Hail, Music

An arti­cle of my per­sonal faith: it may be heresy to know the words and not sing them. […]

Light for My Lantern: Music of 2010

Here are my favorite songs from 2010. The rules are sim­ple: the songs have to fit on one CD, I had to first hear them in 2010, and if any­one gets more than 3 cuts, there’d bet­ter be a good reason. […]

You Set Me Right: Favorite Songs of the Aughts

For most of The Aughts I com­piled my favorite songs onto CDs and gave them to a few friends as Christ­mas presents. My tastes skew sharply toward acoustic folk music so there’s a good chance you’ve never heard of any­thing that I like. A few of my peo­ple love it too, though, and they tend to be less dili­gent (obses­sive) about find­ing the new stuff than I am. That’s where I come in. I claim no author­ity. These are just the songs that opened my eyes the widest from 2000–2009. Because I’d never stop if I didn’t impose some kind of limit, I have picked songs that fit on one CD (plus some hon­or­able mentions). […]