10 Songs: Sunday, November 9th, 2014

Terrific song from 1998
Terrific song from 1998

1. I’ll Think Of  A Reason Later – Lee Ann Womack – The most human of songs, Lee Ann despises her exes fiancee based on a pic in the social pages, not really fair but that’s country for you: a story so precisely written it is Chekovian with a handful of words – A

2. Brick House – Commodores – Shake it down – A

3. Love Me Two Times – The Doors – Classic lick – B+

4. The Butterfly’s Dream – Rahman Altin – Soaring, melodic soundtrack composition from Turkey built around the piano- A

5. Outside – Calvin Harris, ellie Goulding – A return to the scene of the crime – B+

6. Some Other Time – Tony Bennett,Bill Evans – The incomparable Bill Evans with the apparently literally immortal Tony – A+

7. Chances Are – Lee Ann Womack – A decade and a half after “Later” nothing is lost – A

8. Tell Me When It’s Over – The Dream syndicate – In 2014, this sounds impossibly youthful and powerful – A

9. The Boys Of summer – The Ataris – Henley’s best song in a terrific cover that throttles that terrific riff- A

10. Deeper – Ella Eyre – Terrific disco dancer, great vocal or does that go without saying with Ella? _ A-

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