat it shows why, he’s a great songwriter.

Check out more of his music at his website JasonReeves.com.

For some reason this song appears way down near the bottom of the list of songs that Last.fm says were popular for Sarah Jaffe. The songs that are at the top are also good, but I thought this song was more powerful. Perhaps people are turned off by it having the same name as her album “Even Born Again” or maybe there’s a negative connotation among some people when someone mentions “Born Again Christians”, but I don’t care about the religion part, it’s a great song, and it just projects positivity to me, or somber and clear self-awareness perhaps. It’s also surprising that the best sound for most of her tracks on YouTube were captured during this live performance at a church in her home state of Texas. Some other songs of hers to check out are Clementine and Vulnerable.

I found this artist through NPR’s Song of the Day blog and wanted to share it because of the power of the song which comes through the slow pace and deep beautiful vocal harmony. The minimalistic quality of the song lends to the gravity of its message and force. Take a look at the making of the music video for Love More. I hope this new indie artist finds all the support she needs as her music is a blessing to us all.

Welcome Joshua Radin’s – One of those days to the indie Song of the Day blog.

Matt Costa just joined Jack Johnson’s Brushfire Records to gain distribution for his latest album. He’s a home grown singer songwriter who worked his way to recognition recently and is well deserving of his success. Check out all of his songs if you like his work. A more upbeat song of his that I also like a lot it called “Mr. Pitiful“. Enjoy this Song of the Day!

I believe I have my friend Tyler at Tyler Management in LA to thank for bringing this genuine sounding and good natured band to my ears. Boy and Bear make good contemporary and mainstream use of the banjo giving the instrument a respect outside of its folk porch roots. It reminds me of the Grapes of Wrath and songs of the old south, but with modern hooks and lyrics.

CLICK HERE to listen to Country Clutter by Dolorean

So since I couldn’t find a music video or even a song of theirs on YouTube I had to borrow the link from the NPR page where I found this song. The music isn’t fast and won’t try to sell you anything right away, be patient and take a moment to listen to it through, then ask yourself if you like it. I think this song is amazing, not necessarily because of the lyrics but because of the quality of the song writing and musical elements incorporated into this engaging folk song by the indie band Dolorean, not to be confused with Delorean. Click on the image to the right here to go to their Last.fm page to learn more about this new and talented group.

CLICK HERE to listen to Country Clutter by Dolorean